Antigonish Minor Hockey Association (AMHA) is committed to a successful 50-50 lottery program. The lottery is intended to raise funds for the association and to help offset the cost of participation for the members. The association will use lottery proceeds to offset a portion of the operational expenses and to provide the members with a strong development program. Members benefit directly from the lottery by way of reduced membership fees and a direct reward based on individual lottery ticket sales.
1. Lottery Schedule
There will be 26 lottery draws.
The date for the first draw will be set before the season starts.
Draws during the Christmas holidays will be scheduled based on what day of the week Christmas and New Year’s occur
2. Player and Team Rewards
Each player will earn 40 cents for each ticket sold which is held in a kitty for use the following season.
Kitty funds will be applied to registration costs and then rep fees.
Kitty Funds will be paid out on or before Decmember 15th.
Rep teams are eligible to have AMHA pay for tournament registration fees up to a maximum which is set each year at the AGM
If the team does not use the full amount for tournament fees, the team can apply to AMHA to pay for another development experience. AMHA will not consider any request for team clothing or souvenirs.
Head Coaches who do not have a son or daughter playing on the team are eligible for travel cost reimbursement. AMHA has a separate policy that contains further details.
3. Role of the Player
Each player who participates on a rep level team is requiredto sell 300 tickets or $600.00 in sales volume for the season. Each player not on a rep team is requiredto sell 150 tickets or $300.00 in sales volume for the season.
This minimum requirement is not reduced for players within a family of multiple players.
Rep players may elect to withdraw from participation in the lottery by paying $300.00 to AMHA. This is in addition to: registration fees, rep fees, and any team fee.
Non-Rep players may elect to withdraw from participation in the lottery by paying $150.00 to AMHA. This is in addition to: registration fees.
Players who fail to meet the required 150/300 tickets or $300.00/$600.00 sales volume threshold will be required to pay the shortfall to AMHA. AMHA will recover the shortfall by reducing the player’s kitty balance by 50% of the amount of the shortfall. For example, a rep player who sold $400.00 in tickets is short $200.00 in sales. This player’s kitty will be reduced by $100.00.
Should the kitty balance be insufficient to cover the shortage, the remaining balance will be added to the player’s account.
4. Role of the Team
Teams are not required to appoint a ‘Lottery Rep.’ The lottery office is prepared to process all sellers individually.
The team manager and coaches are expected to take an active and supporting role with their players’ participation in the lottery. Proceeds from the lottery negate the need for individual team fundraising which allows the team staff to focus on developing their athletes.
Team Managers are to ensure that each team member’s parent has been given a copy of this policy.
5. Sales and Kitty Tracking
Families with two or more players in AMHA are encouraged to consolidate all ticket sales under one player’s name.
Each player will be identified by the family email address that was recorded during the registration process.
Players, who are part of a multi-player family, are considered to be in compliance of the minimum sales requirement, if one member of the family has sufficient sales volume to cover all players in that family. For example: One member of a family (with three rep players) has sales of $1800 and the other two players have not recorded any sales. AMHA would consider each of the other two players to have met the sales requirement.
AMHA will report sales and kitty balances to each player weekly. Players can request a report of their kitty balance at any time.
6. Collection Office
The lottery collection office is located in the Arena Board Room and will open from 12:00PM – 4:00PM each draw date. Changes to the times or locations will be posted on the website and communicated in an email broadcast.
We are unable to accept pennies, nickels, dimes or quarters.
7. Retail Stores and Places of Business
The following stores are partners of Cleve's Source For Sports, Main Street Irving, Wheel Pizza and Sub Shop, Hawthorne Convenience, Atlantic Superstore Smoke Shop, Post Road Circle K, and Post Road Irving. These stores sell lottery tickets on behalf of AMHA.
With the exclusion of the above-mentioned businesses, members are free to place tickets in other places of business that the member is associated with. Members are encouraged to display an AMHA lottery poster at the business that is selling tickets. These posters can be downloaded from the AMHA web site.
Should a new business wish to sell our tickets, or an existing business wishes to no longer sell AMHA tickets, these business can be added or removed with Board approval.
8. Definition of Rep teams
For the purpose of the AMHA lottery, Novice Adv, Novice Int, Novice Dev and Novice Female are considered rep teams.
The “6 year old Tournament Team” is not considered a rep team.
9. Ticket Control
Sellers are expected to treat their assigned tickets like cash.
AMHA will record all ticket numbers issued to each player.
AMHA will record the number of sold tickets submitted each week.
Sellers will be required to return any un-sold tickets during the final collection period.
AMHA will reconcile the number of tickets issued, the number of tickets sold and the number of unsold tickets returned.
The seller will be responsible to reimburse AMHA for any discrepancy between the amount of sold and returned tickets compared to the number of tickets issued.
Each missing ticket will be valued at $1.60.
There will be no kitty allocation for payment of missing tickets.
Proceeds from missing tickets will be allocated to the following season’s 1st
