Big Jackpot Betting

BIG JACKPOT BETTING ROI TOURNAMENTS OFFICIAL RULES How to Play

1. ELIGIBILITY

The Big JackPot Betting ROI Handicapping Tournament (the “Tournament”) contestant competing for prizes must meet any requirements on minimum age that may apply based on the State of the contestant’s main residence in addition to any other state rules governing the awarding of prizes won from a free tournament. It is each contestant’s responsibility to insure that they are in full compliance with any governmental rules that may pertain to their participation in these type events.

Additionally, the Tournament is only available to such persons who register to participate and who have a valid e-mail address. There is no cost to participate in the Tournament. Employees and directors of Big JackPot Betting and its parent and subsidiary companies and the immediate family (spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter or son, regardless of where they live) or members of the same households (whether related or not) of such employees and directors are not eligible. By entering a Tournament you agree to these Official Rules and, where necessary, decisions of Big JackPot Betting which are final and binding in all respects.

All applicable federal, state, provisional, and local laws and regulations shall apply to each Tournament.

The contestant acknowledges that by entry into the Tournament he has read the eligibility requirements and is in full acceptance of them as outlined above.

2. HOW TO PLAY

The goal of any Tournament is to achieve the highest bankroll by making mythical $2 wagers to win in each designated Tournament race.

For each correct selection in a Tournament race, a player will earn an amount equal to the $2 win payoff and the $2 place payoff for a selection that wins the race; or the $2 place payoff for a selection that finishes second; as if such player were making an actual money wager. There is, however, no actual currency wagered in any Tournament and Tournament wagers will not be placed into any pari-mutuel system. The maximum payoff on any single Tournament race is $24 for a win wager and $12 for a place wager. All monetary values are stated in U.S. dollars.

3. ENTRY

To enter any Tournament, each player will click on the Tournament Advertisement on the bigjackpotbetting.com home page. When requested enter his or her email address and existing bigjackpotbetting.com password. Players without an email address and existing password can participate in the Tournament by answering the requested information.

There is no cost to register or to participate in any Tournament.

Entries will only be accepted through bigjackpotbetting.com. Unless otherwise advised on bigjackpotbetting.com, any other attempt to enter a Tournament is void.

To enter any Tournament, a player’s computer must accept cookies, or any successor or similar technology (now known or hereafter devised or discovered).

A player may only submit one registration for each Tournament. A player submitting or attempting to submit more than one registration form will be disqualified. Big JackPot Betting reserves the right to disqualify any player who has or who is believed to have submitted or tried to submit more than one registration.

All entries and registration information become the sole property of Big JackPot Betting.

Big JackPot Betting is not responsible for reminding players about meeting any Tournament cut-off time. It is solely the player's responsibility to meet Tournament deadlines. Big JackPot Betting logs the time and date each player enters his or her selections.

All copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights associated with a Tournament are and become the property of Big JackPot Betting.

4. SELECTIONS AND SCORING

All players must make their selections before the cut-off time for that Tournament’s races. The cut-off time for making selections will be prominently posted within the Contest section at bigjackpotbetting.com. Selections may begin to be made as soon as a Tournament is open for selections. Typically, this will be one or two days prior to the beginning of a Tournament. It is strongly recommended that players submit all their selections as early as possible. Players can edit their selections until the cut-off time. Big JackPot Betting is not responsible for any player's inability to submit selections due to Internet outages, technical difficulties, etc.

All entries must be made two hours prior to post time of the first race of the races/performances that will included in contest in each round, if not a single day contest. Be aware post times, contest tracks, contest days or frequency of events and performances used could all be subject to change on a weekly basis but in any case you will be given at least 24 hour notice by E-Mail of the time and venue for the current tournament round along with the appropriate program for the correct performance.

Each contestant is required to submit their selection of one greyhound per race as their projected race winner the number of races included in the contest will be posted on BigJackPotBetting.com. For each correct selection in a contest race, a player will earn an amount equal to the $2 win payoff and the $2 place payoff for a selection that wins the race; or the $2 place payoff for a selection that finishes second; as if such player were making an actual money wager.

The maximum payoff on any single race is $24 for a win wager and $12 for a place wager. All monetary values are stated in U.S. dollars.

A Tournament race’s official order of finish and the win payoffs posted therefore by the host racetrack will determine each player’s payoffs, subject to the maximum payoff’s listed in section 2 above.

Big JackPot Betting reserves the right to change a Tournament schedule and rules without notice, or cancel a Tournament altogether due to unforeseen events.

A “leaderboard” will be maintained within the Tournament section at bigjackpotbetting.com and updated as soon as possible after a Tournament race has been declared official. The final leaderboard will become official no later than 48 hours after the last race in said Tournament has been declared official.

In the event that there is a tie between two or more players the following tie breakers will be used:
(1) First: most winners selected (without regard to payoffs).
(2) Second: most winners and second-place finishers selected (without regard to payoffs).
(3) Third: most first, second and third-place finishers selected (without regard to payoffs)
(4) Fourth: the highest win payoff for a selected greyhound (actual payoff, not capped at $24).
(5) Fifth: the highest place payoff for a selected greyhound (actual payoff, not capped at $12).

In the event there is a tie between any two or more players among the top eight finish positions (rankings) after applying tie breakers 1 through 5 players will share the money in the same way that dead heated greyhounds share purse money. Big JackPot Betting reserves the right to arrange the display final finish order on the leader board in a manner of its choosing.

5. PRIZES If there is a prize involved it will be posted on bigjackpotbetting.com. Taxes are the sole responsibility of winners as are any shipping and handling charges.

The $10,000 World Series of Greyhound Handicapping is an Invitational Event. A minimum of sixteen individual players will be invited to participate in the World Series by the contest operator BigJackPotBetting.com. In any World Series of Greyhound Racing qualifying event an invitation to the World Series will be awarded to the highest ranked player who does not already hold an invitation to the World Series event.

Last year's winner of the World Series contest is automatically awarded a seat in the upcoming year's World Series contest.

The runner up in any World Series of Greyhound raicng Qualifying Event will be entered into the consolation tournament which will usually be held in November. Any remaining seats for the World Series will be chosen from the top finishers of the consolation tournament.

Under no circumstances will any individual receive more than a single invitation to the World Series.

6. GENERAL CONDITIONS

(a) Winners will be notified by e-mail or phone within 10 days of Tournament completion. Winner needs to respond to the notification in a timely manner, if prize notification is not responded to, this may result in disqualification.

(b) WHERE PERMITTED BY LAW, WINNER AGREES TO GRANT TO BIG JACKPOT BETTING AND ITS LICENSEES, AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNS, THE RIGHT TO PRINT, PUBLISH, BROADCAST AND USE, WORLDWIDE IN ANY MEDIA NOW KNOWN OR HEREAFTER DEVELOPED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB, AT ANY TIME OR TIMES, THE WINNER'S NAME, PORTRAIT, PICTURE, VOICE, LIKENESS AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AS NEWS OR INFORMATION AND FOR ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION; AND FURTHER WITHOUT SUCH ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION, APPEAR FOR, OR PROVIDE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR USE IN, ANY PRESENTATION OR OTHER ACTIVITY WHICH MAY INCLUDE FILMING/AUDIO/VIDEO/ELECTRONIC OR OTHER RECORDINGS AND/OR INTERVIEWS, AS MAY BE DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME BY BIG JACKPOT BETTING.

(c) Failure to grant such rights may result in disqualification with an alternate winner selected. Further, by accepting a prize, each winner agrees to release and hold harmless Big JackPot Betting its licensees, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies and their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives and agents 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 any Tournament related activity, or participation in any Tournament. All Tournaments are void where prohibited.

(d) Big JackPot Betting reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Tournament; to be in violation of the Terms of Use of bigjackpotbetting.com; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

(e) Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods. In the event of a dispute as to entries submitted by multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account used to enter a Tournament at the actual time of entry will be deemed to be the participant and must comply with these rules. Authorized account subscriber is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization which is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses or the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

(f) Any attempt to deliberately damage the content or operation of a Tournament is unlawful and subject to legal action by Big JackPot Betting. Big jackPot Betting will not be responsible for any:

(1) Late, lost, garbled, misdirected, incomplete, or damaged entries;

(2) Tournament disruptions, injuries, losses or damages caused by events beyond the control of Big JackPot Betting and/or its affiliates; or

(3) Printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with a Tournament.

(g) Big JackPot Betting reserves the right to prosecute any fraudulent activities to the fullest extent of the law.

(h) It is the responsibility of the players to bring any alleged error, issue, or complaint to the attention of Big JackPot Betting within 24 hours of the end of the Tournament for which such allegation is being made by sending an e-mail to trackdatasystems@gmail.com and describing the alleged error, issue or complaint in detail.

7. LIMITATION OF LIABILTIY

(a) Big JackPot Betting is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether, without limitation, caused by bigjackpotbetting.com users, or tampering or hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Tournaments and Big JackPot Betting assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or with respect to bigjackpotbetting.com or any data contained therein or accessible therefrom.

(b) Big JackPot Betting is not responsible for injury or damage to participant’s or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in a Tournament or downloading materials from or use of bigjackpotbetting.com. If, for any reason, a Tournament is not capable of running as planned, Big JackPot Betting reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Tournament and have a winner determined based on selections received prior to any such action taken by Big JackPot Betting.

(c) IN NO EVENT WILL BIG JACKPOT BETTING, ITS LICENSEES AND/OR THEIR PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, 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 bigjackpotbetting.com OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON bigjackpotbetting.com IS 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 NONINFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

(d) IN NO EVENT WILL BIG JACKPOT BETTING, ITS LICENSEES AND/OR THEIR PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM CLAIMS AND/OR GUARANTEES MADE BY OTHER INTERNET SITES.

(e) Big JackPot Betting may post on bigjackpotbetting.com selected past performance information and/or other handicapping products relating to Tournament races, at its sole discretion. Big JackPot Betting shall not be liable for any inaccurate, incomplete, or missing information that is posted. Such information is posted only to help players make their selections. Any opinions or analysis posted by Big JackPot Betting regarding any Tournament race should not be taken as a recommendation of which greyhounds to select. Any data supplied by Big JackPot Betting in connection with a Tournament are for a player’s personal use only and shall not be distributed, reprinted, copied, or otherwise used. A player’s violation of this provision shall be grounds for immediate disqualification from all Tournaments.

8. DISPUTES

As a condition of participating in any Tournament, each player agrees that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with any Tournament, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively, before a court located in the City of Cupertino, State of California having competent jurisdiction, which court shall apply the laws of the State of California without regard for principles of conflicts of law. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will a player be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys' fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket expenses if any (i.e., costs associated with entering this Tournament, such as postage), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.