Playbook Challenge
Official Rules
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1. Eligibility:
The NFL Playbook Challenge Fantasy Game (hereafter, “Promotion”) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older as of the date of registration. Employees, officers, directors, agents and representatives of the National Football League (hereafter, “Sponsor”), its member professional football clubs, NFL Properties LLC, NFL Ventures, L.P., NFL Ventures, Inc., NFL Productions LLC, NFL International LLC, NFL Enterprises LLC and each of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, wholesalers, retailers, distributors, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies (hereafter collectively, “Released Parties”), and each such individual’s immediate family members (mother, father, sister, brother, child, husband, wife and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related, are not eligible to participate or win a prize. Void where prohibited by law. All applicable federal, state and local laws apply.
2. Registration Period:
Registration for the Promotion begins at 12:00:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern Time (“ET”) on 8/10/09 and ends five (5) minutes prior to kickoff (approximately 4:10 p.m. ET) of the last NFL 2009 regular season game scheduled to take place on 1/3/10.
3. Promotion Period:
The Promotion Period begins at kickoff (approximately 8:30 p.m. ET) of the first NFL 2009 regular season game scheduled to take place on 9/10/09 and ends at the completion of the last NFL 2009 regular season game (approximately 11:59:59 p.m. ET) scheduled to take place on 1/3/10. End date is subject to change dependent upon the NFL schedule (the “Promotion Period”). The Promotion and participation in the Promotion are subject to these Official Rules. The Promotion Period will be divided into seventeen (17) weekly scoring periods during which fantasy points will be accumulated. For the purposes of this Promotion, each weekly scoring period begins at kickoff of the first game of the week (beginning on Thursday) throughout the Promotion Period and ends at the completion of the last game played on each following Monday throughout the Promotion Period (with the exception of the last weekly scoring period which ends at the completion of the last game scheduled to be played on Sunday, 1/3/10). All registrations/entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
4. To Participate:
a) Become a Registered Participant of the Promotion: Visit www.nfl.com/fantasy during the Registration Period, click on the “NFL Playbook Challenge” icon and complete and submit the Promotion registration form to obtain a User ID and Password from NFL.com. Registration is free. Once you are a registered participant of the Promotion, you may access the Promotion’s Game Page at any time during the Registration and Promotion Period by visiting www.nfl.com/fantasy, clicking on the “NFL Playbook Challenge” icon and submitting your User ID and Password. Limit one (1) registration per participant and per email address for the duration of the Registration Period. Additional registrations received from any such participant or email address thereafter will be void. The use of script, macro or any other device to automate or subvert the registration process is prohibited and all such registrations will be void. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of an entrant based on the email address submitted at the time of registration, registration will be deemed from the person named on the applicable registration form (regardless of whether that is the name of the authorized account holder of the email address from which said registration form was submitted), provided such individual is eligible according to these Official Rules.
Participants’ personally identifiable information will only be used in accordance with the National Football League Privacy Policy, as posted on http://www.nfl.com/help/privacy.
b) Pick Your Players: The object of the Promotion is to pick the NFL players who you think will perform best in their actual NFL games for each weekly scoring period. For each of the seventeen (17) weekly scoring periods (as defined above), you may pick a total of three (3) players per period: one (1) quarterback; one (1) running back; and one (1) wide receiver OR tight end from the player roster provided on the Promotion Game Page. You may select an individual player only one (1) time for the duration of the Promotion Period, regardless of how many positions such player may play. Example: if you select Eli Manning for the quarterback position in week 1, you may not select Eli Manning during any subsequent weeks. The players you select for each week will accumulate fantasy points based on the Scoring System below.
To select your players for any weekly scoring period, visit the Promotion Game Page (as directed above), which will feature a player roster, and follow the instructions provided to make your player selections by the deadline(s) outlined below. If your pick(s) is submitted by the relevant deadline outlined below, this selection will be your active player(s) for that applicable weekly scoring period during the Promotion Period.
Note: For NFL players who play more than one position, NFL.com will determine position eligibility. If you select a player for one position but then such player plays another eligible position for that applicable game (e.g. a running back plays wide receiver), his statistics at the new position will count towards your fantasy point total but he will still take up the positional slot of his initial position.
c) Player Selection Deadline: The deadline for choosing or modifying your player and position selection for each weekly scoring period is five (5) minutes prior to the scheduled start of the applicable game in which the player(s) is playing, as determined by Sponsor.
Your last selection that is received by the applicable deadline will be used to tabulate your fantasy points. Selections cannot be modified for any game in progress or already completed. Fantasy points will not be awarded if 1.) a player selection is not made by the applicable deadline, 2.) the selected NFL player(s) does not play in the game for any reason, 3.) the selected NFL player does not perform any of the actions listed below to generate any points in a game, or 4.) a game is cancelled, postponed or rescheduled for any reason.
All selections must be accepted and acknowledged by the computer servers by the applicable deadline (as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) to be considered valid, timely, and eligible.
5. Scoring System:
During each weekly scoring period throughout the Promotion Period, you will earn one (1) fantasy point for each yard passed, rushed and/or received by the NFL players that you have chosen for the applicable period. If you have selected a player that is identified as a rookie on the Game Page roster you will receive two (2) fantasy points for each yard passed, rushed and/or received by such player during the applicable weekly scoring period. Examples: 1) If you selected LaDainian Tomlinson for the running back position during one (1) of the weekly scoring periods and he rushed for twenty-five (25) yards, passed for seventeen (17) yards and had fifty-one (51) receiving yards, his accumulated yardage would be ninety-three (93), earning you ninety-three (93) fantasy points for the running back position during the applicable period; 2) If you selected Matthew Stafford (a rookie) for the quarterback position during one (1) of the weekly scoring periods and he passed for one hundred and forty-five (145) yards and rushed for twenty (20) yards, his accumulated yardage would be one hundred and sixty-five (165). Since Stafford was identified as a rookie on the Game Page roster his accumulated yardage would be doubled, thereby you will have earned three hundred and thirty (330) fantasy points for the quarterback position during the applicable period. Fantasy points are not transferable and have no monetary or other value outside this Promotion.
During the following four (4) weekly scoring periods (hereafter, “Bonus Weeks”), any fantasy points that are accumulated will be doubled.
Bonus Weeks:
- Week 3: 9/24/09 – 9/28/09
- Week 8: 10/29/09 – 11/2/09
- Week 13: 12/3/09 – 12/7/09
- Week 17: 12/31/09 – 1/3/10
Using the examples above: 1) if you picked LaDainian Tomlinson during one (1) of the Bonus Weeks listed above, you will have earned one hundred and eighty-six (186) fantasy points for the running back position during the applicable weekly scoring period (rather than ninety-three (93)); 2) if you picked Stafford (a rookie) during one (1) of the Bonus Weeks listed above, you will have earned six hundred and sixty (660) fantasy points for the quarterback position during the applicable weekly scoring period (rather than three hundred and thirty (330)).
Scoring Notes
- If a selected NFL player happens to be on a BYE week, you will receive zero points for the applicable player and such player will NOT be available to be picked at a later date.
- If a selected NFL player happens to be injured prior to the game and does not play, you will receive zero points for the applicable player and such player will NOT be available to be picked at a later date.
6. Winner Selection:
Although it is not necessary to select players for each weekly scoring period during the Promotion Period to participate in the Promotion, it is strongly encouraged since the participant who has accumulated the most fantasy points over the course of all seventeen (17) weekly scoring periods during the Promotion Period combined will win the Grand Prize (subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules).
Grand Prize: At the conclusion of the Promotion Period, the participant who accumulates, over the course of the entire Promotion Period, the highest number of fantasy points (points earned by each selected player combined), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, will be deemed the potential Grand Prize winner.
In the event of a tie for the Grand Prize, the total number of touchdowns made (in any form of play: thrown, rushed, received, etc.) by each tied participants’ selected players over the course of the entire Promotion Period will be added together. The tied participant whose selected players (combined) accumulated the highest number of touchdowns over the course of the Promotion Period will be determined the Grand Prize winner (subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules). Example: In the event there are two (2) participants tied and assuming each played for the entire seventeen (17) weekly scoring periods during the Promotion Period and selected three (3) players for each period: If the fifty-one (51) players selected by participant “A” scored a combined total of one-hundred and fifty (150) touchdowns and the fifty-one (51) players selected by participant “B” scored a combined total of one-hundred and forty (140) touchdowns, participant “A” would be determined the winner for the applicable prize at issue, subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. In the event a tie still exists, the potential winner, for the prize at issue, will be selected in a random drawing conducted by Sponsor from among all tied participants.
The tabulation of points and identification of potential winner will be conducted by Sponsor whose decisions are final and binding on these and all other matters relating to the Promotion. In the event that any regular season game is canceled, suspended (and not resumed) or preempted (and not resumed) for any reason during the Promotion Period, prizes will be awarded based on points accumulated for those games that occur as scheduled. By participating, participants agree to these Official Rules and to the decisions of the Sponsor, which will be final and binding in all respects.
7. Winner Notification:
The potential Grand Prize winner will be contacted on or about 1/8/10 at the email address provided on the registration form and will be required to respond to such email within five (5) days of the first attempt to contact him/her.
Additionally, potential Grand Prize winner will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and (where legal) Publicity Release within seven (7) days of date of issuance of notification. Non-compliance with the foregoing, with these Official Rules, Sponsor’s inability to contact the potential Grand Prize winner within a reasonable time period, potential Grand Prize winner’s failure to respond within five (5) days from Sponsor’s initial contact or return of prize notification as non-deliverable may result in disqualification and, at Sponsor’s discretion, awarding of the prize to the next runner-up. Grand Prize winner’s guest will be required to execute a Liability and (where legal) Publicity Release prior to the issuance of travel documents. Guest must be of legal age of majority in his/her jurisdiction of residence (and at least 18) unless he/she is the child or legal ward of the Grand Prize winner and then such guest must be at least 16 years of age. If guest is the child or legal ward of the Grand Prize winner, Grand Prize winner must sign and return a Liability and (where legal) Publicity Release on behalf of such child or legal ward.
8. Prizes:
(1) Grand Prize: A five (5) day/four (4) night trip for winner and one (1) guest to South Florida to attend Super Bowl XLIV currently scheduled for 2/7/10. Trip includes round trip coach air transportation from a major U.S. gateway airport nearest winner’s residence in the U.S., one (1) standard double occupancy hotel accommodation (one (1) room) for four (4) nights, round trip ground transportation to and from airport in Florida and to/from each event identified below, two (2) tickets to Super Bowl XLIV and the opportunity to sit with a current or retired NFL player during the game, Super Bowl pre-game on-field experience for winner and guest, two (2) tickets to each of the following events: Rookie of the Year Party, NFL Sponsor Party, and the NFL Tailgate Party, two (2) NFL Gift Bags (one (1) for winner and one (1) for guest), and $250 spending money for winner awarded in the form of a check. Approximate Retail Value = $26,000. Actual value may vary based upon location of winner’s residence. If winner resides within a 100-mile radius of destination, ground transportation may be provided in lieu of air transportation, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, and no compensation or substitution will be provided for difference in prize value. Exact dates, times, duration, activities (if any) and/or locations of the events and pre-game experience, exact player sitting with the winner during the game, the length of time in which the player sits with the winner during the game and the exact items in gift bag are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Trip must be taken on date(s) designated by Sponsor or prize will be forfeited in its entirety and, at Sponsor’s discretion, awarded to runner up. Travel and accommodation restrictions and other restrictions may apply. Winner and his/her guest must travel together on same itinerary and are responsible for obtaining all required travel documents. All travel arrangements must be made through travel agent of Sponsor’s selection on a carrier of Sponsor’s choice. Released Parties are not responsible for travel delays or cancellations. In the event the game is postponed, trip will be rescheduled. In the event the game is postponed and not rescheduled, the events, opportunity to sit with a player and pre-game experience will be cancelled and no compensation or substitution for such portion of the prize will be provided; however, the remainder of prize package (minus tickets to the game and experience/opportunity/events) will be awarded and Sponsor will have no further obligation to winner. In the event the pre-game experience and/or any event is cancelled and not rescheduled during the trip dates or the selected player is unavailable to watch the game with the winner, no compensation or substitution for such portion of the prize will be provided; however, the remainder of prize package will be awarded and Sponsor will have no further obligation to winner. Seat locations will be determined by Sponsor. Participation in pre-game experience is subject to security clearances. Winner and guest must comply with all venue rules and regulations. Failure to do so may result in forfeiture of such portion(s) of the prize and removal from game/event. Released Parties reserve the right to remove or to deny attendance to winner and/or guest who engages in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person at the game or any event. The tickets are subject to the terms and conditions thereon. Unused tickets cannot be refunded, exchanged or applied towards tickets for any subsequent years. If unused, game tickets cannot be returned, refunded or exchanged for cash value or substitute tickets. Costs and expenses associated with the acceptance and use of prize not specified herein as being awarded, including, but not limited to, federal, state and local taxes, food, beverages, airline luggage charges and miscellaneous travel expenses is winner’s sole responsibility. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. No transfer, assignment, cash redemption, or substitution of a prize (or portion thereof) except by Sponsor who reserves the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) of comparable or greater value, as determined by Sponsor.
9. Miscellaneous:
Released Parties are not responsible for lost, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled, late, delayed, undelivered or misdirected registrations, User ID’s, submissions, fantasy points, NFL player selections and submissions or emails; theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, submissions or registrations; failures or malfunctions of connections, cable, fiber-optics, network, satellite, Internet Service Provider (ISP), phones, phone lines or telephone systems; interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in any transmission or communication; traffic congestion on the Internet or for any technical problem, including but not limited to any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation in this Promotion; errors in these Official Rules, in any Promotion-related advertisements or other materials; the selection or announcement of potential winner or the distribution of prize; the cancellation, suspension or preemption of NFL regular season games, injuries or other unavailability of players, scoring or touchdown tabulation or timing errors or other problems or errors of any kind whether mechanical, human, electronic, typographical, printing or otherwise. By entering, each participant agrees that 1) Sponsor and its designees may use (unless prohibited by law) participant’s name, city and state of residence, fantasy point totals, player selections, photograph and/or likeness for advertising, trade and/or any other purposes in any media now or hereafter known throughout the world in perpetuity, without further compensation, permission or notification; and 2) the Released Parties shall have no liability and will be held harmless by participant for any claim, action, liability, loss, injury or damage to participant or any other person or entity, including, without limitation, personal injury or death to participant or any other person or damage to personal or real property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize and any travel or travel-related activity thereto (including, but not limited to, attendance at a game, event and/or participation in any activity) or participation in this Promotion. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to: 1) disqualify any person (and void his/her fantasy points) who tampers with the registration or submission process, the operation of the Promotion’s Game Page, or any other component of this Promotion, who acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or who is otherwise in violation of these Official Rules; and 2) modify, suspend or terminate this Promotion (or any portion thereof) should virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes, including but not limited to war, strikes, and/or acts of God, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of this Promotion and, in the event of termination, at its discretion, award prize to the highest scoring eligible non-suspect participant (as determined by Sponsor) as of the date of the event requiring such termination. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT OR OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, RELEASED PARTIES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PARTICIPANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
10. Winner's Name:
For the winner's name (available after 2/5/10), send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for receipt by 2/5/10 to: NFL Playbook Challenge Winner, C/O National Football League – Digital Media, 280 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
