I managed to attend the McDonald’s Monopoly Grand Draw thanks to omy.sg! I was there as a blogger and really I wanted to know who the winners are and how it was going to be conducted. Plus, it was the first time someone won the grand prize!
It was held at Clarke Quay and the fountain square was decked like a Monopoly game board. The crowd there were already winners since they had registered their chance card so it meant that they’ve won at least something.
They just didn’t know what something that they’d win.
In any case, McD’s had good served around like nuggets and such with a large fridge stocked with Fanta sodas for anyone to grab a can from.
The draw would start at 7.30pm but before that and while people registered their numbers, people could play at the various areas, like Chance in which you had to roll giant dice and get a double. You’d then win the actual monopoly games!
Mr Monopoly also made an appearance briefly as he surveyed the area. Did you know the original name of Mr Monopoly is Rich Uncle Pennybags?
If you didn’t, now you know!
THE MORE YOU KNOW~~~
There are 270 Chance card winners this year. However, at the event only 224 was registered. To those who didn’t register, tsk tsk so sad. The prizes are great! Why, why didn’t you register if you had the card? You could have given it to meeee.
Before the main draws for other prizes like the car, the Wavehouse package and such. We got to know who won the trips to Atlanta and Prague! Mostly, they bought the food for their family, like the breakfast meal.
And then the grand prize winner was Mr Sankararama Subramanian receiving his prize from Managing Director of McDonald’s Singapore, Ms Judy Harman and Head of Business Development of VISA Singapore, Mr David Fowler and well, Mr Monopoly. Apparently, he said he wasn’t going to take the money for himself, instead he will use it to donate it all to hungry children in India! :O Oh my!
That’s very charitable of him.
I know a lot of people were going “Nooooooooooo!” when they heard that the money was won.
And so, it was break time after that. Just a five minute one so they could set things up properly and I could take the opportunity to grab a drink. In between these too, there were quizzes with prizes of the Monopoly houses in the size of a hand since they were actually radios.
Those were cool.
Anyway, next up was a loooooooong wait since numbers were drawn out for a lot of the Denizen voucher winners and then, also the Wavehouse package winners and well, the ultimate package winners too (which I like to call that since they had Wavehouse and movie tickets etc. It was a lot of things in that package).
Those with their number called up could collect them at the redemption counter while the “bigger” prizes collected theirs at the registration counter. Bigger prizes like a freaking Macbook air!
I was impressed with Daniel Ong, the emcee for the event because he had to call out at least a hundred numbers continuously. By the time when the number to be drawn to win the car, people were either going YAY that they hadn’t won the previous prizes or not.
For if you didn’t win the previous prizes, you would either win a movie ticket package (which was still like woah) or the car.
Of course there would be only one winner of the Volkswagen Touran 1.4 TSI.
And that was Ms Tan Wen Xin! What I noticed from the winners of the “big stuff” was that the winning meal was a McSpicy or a double McSpicy! HMMMM. Well, it’s all up to your luck anyway but it seems like the McSpicy is a winner’s favourite.
And that was the end of it with everyone going to the redemption counters to pick up the prizes they’d won. Since really, everyone of them got a prize no matter what! Everything indeed must go as McDonald’s Monopoly had said.
Hnnngh. So the chance cards are really cool. Next time hopefully I can get one! Well, unless I get the winning pair to win the grand prize of course…
