WCHL gave away a trip to the CBS Sports Classic in Brooklyn on Monday night. Mandy McGregor Leraas is the winner of the Mark Vitali Nationwide Insurance Carolina Basketball Holiday Hoops in Brooklyn Giveaway presented by Continental Tire. Mandy won the contest by entering at Carolina Ale House. She will enjoy a trip to Brooklyn with a friend later this month. For the rest of you that did not win, do not be discouraged. We are giving you a second chance to win. Listen Ron Stutts in the morning Aaron Keck in the afternoon for your chance to win gift cards from our fine sponsors. Check out photos from the party at R&R Grill.
Ron Stutts was our emcee for the evening.
Nearly 35 door prizes from our trip sponsors were given out!
Door prizes included items like gift certificates to restaurants, cards for a free oil change, and even a basket of chocolate truffles!
Everyone was excited about the extra chance to win!
Ron did a great job keeping the party flowing.
Mark Vitali, pictured above, from Mark Viitali Nationwide Insurance ,is the title sponsor of the trip this year. He’ll be going to Brooklyn too!
Another door prize was a copy of Art Chansky’s latest book, 100 Things North Carolina Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die
The elimination rounds were kicked off by selecting 20 finalists’ ping pong balls from the raffle drum, narrowing the competition from 105 to 20.
All of the finalists received a logo card from the sponsor location where their top 20 entry came from.
It was great to see entire families turn out to support their finalist!
All of the top 20 were excited to move on to Elimination Round 2.
Round 2 involved each of the 20 finalists selecting a red apple from the prize center.
Each apple contained either a silver ornament, or a blue one like the one pictured above.
Finalists with blue ornaments got to move on to Round 3!
Round 3 used a cutout of the empire state building, and each of the 10 remaining finalists removed a small package inside.
If a finalist unwrapped their package to find a silver coin they were out of the competition. The two people who discovered gold coins moved on to Round 4!
Roy Williams arrives at the party.
Roy took a moment to catch everyone up on how the UNC Men’s Basketball Team is doing.
Everyone had a great time with Ron and Roy entertaining the crowd.
The top two finalist were ecstatic to meet Roy.
The room buzzed with anticipation to get the final elimination round started.
Round 4 was the final elimination round, where both contestants and Roy received a gift box.
Here is Roy about to open his.
Then, both of the winners opened their boxes to find out what was inside.
Each of them got a Christmas ornament.
Whomever got the ornament that matched Roy’s was declared the winner!
The two finalists hug it out.
Mandy McGregor Leraas was declared the winner of the trip!
Ron asked her how she felt about winning.
Then, he asked her who she’d be taking with her.
That lucky person is Jill Justus, Mandy’s best friend!
Jill and Mandy grabbing a selfie with Roy.
Jill, Roy, Ron and Mandy
Mandy’s winning entry was put in at Carolina Ale House.
That means that two people from Carolina Ale House will also be going on the trip!
One of the main decorations was this Christmas tree decorated with sponsor location logos.
Registration bags waiting for finalists to arrive.
We also had small Christmas trees with sponsor logos as centerpieces on each table.
R&R Grill provided a great spread. Here are the desserts…
The cheese and crackers..
The hummus and pita slices.
And chicken finger bites!
Yum…
Mandy and Jill at the Barclay’s Center during the big game!
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