Football Contest | The Silsbee Bee

Official Contest Rules

• This contest is open to everyone in Hardin, Jasper and Tyler counties, TX, USA, except employees of The Silsbee Bee.

• All prizes must be picked up in person at The Silsbee Bee office.

• Entries are not retained after scoring. Sorry, no exceptions.

• You may submit a correction, but it must be a true correction, not a complete redo. We receive hundreds of entries each week, and accuracy is important. If submitting a correction, fill out the form again and include “- CORRECTION” after your last name. Example: Smith - CORRECTION. If a correction is missed, the original entry stands.

• Only one entry per person per week.
Entries may be submitted:
– Online at www.silsbee-bee.com/contest
– By mail (must be postmarked by Friday at 5 p.m.) Send to: The Silsbee Bee, 404 Hwy. 96 S. Silsbee, TX 77656
– Hand-delivered to the office by 5 p.m. Friday

Two Ways to Enter

1. Online:
Submit your picks at www.silsbee-bee.com/contest.
The form resets each Tuesday by noon and shuts off automatically at 5:00 p.m. Friday. No late entries accepted.

2. Print Form:
Clip the printed contest form from the newspaper and write your picks in the numbered spaces provided. Games are listed in the ads on the same page.

Hand-deliver forms to the office by 5:00 p.m. Friday.
If mailing, your form must be postmarked by 5:00 p.m. Friday. Tip: Go inside the post office and request a stamped postmark to ensure it’s processed in time.

Tie-Breaker Rule

In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by the tie‑breaker:
Guess the combined score of games 1, 5, and 8. Write one total number.

Closest to the actual score wins.
An exact tie‑breaker guess earns one bonus point toward the season tally.
If there is a dead nuts tie, it is very rear, but I have seen it happen, the entry that is received first wins.

Weekly Prizes

Awarded to First and Second Place winners.
Winners are announced weekly in print and online.

Prizes must be claimed at the office.
Mailing of weekly prizes is not available. Special circumstances require publisher approval.

First Place: $25 from The Silsbee Bee + One Large Two-Topping Pizza from
Second Place: $15 from The Silsbee Bee + One Medium Two-Topping Pizza from

Grand Prize

Points accumulate weekly:

1 point per correct game
1 point for exact tie-breaker score
Maximum of 19 points per week

A season leaderboard will be published each week with updated scores and new games.

Hint: To stay competitive, play every week—missed weeks are hard to recover from!

Grand Prizes:

First Place: Onn 75” Class 4K UHD LED Roku Smart TV from Walmart, Silsbee
Second Place: Bladewood Recliner by Ashley Furniture from Highway Furniture & Mattress.

Game Selection

Points accumulate weekly:

Games chosen are scheduled for play after 5pm on Friday, at any time on Saturday or Sunday. Monday and Thursday games are never used.
Games appear in order, High School, College, NFL.
Game selection is done by the publisher, every week.
If an error is presented (example: I choose a Thursday Game.) Everyone that enters wins a point regardless of your choice, you automatically win all errors (yes, it has happened.)
If that error is a tie-breaker game, no, you do not get the extra point. No one gets the extra point and that tie-breaker is dead and not used to determine the out come of the weekly portion of the contest.

Tips and helpful advice

• To have a shot at winning the grand prize(s), play the contest every week.

• Get your picks in early, it's very rare, but in the case of the tie, it is important.

• Don't forget to do the combined score tie-breaker and give it real thought. I have seen many weeks come down to this. I have even seen the grand prize come down to this in 2017. Two players were tied at the Super Bowl and both picked the same team. The winner won the whole contest by a tie-breaker score. That was the difference between the TV and the Recliner.

• Be very accurate and double check your selections before submitting. Corrections are not any fun and I will get tired of them real fast and stop allowing for corrections if it is abused.

• Have fun. You can submit yours, then have your wife or kiddos submit theirs. The entire family can play, just one submission per person. In 2019, a couple won both Grand Prizes, he got the chair and I bet he is still sitting in it.

Questions?

Call or preferably text Dennis Phillips at 979-250-2733. My email is publisher@silsbee-bee.com.

This contest is for fun!
All rulings and judgments are final and made by the publisher.