With professional soccer’s “Large Recreation” being performed on Sunday, February 16, and the televised “Oscars” broadcast two weeks later — on Sunday, March 2 — we determined to have each our annual FREE “Large Recreation Squares” contest and our occasional FREE “Oscars” contests be online-only this yr, to provide everybody an equal likelihood to enter and win.
To be given a sq. in our “Large Recreation Squares” contest, sponsored by Gasoline N Grills on Livingston Ave., CLICK HERE. Our Grand Prize, for having the profitable sq. representing the ultimate rating between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, is a $200 reward card to the restaurant of your selection, wherever within the Tampa Bay space! The proprietor of the sq. representing the rating at halftime will win a $100 eating reward card and having the profitable squares on the finish of the primary or third quarters of the “Large Recreation” will win you a $50 eating reward card. So, CLICK HERE to enter now.
And, with the Oscar winners being introduced on March 2, CLICK HERE to enter our 2025 “Oscars Contest,” sponsored by B&B Theatres at The Grove. You’ll be requested to foretell the winners of every main class for an opportunity to win the Grand Prize of dinner for 2, plus top-level film tickets, popcorn & drinks to a film at B&B Theatres. There additionally shall be 5 runners-up who every will obtain two free top-level film tickets at B&B Theatres.
There is no such thing as a buy essential to enter both of those contests, however you’ll have to present your actual first & final identify, the neighborhood you reside in, your daytime phone quantity & your legitimate e mail tackle to enter both contest. For more information, together with the official guidelines of each FREE contests, e mail us at adverts@ntneighborhoodnews.com. Good luck!
In years previous, we’ve run both a “Large Recreation Squares” or an Academy Awards contest — or each — in our New Tampa and Wesley Chapel print editions.
Each contests, particularly the Squares, take up quite a lot of house in our print points and sometimes would solely permit readers in one in all our distribution areas to enter that contest by studying our print editions, which all the time ended up with much more entries from that one space, and generally, different readers would find yourself getting shut out of that contest altogether — and that appeared unfair to me.
So, relatively than give one group of print version readers an unfair benefit over the opposite, I made a decision that this yr, we might supply each of those fashionable contests on-line solely.
In fact, for the reason that subsequent Wesley Chapel subject received’t hit mailboxes till after the Large Recreation, solely these of you who obtain our New Tampa version are discovering out about each contests in print, despite the fact that each of them shall be posted on our Fb web page no later than Friday, January 31, and we’ll restrict our Squares contest to the primary 100 entrants (we allowed 200, or two full “grids,” final yr), so it might be too late to enter by the point this subject reaches your mailbox.
Now in fact, I do know that not everybody has a pc or sensible cellphone to enter on-line, however certainly everybody is aware of somebody who does who may enter for you. To that finish, online-only gave the impression to be one of the best ways to provide readers in each distribution areas the identical alternative to enter.
So, right here’s how the 2 contests will work:
‘Large Recreation Squares’
This has turn out to be our second hottest contest, behind our annual Eating Survey & Contest, as even non-football followers normally watch the Large Recreation — despite the fact that some solely look ahead to the commercials and/or halftime exhibits.
Non-football followers who would by no means place a wager (authorized or in any other case) love the Squares contest as a result of it’s solely about luck — you both have a sq. that wins one in all our reward card prizes otherwise you don’t. And, for the reason that profitable squares are decided by the rating on the finish of every quarter and might generally change on the final potential second, having a sq. would be the solely factor that retains non-football-fans watching the Large Recreation till the very finish.
So, CLICK HERE and supply us together with your REAL (you’d be stunned what number of faux entries we obtain in our contests) first AND final identify, the neighborhood you reside in, e mail tackle and daytime cellphone quantity.
In case you give us the entire correct info, you’ll obtain an e mail from me that claims, “Congratulations, you can be assigned a sq. on this yr’s ‘Large Recreation’ Contest! As soon as all of our 100 squares have been crammed, we’ll e mail you once more with the rating digit for every workforce that may assist you to WIN!”
For individuals who don’t know the way these Squares contests work, the squares are assigned within the order they’re acquired, however the numbers representing the final digit of the rating for every workforce aren’t randomly assigned till all 100 squares are crammed.
Your second e mail will say, “Your sq. is KC 7, Phi 6.” Meaning if the rating is 7-6 Chiefs (or 27-26, and many others.) on the finish of any quarter, you’d win the prize for that quarter — wherever from a $50 to a $200 reward card to the restaurant of your selection wherever within the Tampa Bay space. It’s enjoyable and completely free — no buy is ever required to enter any of our contests.
‘Academy Awards Contest’
We’ve solely been in a position to even have this contest a number of occasions previously due to the timing of when the nominees are introduced to when the annual Academy Awards are held.
As devastating because the uncontrolled wild fires in California have been, the fires brought about each the announcement of this yr’s nominees and the televised pink carpet gala itself to be delayed — a lot in order that we even have time to have this FREE contest this yr as effectively.
Right here’s the way it works: As soon as once more, present us together with your REAL first AND final identify, the neighborhood you reside in, e mail tackle and daytime cellphone quantity. As well as, we ask every entrant on this contest to please decide the winner in every of the next main Oscars classes: 1. Finest Image, 2. Finest Actress, 3. Finest Actor, 4. Finest Supporting Actress, 5. Finest Supporting Actor, 6. Finest Director & 7. Finest Animated Function.
If just one entrant picks the winners in probably the most classes, they are going to win a prize package deal to the B&B Theatres at The Grove, with film tickets, popcorn, dinner & drinks, valued at $200.
If multiple entry has the identical variety of appropriate picks, the winner shall be drawn at random from all tied entries. Every of the opposite tied entries will obtain two B&B film passes. CLICK HERE to enter.
