According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, a local man claims he has been unfairly denied a chunk of the $350,000 payout in the 2012 Nenana Ice Classic because organizers lost his winning ticket.
Ice Classic officials declared last week that there was a single winner this year in guessing the moment the ice went out, but 25-year-old Jonathan Bruhl disputes that.
"When they announced it, I said, 'Oh man, that's mine,'" Bruhl told the News-Miner.
Bruhl has a contest form with handwritten notes on the bottom, where he says he recorded the times he bought tickets for, 13 total. And one of those notes is indeed the winning time: April 23 at 7:39 p.m.
Ice Classic officials say they have a record in their system of 12 of the tickets Bruhl bought, but not the ticket he says was the second winner.
"They lost it," Bruhl said. "They're the only ones who go through the buckets, and they can't find it."
Ice Classic manager Cherrie Forness said she's confident organizers didn't lose the ticket and that each year, several thousand tickets aren't turned in for one reason or another.
"We don't know if he turned one in," she said.
Bruhl is certain he turned it in, and he says he's prepared to take legal action if the situation isn't resolved.
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