🏇 Friday Night Virtual Race Night: Predict the Winners, Climb the Leaderboard, and Win Custom Engraved Gear
🏇 Friday Night Virtual Race Night: Predict the Winners, Climb the Leaderboard, and Win Custom Engraved Gear
Join us every Friday night for a fun, fast-moving livestream event built around the Arlington Horse Racing arcade experience. Viewers watch the odds, make a pick in the live chat, and compete across 15 races for a weekly promotional giveaway from Electrical Code Academy, Inc.
How Friday Night Virtual Race Night Works
Every Friday night we run a full series of 15 virtual races. Each race follows the same easy format so viewers can jump in, watch the odds, submit a prediction in chat, and build points across the night. This is designed to be interactive, competitive, and easy to follow whether you are tuning in for the first race or joining midway through the event.
✅ Important: This is a free promotional contest. There is no purchase necessary, no entry fee, and no paid membership required to participate or win.
Race Format (Repeated for All 15 Races)
We are not locking the show into a rigid top-to-bottom clock schedule. Instead, the event flows naturally from race to race. As soon as one race ends and results are announced, we reset the board, open the next pick window, and keep the action moving.
We show the horses and the virtual odds exactly as displayed by the Arlington Horse Racing game. Once the odds are visible, the 5-minute pick window opens for that race.
During the 5-minute window, viewers submit a single pick in the livestream chat. Picks are recorded manually by our team.
When the timer reaches the 3-minute mark, we announce a 2-minute warning so everyone knows the pick window is closing soon.
Once the full 5-minute window ends, picks are closed. No new picks or changes are accepted after that point.
After picks close, we run the race live so viewers can watch the finish unfold in real time.
We announce the winner and top finishers, apply the points, update the leaderboard, and then reset for the next race.
Allowed Pick Types: Win, Place, and Show Only
To keep the event simple, fair, and easy to manage live, viewers may only make one of the following pick types on each race:
- WIN — your selected horse must finish 1st
- PLACE — your selected horse must finish 1st or 2nd
- SHOW — your selected horse must finish 1st, 2nd, or 3rd
We are not using trifectas, exactas, daily doubles, or any other advanced wagering-style selections in this event format. That keeps the live stream cleaner and allows us to record picks quickly and accurately.
How to Submit Your Pick in the Livestream Chat
To help us capture picks efficiently, please post your pick in a clear format. Here are a few accepted examples:
| Example Entry | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Race 1 – Horse #4 – WIN | You predict Horse #4 will win Race 1. |
| R3 H2 PLACE | You predict Horse #2 will finish 1st or 2nd in Race 3. |
| Race 8 Horse 6 Show | You predict Horse #6 will finish in the top 3 in Race 8. |
Scoring System
We are keeping the scoring straightforward so viewers can follow the leaderboard without confusion:
| Pick Type | Points for a Correct Pick | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| WIN | 4 Points | Horse must finish 1st |
| PLACE | 3 Points | Horse must finish 1st or 2nd |
| SHOW | 2 Point | Horse must finish 1st, 2nd, or 3rd |
Picks are recorded manually during the open-pick window. To keep things fair, each viewer should submit one pick per race. If multiple picks are posted by the same viewer before the cutoff, we will use the last valid pick that appears before picks close.
Livestream chat can sometimes lag. Our official cutoff is when we announce that picks are closed at the end of each 5-minute pick window. Messages that appear after closure may not count even if they were typed slightly earlier.
How the Weekly Winner Is Determined
After all 15 races are complete, the viewer with the highest total score wins that week’s promotional giveaway. This makes every race matter, because a strong finish late in the night can still change the leaderboard.
🎁 Weekly Giveaway Example: an engraved minimalist wallet or another engraved promotional product from Electrical Code Academy, Inc.
Tie Breaker Rules
If there is a tie for first place after Race 15, we will run a single bonus race using WIN picks only. If players are still tied after the bonus race, we may use the earliest correctly scored pick from the night as the final tie breaker.
Why We’re Doing This
Friday Night Virtual Race Night is built to be a fun weekly event that gives our audience something interactive to look forward to. It also gives us a creative way to showcase and promote our engraved products through live giveaways provided by Electrical Code Academy, Inc.
The goal is simple: bring people together, create a fun weekly competition, and reward viewers with quality engraved promotional items.
