Press Release

To run Aug. 24 or later:

A ‘GRAND PRIZE’ WEEKLY

IN POWER POINTS CONTEST

The __________________________________ will carry this season's POWER POINTS Football Contest, which features a weekly grand prize of $1,000.

Along with other newspapers in the Midwest (or South/West or East) region, the _________________ will publish the contest for 17 weeks, beginning next week.

In addition to the $1,000 regional grand prize, a local prize of _____________ will be awarded each week.

In POWER POINTS, the object of the game is to amass as many of the 136 possible points each week as you can.  Contestants select winners from each week’s list of games – mostly NFL action but with a smattering of top regional college games.  Contestants pick their winners and plot them along a weighted point scale according to their confidence in them.  Your highest-confidence pick goes on the 16-point line, your lowest-confidence pick on the 1-point line.

The contestant regionally who tallies the most of the 136 points each week wins $1,000.  The local contestant who tallies the most of the 136 points is the local winner.

Weekly deadline for entry is 2 p.m. on Thursdays.

To enter the contest,   PLACE LOCAL PROCEDURES HERE.  (Up to you, but we suggest using your co-sponsoring merchants as drop-off points for entries so we build store traffic for them.)