The Offer
- Coca-Cola has brought back their bracket refresh for 2018’s NCAA March Madness. There is two parts to this promotion:
- Instant Win Game: This is the first part of the promotion. This is valid until March 21st, 2018 You earn game pieces (teams that make the sweet sixteen stage) for completing actions such as:
- Scan/Enter code. Enter or scan a code on the packaging of any participating Coca‑Cola®-branded products or POWERADE®-branded products
- Sip & Scan Wendy’s: Basically same as above, but you enter/scan the code here. Code is found on Wendy’s cups
- Sip & Scan 7-Eleven: Again same as above but enter codes here. Code is found on Big Gulp cups.
- Mail in: You can also mail in to request codes, more details here.
- Online: You get a free instant win game when logging in (pretty sure this can only be done once)
- Bracket Instant Win Game: Whenever a team wins and you have their game piece, you’ll receive a prize. Prizes are:
- Sweet Sixteen® Gift: Winner’s choice of a digital coupon valid for a free 20 fluid ounce Coca‑Cola® beverage or a 7‑ELEVEN® BIG GULP drink
- Elite Eight® Gift: A $5 Wendy’s® Reward redeemable at participating Wendy’s® restaurants only
- Final Four® Gift: A $10 VISA® Prepaid Reward
- Instant Win Game: This is the first part of the promotion. This is valid until March 21st, 2018 You earn game pieces (teams that make the sweet sixteen stage) for completing actions such as:
The Fine Print
Our Verdict
I’ve never done this promotion before, but reader Andrew D has. In past years he has been able to get about $40 free coke products and $300 in gift cards for around 150 caps. That sort of thing won’t be achievable anymore as the prizes aren’t nearly as good (e.g $100 gift card replaced with $10 gift card). It also looks like you’re limited to winning each prize once. It should be even easy to get caps this year though as it looks like you scan just scan bottles? Feel free to share your experiences in the comments. I wonder if you can also double dip with other promotions like this.There is also a $25,000 sweepstakes bonus, everybody who had the seed that wins the tournament will be entered into this sweepstakes (25,000 total for each team).
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FYI the free entries do not start until March 11 per the rules section
i have like 20 caps left over (get free coke products at work) i'm waiting on using for something actually guaranteed rather than an instant win game. glad promotions have been covered here, got a like $40 in amazon gift cards from the one last fall
Any ideas on how to participate if I am not a Coca-Cola drinker?
you can scan a bottle. so walk into a store and open the 20 oz case scan and put it back?
Looks like you can just scan items, don't actually need to purchase them AFAIK
Depends how desperate you are, you could always dumpster dive....
One actual good way tho I did in the past was attend a sporting event that sells bottles, after the game go around and collect the caps.
Buy their products, but don’t drink it.