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Home » News & Stories » Events » Introducing Abundant Madness!

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Introducing Abundant Madness!

February 18, 2019 | Written by Dylan Rosenthal

Join Abundant Life for a March Madness first day watch party featuring all 16 games, food, drinks, and 20 raffle drawings! Experience all the action surrounded by fans as excited as you are while using your basketball knowledge (or just straight luck) to pick game winners and earn prizes. All proceeds support the Abundant Life Fellows program.

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Thursday, March 21st Noon-Midnight

Commonwealth Reserve

427 E Main St

Charlottesville, VA 22902

Re-entry is allowed

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$21 ticket: Entry, hors d’oeuvres, and 2 raffle tickets

$31 ticket: Entry, hors d’oeuvres, 5 raffle tickets, and 1 drink ticket

$41 ticket: Entry, hors d’oeuvres, 8 raffle tickets, and 2 drink tickets

Extra raffle tickets $3 each

4 grand prize drawings/16 additional prize drawings

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Grand Prizes (4): (1) autographed UVA basketball by Men’s Coach Tony Bennett (2) On court ball boy experience for two 2nd-8th grade students at a 2019-2020 UVA men’s game with two additional tickets for the adults (3) autographed UVA men’s team poster (4) 2 tickets to the UVA vs. Louisville men’s basketball home game in the 2019-2020 season. There will be four separate grand prize drawings, with four different winners. You are eligible to win an individual game prize and a grand prize, but you are only eligible to win one grand prize. Grand prize drawings will be taken from the pool of all “winning tickets” throughout the day, i.e. those placed on winning teams.

Individual Game Prizes (16): Gift cards and gift baskets donated by local Charlottesville businesses. There will be 16 individual game prizes, one prize for each game played on March 21st. Prize winners will be chosen by a raffle of people who correctly picked the winner of each individual game. There is no limit to how many raffle tickets can be placed in each raffle per person. You are eligible to win more than one individual game raffle, as well as to win both individual game raffles and a grand prize.

How it Works: There will be one raffle for each of the 16 games played and four grand prize raffle drawings throughout the event. Each participant in the event will be given a certain amount of raffle tickets, depending on the ticket level purchased, and they will selectively use their raffle tickets to pick who they think will win a certain basketball game. For example, if you think UVA will beat Gardner-Webb, you may place your raffle ticket(s) in the UVA basket. If UVA wins, there will be a raffle drawing out of everyone who picked UVA, and the winner will receive a gift card or gift basket from a local Charlottesville business. All of the winning tickets (those who picked UVA) will then be entered into the grand prize drawing. This will happen for all 16 games that day.

Drinks: Beer, Wine, and Soda will be available for purchase with drink tickets or cash. Water will be provided for free.

If you have any questions or would like to partner with Abundant Life as a sponsor or donor, please email Cooper Good at [email protected].

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Abundant Life Fellows, Fundraiser

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