CricBattle bringing Warren Buffett’s billion-dollar contest to IPL’s India leg

“Detroit, January 21, 2014 – Detroit-based Quicken Loans, the nation’s fourth largest mortgage lender, has joined forces with Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to offer a chance at a $1 billion prize for completing the perfect bracket in this March’s men’s college basin, also famously known as ‘March Madness’.”

The CricBattle mentalists read the above announcement and quickly decided that they would do something similar on CricBattle for their rapidly increasing user base. I must admit, I was immediately hooked and extremely excited when I first saw their Prediction Contest advertisement. Finally, here was something that interested me, and along with fun I would have a shot at winning a massive amount of money too.

If I was excited about this, you can only imagine what kind of freakish excitement this contest is already eliciting in the cricket crazy country – India!

The concept of the competition is exactly the same as the one that was created for the College Basket Ball season mentioned above. For a guy who is smart, lucky and knows a bit about cricket here is the chance to predict the outcome of those 40 IPL India leg matches and potentially win the jackpot prize of Rs. 1,00,00,000 (Rs. 1 crore)!

Even if you are one of those who gets 1/2/3/4 incorrect, CricBattle would still offer you a prize, although the amount keeps reducing with every incorrect prediction you have in place. The only condition to win this prize is that you must end up ranked 1 or 2 in one of your public TPB (traditional points-based) or H2H (head-to-head) fantasy leagues. The best part is that both the prediction league and joining TPB or H2H leagues is totally free of charge!

All this said and done, why would someone play at CricBattle? Well for starters, CricBattle is the only cricket fantasy site that offers the draft concept, and that is great because a Virat Kohli or a Chris Gayle can only play for 1 team in 1 league, like they play for RCB in the IPL. Two or more users playing in the same league cannot have the same players; the concept of having unique players goes hand in hand with the draft concept. This would make things very exciting as you would enter a draft room with other managers and all of you would pick the players you want one after another, depending on the draft sequence.

Coming to TPB and H2H, they are the two styles of leagues that CricBattle has to offer. TPB is the traditional points-based one which relates to the concept of totaling the fantasy points of all players in your team, with the user having accumulated the highest points at the end of the tournament winning.

H2H is different because it’s like you’re playing a head-to-head game against one user, with his team facing your team. If one of his ace players scores a ton, etc. then he is bound to win that round. To win the H2H league you must win the maximum number of head-to- head games (we call these ‘rounds’).

CricBattle (www.CricBattle.com) is considered to be the most real fantasy cricket platform in the world and a must-try for cricket lovers.

Once you get a hang of the concept you will feel like the owner of a franchise and you will want to try your best to ensure that your franchise wins the league. And don’t forget the biggest point – the Prediction League could win you a jackpot prize of Rs. 1,00,00,000 (1 crore).

If you have the skills, and you’re lucky enough, give it a shot, and even if you don’t get it all right, there are various prizes up for grabs, so you should definitely try the prediction concept on CricBattle. You can rest assured that you will like the website and the concepts they have to offer.