Free Tickets to Washington Capitals Home Opener

Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by Mike Olaski in Capitals-Fan Connect, Promotions, The Connection

We are giving away 2 free tickets to the Washington Capitals home opener hockey game against the Toronto Maple Leafs this coming Saturday October 3rd at the Verizon Center in Washington DC.

This is the regular season home opener for Washington, and the season opener for the NHL on Hockey Night in Canada on CBC. It is sure to be an amazing game with all the anticipation surrounding both teams.

This is the first of what will be come a monthly contest to find and connect to the local events biggest Sport-Fans.

Are you the BIGGEST Washington Capitals or Toronto MapleLeafs Fan?

We want to find the most dedicated, hard-core Washington Area, Capitals, NHL or Toronto Maple Leafs fans that want to “Rock the Red” on Oct3rd to kick off the 2009/10 NHL season. (Fans of all other NHL teams can also enter if you will be in DC area for the game). You can enter the contest by explaining your loyalty and passion with a video (or in writing) telling us the ways you currently connect with your team, players, other fans or anything at all. For example, you might hold a party every game night at your house for 10 of your best friends? Or, maybe you organize a Fantasy League or perhaps you are following the team and connect with other fans on Twitter? Whatever special thing you do to connect with your favorite team, we want to hear about it.

You don’t have to live in Washington DC area to win, but it would help as the prize is for tickets only (no transportation or accommodations). Sorry, next time maybe?

How to Enter

To enter, you have to fill out the form below and either submit a video or letter.

Video

If you are adding a video to your application, please upload it to your own YouTube account. You can copy the URL or Embed code into your entry form below. We will then re-publish your video on our website.

Letter

If you are applying by writing, just copy and paste your letter into the form below. Please keep your entries less that 500 words and more than 100.

VOTING

We are excited to see what kind of feedback we get from this initial (and short notice) contest.  We are obviously big advocates for Social Media in Sports, so, with that in mind, we want to use it to it’s fullest to promote this contest and to decide the winner. Once you have submitted your entry we will email you a link that you can then broadcast thru your social network (websites, Facebook, Twitter, etc).  That link will display your entry on http://sportfanconnect.com and your contacts/friends will be able to vote for your entry by leaving comments on why you should win the tickets.  Every comment counts as a vote and will factor into deciding the winner.

The winner will be chosen by the following criteria:

1. Quality of the submission
2. Attention your submission generates (ie. Comments on http://sportfanconnect.com)

BONUS

We want as many entries as possible, but, we also understand that more entries means more competition for your entry.  So, with that in mind, there will be BONUS votes awarded for helping us promote the contest.

Use this link to promote on your Twitter, Facebook, Email, etc: http://su.pr/1RAKQW (Just so you know, we will be able to track these links thru our su.pr account…..so rest assure, your BONUS votes will be counted

CONTEST DEADLINE: Friday, October 2 – Midnight

To view all the contest entries and vote for you favorite, click here: http://sportfanconnect.com/category/the-connection/promotions/capitals-fan-connect

Good luck to everyone, and as usually, please leave a comment with your thoughts about this as a promotional tool and connecting device as it relates to our effort to connect with fans and their sports.