BetterRunningShoes.com 2023 Worlds Track and Field Prediction Contest
It’s time to take your love of track & field to another level.
The BetterRunningShoes.com 2023 Worlds Prediction Contest is here. (If you’re looking for a better running shoe we really think you should check out our site BetterRunningShoes.com)
The contest is very simple. You pick the top 3 in all the running events. You get points for how many picks you get correctly. We score your picks and determine a winner. You don’t need a lot of knowledge of track & field to play and we encourage you to invite your friends to play in a group.
We give you a list of the top entrants with a picking guide, so everyone has a chance. A 13-year-old won our Marathon Trials contest.
And thanks to Suunto, we have some amazing prizes for our top 3.
This year’s Winner will receive the new Suunto Vertical, the runner-up will receive the Suunto 9 Peak Pro, and 3rd place will receive a Suunto 5 Peak.
If you’re not familiar with Suunto, they stand for adventure. Pioneering exploration has been in their DNA since 1936. Today Suunto is at the forefront of design and innovation for sports watches used by adventurers and runners all over the globe. Suunto’s headquarters and factory are still in Finland.
Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar
Prizes
1st Place- Suunto GPS Watch of Your Choice including the new SUUNTO VERTICAL Titanium Solar ($829)
The new Suunto Vertical is top of the line and essentially never needs to be charged.
2nd Place- Suunto 9 Peak Pro (which by the way is 26% off today)
3rd Place- Suunto 5 Peak ($169 today)
The top 3 in our contest also get a free annual subscription to the LetsRun.com Supporters Club, which includes the iconic LetsRun.com shirt and is the only way to get the daily LetsRun.com podcasts from Worlds.
(If you want daily podcasts from Worlds + 20% savings on running shoes, join the LetsRun.com Supporters Club today)
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Perfect Ballot Bonus
$200,023 Perfect Ballot: 1 winner maximum (if more than one winner they will split the prize). The perfect ballot bonus will be paid out equally over 10 years. A perfect ballot means you pick first, second, and third in the correct order for all the events in the contest.
$20,023 Perfect Distance Ballot: 3 winners maximum (if there are more than three winners they will split the prize). The perfect distance bonus will be paid out if you pick the top 3 in the 800, 1500, 5000, 10k, steeple, and marathon perfectly.
How It Works *Click here if you have a login already and want to get started
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We have a feature that allows you to change your picks up until about 10 minutes before a particular event is scheduled to start. We are not closing any picks until Saturday Aug 19 at 5:05 a.m. Eastern. Also, you don’t have to fill in all of your picks at once.
Scoring
The scoring is as follows:
- Each person that you correctly pick to finish in the top 3 = 1 point.
It doesn’t matter if you actually get the pick exactly right. If you pick someone for 1st and they finish 3rd you still get the point. Vice versa is true as well. If you pick them to get third and they get third, it’s still only one point. - Each event winner picked correctly = 3 more points (you pick someone for first and they get first, that’s 4 total points).
- Each event picked perfectly – All three picks: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the right order = 2 more points (here the order is key).
Do you understand the rules fully? The following example should explain any questions you have. If you pick 1st, 2nd, and 3rd correctly in any event in the proper order, it is 3 points (1 point for each person in the top 3) + 3 points (for getting the winner correct) + 2 points (bonus for perfect pick of top 3 in order) = 8 points.
The more points, the better.
Play in a Group vs. Your Friends
In our contest, you can create your own group and play against your friends.
Rules
Oh yeah, only one entry per person. No computerized/mechanical entries. We’re sure we should have a bunch of legal stuff here. How about this: your picks and your login name are not private and may be displayed on our website. And we’re not responsible if the free contest gets cancelled for any reason including if our database crashes. If the contest is cancelled, the prizes will not be awarded. We’ll do our best to keep everything running smoothly. The top 3 in any event are final when we determine them at the end of the meet and this may not be the ultimate final top 3 (mainly due to drug busts in the future). Additionally, this contest is obviously void where prohibited by law – which states and countries that is, we don’t know. Also you need to be of the right minimum age, which we’ll say is 15 to be safe. No purchase necessary. And yes, we can win our own contest. If we beat you, you’ll hear about it for sure. The $200,022 prize is the sole responsibility of LetsRun.com.
This contest is in no way affiliated with World Athletics.
*And we’ll try to keep events open until 10 minutes before each event, but we’re not guaranteeing anything.
Please note: For tie-breaking purposes, we’ll first look at the number of 1st places correctly chosen. If there’s still a tie, we’ll look at the number of 2nd places correctly chosen, and then if need be, the number of 3rd places correctly chosen. If there still is a tie, we’ll conduct a random drawing.
Get Started
Sound easy? Then get started.
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You’ll be able to log in and check your scores during the contest. You need a LetsRun.com login to play. If you have any questions, email us at letsrun@letsrun.com.
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