SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
PERFECT GAME SPONSOR
$5,000 SPONSORSHIP INVESTMENT (CAD, VALUED AT $10K)
Join our ballgame, show the community that young athletes matter. We invite you to be front and centre
when all eyes are on Thunder Bay during the U-18 Baseball World Cup championship. This is a high
profile Perfect Game Sponsorship opportunity.
The Perfect Game Sponsor of the 2017 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup will receive high quality exposure
during the 10-day tournament that focuses on the world’s best 16 to 18-year-old players in the world
from 12 different countries.
KEY FACTS
1. Fifty games will be played in the championship between Port Arthur Stadium and Baseball Central Tournament
September 1-10th, 2017.
2. Twelve national baseball teams will represent the continents of the world.
3. This event has featured baseball’s superstars, including Canada’s Russell Martin and Brett Lawrie, and USA’s
Joe Mauer, Justin Upton, Francisco Lindor, to name a few.
4. In 2010, the U-18 Baseball World Cup in Thunder Bay drew close to 50,000 fans over 10-days including guests
from around the world, leading to over $6 million for the local and regional economy.
AS A PERFECT GAME SPONSOR YOU WILL RECEIVE:
Signage
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(1x) Port Arthur Stadium1st base & 3rd base
left – right field line fencing signs
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(1x) Baseball Central 1st base & 3rd base left – right
field line fencing signs
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Website/Social Media exposure via TBIBA website
and WBSC website
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Access to players of 12 visiting National Teams
(with permission of WBSC and/or National Team
Organizations)
Program/Mass Media Ads
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A quarter page, 4 colour advertisement in the
official tournament program
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Media Conference Exposure
Access (tickets, tournament passes)
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(2x) Tournament passes (each pass 50 tickets) for
total of 100 tickets with preferred seating
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(2x) Individual game tickets
Sponsor packages, as described, are based on best information available. Sponsors and organizers
will have the opportunity to refine packages as dates move closer and schedules are more exact.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
PERFECT GAME SPONSOR
Promotional
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Highlighting local distributors of your products so as
to highlight their activities/products in their market
•
Media release sent out to all local major media
outlets to announce this sponsorship
Perks
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Countdown events; 300 days, 200 days, 100 days
Eg. Advertising, sampling, and sponsor activity etc.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Sponsor packages, as described, are based on best information available. Sponsors and organizers
will have the opportunity to refine packages as dates move closer and schedules are more exact.
ADDITIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS
1. The Sunday night, 6 September,2015 prime time finale of the XXVII WBSC U-18
Baseball World Cup at historic Koshien Stadium in Osaka generated a nationwide
sensation across Japan, outperforming the nation’s most popular television
programmes during some of the most valuable prime-time hours, according to
multiple media reports.
2. A snapshot into Japan’s biggest region, Kanto, which has a potential reach of 18.1
million households, showed the electric and close-fought youth baseball world
championship finale between the U-18 National Teams of host nation Japan
(world No. 1) and the United States (world No. 2) generated an average TV rating
of 18.6 and spiked to an incredible 27.2 during the final moments of the game,
which ran just under three hours from 18:30 to 21:24 JST.
3. The thrilling U-18 world championship finale, attended by over 15,000 in-stadium
spectators, was featured live and free-to-air across Japan on TV Asahi, one of
the most wide-reaching broadcasting networks in Japan. Deciding to feature the
finale live and in prime time against other popular programmes in Japan, TV Asahi
executives were praised by the broadcast industry for their shrewd decision to
offer blanket coverage through their terrestrial channels nationwide.
4. Online viewers from 93 countries and territories worldwide tuned in to the finale
of the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup via live-stream.
5. According to Twitter Japan, the 2015 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup finale was
the second highest trending topic on Twitter in Japan on the night of 6 September,
with celebrities, pop singers, authors, fans and Nippon Professional Baseball
clubs sharing in the real-time thrilling moments.
6. The XXVI WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup 2013 in Taichung, Taiwan had a
potential broadcast reach of 144 million homes and potential online/mobile reach
of 20 million users.
7. The final four games of the 2010 IBAF World Junior Baseball Championship in
Thunder Bay were broadcast by Rogers Television and were aired live in several
countries in the Americas and in Asia. Roger’s Sportsnet broadcast the Team
Canada games on a tape-delay basis.