Westgate SuperBook to Launch New NFL Survivor Contest

A retail sportsbook at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino has announced two new football competitions for the upcoming season. Players can visit Westgate SuperBook to join the SuperContest Survivor and SuperContest College competitions with cash prizes.

The Survivor contest mirrors survivor contests at other U.S. sportsbooks, where players must choose an NFL team to win each week. If you’re correct, you will progress to next week. If you’re wrong, you’re out. Your selection needs to win games outright, so the point spread has no impact on SuperContest Survivor. These are some of the most popular contests at our best sports betting sites.

The catch with the Survivor contest is that once you choose a team, you can’t pick it again for the rest of the season. The SuperContest Survivor contest has a $5,000 entry fee; each player can make ten entries. 100% of the fees from the contest will go back to players as prizes.

“We’ve been talking about doing Survivor for the last couple of years. We wanted to do something a little bit different, and in keeping with that theme of the SuperContest Gold, we thought it would be a cool idea to do a $5,000 Survivor contest as well for the more high-end players,” said Westgate vice president of race and sports John Murray.

The new SuperContest Survivor competitions will not replace the already running SuperContest Gold, which sees players make five picks against the spread each week. That tournament also has a $5,000 entry fee.

Westgate launches college football competition

The SuperContest College competition is more similar to SuperContest Gold than SuperContest Survivor. Players have to make seven picks against the spread for the college football season. The entry fee is $500, and customers can make ten entries. 

"There’s been a lot of people asking us for years to do some kind of college contest, and here it is," Murray said. "We’re just trying to give people some new stuff to get excited about for football. It’s the first big-money college contest in Nevada, to my knowledge, that people can submit picks on their mobile devices, the same way they can for the SuperContest.”

Registration for all contests will open on July 1 for Nevada sports betting.

Drive to get people to Las Vegas continues

Las Vegas was once the only place in the U.S. where you could enjoy unrestricted sports betting and casino gambling. Now, many US states allow some kind of gambling, but Las Vegas gambling operators are still looking for ways to attract people to Sin City. Westgate’s new contests are just one of many examples.

Other popular ways include major sporting events, with Las Vegas recently hosting the Las Vegas Grand Prix in Formula 1. It also hosted WrestleMania 41, with John Cena beating Cody Rhodes in the headline fight to claim a record 17th WWE world championship. Experts predicted the latter event would boost the local economy significantly.