NEWS JUST IN DEVELOPERS DONT LIKE FOOTBALL Monday, June 13, 2016 By 3chillies If you enjoy supporting your national team whenever they're on the pitch, you’ll probably know that the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament has begun! To bring a little bit of competitive spirit to the office, we thought it would be a good idea to run a company sweepstake. The rules were simple: Stick a fiver in, pull a team name out of the hat, and the person with the winning team wins the pot. There was one fundamental problem - developers don’t care about football. With 24 teams in the competition, but only 5 employees wanting to join the pool, the winner’s prize would be a measly £25. So that got us thinking… “How can you make a developer care about football?” The answer was simple – offer them the chance to win a PS4! After hearing that we were planning on setting up the world's worst sweepstake, the directors at 3chillies decided to up the stakes by offering a PS4 as the winners prize. The money collected from the pool would then be donated to charity…. Win-Win! All of a sudden the developers started to show a new found interest in football. After a quick whip around the office, 19 people placed their fiver into the pot and the charity donation stood at £95! The 5 remaining tickets were then auctioned off, in a Storage Wars type fashion, before names and teams were drawn from the hat. After an intense round of bidding the spare tickets raised an additional £95 for the charity pot. The total donation came to £190, which isn't too shabby! We’ll let you know who won the prize when it comes to it, and we’ll also be deciding on which charity will receive our donation.
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