26 July 2026 · The Entrypoint team
The first question every treasurer asks before bringing a Last One Standing to committee: what will it actually raise? Here are real figures from clubs running these competitions on Entrypoint, and the simple maths for projecting your own.
From competitions run on Entrypoint in 2026: a camogie club in West Cork took 348 entries at €10 in a single World Cup competition — roughly €3,480 in entries. A Dublin GAA club brought in €2,300 in entries from one tournament. A County Down GAA club took in over £1,000, a Galway soccer club €880, and a Kildare GAA club €680 — each from one competition, run by one volunteer sharing a link. You can see live and recent competitions, with players and amounts, on the competitions page.
Small clubs run small ones too — a nine-player competition raised €90 for one rural club. The format scales to whatever your community is.
Your total is just entries × fee − prize − fees, so three decisions drive everything:
| Entries | Fee | Collected | Prize | Club keeps (approx., after all fees) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | €10 | €500 | €100 | ~€330 |
| 150 | €10 | €1,500 | €300 | ~€1,050 |
| 400 | €10 | €4,000 | €500 | ~€2,850 |
| 400 | €20 | €8,000 | €1,000 | ~€6,200 |
(Approximations using Entrypoint's fee — 10% dropping to 5% past 100 entries — plus card processing of ~1.5% + €0.25 per entry. As a rule of thumb, around 84% of total entries reaches the club at the 400 × €10 scale, before your prize.)
Entries matter most, and they compound: past 100 entries the platform fee halves. Fee is the easiest lever but test it against your community — €10 enters casually, €25 needs a compelling cause. Prize is a trade-off: a bigger prize recruits more entrants but takes a bigger slice. Fixed prizes make your total predictable; percentage prizes scale automatically.
The clubs above didn't have 348 members ready to pay. Entries grow because the link travels: members forward it to family, workmates and exiles abroad who want a connection to home. Eliminations are the growth engine — every "12 members eliminated this week!" post reaches people who wish they'd entered, and they will next time. Clubs consistently see their second competition outdraw their first.
A club lotto raises more over a full year but demands weekly draws, sellers and licensing — it's a permanent operation, and many clubs' lotto sales are declining. A quiz night typically nets a few hundred euro for one intense evening of organising. A raffle needs prize-hunting, ticket books and sellers for a similar return. A Last One Standing sits in a sweet spot: four figures for most active clubs, from a few hours of promotion, with the admin automated. It also complements rather than replaces the lotto — see our comparison of Last One Standing vs lotto vs 50/50.
Take your realistic reach — members, parents, past players, the diaspora WhatsApp group — and assume a third enter at €10. A 600-person community is ~200 entries: about €2,000 collected, and roughly €1,450 for the club after a €300 prize and fees. Then run it twice a year.
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