Everybody know what time it is? No, not tool time, time for a giveaway! We think it’s only right that Rupp Arena have at least 20,000 Facebook fans, and that’s where you come in. We have been hard at work assembling some awesome packages to give away to five lucky winners. You could win Taylor Swift tickets, tshirts, gift cards or Rupp Arena umbrellas. Below are the various packages you could win. Read through them, then check out the details and how to enter. It’s easy, I promise…

2 Tickets to the Taylor Swift Concert
2 Taylor Swift Tshirts from the Merch Stand
$15 Rupp Arena Concessions Gift Card

$50 Gift Certificate to deSha’s
2 Rupp Arena Blog Tshirts
1 Rupp Arena Umbrella (Limited Production)

$50 Gift Certificate to Rupp Arena Box Office
2 Rupp Arena Blog Tshirts
1 Rupp Arena Umbrella (Limited Production)

$20 Rupp Arena Concessions Gift Card
2 Rupp Arena Blog Tshirts
1 Rupp Arena Umbrella (Limited Production)

$10 Papa John’s Gift Card
2 Rupp Arena Blog Tshirts
1 Rupp Arena Umbrella (Limited Production)

• Become a fan of Rupp Arena on Facebook (if you haven’t already).
• Then suggest all your friends become a fan as well (located underneath the profile picture on the facebook page).
• After doing the above, comment on THIS post (on the Rupp Arena Blog) with either your favorite event you’ve attended, or an event you would like to see come to Rupp Arena in the future. Be sure to use the email/account you would like for us to use to contact you, should you be chosen as a winner. NOTE: COMMENTING ON FACEBOOK WILL NOT ENTER YOU INTO THE GIVEAWAY. YOU NEED TO LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST.

Sesame Street Live “When Elmo Grows Up” is this Friday – Sunday (5 Shows) and the Rupp Arena Blog has a family four-pack of tickets to give away! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post with what your kid [or kids] wants to be when they grow up. Be sure to leave the email address you would like for us to contact you at, should you win. Tomorrow, October 22nd at 3:00pm EST we will choose one random winner out of all those who commented and they will win a family four-pack to the show of their choice. For details about show times, check out the event page on the Rupp Arena website. Good luck!

The first annual Kentucky Proud Incredible Food Show took place a couple weeks ago, and we have already scheduled next year’s show for October 23rd & 24th, 2010! This year we had approximately 5,000 people come through the doors and sample anything from beer cheese to ice cream. We hope everyone enjoyed the show, and wanted to give you another chance to get a signed copy of Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook.

The planning process has already begun for next year’s show and we are trying to decide who the next Celebrity Chef should be, and want to get your input. In order to be in the drawing to win the signed cookbook, all you have to do is comment on this post with the chef you would like to see at next year’s show. Be sure to use the email address we should contact you at, should you win. On October 28th at noon, we will randomly select a winner out of all those who commented, and mail them a signed copy of Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook. Thanks again for a great show this year, good luck in the giveaway, and we hope to see you at The Incredible Food Show again next October!

Congratulations to Caroline Nuss, who is our winner for the Jonas Brothers banner giveaway. Thanks so much to everyone who entered! I really enjoyed checking out the concert from so many view points by looking at all the fan photos. In addition, MANY of you tagged yourself in our photos we took at the show. Many of the shots (like the one above) have nearly 25 people tagged in them, who traveled from all over the region to come to the concert. It’s pretty cool to look through and see all the people tagged throughout the crowd. Since I am feeling pretty guilty that there could be only one winner, I have decided to make the PDF file [of the banner] available for anyone to download.

You can print it out on your printer at home, or if you want to print your very own banner, you could take that file to a printing shop and have one made. Enjoy, and congrats again to Caroline Nuss!

Did you go to the Jonas Brothers show this past Sunday? If so then you could win the Jonas Brothers banner that hung on High Street leading up to the show. The process is simple, but requires a Facebook account. Do one or both of the following to enter:

 • Check out our photo album on Facebook from the Jonas Brothers pre-show and concert by CLICKING HERE. If you see yourself in any photo, then tag yourself. You can even tag your friends to enter them into the giveaway as well. Parents, if your kids don’t have accounts, then feel free to tag pictures of them with your account.

 • Aren’t in any of the photos? Don’t fret! Upload your own photos from the show to our fan photos section. CLICK HERE and click on “Add Photos” at the top left to add photos you already have on Facebook, or upload them. Pretty simple huh?

Although it won’t give you an advantage in the giveaway, we would love for you to upload all your photos from that day, and be sure to tag yourself in all of them. At noon on Friday, September 4th, we will compile a list of people who are either tagged in a photo, or who added a photo, and randomly select a lucky winner who will win the 2 foot by 6 foot Jonas Brothers banner. Keep an eye out for a message from Paul [that's me!] since there is no way to send a message from Rupp Arena. So what are you waiting for? Add your photos and tag yourself!

Every now and then we like to poll our readers/fans/followers to see who they would like to see come to Rupp Arena. It gives us a good idea of what the demand is for certain artists/acts and tells us to keep an ear to the ground for when they are routing their tour. So, we want to know who you want to see! As a little extra incentive, next Monday (August 10th) we will choose a random commenter here, on Facebook, and on Twitter and each will win a Rupp Arena Blog tshirt. So take a second and hammer out some of your favorite bands/shows that are currently touring, planning a tour, or may tour at some point in the future. You never know, they may end up hitting the stage here at Rupp!

Tomorrow morning, we will be interviewing the Fillies, the cheerleaders for the Horsemen. It will be a video interview for the Rupp Arena Blog. Since this is for the blog, we want you to submit questions you would like to see answered. We will choose 5 of the questions submitted and use them (as well as some others) in the interview. If your question is chosen, you will have your name and location mentioned in the interview, and will win a pair of tickets to each of the last Horsemen home games. Sounds pretty sweet huh? All you have to do to enter is comment here with your question as well as your name and city you are from. Be sure to use your email you want us to contact you at when commenting. Each person can submit up to 5 different questions. You have until tomorrow morning at 9:00am to submit them, so don’t waste any time!

This contest is now over. Check your email to see if you won!

Rupp Arena’s page on Facebook is constantly getting more and more fans, so we thought it would be fun to celebrate some big milestones with giveaways. Right now we have just over eight hundred fans and are rapidly approaching the one thousand fan mark. To celebrate 1000 Facebook fans, we have cooked up a nice little giveaway for eleven lucky fans. When we hit the 1000 fan mark, we will randomly select 10 First Prize Winners, which will each win a Rupp Arena Blog t-shirt. In addition to that, one randomly selected Grand Prize Winner will get 2 tickets to any event of their choosing (excluding UK Basketball games). All you have to do to enter is become a fan of Rupp Arena on Facebook. That will put you in the running for this contest and any future contests down the line. Click read more below for full rules and details.

• The Grand Prize Winner will have a voucher mailed to them that will be redeemable at the Rupp Arena Box Office for two tickets to an event of their choosing (excluding UK Basketball). They will need to be able to redeem their tickets within a year from when they are notified that they are a winner.
• The 10 First Prize Winners will need to respond to their message on Facebook within 48 hours, otherwise another person will be randomly selected in their place. Shirts will be shipped to each of the winners, so they will need to provide us with their address when prompted.
• Lexington Center employees are not eligible to win prizes.
• All winners will be notified by a message on Facebook, so keep an eye on your inbox!

Check out the Rupp Arena Facebook Page by clicking here.

The Rupp Arena Blog and Cosmic in the Fayette Mall are working together on a giveaway for the upcoming Slipknot show, with special guests Coheed and Cambria and Trivium. To enter, sign up at Cosmic, located inside Fayette Mall right next to Dillard’s. The giveaway is going to happen this next Thursday night, February 12. You may be lucky enough to win one of two pair of tickets to the Slipknot show that following Saturday, February 14. Good luck and see you at the show!

* This Contest Has Now Ended *
Another blog giveaway is ready for the taking. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is helping us offer you an awesome experience for you and your family. The circus is coming up soon and will be at Rupp Arena from September 25 through the 28. Two runner-up winners will will each receive a family four pack of tickets to the circus on Thursday, September 25 at 7:00pm. One Grandprize winner will win a family four pack of tickets to the same show as well as a signature plush elephant (137th Edition) which is specific to each tour. In order to qualify to be one of the winners, all you need to do is follow the rules below.
The rules are simple as always:

- Leave a comment on this post.

- In your comment, tell us what you would do as your act if you joined the circus.

- Be sure to leave the comment with an email address you check frequently, since that will be how we will contact you if you are one of the winners.

The giveaway will end at 5:00pm EST on Monday, September 22. After it is over, we will take all the entries and have our super-awesome-state of the art-crazy-hydrolic-monkey operated-random-post comment-picker machine determine a winner. We have a very smart monkey, and if he detects that someone has entered the giveaway more than once then not only will they be disqualified, but they will be forced to watch videos of teeth being pulled for the next year. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. No one want to see that happen, so be sure to enter ONLY ONCE. In the event that you are a winner, you will need to respond within 24 hours of receiving the email, otherwise we will have to find a replacement winner.

We hope that even if you aren’t one of the lucky winners, you will still come out and join us for one of the shows. Good luck to all who enter!