Category Archives: Sports Contests and Promotions

Sports contests and promotions for every business, from basketball half-court shots to football perfect punts into the bed of a pickup truck.

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$1,000,000 Rally 4 Charity

Men Take a Swing at Guinness World Record, Million Dollar Prize
Milford, Conn. – Isidro Martinez of Stratford and Paul Coorssen of Milford attempted to break the Guinness World Record™ for the longest tennis rally and win $1,000,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions, as part of the 3rd Annual Rally 4 Charity fundraiser at Milford Indoor Tennis. Martinez and Coorssen won the right to go for the record after hitting 5,916 consecutive strokes in a qualifier. While the two men tallied a staggering 6,858 consecutive shots in about an hour and a half, an unofficial world record for such a short time period, it wasn’t enough to beat Rally 4 Charity organizers and world-record holders Angelo and Ettore Rossetti who have set the bar high with a giant 25,944 consecutive strokes.  “Win or lose, it was about the charities,” stated Coorssen, and on that front the event was a success, raising around $10,000, the biggest amount to date.  According to World Record holder and Rally 4 Charity organizer Rossetti, “The million dollar prize did help us to capture more publicity – which is good for the charities as well as for tennis. We were very happy with the service from Odds On Promotions. Zak is always very organized and professional.”

 

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Barton County Community College Foundation Flushes Out New Donors

Sporting Clay Shoot Helps College Triple Grant Funds

Great Bend, Kan. –   To raise money for their faculty mini-grant program, the Barton County Community College Foundation (BCCCF) held a sporting clay shoot featuring the chance to win a John Deere Gator ATV, sponsored by Great Bend Farm Equipment and Randy Hayden, President of the Alliance Insurance Group.

“We were looking for a new fundraiser. We already do a golf tournament and have a very successful auction,” explained Darnell Holopirek, executive director of Institutional Advancement for the BCCCF. “This event touched a different group of people and based on the response, we’ve clearly tapped into something.”

To incent participation and encourage early registration, the first 100 registrants were eligible to win the $10,000 Gator ATV, paid for by Odds On Promotions, if they could score a 100. While no one achieved the grand prize winning score of 100, a few shooters came close, with one scoring a very impressive 95.

Considered golf with a shotgun, the shoot took place at the LaSada Sporting Clays Club and drew a total of 143 participants – 43 more than the first year making it the second largest event in the state. The event also raised $7,800 for faculty mini-grants, which was three times the amount raised during the first year.

According to Randy Hayden with Alliance Insurance Group, “I’ve been working with Mike Maloy with Odds On for a few years now. We’ve done several good promotions – a dice roll for a Harley, a Prize Vault, and golf. This one was really well received. And I understand it was a different audience that the college wouldn’t have normally connected with.”

Want more information on planning a sporting clay shoot fundraiser? Email Odds On Promotions today.

Touchdown for Dough …

Burlington, Iowa – On January 30 at Catfish Bend Casino, 5 lucky VIP players will get a chance to win up to $250,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions, playing Plays that Pay!

Each lucky contestant will pick five envelopes from the game board. Inside each envelope is a number representing a series of yards. If the total “yards” add up to 100, the lucky player will win $250,000 in cash, paid for by Odds On Promotions! As a bonus, the casino will reward every contest with free play based on every yard they “score”.

Casino & Media Promotion Specialist Chris Gardiner notes: “Plays that Pay is the ideal promotion for any football party be it Monday Night Football, a college bowl game or Super Sunday. And, with Odds On Promotions’ new magnetic boards, you just buy the board once and simply change out the graphics depending on what ‘event’ you’re marketing around … from bowl games to slot tournaments.”

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Net More Traffic: Online and In-Store Basketball Promotions!

Reno, Nev – Basketball season is heating up … and that means that the men’s  college basketball championship will soon be here.

The Championship, which takes place in March, is a great time to run an attention-getting, business-boosting, giant-prize basketball contest.

Odds On Promotions offers dozens of creative promotions that will help you drive foot-traffic, web-traffic and sales!  Whether you’d like to give all of your customers a shot at $1,000,000 (while boosting your email data base) for correctly predicting a select number of winners in a turnkey  Online Championship Challenge  bracket promotion, or give a few select contestants the chance to “Net Big Cash” in a basketball-themed Lucky Envelopes contest, Odds On can customize – or create, a basketball contest for your organization.

Ready to net more traffic and sales?

Email or call us today at 888-827-2249 for a copy of our “Top Five Basketball Contests” flyer.

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We’re Nuts About The Emerald Bowl

San Francisco, CA – A Big Bowl Game Deserves a Big Prize Promotion! At half-time during this year’s Emerald Bowl, fans at AT&T Park in San Francisco got the chance to win $25,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions in a half-time Target Toss promotion. Watch for Linda’s

complete play by play, as well as more fantastic photos, in our next Odds On Promotions newsletter!