There is a $100 entry fee for each square purchased. You may purchase a MAXIMUM TWO (2) squares. All entry fees must be received no later than Selection Sunday (i.e. Sunday before March Madness starts). All squares for which entry fees are not received will be opened back up for purchase on the Monday morning before March Madness starts. The squares are in high demand so if you don't pay on time there are always plenty of people trying to get in.
There are three methods of payment for participation in the pool:
1. QuickPay/Zelle (Preferred). Send QuickPay / Zelle to my email address at ben.luckett@comcast.net.
2. Venmo. Send Venmo to my wife’s account at @Brenda-Luckett. Her account can be confirmed using 0776.
3. Check (or cash). Send check (or cash although not desireable for record keeping) through snail mail to my home address (see address below).
When making payment by Chase QuickPay or Venmo please do not add any comments in the Memo/Comments field empty (i.e. no gaming references). I know
what your payment is for.
Ben Luckett
1511 Grand Oak Lane
Garnet Valley, PA 19060
Numbers will be randomly drawn after all 100 squares are filled in. Each individual square has the same chance to win each of the 63 games (i.e. - a single square could win multiple games). Example of winning square: North Carolina 92, Kansas 88; winning square = horizontal 2, vertical 8.
Each game in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (excluding the play-in game) will have a corresponding winning square. Horizontal numbers represent the last digit of the winning team's score and Vertical numbers represent the last digit of the losing team's score. For each game, the person who owns the square that matches the last digit of the winning and losing team's final score wins that game.
Payouts progressively grow larger with each passing round. The payouts for each game are outlined in the table below:
| Round | # of Winners | Payouts |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 32 | $50 |
| 2nd | 16 | $100 |
| Sweet 16 | 8 | $200 |
| Elite 8 | 4 | $400 |
| Final Four | 2 | $800 |
| Championship | 1 | $2,000 |
| Totals | 63 | $10,000 |
