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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 18:40:32 GMT -6
I've seen a few of you guys recommend doing a Madden tourney as a fundraiser. Any of you guys who've done this, how did you organize it? How did you charge etc.?
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Post by dacoachmo on May 15, 2007 20:14:02 GMT -6
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Post by briangilbert on May 15, 2007 21:37:25 GMT -6
The school I coached at did one not for the program but to generate money for Katrina victims. We did it at the time on Madden 2006 I believe for the PS2. Every kid on the team who had a PS2 brought his in and we went and rented as many Madden's as we could. The parents were well aware and helped set up the event, we also had a bake sale, pizza, and pop going on at the same time.
We had 32 players involved in the tournament. They were allowed to choose any team they wanted, one time we had the Steelers playing the Steelers. It was 25 to play in the tournament and we kept half the money for the Katrina victims, the other half went to the winner. The bake sale money went into the football program.
We played 5 min quarters without accelerated clock. The tournament was held in the cafeteria (Tons of tv's set up) with 2 extra TV's used in class rooms. We had coaches and parent volunteers watching the games to make sure no foul play was involved. We started it at 8am and went to I think 6ish (this was on a Saturday). The championship was played in front of everyone after school that Monday on a big screen in the auditorium (It was a pretty cool site).
The event worked great, even when someone lost there was usually enough empty TV's after the first round or so where people were just playing pick up games of Madden and talking football.
I wish I could get something like this going at the new school I am at, when I'm a HC I will for sure be doing something like this for Madden as well as an NCAA Tourney March Madness Style in the spring.
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Post by pantherpride91 on May 16, 2007 7:07:37 GMT -6
Do you run into any problems with people saying you are getting into gambling? With a Madden Toruny it would not be as bad, but I could see it being more of an issue with a March Madness Bracket. I thought aobut trying to get that going this year at my school but had multiple people say it would not be a good idea
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Post by briangilbert on May 16, 2007 10:20:28 GMT -6
Wow really gambling? The community I coached in was ranked as one of the top 100 cities to live in via USA today. The people there are very affluent and with that comes the fear of lawyers and the PC police. Not one person objected to it, heck it is just a video game.
Then would your people consider a 50/50 raffle to be gambling?
Oh wait...
I just re-read your post...
NO NO NO I am not going to run an actual "March Madness" bracket, I'm going to just in the spring use the NCAA Basketball videogame, and do the same thing I did with the Madden tourney in the fall. No actual "gambling" gambling, yea that would be a very bad idea.
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Post by pantherpride91 on May 21, 2007 7:57:53 GMT -6
got ya.....well if you can make it work in a PC driven area, I am sure I can get it going here in po-dunkville...thanks coach
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