OPEN SPORTS NETWORK INC. "OPEN OFFICE POOL CHALLENGE CONTEST"
OFFICIAL RULES
IF YOU DO NOT RESIDE IN THE 50 UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST.
1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
2. INTRODUCTION
These rules apply to the online contest sponsored by OPEN Sports Network Inc. ("Sponsor") and known as "OPEN Office Pool Challenge" ("Contest"). The Contest runs during the National Football League ("NFL") regular season for games beginning on Thursday, September 4, 2008 and continuing each week through Sunday, December 28, 2008. The Contest tests one's skill in trying to pick the winner of every NFL game.
3. REGISTRATION
You must be a registered OPEN Sports.com user to participate in the Contest ("User"). There is no cost to become a User. To enter, go to http://www.opensports.com/games/football/nfl/office_poll_challenge ("Website") and click on "Open Office Pool Challenge" and follow the instructions. There is no cost to enter or participate in the Contest.
4. ELIGIBILITY
To participate in the Contest, you must be a User who is of legal age in the jurisdiction where you reside at time of entry and a legal resident of one of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia. Void where prohibited by law. Employees of the Sponsor and its affiliates, parent company, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, endorsers, consultants, and any contractors working on the Contest and the immediate family members or those living in the same household of each, are not eligible. Immediate family members include parents, siblings and children.
5. GAMEPLAY
Each week, the Website will list the scheduled NFL games. You must pick the team that will win each game, along with total points scored by both teams in each of the designated tie-breaker games. The results of tie-breaker predictions are important in the event of a tie for weekly winner. Only one winning team may be selected for each game. You must pick for every game in each of the weeks you participate. Limit one entry per person. You may change your selections for a game at any time up to 5 minutes prior to a game's scheduled kickoff. If you submit more than one entry, the last valid entry received will be used and the other entries will be disqualified. Any entry that is incomplete, late, or does not include a validly issued user name and password will be disqualified.
The Contest will use the Monday and Sunday night games as tiebreakers and you must enter the home and away score for each one. The tiebreakers will work in this order:
- Monday Night Game Total as 1st tiebreaker
- Monday Night Home Team Total as 2nd tiebreaker
- Monday Night Away Team Total as 3rd tiebreaker
- Sunday Night Game Total as 4th tiebreaker
- Sunday Night Home Time Total as 5th tiebreaker
- Sunday Night Away Team Total as 6th tiebreaker
In the unlikely event of a tie, Sponsor will conduct a drawing from among those who are tied that week. Odds of becoming a weekly winner depend upon the number of eligible entries received, your knowledge of professional football, the knowledge of other contestants of professional football, and the results of various professional football games.
Each week during the NFL season, you will be awarded one (1) point for each game for which you correctly selected the winner. No points will be awarded for an incorrect selection or if the game results in a tie, is postponed or cancelled. For any week in which you do not submit an entry, you will receive zero points. Weekly scores are determined by adding one point for each correctly picked game for that week. The eligible entrant with the most points each week will be deemed that week’s winner and will receive a cash prize of $1,000 Each weekly potential winner will be notified by email by the Wednesday following each Monday night game and will be sent an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release. To claim a prize, a potential winner must return a completed and signed Affidavit of Eligibility and a signed Liability/Publicity Release on Sponsor's forms within ten (10) business days. If a potential weekly winner cannot be contacted by the Wednesday following the Monday night game for that week or fails to return the required forms to Sponsor within ten (10) days, the potential winner forfeits the weekly prize.
If, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omissions, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation with transmission, communications, line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or allegation of entries. Sponsor is not responsible for any problem or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, equipment or software, failure of any email or entry to be received or received timely on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site, phone lines, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to a participant's computer related to or resulting from participation in this Contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, OPENSPORTS.COM RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
If Sponsor discovers any participant conducting unlicensed, illegal or professional gambling in connection with the Contest, Sponsor may disconnect such participant at once without warning and without any liability. The Contest and the Website are not sponsored or endorsed by the National Football League.
As a participant, you have a limited license to access and use the software that comprises the pools for which they have registered. You may not reproduce, copy, or redistribute, in whole or in part, any of the software that constitutes the service functions relating to the operation of the Contest and shall not acquire any rights of any kind in any of the Sponsor's software, programs or other property.
Sponsor reserves the right to immediately modify, suspend or terminate your participation in the Contest and as a User, if the Sponsor, in its sole and exclusive discretion, believes that you have acted inconsistently with these Official Rules.
By participating in the Contest, you agree to be bound by the terms of the Official Rules and by the decisions of the Sponsor, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to the Contest. This Contest and service are governed by the laws of the State of Florida without regard to its conflict of laws rules. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. All taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prizewinner. By entering, you release and hold harmless Sponsor, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability or any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with conduct of the Contest or any prize won. You may request in writing that your name and address not be used for any other purposes. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Sponsor is not responsible for human or technical errors in the offer or administration of this Contest, including but not limited to errors in advertising, the Official Rules, the selection and announcement of the winners or the distribution of the prizes. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may disqualify you from participating in the Contest, refuse to award points or prizes, and require the return of any prizes, if you engage in any conduct Sponsor deems to be improper, unfair or otherwise adverse to the operation of the Contest or detrimental to other entrants. Such improper conduct includes, but is not limited to, falsifying personal information required to register for a user name and password or to claim a prize violating any term or condition of the Official Rules, accumulating points or prizes through methods such as automated computer scripts or other programming techniques, allowing others to use the your personal information for the purpose of accumulating points or prizes, tampering with the administration of the Contest, or intentionally trying to defraud, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise tamper with the computer programs on the website. You further acknowledge that the forfeiture of prize(s) and/or return of any prize(s) shall in no way prevent Sponsor from pursuing criminal or civil proceedings in connection with such conduct.
By entering the Contest, you agree to abide by the terms of the Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final on all matters pertaining to the Contest. Sponsor is solely responsible for enforcing the Official Rules and maintaining the integrity of the Contest.
For a list of the weekly prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope between January 15, 2009 and February 28, 2009 to: OPEN Sports Network, Inc., attention: Office Pool Challenge Winners' List, 2200 SW 10th Street, Suite 200, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442. Residents of Vermont may omit return postage.
The Sponsor of the Contest is OPEN Sports Network, Inc., 2200 SW 10th Street, Suite 200, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442.