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title: Winner Selection
description: "The big moment. Winner Selection draws your winners at random from the pool of eligible tickets, one prize at a time, and lets you notify them with a click. ![Winner Selection — your list of prizes](https://chance2win.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/TRA-Winner-Selection-screen-with-prize-category-tabs.png) Winner Selection — your…"
url: "https://chance2win.org/research-library/winner-selection/"
updated: "2026-08-26"
category: "Prizes & Winners"
---

# Winner Selection

The big moment. Winner Selection draws your winners at random from the pool of eligible tickets, one prize at a time, and lets you notify them with a click.

![Winner Selection — your list of prizes](https://chance2win.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/TRA-Winner-Selection-screen-with-prize-category-tabs.png)
Winner Selection — your list of prizes

## How the draw works

Your prizes appear as a simple list — one grand prize or fifty, however many you added. In a traditional raffle every ticket sold is eligible for every prize, so each draw pulls at random from the full pool of entries.

1. Click a prize to draw a winner at random.
2. For a prize with more than one winner, click again to draw the next.
3. The winning ticket number and name appear under the prize.
4. Click **Notify** to email the winner.

![A drawn winner, with the Notify button](https://chance2win.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/TRA-Drawn-winner-displayed-with-Notify-button.png)
A drawn winner, with the Notify button

  **Reality check.** Winner Selection stays **locked until your event’s end date has passed**. That’s on purpose — it makes it impossible to draw before every entry is in, which protects you and reassures your supporters that the draw was clean.   **Pro tip.** Draw live — on Facebook, at your event, wherever your people are watching. A public drawing is the single best trust-builder you have, and it makes next year’s raffle an easier sell before you’ve even started.

Winners drawn and notified? Pull your final records from the [Reporting Dashboard](/#reporting-dashboard) and [Prize Reports](/#prize-reports), and take a well-earned breath.

Big draw coming up and want it to go smoothly? Call us beforehand — we love this part — The Chance2Win Team

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