In addition, fans can enter to win a new KIOTI Tractor
WENDELL, N.C. – August 27, 2015 – Raycom Sports in partnership with KIOTI Tractor has launched the ACC QB Challenge Presented by KIOTI Tractor. The football gaming app, now available for free download through Apple and Google Play app stores, allows fans to compete in passing challenges as their favorite school. As part of the app’s launch, KIOTI is offering fans an opportunity to win a KIOTI CS2410 tractor with the 2015 ACC QB Challenge – KIOTI Tractor Giveaway.
“We are proud to continue to push the envelope in engaging mobile platforms for college sports with ACC QB Challenge Presented by KIOTI Tractor,” said Trey Walters, Senior Director of New Media for Raycom Sports. “Following our success kicking field goals with ACC Football Challenge the last couple years, the new passing style app takes the next step in the evolution of college sports mobile gaming.”
The ACC QB Challenge Presented by KIOTI Tractor features first-person football passing style game play with receivers running a variety of route combinations – the goal being to hit as many receivers and be as accurate as possible. ACC QB Challenge game formats will include head-to-head, season, rivalry and practice modes.
The rivalry mode allows fans to represent their schools and play against the fan base of their team’s ACC opponent that week with score updates provided in the app, online and in ACC Network broadcasts. Season mode will let the user play their team’s ACC Football season, facing off against both home and away opponents with the chance to advance to the ACC Championship game.
Within each format, fans can share scores on Facebook and Twitter as well as keep track of overall performance on conference and school leaderboards. Throughout the season, the ACC along with KIOTI Tractor will be engaging users in social contests to post high scores and compete for prizes.
“We are excited to partner with Raycom Sports to be the presenting sponsor for their newest ACC football gaming app,” says Peter Dong Kyun Kim, president and chief executive officer of Daedong-USA,Inc., KIOTI Tractor Division. “This partnership is a great addition to our overall branding strategy as it creates a unique and integrated opportunity to support and engage our dealers, customers and fans with the KIOTI brand in one of the fastest-growing handheld digital arenas.”
Coinciding with launch of the app, the sweepstakes promotion allows fans 18 and older to enter to win a new CS2410 KIOTI tractor, complete with mid-mount mower and front-end loader. Fans may enter through the app or online September 5th through November 30th. There is no purchase necessary to win and only one entry per valid email address will be accepted. For full contest rules and to enter online, please visit www.theACC.com/tractor.
About the Atlantic Cost Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference, now in its 63rd year of competition and 15 members strong, has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate conferences in the nation. ACC members, consisting of Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, continue to build upon the cornerstones on which the league was founded in 1953 with a consistent balance of academics, athletics and integrity. For more information, visit theACC.com and follow @theACC and on facebook.com/theACC.
About Raycom Sports
Charlotte-based Raycom Sports is a leading independent sports sales & marketing, syndication, event management and production firm. Raycom holds the ACC digital and syndicated television rights of ACC men’s basketball and football telecasts through 2023. In a partnership with the ACC, Raycom operates the ACC Network, which distributes ACC content through live television broadcasting, original programming via digital technologies, historical archives, mobile applications, social media, ACC Championship events and the official ACC website. Raycom Sports’ parent company Raycom Media, located in Montgomery, AL, owns and operates 48 television stations covering over 12 percent of the United States across 18 states.
