Los Angeles resident Greg Jones was grateful on Thanksgiving weekend in 2023 for his proxy, who helped him stay alive in Circa Survivor en route to winning a share of the $9.2 million contest prize.
On the flip side, a contestant in the quest for last season’s $14.2 million Survivor jackpot could’ve used a proxy when — as one of 96 entries remaining from a field of 14,266 — they inexplicably failed to submit a pick.
Proxy services, which enter selections on behalf of contestants mostly from outside Nevada, have played a vital role in the exponential growth of football handicapping contests in Las Vegas.
The Westgate SuperContest saw its entries soar from 328 in 2009 — when Matty Simo and Toni Law launched the first major proxy service at FootballContest.com — to 3,328 in 2019.
