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SPONSORSHIP
PROPOSAL
We are Team Block based in Southern California.. The purpose of this letter is to seek a sponsor for our
Team in the Eco-Challenge expedition race to be held this year
in Fiji. We are one of a selected few Teams to
represent the United States. 75
teams from around the world will be participating in this
competition.
What is the Eco-Challenge?
It is a multi-discipline, 8-12 day expedition race.
An expedition race relies on teamwork while testing the
mental and physical limits of each competitor.
The race runs 24 hours a day, and covers an approximate
distance of 500km. No
two races are the same from year to year.
Locations change annually, as do the race disciplines.
The Eco-Challenge in Fiji will consist
of navigation with map and compass, mountain biking, climbing
and rappelling with fixed ropes, two forms of water craft
travel (rafting and kayaking), and mountaineering.
How does sponsorship of
our team benefit your company?
The 2002 Eco Challenge will allow a prominently displayed team
sponsor name on the mandatory race jersey. All team members will wear this race jersey for the duration
of the race. This
feature will ensure considerable exposure for your company,
since approximately 124 million viewers around the world watch
the Eco-Challenge annually. Mark Burnett, the producer of the hit TV series “Survivor”
is also the producer of the Eco-Challenge.
2001 Eco-Challenge New Zealand will air on April,
21st 2002.
The competition was previously televised by Discovery
Channel and is currently televised by USA Network.
USA Network brings a bigger race budget and more press
exposure, first via USANetwork.com, and then a total of four
hours in primetime over 2 days in 2002. Finally, each team is guaranteed airtime when they finish.
In 2001 Eco Challenge was
held outside of Queenstown, New Zealand. Team Block was chosen
as a featured rookie team for the media. An injury in the
first night strengthened the story line and a camera crew was
selected and followed Team Block for much of the race to show
their adversity. Team Block finished in 7 1/2 days in 27th
place showing that pain and injury can be overcome to achieve
ones goals. Eco Challenge New Zealand will air in April 2002
and should have a fair amount of coverage of Team Block.
What does it take to be our primary sponsor?
As you can imagine, this will be a costly endeavor.
We are seeking sponsorship in the amount in full or in
part of $33,000.
This
will include:
Team Entry Fee
$14,500
Airfare
$9,500
Accommodations
Gear & Equipment *
$2,500
Primal Quest (Outdoor Life Network) $6,500
Total
Eco Challenge 2002 Budget
$33,000
*Gear
includes all clothing with your company logos in as many
viewable locations as allowed by Eco Challenge. We will
promote your company as sponsor with as much media attention
as possible.
There are mandatory personal and mandatory team equipment
lists. Those
lists are exclusive to each race and venue.
As you can see by the many different race disciplines,
the equipment need is varied and extensive.
This request is our best estimate at this time.
We understand that not all companies will be able to support
such a large request however we are accepting any donations
and can set up local advertising with our team and your
company as requested.
Who will you be sponsoring?
Each team
must be comprised of 4 members, one of which must be of the
opposite sex. The team must stay together during the race, and the team
must finish together. If
a team member cannot finish, the team will be disqualified.
We have put together a strong well-diversified team,
which will be able to meet the widely varied challenges we
will face. Each
team member possesses their own dynamic skills which when
combined will create a competitive, well-rounded team.
Team sponsorship could be the opportunity you are
looking for. We
have a strong dynamic team with an extensive variety of
experience coupled with a desire to compete and win.
Together we can make this the adventure of a lifetime.
TEAM BLOCK
is:
1.
Dan Abel (Captain)
Orange, California
2. Rich Bartlett
Lancaster, California
3. Danny
Moy (Navigation)
Newport
Beach, California
4.
Jenny Hadfield
Chicago,
Illinois
Each team member’s athletic resume is enclosed
Eco Challenge is the
world’s premier Expedition Race attracting the best
adventure athletes from around the world; it is held in a
remote region of the world each year.
Seventy-five, four-person,
international teams will converge in South America in 2002. They will traverse 400 kilometers of breathtaking
terrain using only non-motorized forms of transportation such
as mountaineering, horseback riding, mountain biking,
kayaking, fixed ropes and pack rafting.
In 1992, Mark Burnett created the Eco-Challenge.
He based his idea on the multi-sport endurance races
that had been so popular in New Zealand since the early 80’s
and had also started to emerge in Europe.
He lengthened the race, removed assistance crews and
added a strong environmental message, reflected in the race
rules and associated local service projects.
The first Eco-Challenge attracted 50 teams from six
countries and was held in April 1995 in Southeast, Utah, USA.
In the subsequent five years, Eco-Challenge has become the
world’s premier Expedition Race and now attracts the
attention of the world’s media and best endurance athletes.
Screened globally, since 1996, the Eco-Challenge has
annually reached an estimated 144 million homes on five
continents in 145 countries, including 72.7 million US homes.
In addition, Eco-Challenge has reached over 700 million
readers.
MEDIA COVERAGE
Global Media
and Tourism Exposure
Eco-Challenge attracts global publicity from leading
influential sporting, news, travel and lifestyle publications,
as well as the electronic media (the internet, Television and
radio). More than
100 journalists and photojournalists covered the event live
on-site in Morocco in 1998 and approximately 150 were present
in Argentina in 1999. During the 2000 event, footage shot by Eco-Challenge
Productions 15 in-the-field camera crews will be beamed daily
via satellite for news coverage around the globe.
Print Media Coverage: Over 730 Million
Readers
Utah 1995
273 Print Articles
New England 1995
224 Print Articles
British Columbia 1996
370 Print Articles
Australia 1997
530 Print Articles
Morocco 1998
606 Print Articles
Argentina 1999
569 Print Articles
Sabah 2000
TBD
New Zealand
2001
TBD
TOTAL:
2,572 Print Articles; 1,275,756,920 Readers
Eco-Challenge has also been featured on such television shows
as 48 Hours, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, E!,
EXTRA, Good Morning America, Dateline NBC, ABC World News
Tonight, Today Show, CNN, Channel 9 (Australia), TV3 (New
Zealand), TV3 (Malaysia), NHK (Japan), Channel 4 (UK), Stern
TV (Germany), CBC (Canada), RTR (Argentina), and TFI (France).
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