Changes in the 2014 Crew Challenge

The new NASCAR season is here, and with it, the revamped Crew Challenge here on BradRacing.com.

If you’re a returning participant, welcome back. We really appreciate everything you did in 2013 to make the inaugural Challenge such a success, and are eager to have you continue contributing quality content in 2014.

If you’ve never been here before, we are happy to have you, and just as eager to have you join us for the 2014 season.

In the interest of making the Challenge even more fun, we’ve balanced out the point system to make it much easier to win prizes.

So let’s get onto some of the great changes we’ve made for the coming year.

First off, we’re welcoming Ford Racing to the Crew Challenge as the official sponsor. Having Ford Racing aboard is a great validation of the work that went into 2013 by everyone on BradRacing.com — not just by our team here, but by our amazing user base as well. The extra attention promises a lot more participation in the coming year. Ford’s participation also means that we’ve added more than a dozen great prizes to the Prize Center straight out of the official Ford Racing collection. Check them out.

In the interest of making the Challenge even more fun, we’ve balanced out the point system to make it much easier to win prizes. Great prizes take fewer points to purchase, and accepted submissions are worth more. Every time you get a post accepted into the Crew Challenge, you’ll get 50 points, and bonuses for emotion, creativity and quality can each be worth as much as 100 points each.

One of the most exciting changes we’ve made for 2014 is that we’ve integrated Twitter into the Crew Challenge in a very cool way. If you link your Twitter account to your BradRacing.com account (and you’ve really got to do it), you can earn points simply by allowing tweets about your accepted submissions to be posted automatically to your Twitter account. Every time that happens, you’ll earn 25 points. And if Brad retweets the tweet about your post, you’ll get 100 points. Yes, you read that right.

And finally, starting in the next few weeks, we’ll be bringing back weekly challenges, which were a huge hit in 2013. The big difference in 2014 is that the weekly winner will get more than just points for winning. He or she will also receive a prize. More on this to come. 

Start your engines! Let the 2014 Crew Challenge begin!