The Grand Prize from BigFooty.com and Sportingbet

[Chief]

Grand Prize

BigFooty.com is in its 10th year so, with the help of Sportingbet.com.au, we're giving something special back to one AFL club: $10,000 cash.


$10 Grand for 10 Grand by the Grand Final

The first AFL club to have 10,000 supporters registered and active on BigFooty.com by the 2009 Grand Final gets $10,000 straight from us - with a little help from one of BigFooty's own long-time supporters, Sportingbet.com.au.


Everyone Goes Platinum

Not only does the club get the cash, but every single one of the winning club's first 10,000 registered supporters active on BigFooty.com gets Platinum BigFooty Supporters Club membership for one year. Just for turning up.

(What is Platinum BFSC?)


Just tell your fellow supporters

The quicker they register as BigFooty.com members, the more they count towards your club's chances to pick up the cash. If no club gets 10,000 active registered supporters, nobody gets the money.


Existing users included

Just log in at least once every month between now and the Grand Final and you're included in the tally.


I'll be sick

If Collingwood gets my money. Don't let that happen!


The Fine Print

There is no cost to enter.

The first club to get to 10,000 registered, active supporters on BigFooty.com receives $10,000 from BigFooty.

This includes existing BigFooty members who meet the "registered and active" criteria below.

A registered, active supporter is a BigFooty user who:

* Is properly registered (i.e. has confirmed their email address after registration).

* Is an individual - no duplicates or aliases will be counted.

* Has one of the 16 AFL clubs (or Gold Coast) chosen in the AFL Club field in their user profile. Nobody with "Unlisted" as their AFL Club will be counted.

* Logs on to BigFooty.com at least once per month from their registration date, or from February 2009 if they're already a registered user, until the 2009 Grand Final.

For the purposes of calculating the 10,000 registered, active supporters:

* Users who are registered before June 30 2009 count as 1 full user. This includes existing users who have registered since BigFooty began.

* Users who register in July 2009 count as 3/4 of a user

* Users who register in August count as 1/2 of a user and

* Users who register in September before the 2009 AFL Grand Final count as 1/4 of a user.

This helps stop any last-minute attempts to rig the competition By registering before July 2009 you maximise your contribution to your club's score of "registered active users".


* Cut off is the opening siren for the 2009 AFL Grand Final.

* If no club achieves 10,000 valid, active, registered users (as calculated above) the money is not awarded to any club.

* The BigFooty Supporters Club Platinum membership for the winning club's supporters only goes to the first 10,000 active, registered individual users - so sign up early.

* If more than one club achieves 10,000 or more active registered users, as calculated above, the first club to reach 10,000 active registered users before the Grand Final (and stay above 10,000 until the Grand Final) receives the $10,000.

* No running tally will be published, but we may publish a leaderboards a few times during the season.

* How will the money be given? By cheque directly to the winning club. We have not decided if we will buy memberships and give them out to charities, or give them out randomly to registered BF supporters or just make a straight donation. We welcome your opinions, and it probably depends on what the club wants to do as well. We'll also ask the club if they want the money for themselves or if they want to pass it on to a charity or other worthy cause of their choosing.

* Direct all questions here: http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/sendmessage.php or post in this thread if relevant to the general public.

 

[jonesy86]

Is there a running tally for each club?

 

[Rawhead]

Thats a hell of a lot of hotmail accounts I have to set up.

 

[Butane]

Well that's just another competition the Bulldogs can't possibly compete in.

 

[hawks_time]

I know there's no running tally but can we get a current tally so we know where each club is at the start of this comp (aka now)?

 

[Chief]

I'll do some leaderboards through the season. Maybe monthly.

As of the last 30 days the leaderboard stands thus:

Hawthorn
Carlton
Collingwood
Essendon
Richmond
Geelong
Adelaide
North Melbourne
West Coast
Western Bulldogs
Fremantle
Brisbane
Melbourne
St Kilda
Sydney
Port Adelaide
Gold Coast

 

[Upgrayedd]

I like the idea, but what safeguards do you have from multiple accounts from a guy who can shuffle his IP address, while i wont try, i know a guy who could set up thousands of ghost accounts, dont get me wrong i love the idea, i just dont want a few people ruining what could be a great contest

 

[Rawhead]

I am very interested to hear more about this guy.

Could you please post some kind of a link?

 

[Chief]

We have a few human-verification methods in place. We also now require a mobile phone number and we'll do spot checks on those. Email addresses must be unique and verified.

Otherwise we have a few secret weapons that we already use when checking for aliases.

 

[EBUS]

I'll do some leaderboards through the season. Maybe monthly.

As of the last 30 days the leaderboard stands thus:

Hawthorn
Carlton
Collingwood
Essendon
Richmond
Geelong
Adelaide
North Melbourne
West Coast
Western Bulldogs
Fremantle
Brisbane
Melbourne
St Kilda
Sydney
Port Adelaide
Gold Coast

Didnt realise Port Adelaide were that low, would have thought St. Kilda were last

Besides Gold Coast of course

 

[Chief]

I am very interested to hear more about this guy.

Could you please post some kind of a link?

Now now. No cheating kids.

 

[Upgrayedd]

We have a few human-verification methods in place. We also now require a mobile phone number and we'll do spot checks on those. Email addresses must be unique and verified.

Otherwise we have a few secret weapons that we already use when checking for aliases.

Ah excellent Mobile phone will stop a few w***ers regestering for 5-6 accounts

 

[Chief]

Only accounts that have activity at least monthly count as well. I am sure there will be a few people try it on but nothing that will skew the comp as a whole.

 

[Godfrey Jones]

go pies

 

[Virgil]

Great idea Chief. I'm wondering, other than spreading the word, is there any way current posters can add/contribute to the tally? I have no friends and I'm feeling rather left out .

 

[Chief]

Current posters are included. This is not just NEW users - it is the TOTAL number.

 

[Mario the Lothario]

Hawthorn

So, you're not serious about the multiple username thing?

 

[Chief]

I will admit the list hasn't yet been fully scrubbed of fakes and aliases

That leaderboard is just an indicator of the last 30 days, which don't count in any case.

Anything could happen.

 

[Mario the Lothario]

I will admit the list hasn't yet been fully scrubbed of fakes and aliases

Ummmmmm.......so, is it raining in Brisbane?

 

[USAEagle]

Does that mean current users get free platinum as well?

 

[RedWhiteBlack]

Why don't you just give the money to a cause that actually needs it? Don't get me wrong... great promotion... but there is no way the influx of Hawthorn idiots on this forum won't tip them over the edge and as if the $10k will matter to them. Give it to grassroots footy, Auskick or something more worthwhile than one single Club!

 

[Chief]

If no club gets the money, we'll probably give a smaller donation to another worthy footy cause. How much or who, we don't know yet. We'll probably have a poll or some other user input into that decision if and when it arrives.

I'll add this: We'll also ask the club if they want the money directly or if THEY want to pass it on to a charity or anything like that.

 

[Chief]

Does that mean current users get free platinum as well?

every single one of the winning club's first 10,000 registered supporters active on BigFooty.com gets Platinum BigFooty Supporters Club membership for one year. Just for turning up.

So, provided you log on every month, you'll get Platinum BFSC if your club wins

I've updated the various pages to make this a bit clearer.

 

[Godfrey Jones]

Why don't you just give the money to a cause that actually needs it? Don't get me wrong... great promotion... but there is no way the influx of Hawthorn idiots on this forum won't tip them over the edge and as if the $10k will matter to them. Give it to grassroots footy, Auskick or something more worthwhile than one single Club!

agreed with this... unless its the melbourne footy club

 

[bigdroppunt]

Why don't you just give the money to a cause that actually needs it? Don't get me wrong... great promotion... but there is no way the influx of Hawthorn idiots on this forum won't tip them over the edge and as if the $10k will matter to them. Give it to grassroots footy, Auskick or something more worthwhile than one single Club!

Agree... Great post.