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$10,000 PRIZE OFFERED

IN SURVIVOR FOOTBALL

The ___________________________will join dozens of other newspapers around the country to carry this year’s SURVIVOR Football Contest which features a national grand prize of $10,000.

In SURVIVOR Football, contestants are asked to select one – and only one – college football team to win on each DAY of the upcoming holiday bowl season. The key is that your correct picks must be consecutive. For as long as you are correct, you survive. First miss and you’re finished. It does not matter how many games you ultimately get right – only how long you can last without a miss.

The contest form will appear periodically over the next week and a half. All entries must be in by noon Eastern Time on Dec. 19. Mailed entries must be postmarked by Dec. 18.

In addition to the grand prize, the ___________________ will award a prize of _____________ to the contestant locally who lasts the most days (or who prevails in the Tiebreaker system).

To enter, LOCAL ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS HERE. (It’s your call, but we suggest having contestants drop entries off at participating co-sponsors, thus building floor traffic in their stores.)

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.

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.)

Along with several dozen newspapers around the country, The ________YOUR PAPER’S NAME HERE _______ will carry this year’s BRACKETBUCKS Basketball Contest in conjunction with the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Grand prize: $25,000.

Pairings and seedings for this year’s tournament will be announced by the NCAA on Sunday, March 13. The contest will appear for the next three days, March 14-16. (NOTE: If your paper is running it only once or twice, make the appropriate correction here.)

Hand-delivered entry forms must be in by noon Eastern Time on Thursday, March 17. Mailed entries must be postmarked by March 16.

Object of the game is to amass as many of the 2,000 possible points as you can. (Last year’s winner, a New Jersey contestant, tallied 1,993 points to take the grand prize.) You win points for correct predictions on which teams will win the 63 tournament games. You must pick the entire tournament before it starts.

In addition to the grand prize winner, a local winner will be named from each participating newspaper. That will be the person locally who tallies the most of the 2,000 possible points. Our local winner will be awarded_______________________.

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