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NEW ENGLAND FORD PRO FOOTBALL CHALLENGE - RULES
NEW ENGLAND FORD PRO FOOTBALL CHALLENGE OFFICIAL RULES. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE PITTSBURGH DESIGNATED MARKET AREA WHO ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT TIME OF ENTRY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
Online entries will be subject to standard Internet access and usage charges imposed by your Internet service provider.
1. How to Enter the Contest:
(a) The New England Ford Pro Football Challenge will begin at 3:00PM EST on Monday, September 7th, 2009 and end at 9AM EST on Sunday, January 10th, 2010.
(b) Users can enter via online entry at wbz.com and play The New England Ford Pro Football Challenge. All selections must be made weekly between September 10, 2009 around 6 PM EST and January 04, 2010 around 1PM EST. Participants who choose to enter and play will be automatically entered into the contest.
(c) Limit one entry per person. Use of computer programs and other automatic means to enter is prohibited.
(d) Sponsor is not responsible for technical or computer failures, errors or data loss of any kind, lost or unavailable Internet connections, or failed, incomplete, garbled or deleted computer or network transmissions, inability to access any Web site or on-line service, or any other error or malfunction, or late, lost, illegible, incomplete or misdirected entries. Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered are void. If the judges determine, in their sole discretion, that there is any suspected or actual electronic tampering with the contest or if technical difficulties compromise the integrity of the contest, the Sponsor reserves the right to void the entries at issue and/or terminate and conduct a random drawing to award the prize among all eligible entries received as of the termination date. If the contest is terminated due to tampering or technical difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice will be posted at wbztv.com. 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 Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant that tampers with the operation of the contest or website or violates the Official Rules of the Contest. By use of this website and by entering the contest, you agree to the Station’s Web Site Terms of Use Agreement and to the use of your personal information as described in the Privacy Policy located at http://WBZTV.com/privacy.
(e) Entry deemed made by holder of e-mail account.
(f) Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received.
2. Eligibility Restrictions:
(a) The contest is open to legal residents of the BOSTON Designated Market Area only, who are 18 years of age or older. Employees of New England Ford, VISIT FLORIDA, WBZ, CBS Corporation, UPICKEM.com, other television and radio stations in the BOSTON DMA, Sponsor and their affiliates, parents, subsidiaries and advertising agencies and their immediate family members or persons living in the same households are ineligible to participate or win.
(b) Viewers are eligible to win a WBZ contest only once every sixty days. Only one winner per household is permitted in any Contest. Viewers are eligible to win a prize valued at $600.00 or more only once every six months.
(c) All entries become the sole property of WBZ and CBS Corporation and will not be returned. By entering, entrants agree to abide by these rules, and warrant and represent that their entry is their original work.
3. Prizes:
(a) Grand prize is one (1) vacation package to Florida, courtesy of VISIT FLORIDA. Package to include round trip air transportation for four (4), leaving and returning out of Boston Logan Airport, three (3) nights’ hotel accommodations – two rooms - plus one (1) round of golf for four (4) . Valid for one year from the end of the promotion and blackout dates may apply. Redemption instructions will accompany all certificates. Liability is limited to the cash value of the package.
Prize does not include items not specified, such as travel insurance, hotel room service, parking fees, laundry service, food, alcoholic beverages, merchandise, souvenirs, etc.
Weekly prizes will include a pair (2) of passes to local New England Ski Resorts. Weekly winners will be made aware of which ski resort before accepting the prize once the contest has closed.
Grand prize winner and weekly winners will all be selected after the contest has closed on Monday, January 10th, 2009.
4. How Point System Works:
(a) The point value for each game is clearly marked. The sum of a player's best 17 weeks is the player's total score. The worst 4 weeks are thrown out. If a player doesn't pick, the computer will select the most picked teams for them. Ties are broken as follows:
For an individual week:
Fans pick who they think is going to win each game along with the score for the tie-breaker game. The computer then takes all the fans who are tied for most points for the week and:
1. Subtracts what the fan chose as the score for the winning team from the actual winning team's score and squares this value.
2. Subtracts what the fan chose as the score for the losing team from the actual losing team's score and squares this.
3. Adds 1 and 2 above together to get the fan's "score approximation".
4. The fan with the lowest "score approximation" wins.
If there is still a tie the computer then chooses a random winner from those who are tied.
For the overall season:
Each week fans pick who they think is going to win each game along with the score of the tie-breaker game. The computer then takes all the fans who are tied for most points for the season and looks at the final week's tie-breaker game and:
1. Subtracts what the fan chose as the score for the winning team from the actual winning team's score and squares this value.
2. Subtracts what the fan chose as the score for the losing team from the actual losing team's score and squares this value.
3. Adds 1 and 2 above together to get the fan's "score approximation".
4. The fan with the lowest "score approximation" wins. If there is still a tie the computer then looks back at the previous week's tie-breaker "score approximation". If there is still a tie the computer goes back each week until the tie is broken. If there is still a tie after going back through all the weeks, the computer chooses a random winner from those who are tied.
All decisions of the judges are final.
5. Conditions:
(a) Payment of all federal, state and local taxes is the sole responsibility of the winner and winners may receive an IRS Form 1099 or equivalent from CBS Television Stations.
By participating in the Contest, the winners agree to have their name, voice, or likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to this Contest, and to sign a publicity release, affidavit of eligibility and release of liability prior to acceptance of the prize. Unless a member of winner’s immediate family, travel companion must be 18 years of age or older. Travel companions must travel with winner and must also sign and return a travel release, which must be returned with winner’s affidavit of eligibility. By accepting the prize, each winner grants to Station the right to use the winner's name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law). All expenses on receipt and use of prize are the sole responsibility of winner. Winners and travel companions, agree to release WBZ-TV, CBS Corporation, UPICKEM.com, their respective parents and subsidiaries, and their respective advertising, promotion and production agencies from any and all liability, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for injuries, damages or losses to persons and property which may be sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership or use of the prize or while preparing for, participating in, and/or traveling to any prize-related activity.
6. Contest sponsors reserve the right to make changes in the rules of the Contest which will become effective upon announcement.
7. Failure to comply with the Contest rules may result in a contestant’s disqualification.
8. If a game is canceled, forfeited, or indefinitely suspended for any reason, or if a game results in a tie, that game shall not count for any contestant and scores will be computed as if the game did not exist.
9. This contest is not intended for gambling. If it is determined that a contestant is using the contest for gambling purposes they will be disqualified and reported to authorities.
10. To obtain a copy of the official rules and/or winner’s list, write by March 10th, 2010 to:
New England Ford Pro Football Challenge Rules
c/o WBZ-TV
1170 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA 02134
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