Ticket sales will be conducted online via this website only. You must be a resident of British Columbia, currently in British Columbia, and 19+ to play. You will receive an electronic confirmation from Trellis of your purchase, and then an email from the Okanagan College Foundation with your individually-numbered ticket, the contest Rules & Regulations, as well as a further email when the site "goes live" containing a link to join the FREE ESPN Fantasy March Madness Bracket Challenge.

All paid entrants will be sent an invitation to join the free ESPN Fantasy March Madness Bracket Challenge. A private group will be established when the challenge “goes live” online for tracking the progress of all participants. (For an overview of how the Challenge works on the ESPN site, please visit the 2021 edition here: https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2021/en/story?pageName=tcmen\howtoplay Entrants must have a free ESPN Fantasy account to participate.

The tournament bracket will be released on or about Sunday, March 13^th

Selection Sunday       March 13

Entrant Selection Period        March 13 - 17

First Found (32 Games)         March 17 and 18

Second Round (16 Games)    March 19 and 20

Sweet 16 (8 Games)   March 24 and 25

Elite Eight (4 Games) March 26 and 27

Final Four -Semi-Finals (2 Games)   April 2

National Championship - Finals (1 Game)    April 4

Winner Selection and Notification    April 5

When the bracket is released, entrants will go to the ESPN Fantasy website to select who they think will win each of the 63 tournament games. Entrants may change their selections as often as they wish prior to the scheduled tip-off time for the first game. Once the tournament has commenced, all selections will be locked and finalized.

Participants fill out the bracket in its entirety from a single webpage. They will check the team name to advance that team to the next round. Once their bracket is complete, they will be prompted to submit their prediction of the combined score for the Championship Game (see below for Tie-Breaking procedure). Once that is entered, the SUBMIT button will change colour allowing them to register their tournament bracket.

Points will be awarded on the system used by ESPN Fantasy.

Tie-breaking procedure – ESPN Fantasy has participants predict the combined score (winner score + loser score) of the National Championship Game. The participant that is closest to the actual combined score (regardless of over or under of the actual score) will be given the higher ranking and declared the winner in the event of a tie.

All official results will be sourced from ESPN Fantasy website.

On April 5^th, the Foundation will review all brackets and apply any necessary tie-breakers (the ESPN Fantasy website does not automatically calculate tie-breakers due to the sheer volume of participants) to determine First, Second, and Third Place recipients. In the event of a tie between two or more entrants who have the most total points, the tie-breaking procedure will be applied; in the event of two entrants being equally close to the actual combined score where one participant is under the actual combined score and the other is over the actual combined score, the participant who selected the closest score without going over will be declared the winner of the tie-breaker.

This year, we have our biggest grand prize ever, and our second and third place prizes are also incredible!

The Grand Prize is a Travel package, to be fulfilled by Water Street by the Park, includes: round-trip airfare for two, four nights’ hotel stay in Houston, TX, and two tickets to the Final Four (2 games) and Championship Game (1 game) of the 2023 March Madness Tournament.**

Our second place finisher will receive coupons entitling them to one (1) large pizza from Papa John’s per week, for 52 weeks.

Our third place finisher will receive coupons entitling them to one (1) coffee, any size, from McDonalds each day, for 365 days.

** For full details on the grand prize, refer to the Official Rules & Regulations for this Sports Pool. To obtain the Rules & Regulations, please contact the Foundation via email at foundation@okanagan.bc.ca - all tickets purchasers will receive the Rules & Regulations via email prior to commencement of the March Madness Tournament.

Absolutely! The long-term success of the Coyotes Basketball Program relies on donations from members of our community. To make a charitable donation to support the Program, please visit the OC Foundation's CanadaHelps donation page here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/29725

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If you have any questions about how to enter or if you would like a full copy of the Rules and Regulations for the OC Foundation March Madness Bracket Challenge, please email foundation@okanagan.bc.ca - please allow up to 24 hours for a response.