Spotlight on High Stakes Contests

Posted 7/15 by Jeff Pasquino, Exclusive to Footballguys.com

Here at Footballguys, we are all about providing the information that you need to dominate your fantasy football experience. One of the biggest phenomena in the past few years has been high-stakes fantasy football contests, so we decided to reach out to several of them this year to see what information they could provide to Footballguys to explain their contests in greater detail.

Below you will find responses from six contests (listed by random draw):

Rotobowl
The World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF)
Fantasy Football Players Championship
NBC Sports' National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC)
FantasyJungle
Fantasy Football Open Championship
PayDay Sports

Each contest answered the same questions, so that you can easily compare and contrast among the participating contests. Footballguys.com is providing this information as a service to our readers, and we encourage anyone considering joining a high-stakes league to use the links and contact information provided to get all of your questions answered. In fantasy football, knowledge is always the ultimate key to ensure success for your team.

Find below each contest's summary in their own words. You can also check out each contest's entire spotlight by clicking on the corresponding graphic.

Rotobowl

High Stakes Fantasy Football at a low cost. For only $250, you can take part in the 4th annual RotoBowl Fantasy Football Tournament. The league offers the ability to draft Online or at our 2 live events in Atlantic City, NJ and Baltimore, MD for a chance to win $20,000 and 2 tickets to the "Big Game". 1 in 3 Teams will win at least $100 in prizes. All participants are invited to our exclusive FHM Postdraft Parties.

World Championship of Fantasy Football

The World Championship of Fantasy Football is the longest running live, high stakes fantasy sports contest. Since its inception in 2002, the WCOFF has awarded over $6.5 million dollars to fantasy footballers participating in various live and online events.

The WCOFF is a game of skill that offers the industry's largest guaranteed cash awards to participants. In early September each year, fantasy football owners gather in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Orlando or Dallas to participate in live drafts.

Fantasy Football Players Championship

The Fantasy Football Players Championship is a 12 team per league, high stakes contest with 168 entrants and a $75,000 grand prize. Founded by high stakes players, the format, rules, scoring, payouts and venue are all focused on Player needs. The entry fee is $1375 with two ways to play. We offer a live draft at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas or there is an Online Draft option as well. The FFPC will be the highest entry online draft in the High Stakes industry for 2008. We will also be the only contest offering a fully funded Attorney Escrow for prize safety.

NBC Sports National Fantasy Football Championship

The NBC Sports National Fantasy Football Championship is the industry's only multi-city, high-stakes event with two separate contests on the same day, featuring $100,000 grand prizes in each contest, $5,000 league prizes and a $1 million bonus. The NFFC Classic is a 14-team league format that is in its fifth season of competition, and the 12-team NFFC Primetime contest debuts this year in New York, Las Vegas, Chicago and Orlando.

Fantasy Jungle

The Fantasy Jungle is the nation's premier ONLINE draft contest. It's high stakes prizes for low stakes entry fees, with a $50,000 grand prize. No travel, no CO-manager fees, just draft right from your home. We offer the most flexibility with 4 draft dates to choose from, and the lowest entry fee/prize ratio in the industry.

Fantasy Football Open Championship

The Fantasy Football Open Championship will award the largest prize in Fantasy Football history. To compete for this prize, participants can pay as little as $125 to enter. In effect, the FFOC has a high stakes prize table but a non-high stakes entry point. Players who emerge from their 10-team leagues will enter the playoffs to compete for the Championship. The top 15 finishers will win parts of $1.73 million. Teams that don't make the playoffs are still eligible for large cash prizes.

Payday Sports

The highest of stakes. We offer contests from $25 up to $10,000. Our high stakes leagues are $2,000, $5,000 and $10,000. Our leagues are not connected. Each league consists of only 12 teams. These are live drafts held in Atlantic City, Friday night, September 5, 2008 at 5 PM EST. We ask for no money down when signing up. 2 points per TE reception. 2 waivers per week. 13 week regular season.