FanDuel Celebrates the Start of the 2010 NFL Regular Season with the Ultimate Fantasy Sports Experience

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The kickoff of the NFL regular season is the high point of every fantasy sports enthusiast's year. In 2010, FanDuel (www.fanduel.com) is pushing the excitement to a fever pitch with its first-ever FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship, which will pay out more than $50,000 in total prize money and send 10 weekly winners to Las Vegas to vie for a $25,000 top prize.

Registration for the championship is now open at www.fanduel.com and will continue through the first 10 weeks of the NFL season.

Participants in the FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship create one-weekend fantasy football teams for a single weekend's games. With no season-long commitment, players can enter as many teams as they like, as many times as they like, through the first 10 weeks of the NFL regular season. Each entry costs $10.

The winner of each weekly competition will earn an expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas, where the 10 players will participate in an intense, single-day draft on Dec. 5. The person whose fantasy team scores the most points at the end of that day will receive the $25,000 grand prize.

"Fantasy sports' biggest season deserves its best championship event," said FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles. "We're bringing our exceptional online experience together with a dramatic, in-person showdown in Las Vegas to see who will win $25,000 and the ultimate in fantasy football bragging rights."

In addition to the top prize of $25,000, the championship's second-place finisher will take home $10,000 and the third-place finisher will receive $5,000. The FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship also will award $1,350 every week to top runner-up finishers, bringing the total prize pool to more than $50,000.

The FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship is a weekly draft fantasy football tournament with two rounds. There will be 10 separate first rounds running weekly from week 1 through week 10 of the NFL season.

Each week players may enter the competition by drafting teams under the salary cap, and each week the entrant whose team scores the most fantasy points will secure a place in the final.

The final will take place in Las Vegas on Sunday, Dec. 5th. There will be 10 finalists, one from each of the weeks 1 through 10. Finalists will receive an expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to play in the final. The prize includes flights, transfer, two nights' accommodations at the Venetian Las Vegas, Saturday night dinner and party, entry into the final (including free food and drink) and $500 in spending money.

About FanDuel

FanDuel is a leading Interactive Fantasy Sports Company providing one-day fantasy sports contests. It enables consumers to draft fantasy sports teams at any time in one-day head-to-head or multi-player contests. Players pay an entry fee for each contest in which they participate and vie for cash prizes awarded to the player whose team generates the most fantasy points in a given competition.

With offices in San Mateo, Calif., and Edinburgh, U.K., FanDuel hosts fantasy football, baseball, hockey and basketball competitions. The Company launched its first game at DEMO 08 and was selected in 2008 as one of the U.K.'s top 20 web companies. FanDuel.com, the company's first premium sports game, launched in 2009.

For more information, please visit http://www.fanduel.com.

SOURCE FanDuel