SOLD OUT: 2021 NFBC Main Event
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:53 am
The NFBC Main Event is our signature event -- and the industry's premiere contest -- which has sold out each of the last 16 years. Even last year when we had to refund more than 470 Main Event entries and reconfigured the contest with a $100,000 grand prize for a 60-game Sprint Main Event, we sold out all 570 spots.
It's been an amazing run for this contest and we don't plan on breaking that streak this year!!
The 2021 NFBC Main Event has a guaranteed grand prize of $150,000 and is based on a record 600 teams. It takes a ton of skill to win a 15-team Main Event league title and even more skill and a little good fortune to beat the entire field and win the grand prize. We have had 16 different overall champions during our 17-year history, with only the great Lindy Hinkelman winning this contest twice. James Tomony of Madison, Wisconsin is the defending champion and he's eager to defend this title.
The good news is that Major League Baseball plans to play a full 162-game season this year despite Covid. Actually, the MLB Players Association forced them into that plan. The bad news is that a lot of baseball fans are waiting to see how spring training plays out before committing to the season ahead and we are feeling those effects as well.
In past years at this time, we'd be headed toward a sellout. In fact, last year we had less than 100 spots left in the Main Event at this time. Today we just topped 350 teams in our contest, meaning we still have just short of 250 teams left for a sellout. A 17th straight sellout, that is.
But we are confident that we'll get there, even if that means the final week will be wild as hell. We are going to get there.
Last year proved to all of us here how passionate our customers are about the Main Event and about keeping this signature event alive and prosperous. We sold those 570 spots in less than three weeks and crammed in 38 online drafts over a 10-day period. We won't have that many online Main Event drafts during the same period of time, but we do know that the March 29th-31st period will be busy, busy, busy. I can't say that we'll shut off Registration for any of those events even if we get 6 or 7 at a time because we are fully staffed to handle that load, but along with a full Rotowire Online Championship slate those days we may have to be careful. If you really want to draft on those three final dates, please sign up at a reasonable time or turn your TBD entries to one of those dates because at some point we will have to shut those down.
I've started this thread to let everyone know where we are with this great contest. At this point, being 58% full is as precarious as it was in 2004 when we finished with 195 teams and prizes based on 300 teams. We sold out all 300 teams the next year and have never fallen short of our goal since. I don't think our situation is as bad as it was in 2004 because I'm hopeful that people will start to grab some teams soon, even if they are only TBDs for now. If you can do that, it would be great. It would make all of us feel better about this contest and would secure your spot in the Main Event.
We'll update this thread all the way through a sellout. And I do believe we'll have a sellout. Thanks all and best of luck in the battle for the most coveted prize in the industry, which also pays $150,000 for winning it. Thanks for your support through the years and especially this year when the pandemic still makes the season a little difficult. Let's all work through it and enjoy a full, hopefully historic baseball season.
It's been an amazing run for this contest and we don't plan on breaking that streak this year!!
The 2021 NFBC Main Event has a guaranteed grand prize of $150,000 and is based on a record 600 teams. It takes a ton of skill to win a 15-team Main Event league title and even more skill and a little good fortune to beat the entire field and win the grand prize. We have had 16 different overall champions during our 17-year history, with only the great Lindy Hinkelman winning this contest twice. James Tomony of Madison, Wisconsin is the defending champion and he's eager to defend this title.
The good news is that Major League Baseball plans to play a full 162-game season this year despite Covid. Actually, the MLB Players Association forced them into that plan. The bad news is that a lot of baseball fans are waiting to see how spring training plays out before committing to the season ahead and we are feeling those effects as well.
In past years at this time, we'd be headed toward a sellout. In fact, last year we had less than 100 spots left in the Main Event at this time. Today we just topped 350 teams in our contest, meaning we still have just short of 250 teams left for a sellout. A 17th straight sellout, that is.
But we are confident that we'll get there, even if that means the final week will be wild as hell. We are going to get there.
Last year proved to all of us here how passionate our customers are about the Main Event and about keeping this signature event alive and prosperous. We sold those 570 spots in less than three weeks and crammed in 38 online drafts over a 10-day period. We won't have that many online Main Event drafts during the same period of time, but we do know that the March 29th-31st period will be busy, busy, busy. I can't say that we'll shut off Registration for any of those events even if we get 6 or 7 at a time because we are fully staffed to handle that load, but along with a full Rotowire Online Championship slate those days we may have to be careful. If you really want to draft on those three final dates, please sign up at a reasonable time or turn your TBD entries to one of those dates because at some point we will have to shut those down.
I've started this thread to let everyone know where we are with this great contest. At this point, being 58% full is as precarious as it was in 2004 when we finished with 195 teams and prizes based on 300 teams. We sold out all 300 teams the next year and have never fallen short of our goal since. I don't think our situation is as bad as it was in 2004 because I'm hopeful that people will start to grab some teams soon, even if they are only TBDs for now. If you can do that, it would be great. It would make all of us feel better about this contest and would secure your spot in the Main Event.
We'll update this thread all the way through a sellout. And I do believe we'll have a sellout. Thanks all and best of luck in the battle for the most coveted prize in the industry, which also pays $150,000 for winning it. Thanks for your support through the years and especially this year when the pandemic still makes the season a little difficult. Let's all work through it and enjoy a full, hopefully historic baseball season.
