FanDuel.com is set to fly eleven competitors to Las Vegas in December to compete in the final of its Fantasy Football Championship promotion.
Wednesday 1st September 2010
Online fantasy sports site FanDuel.com has launched its inaugural Fantasy Football Championship that will send eleven competitors to Las Vegas in December to vie for a top prize of $25,000.
FanDuel.com allows enthusiasts to win real money at fantasy sports including ice hockey, American football, basketball and baseball with players able to draft a new team at any time before pitching it head-to-head against another opponent or league.
Players can register to take part in the Fantasy Football Championship up to November 14 with the competition culminating on December 5 with each of the weekly winners joining a single wild-card entry in a one-day fantasy football league competition in Las Vegas. FanDuel.com stated that the eventual winner will take home a trophy alongside $25,000 in cash while the runner-up is to receive $10,000. In addition, the third-place finisher will walk away with $5,000 while the site is set to reward $1,350 to each week’s top runners-up to bring the event's total prize pool to more than $50,000.
“The FanDuel.com Fantasy Football Championship will be an exceptional experience,” said Nigel Eccles, Chief Executive Officer for San Francisco and Edinburgh-based FanDuel.com.
“We're combining the best of our online competitions including the instant-win component that makes FanDuel.com so popular with an in-person showdown featuring huge prizes in Las Vegas.”
For ten dollars, FanDuel.com revealed that players can enter as many teams as they like multiple times over the ten-week span of the Fantasy Football Championship but can only win one place in the final. The eleven finalists will each receive $500 in spending money alongside a return flight to Las Vegas, two nights' accommodation at the Venetian Las Vegas and a special dinner party.
