Seen is the delegation from the Kimberley Pirates Tug of War team that will be going to the International Club Championships in Retie Belgium which will be held on May 19-20 this year. Front left: Dane Jooste, Blanche Swanepoel, Bolla Esterhuizen, Charmaine van Rhyn, Michelle van Heerden, Dalene van der Walt. Back left: Dawie Swanepoel, Kobus Louw (Coach) and Madelene Loots. Picture: Danie van der Lith
THE KIMBERLEY Pirates Tug of War Club has been really busy trying to raise funds to send a delegation to the International Club Championships in Retie Belgium which will be held on May 19-20 this year.
The DFA ran a story early last month about how the club has been selling tickets like crazy for their very own ‘beesloop’ that is taking place on Saturday, March 18.
Do you remember the beesloop? For those who need a refresher, here’s what’s happening: the club was hoping to sell a total of 1,000 of them at R350 each.
So on the day of the ‘beesloop’, the club’s field is going to be sectioned off into 1,000 one-square-metre blocks. Next, the tickets are going to be jumbled up and randomly placed on the field – one ticket per block.
Then the ‘bees’, actually a local cow, will be let loose onto the field to walk around freely until the animal decides to drop a pile of his poop and if he drops it on the block containing your ticket, then you will win 20 percent of the total sales of the raffle.
Now, let’s carefully do the maths on that one.
If all 1,000 tickets are sold, one lucky ticket-holder will walk away from the Pirates Field with R70,000 in their hand.
Not bad, is it?
By Wednesday afternoon the ticket sales were standing at 821, meaning that there is a potential prize of R57 470 waiting for one ticket holder.
However, if all the tickets are not sold, the field will then be divided into the number of tickets that were sold, giving our beloved ‘bees’ a smaller target to hit.
The day will start at 9am at the Pirates sports field, where food and drink stalls will be available for everyone to enjoy. At midday, the action will start when the cow is let loose to wander on the field, and potentially make you thousands of rands richer.
The entire Kimberley is invited to enjoy the day at the Pirates Club and to see who will be the lucky winner of all the prize money.
Tickets sales close on Thursday evening at 7pm, so if you did not buy a ticket, well, then unfortunately you have no pooping chance of winning all that money.
Get them while they’re ... hot!
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