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BOTB (Best of the Best) is the elder statesman of UK car competitions: founded in 1999, it ran supercar displays at UK airports for two decades, spent 17 years as a stock-market-listed company, and gives away a dream car every single week. It is also fundamentally different from every raffle-style site we review — its flagship game is a skill contest, not a draw — and that difference cuts both ways. Here is our full, independent review.
What is BOTB?
Founded by William Hindmarch in 1999 with its first supercar stand at Heathrow Terminal 4, Best of the Best plc listed on London’s AIM market in 2006 and moved fully online in 2019. In 2023 it was taken private in a £45.3m deal by Globe Invest, the family office of tech billionaire Teddy Sagi, and became the anchor of the new Winvia Entertainment group — which returned to AIM in October 2025 and has since bought Click Competitions and Rev Comps. Two decades of audited public accounts make BOTB the most financially transparent operator in the sector by a distance.
How BOTB works — it is not a raffle
BOTB’s flagship Dream Car Competition is Spot the Ball, a game of skill. You pick from 150+ cars, buy tickets (from around 40p), and place a coordinate on a football photo with the ball removed — your judgement of where the ball is. After the competition closes, an independent panel of sporting judges determines the ball’s position in the presence of a lawyer and a company representative, and the entry closest to the judged position wins the car. A winner is guaranteed every week, the next 20 closest entries win runner-up prizes, and game credit is awarded by proximity zone. Because it is skill-based, there are no published ticket totals and no fixed odds — your chances depend on how many people enter and how good your placement is. That means our odds calculator cannot give you a hard number for BOTB the way it can for fixed-odds raffle sites; what you get instead is a genuine element of skill that rewards practice.
Alongside Spot the Ball, BOTB runs conventional prize draws and instant wins — these are drawn by an independent promotional verification service (such as PromoVeritas) using certified random number generator software, which is stronger independent oversight than most raffle sites offer. There is also a BOTB Pass subscription (from £9.99/month across three tiers) granting entries into a subscribers’ competition.
The free entry route
Where a competition permits postal entry, send a handwritten postcard or letter (mechanically produced entries are rejected) to Winvia Entertainment Plc, 2 Plato Place, 72-74 St Dionis Road, London SW6 4TU, with your full name and details matching your BOTB account. One entry per postcard, unlimited separate postcards up to the competition’s entry limit, and it must arrive by post within the promotion period. The terms state each postal entry has the same chance of winning as a paid ticket, and draws are held no earlier than the second business day after close so postal entries can be processed. Note that BOTB’s separate “Free Competitions” category works differently — entries there are granted free (for example on registration) with no postal route.
Reputation: what winners and critics say
When we checked on 28 July 2026, BOTB held a 4.1 “Great” Trustpilot rating from 11,361 reviews — 73% five-star but a chunky 10% one-star, noticeably weaker than Rev Comps or Dream Car Giveaways. The positives are real: winners describe personal phone calls, quick payouts and a slick app, and BOTB’s winner history is long and public.
The recurring complaint — and the main thing to watch — is subscription billing. A consistent stream of one-star reviews describes ticket purchases that turned into recurring monthly charges (typically £19.99) that reviewers found hard to cancel, with customer service difficult to reach when it happened. Reviewers also report app glitches such as basket totals doubling, and that the self-set spending limit can be raised with a single click. BOTB replies to 93% of negative reviews, but the pattern has persisted. Our advice if you enter: untick any subscription option at checkout, check your bank statement after your first purchase, and treat the BOTB Pass as something you deliberately choose, not something you drift into.
Prizes and the 70% cash alternative
This is BOTB’s biggest structural catch: unless a competition states otherwise, the cash alternative is 70% of the prize’s UK retail price, rounded to the nearest £1,000 — win a £100,000 car and take the money, and you get £70,000. Raffle rivals typically advertise a fixed cash figure upfront instead. On the plus side, instant-win cash is paid to UK bank accounts within 21 days, and if a specified instant-win car cannot be sourced within 30 days you get 130% of its stated cash alternative. Car delivery is to UK addresses only; overseas winners must provide a UK address or take the cash.
Pros and cons
Pros
- 27-year track record with years of audited public accounts — unmatched financial transparency
- A dream car winner guaranteed every week, from a 150+ car lineup
- Skill element rewards practice — you are not purely buying luck
- Independent judging panel with a lawyer present; draws verified by an independent service
- Equal-odds postal entry route written plainly into the terms
- Tickets from around 40p
Cons
- Cash alternative is only 70% of the prize’s retail price unless stated otherwise
- Persistent subscription/auto-renewal complaints — check what you are agreeing to at checkout
- No published entry totals — you cannot calculate fixed odds
- 10% one-star Trustpilot share, the highest of the big three operators
- Customer service reported hard to reach when billing goes wrong
Our verdict
BOTB is the most established and institutionally credible operator in this market, and the weekly guaranteed car winner is real — it has been handing over dream cars for two decades. Whether it suits you depends on what you want: if you like the idea that skill and practice can genuinely improve your chances, it is unique; if you want to know your exact odds before you spend, a fixed-odds raffle site tells you more. Go in knowing the 70% cash-alternative rule and keep an eye on the subscription checkbox. You can see the current car lineup on BOTB’s website.
BOTB FAQ
Is BOTB legit?
Yes. BOTB has run since 1999, spent 17 years as a listed company with audited accounts, guarantees a dream car winner every week, and reports over £164m in prizes to more than 900,000 winners. Its judging is overseen by an independent panel with a lawyer present, and non-skill draws are verified by an independent service.
Is BOTB a raffle?
No. The flagship Dream Car Competition is Spot the Ball, a game of skill: an independent judging panel decides where the ball should be, and the closest entry wins. There are no fixed odds or published ticket totals. BOTB also runs conventional prize draws and instant wins alongside it.
What is the catch with BOTB?
Two things to know: the cash alternative is 70% of the prize’s UK retail price unless a competition states otherwise, and many complaints concern ticket purchases converting into recurring monthly subscription charges. Read the checkout carefully and check your first bank statement.
Who owns BOTB?
BOTB is part of Winvia Entertainment plc, an AIM-listed group backed by Teddy Sagi’s Globe Invest, which took Best of the Best private in 2023. Winvia also owns Click Competitions and Rev Comps, making it one of the largest prize-draw groups in the UK.
Sources for this review: botb.com and its published terms and conditions (July 2026 version, checked 28 July 2026), Trustpilot (uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.botb.com), Companies House records, and Winvia Entertainment plc’s AIM admission document. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.