- Bracket-picking opens for unique college
basketball contest - exclusive to users of theScore app
TORONTO, March 13, 2017 /CNW/ - Time to make your picks!
theScore, Inc. (TSX Venture: SCR) ("theScore") today opened
bracket-picking for the $100K Team
Tourney Challenge – its exciting new contest that takes place
during this month's men's college basketball championship
tournament.
Available only on theScore app for iOS and Android, theScore
$100K Team Tourney Challenge delivers
the same bracket-picking fun users know and love from bracket
contests, but allows friends to also team-up and take on other
groups of fans. At the end of the 63-game tournament, the group of
friends with the highest average score walks away with $100K, while there is also a $25K prize for the best overall individual
bracket from the contest.
Entries for the contest opened last week, with bracket picking
getting underway earlier today.
John Levy, CEO and Founder of
theScore, said: "We've already been blown away by the response to
theScore $100K Team Tourney Challenge
and now fans can really get in the action by making their picks for
a shot at the big prize. In addition to our new unique contest,
fans can also use theScore app to stay on top of all the latest
scores, stats, news and upsets throughout the entire
tournament."
Developed in partnership with sports data company STATS,
theScore $100K Team Tourney Challenge
layers a unique social element onto the tried-and-tested format of
bracket-picking.
"theScore $100K Team Tourney
Challenge is a great example of a media leader connecting with the
authentic passion arising from exciting events like this," said
Richard Henderson, Chief Revenue
Officer, STATS.
Play theScore $100K Team Tourney
Challenge NOW by downloading theScore app from the App Store or Google Play. Terms and conditions
will apply. Please review official contest rules before
entering.
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About theScore Inc.
theScore, Inc. is an independent
creator of mobile-first sports experiences, connecting fans to the
sports content they love through an addictive combination of
comprehensive and personalized real-time news, scores, stats,
alerts and videos via emerging and established digital media
platforms, including its mobile sports applications theScore and
theScore esports, its web platforms theScore.com and
thescoreesports.com and theScore Bot for Facebook Messenger and
Kik Messenger.
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