##{"id":96715,"date":"2021-09-23T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/draftstars-announces-200000-afl-grand-final-contest\/"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:19:00","slug":"draftstars-announces-200000-afl-grand-final-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/draftstars-announces-200000-afl-grand-final-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Draftstars announces $200,000 AFL Grand Final contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1346421\/PlayUp_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SYDNEY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 23, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;&#160;Draftstars, <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia&#8217;s<\/span> No.1 Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform owned by next generation and entertainment group PlayUp, are celebrating the highly anticipated 2021 AFL Grand Final between <span class=\"xn-location\">Melbourne<\/span> and the Western Bulldogs by posting a <span class=\"xn-money\">$200,000<\/span> contest for the big game. First prize will be <span class=\"xn-money\">$20,000<\/span> with payout all the way down for the top 2900 contestants, all for only a <span class=\"xn-money\">$20<\/span> entry fee. <\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2066\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1632854\/Draftstars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1632854\/Draftstars.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Draftstars AFL Grand Final contest\" alt=\"Draftstars AFL Grand Final contest\" \/><\/a><br \/><span>Draftstars AFL Grand Final contest<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One contestant who may consider entering is Tom from WA, aka Tommysgunnns, who recently took home a record <span class=\"xn-money\">$100k<\/span> from the <span class=\"xn-money\">$300k<\/span> prize pool when he claimed victory at the live AFL Final event during the Round 23 Western Bulldogs v Port Adelaide game.&#160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder3394\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having won his way into the Final after claiming a Golden Ticket throughout the season, Tom beat over 130 other contestants to take out the main prize with a winning score of 894.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/70bqcmKZOQk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"spanHghlt151a\">HERE<\/span><\/a> to view the highlights from the live AFL Final event.&#160;<\/p>\n<p><b>PlayUp Australia CEO, <span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Jeronimo<\/span> commented:<\/b> &#034;2021 has been a great year for Draftstars and we are excited about the continued growth of daily fantasy sports. While we are looking forward to capping off the AFL season with our <span class=\"xn-money\">$200,000<\/span> Grand Final contest, we are still amazed by the performance of our live Final winner who walked away with <span class=\"xn-money\">$100,000<\/span>, which is the largest individual prize anyone has ever won with Draftstars.&#034;<\/p>\n<p><b>About PlayUp<\/b><br \/>PlayUp is a next generation entertainment and technology group that enriches the lives of people through entertaining, rewarding and responsible online betting. We develop innovative betting technologies in-house to power our brands and deliver world-class user experiences. Our energies are focused on fulfilling the needs of dedicated and passionate users who seek a deeper connection to the games they play.<\/p>\n<p>PlayUp unifies the world&#8217;s favourite online betting products including Fixed Odds Sports Betting, Fixed-Odds Racing<span id=\"spanHghlt90fc\">, <\/span>Esports and Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) where we host <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia&#8217;s<\/span> largest and indeed some of the globe&#8217;s largest prize pools in competitive peer-to-peer online betting.<\/p>\n<p>We hold online betting licenses in multiple jurisdictions and currently operate in <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New Zealand<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">India<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder0\">  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Sept. 23, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;&#160;Draftstars, Australia&#8217;s No.1 Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform owned by next generation and entertainment group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}