BRACKETBUCKS: The biggest and the
best
BRACKETBUCKS
is our most intense contest. That’s because
March Madness – the NCAA
Basketball Tournament – is
the biggest event on the
American sports scene.
Bigger, even, than the Super
Bowl.
The
other reason for the
intensity of BRACKETBUCKS is
the grand prize: Up to $25,000. So far, we’ve
given away $300,000 in this
contest.
Another
reason for the intensity is
that the contest appears in
newspapers for only three
days – not 17 weeks as in
the POWER POINTS Football
Contest. It’s a one-shot
deal. The pairings and
seedings for each year’s
tournament are announced on
a Sunday afternoon in early
March. Play begins four days
later at
noon
Eastern Time on Thursday, by
which time all entries must
be in. (As in all three of
our contests, you simply
bundle these entries up,
send them to us, and you’re
done!)
The contestant who tallies the most of those 2,000 points wins the Grand Prize bonanza.
Newspapers
and contestants LOVE this
contest. We typically receive
nearly 500,000 entry forms
each year. That translates into
both increased single-copy
sales and significant
advertising revenues for
newspapers.
Many
newspapers around the
country run a March Madness
contest of their own –
although if they use that
name – March Madness –
they get a call from the
NCAA lawyer charged with
protecting copyrights. In most of these
contests, the paper recruits
local advertisers, then
assigns one or two
tournament teams to each
advertiser. The farther the teams
progress, the more
advertising the merchant
gets (or the larger his/her
ads get, etc. ) To this we say: Well and good but why
restrict yourself to just
the advertisers? If you carry
BRACKETBUCKS, you’ll still
be able to do this
advertiser promotion, but
you’ll GREATLY ENHANCE the
value of the promotion by
adding a reader component
and therefore bringing
thousands of readers’ eyes
to your contest – exactly
what your advertisers are
paying for.
To
see how our client
newspapers feel about
BRACKETBUCKS, click the
Testimonials link on this
page.
To
sign up, consult the Rate
Card link, calculate your
fee based on your DAILY
circulation, download the
Contract, then sign and
return one copy to me. You’re in!
Tim
McGovern
Commissioner
(303)
393-6343
commissioner@powerpointsgames.com
