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The Stanima Fantasy Sports Football Pick One Contest

VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
Please carefully review these Official Rules before entering the Contest. These rules are subject to change. Rules as of August 1, 2013.
To Enter
1. Entry to the STANIMA FANTASTY SPORTS Pick One ("Contest") takes place by Internet only. You must complete the registration and entry form (an "Entrant") available at the Contest's website, www.STANIMA.com. There is no limit to the number of entries by any one individual and the number of prizes that may be won by an individual is not limited in the Contest. Shared team ownership, however, is not permitted. Fees, charges and costs for Internet entries are paid using or PayPal™ and must be paid, received and accepted by 12 PM CT, Sunday, September 8, 2013. Please note: The last day and time to register is 12 PM CT, Sunday, September 8, 2013.
A. The cost to play is $30 per STANIMA FANTASY SPORTS Pick One team.
B. There are team packages for multiple teams bought. A three team package for STANIMA FANTASY SPORTS Pick One is $60. A five team package for STANIMA FANTASY SPORTS Pick One is $75.
Your Eligibility
You must be 18 years of age or older at the time of registration to enter the Contest. PLEASE NOTE: This Contest is open to legal residents in a jurisdiction in which the contest is permitted by law. Residents that live in the states or anywhere else where the contest is prohibited or regulated by law are not permitted to enter, these states include Arizona, Montana, Lousiana, Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec. Employees and immediate family members of For Stanima LLC are not eligible to win awards. All players must have Internet access to help manage their team throughout the duration of the contest. The STANIMA FANTASTY SPORTS Pick One may (at its discretion) deny eligibility of any entrant to participate in the event. Under no condition shall Stanima LLC be held responsible for any loss or liability related to any expenses incurred by a denied entrant or anybody else affiliated with that denied entrant.

GAME OF SKILL: This Contest is a game of skill. Prize winners are determined by the objective criteria listed below, rules, scores, and by the skill and knowledge of each Entrant using accurate and timely real-world data from authoritative sources. This contest will test a participant's ability to predict player performance both over time and on a weekly basis, as well as to value certain players and positions within the framework of our scoring system, place appropriate bids on free agents based on the relative future value to the entrant's team, and create a balanced fantasy team that will maximize scoring output over the length of the season.

TERM: This Contest begins with the football game on Wednesday, September 4, 2013, and ends on Monday, December 30, 2013, spanning Weeks 1 through 17 of the pro-football season in the United States. THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

Prizes
1. At the end of the STANIMA FANTASTY SPORTS PICK ONE Contest, subject to the rules and eligibility requirements, prizes are awarded to the top teams in the Main and Points Brackets as stated below in the prize table. Prizes are guaranteed. Prizes may increase as the contests grows, but will never decrease. Prizes are not based on any math formula, nor are they contingent on total money collected or number of entries.

Pick One Prize Table
1st Place Overall $2,000
2nd Place Overall $1,000
3rd Place Overall $700
4th Place Overall $500
5th Place Overall $400
6th Place Overall $300
7th Place Overall $200
8th Place Overall $150
9th Place Overall $100
10th Place Overall $100


Points Only Prize Table
1st Place Overall $100
2nd Place Overall $75
3rd Place Overall $50
4th Place Overall $50
5th Place Overall $50
6th Place Overall $25
7th Place Overall $25
8th Place Overall $25


Notification
Cash prizes are awarded in U.S. Dollars to one individual per team. Prizes in the prize tables will be awarded no later than Monday, February 25, 2013, provided that each potential prize winner completes and signs his or her affidavit of eligibility, publicity/liability/talent release (except where prohibited by law), tax forms, and other documents. Failure to comply with this requirement can result in disqualification or extend the time it takes to receive his or her prize. Any prize notification returned as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. After 12 months, any unclaimed prize is forfeited. The potential prize winner(s) are required to sign and return, within 15 days of issuance, the affidavit of eligibility, publicity/liability release, except where prohibited by law, and tax forms. The failure to return such documents within the specified time period, noncompliance with these rules, the return of any prize or prize notification or if any potential prize winner declines a prize may disqualify that prize winner and an alternate eligible Entrant with the next highest score will become the potential prize winner. Except where prohibited by law, winner's acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the Contest Entities to use prize winner's name, photograph, likeness, statements, biographical information, voice, and address (city and state) worldwide and in all forms of media, in perpetuity, without further compensation. In the event of a dispute, entries made by Internet will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Contest Entities reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process (by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Contest Entities which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest), and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. In such event, Contest Entities reserve the right to award prizes to the eligible Entrants with the most points as of the termination date and to award the prize(s) to eligible Contest Entrants as measured by the best record (tie breakers rules will apply) in each league in the Contest as of termination date.

Entries
The Contest Entities are not responsible for and you forever waive your right to any claim against Contest Entities: a) in connection with, lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, stolen, misdirected, illegible, incomplete or postage due, entries, entrant information and affidavits; b) for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, or unauthorized human intervention including theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or failure to capture the entry, entries or transactions; or c) failure of any e-mail entry or transaction to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials from this Contest.

Internet. If for any reason the Internet portion of the program 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 reasonable control of Contest Entities and which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Contest Entities reserve its right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. In such event, Contest Entities further reserve its right to award prize(s) to Entrants/potential prize winners with the most points as of the termination date and to award the prize(s) to eligible Contest Entrants as measured by the best record (tie breakers rules will apply) in each league in the Contest as of termination date.

Entries. Contest Entities are not responsible for lost, late or misdirected on-line entries or transactions, for incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete entry information whether caused by a contestant, equipment, or technical malfunction or for any human error, technical error or malfunctions. Contest Entities reserve the right to halt or modify the Contest at any time during the Contest period if events beyond their reasonable control, compromise the Contest's fairness or integrity. In the event that a scheduled football game is canceled or preempted for any reason, no points will be awarded for that week for players on those NFL teams. Contest Entities are not responsible for typographical or other 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 prize winner(s) or the distribution of prizes. . Stanima, LLC may cancel the event due to any acts of God, natural disasters, terrorism, change in applicable law, interruption in the NFL season (including strikes, lockouts and/or use of replacement players), failure or ceasing of operations by our fantasy league data host, Hawkhost.com, or failure to get the minimum number of intended registered participants.

Conduct. Contest Entities, in their sole discretion, may disqualify any Entrant from participating in the Contest, refuse to award points or prize(s), and require the return of prize(s), if Entrant engages in any conduct Contest Entities deem 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 during Contest registration or prize claim(s), violating any term or condition stated herein, accumulating points or prizes through methods such as automated computer scripts or other programming techniques, allowing others to use the Entrant's personal information for the purpose of accumulating points or prize(s), tampering with Contest Entities' administration of this Contest, or intentionally trying to defraud, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise tamper with the computer programs on this website. Entrant further acknowledges that the forfeiture of any prize(s) and/or return of the prize(s) shall in no way prevent Contest Entities from instituting or assisting in the institution of other avenues of recourse such as criminal or civil proceedings in connection with such conduct.
Any participants who collude, or attempt to collude, in an effort to alter the standings, rankings, or fantasy point totals will be disqualified and be prohibited from winning any award money. In addition, any participant that alone attempts to sabotage the results of the league by not giving equal effort against all competitors will be disqualified and prohibited from winning an award. At the sole discretion of Stanima LLC, in any of these above circumstances, the colluding or sabotaging owner's team may be taken over by a surrogate or agent of Stanima, LLC, or be frozen by Stanima LLC for the remainder of the season. This rule also applies to any participant that attempts to blackmail, bribe, coerce or otherwise influence any officers or agents of Stanima, LLC in an effort to alter the standings, rankings, or fantasy point totals. Any participant that does this will be prohibited from winning any award money and will further have his or her team taken over by a surrogate or agent of Stanima, LLC. Any criminal behavior by a participant which attempts to corrupt or alter the fairness of the Stanima may result in civil and/or criminal prosecution. Any attempt made to purposely damage or affect the web site, or to undermine the operation of this contest is a violation of civil and criminal law. Stanima, LLC reserves the right to seek damages and full criminal prosecution as permitted by law.
Participants are expected field a starting lineup on a weekly basis and to manage their team to the best of their ability for the duration of the PFFWC season. We understand that some teams will stop actively managing their teams and may abandon them during the regular season. Stanima, LLC cannot manage abandoned teams and is not able to start and bench players for those teams. If Stanima, LLC believes that any team has been abandoned, Stanima, LLC reserves the right at its sole discretion to either appoint a surrogate owner, or to freeze a team's roster for the remainder of the season. Entrants recognize that in many cases, it will be most feasible for Stanima, LLC to opt for the freezing solution, albeit this result is sometimes imperfect. Participants assume this risk when entering the contest. Stanima, LLC reserves the right to intervene in team management of any team whose participant is willingly trying to field a less competitive team or is manipulating the contest.

Virus. Contest Entities reserve the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest for any reason including, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other reason corrupting or affecting the administration, planning, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, ENTRANT SHALL BE EXPELLED AND CONTEST ENTITIES RESERVE THEIR RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Contest Errors
The Contest Entities assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, errors and/or ambiguity: a) in the Contest; b) in any related advertising or promotions of this Contest; and/or c) in these Official Rules including but not limited to errors, the selection and announcement of a prize winner or the distribution of a prize. In the event of any ambiguity or error(s) in these Official Rules, Contest Entities reserve the right to modify these Official Rules for clarification purposes or to correct any such ambiguity or error(s) without materially affecting the terms and conditions of the Contest.

Refund Policy
There are no refunds for the Stanima Pick 1.

At its sole discretion, Contest Entities reserves their right to terminate the Contest in its entirety in the event there are an insufficient number of Entrants and their teams by August 25, 2011. Upon occurrence of this event Combined Entities may refund Entrant's entry fees within 48 hours of the Contest's termination and cancel the Event or send Entrant a new entry form with newly stated prize amounts, dates, etc. This section is subject to the Release, Indemnity and Limitation of Liability sections below. For clarification, an Entrant's own travel or hotel expenses or his or her time taken off from employment are the sole responsibility of Entrant.

Official Rules
This Contest is subject to the laws of the United States and to the Official Rules, and no part of this Contest may be used in connection with any form of gambling. This is a skill Contest designed to increase consumer awareness of and interest in the Contest Entities and all aspects of the game of football and in particular, professional football. By entering the Contest, you agree to abide by the terms of the Official Rules and by the decisions of the Contest Entities, which are final on all matters pertaining to the Contest. The Official Rules are the rules posted on the Contest's website. In the event that the Contest is challenged by any legal or regulatory authority, Contest Entities reserve the right to discontinue or modify the Contest, or to disqualify participants residing in the affected geographic areas. In such event, Contest Entities shall have no liability to Entrants who are disqualified due to such an action.

Release, Indemnity and Limitation of Liability
Each entrant in the Contest, including, without limitation, the prize winners release and agree to hold harmless the Contest Entities from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to person, including death, and property, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize, participation in this Contest and participation in any activity related to this Contest. By participating in the Contest, Entrants release and agree to hold harmless Contest Entities, their directors, officers, employees and agents from any liability whatsoever for any claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Contest (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries and losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to or destruction of property, right of publicity and privacy, defamation or portrayal in a false light, whether intentional or unintentional), whether under a theory of contract, tort (including negligence), warranty or other theory. All participants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules and the disclaimers and by the decisions of Contest Entities, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to the Contest. Contest Entities are solely responsible for enacting, administering, enforcing the rules, and maintaining the integrity of the Contest and reserve the right to review and arbitrate all league drafts and all roster changes, including blind bid and first-come-first-served free agent acquisitions, in order to uphold the integrity of the Contest and prevent collusion and reserve the right to cancel any league that they determine, in their sole discretion, exhibits collusion during the draft and/or during any point during the Contest period. The Contest and website are not sponsored or endorsed by the National Football League. The Contest Entities assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, the selection and announcement of a prize winner, the distribution of a prize, the acceptance/possession and/or use/misuse of any part of a prize and/or any injury or damage to any Entrant's or a third person's property related to or resulting from any part of a prize or any part of this Contest.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE CONTEST ENTITIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE AND/OR THE CONTEST, DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM THE SERVICE AND/OR THE CONTEST. IN NO EVENT SHALL CONTEST ENTITIES' TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR FROM A CLAIM EXCEED $100.00. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING IN THE CONTEST AND THE SERVICE INCLUDING THE PRIZES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO THAT SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Binding Arbitration, Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The parties waive all rights to trial in any action or proceeding instituted in connection with these Official Rules, including, without limitation, the Contest. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Official Rules and/or the Contest shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in Austin, Texas. THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ITS TERMS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAWS RULES. For any matters which are not subject to arbitration as set forth in these Official Rules and/or in connection with the entering of any judgment on an arbitration award in connection with these Official Rules and/or the Contest, the parties irrevocably submit and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of Texas and federal courts located in Austin, Texas. The parties agree not to raise the defense of forum non conveniens.

Sponsor's Mailing Address: Stanima. LLC., 1839 South Main Street, Suite 360, Wake Forest, NC 27587. www.stanima.com