Chad Burgess: SeatGeek insider goes to sports social-media community to win contest
SeatGeek, which helps fans forecast the best prices for sporting events, is running an internal Hackathon contest, and Sept. 21 one of the company insiders asked sports fans to step up and provide ideas to help him win. A $50 Amazon gift card will be provided if you help deliver a winning idea, and the idea could be implemented before kick-off of week No. 3 NFL games on Sept. 25, SeatGeek said.
Writing on SeatGeek‘s corporate blog, company insider Chad Burgess is asking sport fans to send ideas on Twitter @SeatGeek. He promises that any original idea that helps him win the corporate prize — a free iPad — will get the $50 Amazon gift card, and says that he’s acting completely outside the bounds of the company to use the blog to get ideas from the public.
“I am going Rogue on this one (aka dark for Jack Bauer fans). The contest is sponsored by me, not SeatGeek,” Burgess writes.
SeatGeek collects and filters data to allow fans to predict the prices of tickets. It is considered by MobileSportsReport.com to be one of the top sports-industry start-ups. Even if you don’t have any ideas for innovation, SeatGeek is worth a visit as you optimize your smartphone, iPad or tablet sports viewing experience.
MobileSportsReport would like SeatGeek to provide a “fan interference” prediction function, where they calculate the number of fan interference incidences at ballparks, stadiums and arenas and provide fans with the likelihood that they will see a similar incident at the game they are about to attend. But that’s just us.
You probably have a better idea, and can twitter them to @SeatGeek through Friday September 23. So, if you figure out what you would like to see SeatGeek, consider letting it fly like an Andrew Luck out pattern to Chris Owusu. Not only will Burgess get an iPad, but you’ll be $50 closer to the fifty-yard line. Burgess posted the rules and additional details on the SeatGeek corporate blog.
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