EA Fantasy Football

2008 Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID IN RHODE ISLAND AND WHERE PROHIBITED.

1. To Enter. You will need a free EA account to either EA SPORTS Fantasy Football Commissioner or EA SPORTS Fantasy Football Team Owner (each a "Game") to compete online. Beginning 12:00:01 a.m. PDT on September 4st, 2008 through 11:59:59 p.m. PST on December 28th, 2008 (the "Contest Period"), to enter the EA SPORTS™ Pick 'em contest (the "Contest") log on to http://fantasy.easports.com (the "Site") and follow the instructions to (a) create an EA Account, if you do not already have one, by submitting an email address and password; (b) obtain a subscription to either the EA SPORTS Fantasy Football Commissioner or EA SPORTS Fantasy Football Team Owner, if you do not have one, and (c) submit your team picks for the week and total points scored by each team in the designated "tie breaker" game, as instructed on the Pick 'em web page (collectively, the "entry" or "entries"). Online entries for each Contest Week (defined below) must be submitted electronically through the Pick 'em web page.

Alternately, you may enter without an EA account and subscription by mailing your team picks and your prediction for the total points that will be scored by each team in the designated "tie breaker" game for each Contest Week (defined below), along with your name, street address and email address (if available), to: EA SPORTS™ Pick 'em Contest c/o Electronic Arts Inc., 1950 Summit Park Drive, Orlando, FL 32810.

By entering, entrants warrant that their entries are their own and original creations and do not violate or infringe the rights, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademark rights or rights of publicity/privacy, of any third party. Entries must be suitable for publication (i.e. not obscene, offensive or indecent) and must not have been submitted in other contests or been previously published. To be eligible for a weekly prize, online entries must be sent electronically by 11:59 p.m. PST on the Entry Deadline (defined below) for each Contest Week, and mailed entries must be postmarked by the Entry Deadline for each Contest Week and received by Sponsor by five days after the Entry Deadline for each Contest Week. Completed online entries must be sent electronically during the Contest Period and received by 11:59:59 p.m. PST on December 28th, 2008, and mail-in entries must be postmarked by December 28th, 2008 and received by January 12, 2009 to be eligible for the Grand Prize. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Use of a false email account will disqualify an entry. Sponsor is not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, illegible, misdirected entries, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, lost, late, misdirected, garbled, delayed or postage due entries or other communications or other technical problems related to website entries. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any entry containing racial or ethnic slurs, explicit language or sexual content or otherwise offensive or illegal material. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, further reserves the right to disqualify any person who tampers with the entry process or the operation of the web site, or who otherwise violates these rules. By entering, entrants accept and agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules.

The professional football games relevant to the Contest begin with the first game of the professional football season on Thursday, September 4, 2008, and end after the last regular season game, estimated to be played on December 28th, 2008. Any games played before September 4, 2008 or after December 28th, 2008 will NOT count towards entrants' weekly or season-to-date totals. The Contest consists of 17 Contest weekly periods ("Contest Week 1", "Contest Week 2", etc., each a "Contest Week").

Contest Week Entry Deadline Scheduled Games
1 9/3/2008 9/4-9/8/08
2 9/13/2008 9/14-9/15/08
3 9/20/2008 9/21-9/22/08
4 9/27/2008 9/28-9/29/08
5 10/4/2008 10/5-10/6/08
6 10/11/2008 10/12-10/13/08
7 10/18/2008 10/19-10/20/08
8 10/25/2008 10/26-10/27/08
9 11/1/2008 11/2-11/3/08
10 11/5/2008 11/06-11/10/08
11 11/12/2008 11/13-11/17/08
12 11/19/2008 11/20-11/24/08
13 11/26/2008 11/27-12/1/08
14 12/3/2008 12/4-12/8/08
15 12/10/2008 12/11-12/15/08
16 12/17/2008 12/18-12/22/08
17 12/27/2008 12/28/2008

Making Picks

Each week a list of all pro football games to be played that week will be presented at http://fantasy.easports.com/football/reports/nfl_schedule.asp. A prediction of the winning team must be made for each game by clicking the box next to the team you think will win (or, for mail-in entries, by listing the name of the team you think will win). Only one winning team per game may be selected. In addition, you must predict the total points that will be scored during the designated "tie-breaker" game, which will be the Monday Night Football game each Contest Week or the last game of the week during the playoffs. These tie-breaker predictions will be used in the event of a tie for a weekly prize. If, for any reason, an event is postponed or cancelled, entrants will not receive credit for that event.

Scoring

For each Contest Week, you will be awarded one (1) point for each correct pick, i.e., each time you correctly select the winner of a listed game. Weekly scores will be determined by awarding one (1) point for each correct pick you make for the games played during that particular Contest Week. No points will be awarded or subtracted for an incorrect pick. For example, if you make twelve (12) correct picks and three (3) incorrect picks during Contest Week 1, your score for that week will be twelve (12) points. No points will be awarded if an actual game results in a tie. For any Contest Week in which an entrant does not submit an entry, he/she will receive zero points. Online entries received or mail-in entries postmarked after the Entry Deadline for any given Contest Week will not be eligible for a weekly prize for that Contest Week and will not count toward the entrant's season-to-date totals.

2. Eligibility. This Contest is only open to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia excluding Rhode Island who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Employees of Electronic Arts Inc. ("Sponsor"), Stats Inc. and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, parents, representatives, advertising, promotion and publicity agencies ("Sponsor and its agents")and the immediate family members and persons living in the same household of each are not eligible. Contest is void in Rhode Island and where prohibited, restricted or taxed by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

3. Prizes. One (1) Grand Prize and seventeen (17) Weekly Prizes will be awarded.

One (1) Grand Prize: One winner will receive twelve (12) titles from the EA SPORTS 09 and EA GAMES library of videogames for the Xbox 360 platform. The approximate retail value (ARV) of the prize is $720.

Seventeen (17) Weekly Prize Winners will each receive two (2) EA SPORTS 09 videogames. The ARV of each Weekly Prize is $120.

Prizes are not transferable. No substitution of prizes for cash or other goods and services is permitted, except Sponsor reserves the right to provide a substitute prize of approximately equal or greater value, if the advertised prize becomes unavailable. Video games and video game titles to be awarded as prizes are within the sole discretion of Sponsor and subject to availability. All taxes, including, without limitation, all federal, state and local taxes, and international tariffs, are the sole responsibility of the each individual winner. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received.

4. Winner Selection and Notification. Winners will be determined from all eligible entries as follows:

Sponsor or its designee, the judge of the Contest, will determine the winners, in its sole discretion, based on the following criteria: The Grand Prize Winner will be the entrant who has the highest score for the entire Contest Period. In the event of a tie, the Grand Prize Winner will be the entrant with the highest score among the tying entrants in Contest Week 17, then, if there is still a tie, in Contest Week 16, all the way back to Contest Week 1, if necessary. The Grand Prize Winner will be determined on or about January 6, 2008.

Weekly Prize Winners will be determined approximately one week after the Entry Deadline for each Contest Week throughout the Contest Period. The Weekly Prize Winner will be the entrant with the highest score for a particular Contest Week. In the event of a tie for a weekly prize, the Weekly Prize Winner will be the entrant whose "tie-breaker" prediction is closest to the actual total score (regardless of whether the predicted total exceeds or is less than the actual total score) of the designated "tie-breaker" game. In the event there is still a tie, the Weekly Prize Winner will be the entrant whose "second tie breaker" prediction is the closest to the actual total score (regardless of whether the predicted total exceeds or is less than the actual total score) of the designated "second tie-breaker" game. In the event there is still a tie prizes will be awarded to each of the tying entrants for that Contest Week. Tie-breaker and second tie-breaker games designated by Sponsor.

Winners will be notified within ten (10) days after the Entry Deadline for each Contest Week throughout the Contest Period and the Grand Prize winner will be notified on or about January 11, 2008, each by an email sent to the email address or letter sent to the mailing address specified on the Contest entry. Winners may be required to complete and sign an Affidavit of Eligibility and, except where prohibited, Liability/Publicity Release, in the form provided by Sponsor, within 14 days of attempted notification in order to claim Prize. If a winner is 18 or older, as required, but a minor in his or her state of residence, winner's parent or legal guardian will be required to sign all necessary documents If the winner cannot be contacted at the email or mailing address provided, is contacted and does not respond as directed within 14 days of attempted notification, refuses the prize or is ineligible to accept the prize, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. All prizes claimed in accordance with the Official Rules will be awarded. Winner may be required to provide a shipping address to claim prize. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of prize.

5. General Conditions. Sponsor and its agents are not in any way responsible or liable for damages, loss or injury resulting from participation in this Contest or the acceptance, possession, shipping and handling, loss, use or misuse of any prizes awarded in this Contest. Entrants and winners assume sole liability for injuries, including personal injuries and/or damage to property, caused or claimed to be caused by participating in this Contest or the acceptance, possession, shipping and handling, loss, use or misuse of any prize awarded. Sponsor has the right to cancel, terminate or modify this Contest if it cannot be completed as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, technical failures, or other conditions beyond Sponsor's control, and to select winners from eligible entries received on or before the termination date. Sponsor is not responsible for any failure to contact entrants whether due to technical or human error.

By entering this Contest, entrants (i) agree that Sponsor may post their entries and has the right to use the entries, including, without limitation, by making them available for download, and, except if entrant is a resident of TN or otherwise where prohibited by law, Sponsor may use entrant's user or screen name and hometown; all on Sponsor's website and in any and all publicity and advertising for Electronic Arts, this Contest or other promotions by Sponsor without any further attribution, notification or compensation to entrants, except if winner is a resident of TN or otherwise where prohibited by law; (ii) agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges (iii) agree to be contacted by Sponsor or its agents by telephone, mail and/or email regarding this Contest and (iv) irrevocably assign and transfer to Sponsor any and all rights, title, and interest in the entry, including without limitation, all copyrights and a waiver of all moral rights in the entry. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may edit, composite, morph, scan, duplicate, alter and/or otherwise modify any entry, in whole or in part, for publication or for any other purpose. Sponsor shall have no obligation (express or implied) to use any of the entries. Entrants shall not be entitled to any damages or other relief by reason of Sponsor's use or non-use of any entry. The Contest is governed by the laws of the United States and all claims must be resolved in the United States. If there is a dispute regarding the identity of an entrant, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person in whose name the email account is registered.

6. Winners list. A winners list will be available at http://fantasy.EASPORTS.com after all winners are determined and verified and posted for approximately two weeks. A winners list is also available by sending a stamped, self addressed envelope to "EA SPORTS Pick 'em Contest, 1950 Summit Park Drive, Orlando, FL 32810 to be received by February 15th, 2009.

7. Sponsor. This Contest is sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc., 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065.

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