The club would also secure home field throughout the M.L.S. playoffs and would host the championship match (at Buck Shaw Stadium) if it makes it that far.
A more realistic 4-to-1 match would buck big-money clout by enhancing the attraction of limited donations for ordinary Americans, Web-based or not.
While a lockdown mentality fueled the 2012 title run, there were lapses and breakdowns in the recent first round against an overly matched Milwaukee Bucks team.
After struggling for months to try to match the million bucks he raised in his first two weeks as a candidate, on May 2nd, Kashkari put $500,000 of his own money into the campaign, which I pointed out would not be enough even with the money he'd raised from others.
The Hawks proved too deep, too talented and too playoff-seasoned for the Bucks to match.
Sessions is also a restricted free agent, so the Bucks can match any offer sheet.
"Playing on the site can definitely be more exciting once you get over the fear of losing a few bucks a match," said Vadim Zingman, 25, of Trumbull, Conn., who said he had won about $1,800 at Ultimate Arena by playing about 10 matches a week since the site started up last spring.
The San Francisco-based Keen.com is one of a handful of services hoping to make a buck by matching people with questions to experts and hobbyists with answers.
Match of the Day bucks the trend for a sporting highlights show - with the Sunday morning repeat and iPlayer we get more than 7m viewers over the weekend, and audience figures are growing.
They were, however, eliminated in their first round match by The Young Bucks, following a pre-match assault by Bullet Club.
