USA Today High School Sports Best Mascot Competition 2014

Name of the Organization : USA TODAY High School Sports (usatodayhss.com)
Name of the Competition : Best Mascot Competition 2014
Country : United States of America

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1. Best Mascot 2014 :

The monster of all America’s Best contests just grew bigger, meaner and more bizarre.

Must be at least 13 years old to vote Best Mascot

USA TODAY High School Sports’ America’s Best contest series drew nearly 80 million votes a year ago for the best mascots competition. The mascots contest is back — and this time with more wild and wacky high school nicknames. Best Mascots II launched Monday with 408 of America’s top high school nicknames and after three rounds of voting, a champion will be crowned April 25.

The state round will end April 8. The 51 state-round winners (Washington D.C. included) and the top five schools receiving the most votes without winning their state, will advance to the regional round.

Last year, the Centralia (Ill.) Orphans won the first best mascots contest with more than 25 million votes in the final round.

This year’s best mascots contest is the eighth installment in the America’s Best series, which has drawn more than 100 million votes and attracted fans from all sections of the country. More than 1,800 different schools have been involved in at least one of the contests, and no state has produced multiple winners with past champions hailing from Missouri, Vermont, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Kansas.

The America’s Best contest series launched in November 2012 with the first best high school football rivalry competition, won by Brookfield vs. Marceline in Missouri. Other champions in the America’s Best series have been Hartford (Vt.) was crowned as the People’s Champion high school football team for the 2012 season followed by the Centralia (Ill.) Orphans taking the first best mascots contest. The best high school football coach competition crowned Philip Haywood of Belfry (Ky.) as its champion, the second annual best high school football rivalry went to the North Carolina small-town matchup of Bunn vs. Louisburg and Shane Cowherd of Edmond Memorial (Edmond, Okla.) took the best boys basketball coach title. Jesse Nelson of Olpe (Kan.) won the last competition, being voted as America’s best girls basketball coach.

Vote Now : http://contest.usatodayhss.com/vote/…t-2014/round-1

Deadline: April 8th, 2014

2. Rules & Prizes :

There is no limit to the number of times a person can vote as long as the Best Mascots Rules are followed.

USA TODAY High School Sports begins its Best Mascot competition at noon, Monday, March 31 with 408 schools – eight per state and Washington D.C. – in the state round, which ends at noon ET April 8. The 51 winners and five wildcards will advance to the regional round, where they will be divided among eight regions. The regional round will begin at noon ET April 9 and ends at 2 p.m. ET April 17. The eight regional winners and two wildcards will advance to the national round, which will begin at noon ET April 18 and ends at 2 p.m. ET April 25.

The athletic department of the winning mascot will receive $2,000. Second, third and fourth place finishers also will receive cash prizes.

For complete rules, go here : http://contest.usatodayhss.com/