Circa Sportsbook Football Contest
Before he arrived in Las Vegas in 2006, Derek Stevens was a low-key individual.
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Working in Detroit, he became accustomed to wearing dark suits and plain white shirts with conservative ties. He was never a flashy guy, simply preferring to be known as a quiet businessman.
Then he came to Las Vegas. He bought the 51’s, Las Vegas Triple-A baseball franchise now known as the Aviators and wanted to market the team effectively. Knowing the glitz and glamour of Sin City is much brighter than Motown, the flash and pizazz of his persona was born.
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Now, many years after placating to baseball goers by walking up and down the aisles of the stands at Cashman Field and shaking their hands while wearing colorful suits, Stevens is still a fan of his people.
Which is why he won’t let the coronavirus pandemic infiltrate the two football contests at The D’s and Golden Gate’s Circa Sportsbook.
Registration for the Circa Sports Million II and Circa Survivor pro football contests began on March 6. One week later the country was turned upside down, beginning with the cancellation of college and pro sports, and registration numbers stalled.
As of Tuesday, there were 1,012 entrants in the Circa Sports Million II contest, and 441 entered in the Circa Survivor pro football contests contest, with a guaranteed combined payout of $4 million, including the $1 million top prize in each contest.
“Everybody started asking if we were going to back off,” Stevens said. “I’m not going to back off on this thing.
“We’re going to give gamblers what could be the greatest gamble in the history of football. We’re opening Circa Las Vegas at the end of October, so I’m not going to back off the contest. It just means we gotta adapt and maybe spend a little more in advertising.”
If the season began with those entry numbers, Stevens would be on the hook for approximately $2.5 million. And he’s not backing off his promise to Southern Nevada. If there’s an overlay in the contests due to not enough contestants, so be it.
Last Friday, the D Las Vegas hosted a “little goofy social media event” as Stevens puts it, where last year’s winner of the Circa Sports Million, Isaac Meier, faced off with the 2019 Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, Matt Kucera and Eric Jensen as if they were all headed into a boxing match. Then they all signed up for the contest.
“All the downtown casino owners … we all get along really well,” Stevens said. “We all got pretty similar personalities. I might like sports more than one guy, one guy might like something else more than the other, but we all get along really well. And our whole goal was to get people down here. There’s a certain amount of camaraderie. And I like that environment.
“I love Vegas for a lot of reasons. I like it for business, I like it for pleasure, I love sports, but the element about downtown, there’s a certain community which was pretty cool. It’s a big, well-known city, but it’s still kind of a small town where a lot of people get to know each other. I love all Las Vegas.”
Stevens has always been a man of his word, especially when it revolves around his passion for sports and sports wagering. But he’s also held a near and dear passion for downtown Las Vegas and said he would never do anything to jeopardize the relationship he’s built with his patrons, colleagues, and fellow downtown casino owners and operators.
Which circles back to sticking by his word — and guarantee — that the promised $4 million in prizes will be paid out at the end of the season, to two contest winners.
“I had a mentor a long time ago that said ‘if you worry about the money too much, it’s gonna be harder for it to show up’ and I believe that,” Stevens said.
FINAL RESULTS
DSR90-1 has won the Circa Sports Million II football contest, going 4-1 in Week 17 to climb into 1st place and take the $1 MILLION top prize and this year's Blue Jacket!
The $287K 4th Quarter came to a close with Maiowe-1 taking the $187K top prize and 9 entries tying for 2nd resulting in a 9-way split of $100K!
Circa Sportsbook Football Contest Scoreboard
Full Season Leaders
| 1 | DSR90-1 | 57.0 |
| 2T | ODBMG-2 | 56.5 |
| 2T | DV8-1 | 56.5 |
| 4 | PRESENCE-2 | 55.5 |
| 5T | DV8-2 | 55.0 |
| 5T | MINURA11-1 | 55.0 |
| 5T | CHICKENDINNER-1 | 55.0 |
| 8T | HORNET.-2 | 54.5 |
| 8T | NO Points for Second-1 | 54.5 |
| 10T | SUNNYSANDIEGO-1 | 54.0 |
| 10T | Mr. Invisible-2 | 54.0 |
| 10T | SCOOPSKI-1 | 54.0 |
| 13T | Timothy BIllow-1 | 53.5 |
| 13T | Good_Fellas-1 | 53.5 |
| 13T | The Mad Russian-1 | 53.5 |
| 13T | Mr. Invisible-3 | 53.5 |
| 13T | ALBO-1 | 53.5 |
| 13T | PRESENCE-3 | 53.5 |
| 13T | Bella 0923-1 | 53.5 |
$100K BOOBY PRIZE WINNER, 28-57
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4th Quarter Winners
| 1 | Maiowe-1 | 20.5 |
| 2T | NASCARKEN-2 | 19.5 |
| 2T | House of Cats-1 | 19.5 |
| 2T | $trictly Bu$ine$$-1 | 19.5 |
| 2T | Riley Covers-1 | 19.5 |
| 2T | Good_Fellas-1 | 19.5 |
| 2T | Go For Two-1 | 19.5 |
| 2T | BLUE BAYOU-1 | 19.5 |
| 2T | DV8-2 | 19.5 |
| 2T | TEAM MONEY '412'-1 | 19.5 |
Weekly downloads
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Full Season Standings after Week 17 PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Fourth Quarter Standings after Week 17 PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 17 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 17 Full Season Leader Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 17 4th Quarter Leader Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 17 Contest Point Spreads PDF
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Final total entry count
3,148
$1,000 per Entry
Contest entrants pick 5 NFL sides against the spread each week
$1 MILLION First Prize
and the coveted Blue Jacket
Circa Sportsbook Pool
$900,000
in cash prizes for entries 2 through 50
Circa Sportsbook Football Contest Odds
$287,000
Circa Sportsbook Football Contest
in 'Quarter' prizes awarded to 3 winners each month
$100,000
Last-place Booby Prize
NO RAKE!
All entry fees will be awarded as prizes to contest winners
FULL SEASON PRIZES | |
| 1st Place | $1 MILLION |
| 2nd Place | $300,000 |
| 3rd Place | $100,000 |
| 4th Place | $75,000 |
| 5th Place | $50,000 |
| 6th Place | $30,000 |
| 7th Place | $20,000 |
| 8th Place | $18,000 |
| 9th Place | $16,000 |
| 10th Place | $14,000 |
| 11th-50th Places | $277,000 Total |
| Last Place | $100,000 |
| TOTAL FULL-SEASON PRIZES | $2 MILLION |
QUARTER PRIZES$287,000 will be awarded each 'quarter' of the season (weeks 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, and 13-17). Plus, 1st Place winners in Quarters 1 and 2 get a free room at the Circa Las Vegas Grand Opening! | |
| Quarter 1st Place | $187,000 |
| Quarter 2nd Place | $75,000 |
| Quarter 3rd Place | $25,000 |
| TOTAL QUARTER MVP PRIZES | $1,148,000 |
The finer points
- $1,000 to enter.
- Make 5 NFL picks against the spread each week. Get one point for each correct selection and one-half point for each push.
- 3 entries per person, max.
- In Nevada: Play in-person at any of our sportsbooks or enter picks through the Circa Sports app; Outside Nevada: Register a proxy so they can submit your picks for you each week from within Nevada.
- Contest point spreads will be posted every Thursday around 10am, with selections due by 3pm Saturday. During Thanksgiving week, they will be posted on Wednesday morning around 10am.
- Cash prizes will be awarded to the top 50 scores for the season, the top three scores within each quarter of the season (roughly once a month), and last place.
- Check out everyone's picks here each week!
- Registration ended at 2pm on Saturday during NFL Week 1.
Circa Sportsbook Football Contest 2020
See the Official Contest Rules for all the details.
Registration has ended, but you should still stop by our sportsbooks at the D Las Vegas and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino to get some bets down and enjoy the games with us!
Regarding a Shortened Season, Canceled Games & Forfeits
- The Full Season prizes will be awarded as long as the NFL season lasts through Week 12. This includes the Last Place Booby Prize which will go to the entry that achieves the lowest score among entries that submit 5 selections in every week played.
- If the season is canceled before Week 12, the Full Season Prizes and Last Place Booby Prize will not be awarded and all contest entry fees will be refunded.
- The guaranteed Quarter prizes will be awarded in any partially played or completed Quarter, even if the NFL season is later canceled before Week 12 and all entry fees are refunded.
- If the NFL season is canceled after Week 12 and before Week 13, the weekly contest scores from Week 12 will be used to determine Fourth Quarter winners and prizes. (Week 12 will still also serve as the final week of the Third Quarter.)
- If the NFL season is suspended, the contest will be suspended until the season resumes, or until 90 days have passed without a regular season NFL game being played. In the latter case the contest will conclude and be graded as if the season has been canceled.
- If the NFL doesn't determine the winner of a game by Tuesday at 2am PT following the game's originally scheduled time the game will be scored like a tie: entries that chose either team will be awarded a ½-point.
- If a game is not played by Tuesday at 2am PT following the game's originally scheduled time, but the NFL determines a winner of that game by Tuesday at 2am PT (for example in the case of a forfeit), that determination will be used for grading purposes. The team declared the winner by the league automatically covers the contest point spread.
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📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 16 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 15 Selections PDF
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📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 13 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 12 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 11 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 10 Selections PDF
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📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 6 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 5 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 4 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 3 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 2 Selections PDF
📄 Circa Sports Million II - Week 1 Selections PDF