CORPORATE HOCKEY CHALLENGE

SPONSORSHIP

Overview

Tournament dates: April 16 – 19, 2008

Lace up your blades and score to win for local children

The Corporate Hockey Challenge, previously known as the Hi-Tech Hockey Tournament is now celebrating 16 years. Over $440,000 has been donated to local area children’s charities in Brian Smith’s name. The event receives excellent media coverage with sponsors such as the Ottawa Business Journal, and the Ottawa Sun, as well as a high traffic website and excellent full colour posters, plus key support of the business community from a participant level.

With the correction in the high technology industry the tournament has re-branded itself as a corporate event and fund-raiser, open to all industries.

This great event can help satisfy your desire to make a considerable and truly meaningful community service statement, while supplying you with several critical opportunities to for great exposure in the community to communicate your B2B message.

Funds raised from this special event have benefited many children in our community. Supported groups have been The Ottawa Senators Foundation. CHEO, Ottawa Hospital (Civic Campus) Neo-Natal Unit, are a few of the benefiting groups. This year for the second year in a row we have selected Roger’s House as our benefiting Charity.

SponsorshipCommunication Opportunities

Following are several opportunities that provide solid and measurable benefits. Please contact us to have a special opportunity created for your organization. Our aim is to develop winning relationships that successfully meet your needs. What can we do for you? Your sponsorship could include participating teams, celebrity company visits, or store promotions. All major sponsors receive invitations to event in order to network and be acknowledged, and certainly we provide many opportunities for your corporation to be front and center. The bottom line is your valuable commitment will provide you great visibility, while helping kids in our community.

Title or Presenting Sponsorships (Negotiable)

Here is a tremendous opportunity for your corporation to purchase the rights to one of the most visible events in the Nation’s Capital Region with an excellent track record and leverage the media exposure this historic event receives from the media partners. Title sponsorship is negotiable.

The tournament receives full colour display ads in the Ottawa Sun thus your exposure covers three levels- personal, sports-minded, and business markets, as well as the provided custom designed radio commercials enhance your corporate image. Exposure continues on such non-traditional media as beautiful glossy colour posters, which lend support to the team fundraising program. Tabloid size (11” x 17”) posters are mounted within various buildings of the corporations participating.

Additional benefits include access to ad placement within the Team Captains Handbooks (5” x 7”), access to event venue signage such as banners or stand ups, ticket exposure includes logos on the event tickets or passes, your company is provided the opportunity to participation in the Hockey Hero All-Star game, significant VIP passes to events, linked website presence, a corporate logo on the all-star jersey, ceremonial presentation opportunities, Event Program cover recognition and much more. Call us to discuss your ideas. Consider hosting one of the NHL Celebrities at your place of business!

Play Room Sponsor    $ 750

It is proven that targeted segment ownership works. It is a landslide winner with participants and delivers measurable recognition. Your company can benefit by sponsoring the Hockey Hero All-Star Game, the Corporate Challenge Skills Competition, or Meet The Pro’s Night you benefit from the targeted visibility, tremendous exposure with all participating corporations, and other opportunities, such as on ice presentations and invitations to social events! Once again you will be involved in our major media coverage.

Ugly Tie Sponsor $ 350

Why Ugly Tie, because it is fun. Roger wore the ugly ties as a protest when forced by Harold Ballard to conform. The ties have become a symbol of sorts and are part of the Roger’s House logo. They represent to us the challenges to be creative in a competitive world of sponsorship requests.

Your company will be noted on the tournament website, in our thank you ads, and on the tournament posters. You will also receive a very, very special and unique UGLY TIE plaque for your Corporate Wall of Caring!

Additionally, each UGLY TIE SPONSOR is required to provide one major prize of a minimum value of $100, which will be used in our silent auction or as a prize during our lucky wheel draw.

Summary

You’ll win! We promise. The Corporate Hockey Challenge has always delivered high exposure, great corporate networking opportunities, and over $440,000 to area children in memory of Brian Smith.

Join our team; make new contacts, while making a smart and cost effective corporate decision to support an amazing facility right here is our city!

Don't hesitate call us at 523-9009 now.

Download the Sponsorship Registration form, PDF, MS Word