Promotions
Past Winners
Currently there are 30+ people that have won, some of which winning multiple weeks so far. See the full list so far.
Top 10 & Perfect 10 Winners
Public Release
With the success of beta, there was one goal in mind, and it could be summed up into one word. More!
2023 Boost
In 2022 the most accurate rankings each week, including the RancUp Season Leader, earned $100. That is still in place for weeks 4-18, but to kick off the season, Week 1 - 3 & the RancUp Season Leader have been doubled, and are worth $200 each.
Weekly Winners
$200 will be up for grabs each of the 18 weeks of the 2023 Regular Season, and will go to the users that earn the most points across all positions in that Week, based on accuracy.
First Place
Most accurate rankings each week will earn a Gold Trophy Award that will display by your username proving you were a Weekly Champion. Most accurate will also earn $100!
Second Place
Second most accurate rankings each week will earn a Silver Trophy Award that will display by your username proving you placed. Second most accurate will also earn $60!
Third Place
Third most accurate rankings each week will earn a Bronze Trophy Award that will display by your username proving you placed. Third most accurate will also earn $40!
Season Winners
Full Season Rankings
In addition to the 18 Weekly Winnings ($3,600) there will be $200 for the most accurate Full Season Rankings (done before Week 1, for how you think players will do across all 18 weeks / how you’d draft players).
RancUp Season Leader
There will also be another $300 to the RancUp Season Leader. This goes to the user that earned the most points across all 18 Weeks + Full Season, based on all positions. Nothing like stacking winnings on top of winnings.
The Full Season Rankings and the RancUp Season Leader will also follow the $100 for 1st, $60 for 2nd, and $40 for 3rd winnings, along with Gold, Silver, and Bronze Trophies being earned.
Top 10 Winners
For the 2021 season, we have $1,000 dedicated to the Top 10 Winners throughout the season. For example, if there are 8 instances where someone is able to correctly predict the Top 10 players for any position, in any of the weeks, in any order that matches the Top 10 players for how they actually finished, that pot will be split evenly, and each will receive $125.
Each Top 10 Winners will earn a Top 10 Award that will show alongside their username.
To be eligible for a share of this pot and the award, email promotions@rancup.com to notify us you have won.
Perfect 10 Winners
For the 2021 season, in addition to the pot dedicated to the Top 10 Winners, we have another $1,000 decided to the Perfect 10 Winners throughout the season (for a total potential 2022 Promotion of $6,000). For example, using the same hypothetical where there were 8 instances where someone was able to correctly predict the Top 10 players for any position, in any of the weeks, in any order that matches the Top 10 players for how they actually finished … if 2 of those 8 instances had their predictions in the exact order, that pot would be split evenly, and each will receive $500 more (on top of the $125 they already received from the Top 10 Winners Share).
Each Perfect 10 Winner will earn a Perfect 10 Award that will show alongside their username.
To be eligible for a share of this pot and the award, email promotions@rancup.com to notify us you have won.
** Apple is not involved in any way with this contest.
Beta
Last year, in the 10 Week Beta for Week 8-17, we offered $3,000+ to the most accurate rankers out there. We split this up into a few different Promotions, Challenges, and Giveaways.
Weekly Winners
Win $100 by earning the most points across all positions in that Week based on accuracy.
Multi-Week Winners
Win even more by earning the most points across multiple weeks
Week 8-12: $250
Week 13-17: $250
Week 8-17: $500
Perfect 10 Challenge
If you could rank the 1st through 10th best player for a given position in the correct order, you would have been a Perfect 10 Winner. Each winner in 2020 would have been given a share of the $1,000 prize pool. The position of the week was decided at the beginning of the week.
** All Promotions were available for (and based on) Week 8 - Week 17 of the 2020 Season. If more than one user had finished a given week (or range of weeks for the Multi-Week Challenge) with the most points (so their points were the same), the winnings would have been split evenly.
NFC North Challenge
Instead of everyone setting their rankings and competing with the mentality of ‘everyone for themselves’, we wanted to add a team aspect. We setup teams of 2, then the team with the most accurate rankings won.
In Week 17, we put up $100 to the winner of a teams of 2 challenge. This time, we had representatives that were fans of each of the teams in the NFC North.
Jeff Riger and Dan Leach were given the opportunity to represented Team Lions. We also found volunteers for Team Bears, Team Vikings, and Team Packers, so the challenge was on.
Once the week was over, Team Lions won! That win was lead by Leach, finishing with the 2nd most accurate rankings out of everyone in Week 17. That finish not only won Team Lions the NFC North Challenge, but it also earned him $250 as the Week 13-17 Winner!
NFC North Giveaway
With Riger and Leach winning that $100, instead of pocketing it, they wanted to pay it forward and did a Giveaway. Once the drawing was completed UptownWaterloo1 and Couch2 won $50 each!
Reddit vs Radio Challenge
In our first teams of 2 challenge, we put up $100 in Week 16 for this Reddit vs Radio Challenge.
We got two volunteers who are on the air for Detroit Sports Radio (Jeff Riger and Dan Leach). With the challenge set, Team Reddit had volunteers from r/fantasyfootball and was setup with PeakedInHighSkool and clunas7 as their representatives
Over that weekend we did a Featured Rankings Post where we showed both members of Team Reddit’s rankings. They must have got some solid feedback / help from the community, cause once the week was over, Team Reddit won!
This earned clunas7 and PeakedInHighSkool $50 each (which PeakedInHighSkool decided to donate his share to BeerSheets charity for FRC Team 3650)
2019
During the Private Release, we got some buddies to test the functionality, and gave $100 if someone could win a week during the season.