Yadkar said that he couldn’t believe it was true when he received the call from Batelco to say he had won the Grand Prize.
“It took a while for the great news to sink in I was so amazed to have won that I just couldn’t believe it. It’s the biggest prize by far that I have ever won and I am really delighted.”
“Winning $50,000 is a real bonus for me and I’m currently making a list to see how I will enjoy using it. Im very happy that I participated in the Batelco challenge and look forward to the next one,” he said.
The total prize fund allocated for Batelco’s 2013 SMS Challenge was $162,000 which included 64 daily winners of $500 cash prizes, 11 weekly winners of $2,500 cash prizes and a weekly prize of $2,500 to the participant with the highest number of accumulated points. An extra mid-competition grand prize of $25,000 was awarded at the end of Week 7.