USA Rugby and the Grand Prix Network announce the GRAND PRIX RUGBY FOOTBALL LEAGUE offering RFL Founder Franchises in “The Formula One CHICAGO - NEW YORK - LOS ANGELES - DALLAS of Team Sports” Grand Prix Network LLC (a sports, entertainment & gaming company that produces, distributes and organizes professional sporting events and leagues), will COMPANY PROFILE URL: http://grandprixnetwork.com/ be launching the Grand Prix Rugby Football League featuring the explosive Industry: Sports and Entertainment Rugby 7s format via an exclusively sanctioned partnership with Rugby World Founded: September 2012 Cup and U.S. Olympic Committee Member, USA Rugby. CAPITAL RAISE Seed Round: $10.5M SUMMARY Our unique “tour-to-league” approach begins by producing proven world-class MANAGEMENT championship tournaments ultimately leading to the formation of the USA’s first William Tatham, Founder & Chairman professional Rugby 7s league. The Grand Prix Rugby “Champion Sevens” will host the Ed Lang, Corporate Strategy World Rugby Union teams, brands and players, in Las Vegas, NV. Through our exclusive Kevin Wynne, Global Distribution Rich Rose, Broadcast license we will generate content (over 20 hours per event), while saving approximately Karyne Bazzano, Marketing $72M in year one team costs. The “tour-to-league” model built on globally established Michael Pearce, Head of Studio brands and players generates immediate profits while simultaneously building long term franchise equity. The exclusive license from USA Rugby “Opens the Door to the World’s ADVISORS Teams and Closes the Door to Competition”. Frank Grant, Stradling, Yocca Scott Kelley, Kelly & Kelley David Sternberg, Rugby Int’l Marketing MARKET OPPORTUNITY Wally Hayward, W Partners The 2016 Olympics welcomed the return of rugby with explosive fanfare. Rugby Sevens, Ruth McCartney, McCartney Multimedia featured in Rio, is rapidly becoming the world’s most commercially successful format Hal Gilenson, Esq. including in emerging rugby markets China, Russia and Latin America. With non stop David Gorman, Esq. action, it’s the logical format to package “the world's contact sport" for the world's U.S.O.C. MEMBER AND EXCLUSIVELY greatest sports market: SANCTIONED PARTNERS • “The Father of American Football” - Rugby is the world’s 3rd most popular sport, played in 147 countries. • Rugby is the USA’s fastest growing team participation sport. • Grand Prix's "Opening Act”and proof of concept, the amateur HSBC Las Vegas Sevens, sets year-on-year attendance records including 80,138 tickets in 2016, is broadcast live on NBC and NBCSN, and broadcast globally to over 147 nations. • World Rugby awarded the 2018 Rugby 7s World Cup to San Francisco, marking the first time ever the USA will host a Rugby World Cup. • All making 2018 and the RFL the RIGHT SPORT at RIGHT TIME! GRAND PRIX NETWORK GPN combines its innovative Formula One “Operating Platform” with its Olympic partnered “Content Strategy”, resulting in LEAGUES that can PROSPER and SURVIVE generating sustainable NETWORK CONTENT while building FRANCHISE EQUITIES. GRAND PRIX NETWORK Privileged & Confidential [email protected] GRAND PRIX RFL GRAND PRIX "CHAMPION SEVENS" TOUR GRAND PRIX RUGBY FOOTBALL LEAGUE Professionalizing the globally popular HSBC Sevens The Rugby Football League (RFL) will be a distinctly Series; GPR will produce the richest Sevens American sport with built-in international opportunities. Championship in rugby history by offering $1 million Playing a brutal game that would challenge the in prize money! USA Rugby will host, and GPR will toughest NFL player, RFL players from around the showcase the same teams and brands that compete world will “bare their teeth and throw their bodies in the HSBC Series Las Vegas USA Sevens, The Grand to the wind” without protective pads! Prix RFL Champion Sevens Tour is easily scalable and expandable to as many as 16 tournaments annually. The Rugby Sevens code is non-stop action for each 7 minute half. “Race Track Rugby” easily accessible to US Target Launch: 2018 sports and wagering fans, including live and online Location: Las Vegas, NV audiences. The tournament format provides a unique Participants: 24 World Rugby Union Teams marketing and monetization platform including multiple Duration: 3 days, 60 matches entertainment and gaming opportunities. GPR is confident its Champion Sevens Tour will meet or • RFL Phase One Champion Sevens “Tour”. exceed the proof of concept provided by its sister Showcasing World Rugby Union teams while Las Vegas Sevens event because GPR’s Champion simultaneously introducing RFL Founding Tour will: Teams. Anticipated 3 years, leading to… • Showcase the same World Rugby Union Teams; • Hosted by the same USA Rugby; • RFL Phase Two All-American “League”. • Sold to the same 80,138 ticket-buying fans; RFL will kick off all U.S. team league play only after the Tour has built a lucrative team, market • Sponsored by the same global brands; and, and brand foundation. • Globally broadcast to the same 400m homes and 147 countries. GRAND PRIX NETWORK Privileged & Confidential [email protected] GRAND PRIX INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY GPN is currently seeking seed capital of $10.5m via two rare opportunities. Network Option A: Grand Prix Network equity via a maximum of 10 convertible debt notes @ $1M each. Convertible feature into Founder’s Round of financing with a ROFR on Grand Prix RFL Franchise Units. Franchise Option B: Grand Prix Rugby equity via one of four RFL Founder Franchise Units @ $5m each. Each RFL Founder Franchisee shall receive: • A 20% ownership stake in the Grand Prix RFL. • Full Voting interest with one seat on the five seat Grand Prix RFL Executive Board. • 100% Preferential Rate of Return. • RFL Major Market Franchise in top 16 U.S. Media Market including: NEW YORK - LOS ANGELES - CHICAGO - DALLAS • First right to Founding Franchises in all GPN expansion sports including the Grand Prix Volleyball League (VBL). An independent audit conservatively valued the Grand Prix RFL at $157M after 6 years, based solely on a limited event schedule and excluding key revenue streams as expanded tournaments, PPV and franchise sales. The audit concluded, “there is no other top-flight professional sports league IN THE WORLD with as much opportunity for growth as the GRAND PRIX RFL.” GRAND PRIX KEYS TO SUCCESS Central to our business model was gaining exclusive sanction rights to every sport and every event we produce. GPN entered into exclusively sanctioned partnerships with USA Rugby and USA Volleyball, granting GPN the sole right to own, operate and globally broadcast professional tournaments and leagues in the U.S. This “Opens the door to the World’s Teams and Closes the Door to Competition.” Our single ownership group will provide sound operational and financial control, avoiding dysfunction inherent in traditional franchised league models. We are incredibly focused on: • Obtaining production financing to produce GPN’s launch “Grand Prix RFL $1m Champion Sevens” • Securing our first 4 RFL Founder Franchisees in the Top 16 Major U.S. Media Markets (e.g. Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, Chicago); • Generating revenues and a substantial return on capital; and ultimately; • Building Grand Prix Network and RFL Franchise equities • Whilst establishing it as a world-class production and distribution sports and entertainment company. GRAND PRIX NETWORK Privileged & Confidential [email protected].
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