HoopsMania a unique fundraiser based on the excitement of college basketball

An exciting sweepstakes based on college hoops!

The HoopsMania Sweepstakes

Over $2,000 in prize money! 75 different ways to win with each game card!
Enjoy the excitement of your office “bracket pool” without the stress of picking teams!
Have fun while supporting a good cause!

Do you enjoy college basketball’s national championship tournament, but you feel a bit lost or overwhelmed filling out a “bracket” for your office pool? If so, HoopsMania is for you! When you have a HoopsMania game card, you can win up to $500 in prize money by just sitting back, watching the games, and rooting for the teams printed on your game card. The more points your teams score in the tournament, the better chance you have to win one of the top 70 prizes! If your teams don't perform very well, the bottom 5 game cards also win. This sweepstakes makes the tournament exciting for even the most casual fan!

In this Edition of HoopsMania, each game card holder is assigned 8 teams (2 teams from each region) that will play in college basketball's national championship tournament in March. Each game card has a 1 through 8 seed so all game card combinations have a great chance of winning. When the basketball tournament begins in March, game card holders simply add up the points scored by the teams printed on the HoopsMania game card. The more total combined points the teams score, the better chance a game card has to win a prize!

At the end of the tournament, prizes are awarded to the 70 game cards whose teams score the most total combined points throughout the tournament. The top 3 scoring game cards are awarded a Grand Prize; the next 67 top scoring game cards each win a Runner-Up Prize. Prizes are also awarded to the 5 game cards with the lowest total combined points. See below for complete prizes or view the HoopsMania official rules for more details. Read the official rules for more details.

Prizes

There are 1,440 unique game cards, each of which has an equal 1 in 19 chance to win a prize. Prize money amounts can be seen in the table below.

HoopsMania Prizes
Grand Prize #1 Game Card with the highest 8-team combined total points scored	$500
Grand Prize #2 Second highest total combined score	$200
Grand Prize #3 Third highest total combined score	$100
Runner-Up Prizes Awarded to the next 67 highest scoring game cards (i.e. the 4th thru 70th highest total combined scores)	$20
Low Score Grand Prize Game card with the lowest 8-team combined total points scored	$50
Low Score Runner-Up Prizes Awarded to the next 4 lowest scoring game cards (i.e. the 2nd thru 5th lowest total combined scores)	$20
Total prizes paid per contest	$2,270

Guaranteed Winners Program (if applicable)
Highest score from your organization	$20

Track your game card and see if you are a winner!

Once you have your game card, you can track your game card's score at any time to see how well you are doing. There are two easy ways to do this. Option 1: just enter your game card number on the CharityMania website; Option 2: download our free HoopsMania mobile app (search for 'CharityMania' in the App Store or Google Play store) and play along.

CharityStudio music downloads

Why sell music downloads? Why not just use the sweepstakes game cards?
There is a legal difference between a sweepstakes and a raffle. In a raffle, people pay money for a raffle ticket that gives them a chance to win prizes. Only specific types of organizations can conduct a raffle and states strictly regulate how the raffles can operate. A sweepstakes is not a raffle. A sweepstakes is a promotion that provides extra incentive for people to buy a product or service that you are selling. The sweepstakes must have a ‘no purchase necessary’ method of entry. In a CharityMania fundraiser, the sweepstakes game cards are for promotion only and are not sold directly. Every time someone buys a CharityMania Ticket, they purchase over $5 to $30 worth of premium music downloads (depending on the price of the CharityMania ticket) from our CharityStudio. The sweepstakes game card is the promotion that provides a great extra incentive for a person to support your cause.

Our Sweepstakes Game Cards work much like the game pieces in the Monopoly sweepstakes at McDonald’s. You can not buy a Monopoly game piece directly. Instead, you purchase things like hamburgers and drinks and receive the game pieces for free. The Monopoly game pieces are a promotion.

No purchase necessary sweepstakes:
All CharityMania sweepstakes are “no purchase necessary”. If someone wants a free sweepstakes game card, they can come to your organization and fill out a request form (provided by CharityMania) to get a free Game Card. They mail the completed request form to CharityMania along with a self-addressed stamped envelope and then we will mail the person a game card. We do not mail them the access code that allows people to download the digital music (because they are not paying). This process is very standard for all companies that conduct sweepstakes.