WESTCOAST TAKEOVER TOURNAMENT SEASON SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES
Norcal Business Community,
We are pleased to inform you of the Westcoast Takeover Memorial Day basketball tournament season begins in May on Memorial Day weekend and runs thru December 2023. The preeminent regional Youth Basketball tournaments feature the top boys and girls high schools across the region with an estimated 1,800 players and almost 4,000 families and guests for each tournament. By becoming a sponsor your business will have the opportunity to showcase your company across four basketball tournaments and reach over 20,000 athletes and their families.
As a valued community member and business, we would like to invite you to be a 2023 sponsor of the tournament season. Below please find more event details including fliers, tournament statistics, and sponsorship tiers available.
Tournament Season (inclusion across all four tournaments)
Memorial Day Classic May 26-29
Labor Day Classic September 2-3
I-80 Showdown November 25-26
Winter Shootout December 30
About Westcoast Takeover Tournaments and Reach
Westcoast Takeover was founded by DeMario Belk to provide young athletes (ages 8-18) with a forum to develop and display their basketball skills and talents. Westcoast Takeover emphasizes the importance of education, sportsmanship, and teamwork. As a result, Westcoast Takeover maintains positive relations with city managers, city schools, community businesses, and nearby neighborhoods. Westcoast Takeover has the privilege of uniting culturally diverse groups with the common goal of competing, learning, and socializing. This helps to instill in our youth the vital developmental assets of fair play, hard work, and racial equality. Players that participate in all Westcoast Takeover major tournaments attract the best competition and provide them the greatest exposure to NCAA college coaches.
Estimated teams: 150 AAU girls and boys, middle and high school
Estimated players: 1,800 per tournament, 7,200 across tournaments
Estimated families/parents: 4,000, 16,000 across all tournaments
Westcoast Takeover Instagram followers: 19,000
Westcoast Takeover email subscribers: 172,000 (annually)
As a valued business and community partner, we invite you to sponsor the upcoming tournament season (across four tournaments). This is an opportunity to raise your profile and engagement amongst basketball players and families across the Northern California region. Here are just some of the ways you can become a sponsor or donor:
Donation Options
Donate a Prize: (such as gift cards to Sporting goods, local restaurants, Amazon, Target, Starbucks, or more) this giveaway would be distributed to a lucky team, player, or family/guest attending the tournament
For team prizes, the quantity of 12-15 per team and a minimum of $20 value
The individual prize, recommend $100 value
Preference for gift cards
Featured across Westcoast channels as a Donor
Donate Tournament T-shirts: Get your brand featured on the tournament t-shirt, sponsor would cover the printing and production of 1,900 T-shirts for players, staff, and giveaways. The business logo will be featured prominently on the tournament t-shirt.
Featured across Westcoast channels as a Donor
Donate to Tournament Snack Partner: support the high school athletes with Gatorade or healthy snacks donation, a minimum quantity of 500 snacks-1,900 maximum.
Featured across Westcoast channels as a Donor
Donations can be provided per tournament or across all four.
Sponsorship Tiers
BRONZE
$1,000 Sponsorship Tier
Marketing exposure:
Tournament email inclusion and app banners as featured within the Special Thanks sponsor section, app messaging, and signage at the entrance of the tournament.
Feature in the tournament recap video and tournament t-shirt
Additional opportunity for the sponsor to table/booth at the tournament.
SILVER
$2,500 Sponsorship
Marketing exposure:
Tournament homepage and app banners as featured within the Special Thanks sponsor section, app messaging, one (1) dedicated social media post and signage at the entrance of the tournament.
Feature in the tournament recap video and logo included on the tournament t-shirt
Additional opportunity for the sponsor to table/booth at the tournament.
GOLD
$5,000 Sponsorship
Marketing exposure:
Tournament homepage and app banners as featured within the Special Thanks sponsor section, one dedicated email, app messaging, two (2) dedicated social media posts, and 3x5 signage at one of the all-tournament courts on the scorer's table.
A prominent feature in the tournament recap video and logo included on the tournament t-shirt
Daily Sponsor commercial to be played once at the tournament (1-2 times)
Additional opportunity for the sponsor to table/booth at the tournament.
PLATINUM
$10,000 Title Sponsorship OUR FANS WILL KNOW YOUR NAME AND KNOW THE COMMITMENT THAT YOU HAVE TOWARDS WEST COAST TAKEOVER
Sponsor the tournaments as the top-level sponsor would be the title sponsor. Brand/company name would be mentioned and included across all materials as a tournament title sponsor and tournament PA announcements including championship games.
Marketing exposure:
10x10 or larger wall mural interior advertising your company at Hardwood Palace, on-site for two calendar years
Tournament homepage-top of the page, dedicated slider, and app banners as a featured title sponsor, two dedicated emails, app messaging, four (4) social media posts, and 3x5 signage across all tournament courts on the scorer's table.
A prominent feature in the tournament recap video and pre-event promotional videos (4-6 times)
Tournament t-shirt inclusion, front of shirt with logo as title sponsor
Daily Sponsor commercial to be played daily at the tournament
Sponsor name included on the Championship awards
Additional opportunity for the sponsor to table/booth at the tournament.
Depending on the sponsorship level, your company will be featured throughout the pre-promotion tournament communication and during the tournament with announcements, signage, advertisement, and post-event, recap materials from the tournament.
Are you ready to participate as a sponsor in the 2023 Westcoast Takeover Memorial Day Tournament? SIGN-UP Now, the deadline for sponsors and donations is Monday, April 3rd.
Bronze $1,000
Silver $2,500
Gold $5,000
Platinum $10,000
Donation
Include the type of donation
For more information and questions, contact our Sponsorship Director jfrancisbush@gmail.com
Thank you,
Email wctakeover@gmail.com