2010 Air Force Hoops Official Rules
No Purchase Necessary

About the Promotion: The Air Force Hoops Promotion is a free entertainment game offered in conjunction with the 2010 men’s college basketball championship.

The object is to pick the winning teams in each of the games played during this year´s tournament. You don´t win prizes for picking the right teams through the bracket but it does give you bragging rights for the entire Air Force.

Prizes are awarded based on random drawing of people who register to play Air Force Hoops.

The tournament is “single-elimination” which means losing teams are eliminated while winning teams advance to the next round. This competition begins with 64 teams; half are eliminated during each round. Point values for successful choices vary with the round. See “Scoring Section” for more details.

1.   Eligibility: To participate in the promotion, you must be 18 years or older at the time of entry and the holder of a U.S. Department of Defense ID card and be an otherwise eligible user of MWR programs and facilities. Employees of the Air Force Services Agency, Force Support Squadron (FSS) commanders, directors, deputies, flight chiefs, operations officers and AF Services marketing personnel or any other person involved with the management of or employment in a participating Nonappropriated Fund (NAF) food and beverage facility providing services related to this promotion and their immediate family members and persons living in the same households as such individuals, whether related or not, are not eligible to participate or win. Void where prohibited by law.

How to Enter and Deadlines: To play, pick up a game piece from a participating FSS food and beverage facility to include, clubs, snack bars, bowling centers and golf course snack bars.

To enter, register on-line using the code on the game piece (up to 10 game pieces). You may also create up to 10 tournament brackets (for entertainment purposes only). Game pieces become available February 15, 2010. You may register your on-line ID anytime; however, brackets cannot be filled in until the games are announced on March 14, 2010. You have until the published tip-off time of the first 2010 Tournament game on Thursday, March 18, 2010 to complete and/or make revisions to your Game Bracket(s). The exact deadline will be posted on the Promotion Website, www.afhoops.com when officially announced. You may enter up to 10 separate game pieces (scratch card codes), which are acquired from participating Force Support Squadron food and beverage activities including bowling centers, golf courses and club facilities.

Receipt of an entry occurs when servers record your Registration Information and/or Scratch Card Code when properly submitted from the Promotion Website. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of a person associated with a particular entry, the dispute will be resolved in favor of the individual who is best matched to the registration information, which includes name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and base assigned. All potential prize winners will be required to show proof of eligibility.

LIMIT 10 ENTREES PER PERSON. To increase your odds of winning enter up to 10 scratch card codes. You may fill out one bracket for each Scratch Card Code entry (played for entertainment purposes only).

Although subsequent attempts to enter may be received, only the first 10 Scratch Card Codes received from a particular individual will count; subsequent attempts to enter will be disqualified. The submission of a registration is solely the responsibility of the Entrant. Entries may only be made according to the method described above. Proof of sending (such as an automated computer receipt confirming delivery of email, "thanks for entering" message, or post office receipt) does not constitute proof of actual receipt by Air Force Hoops Officials of an entry for purposes of these Official Rules. Automated entries (including but not limited to entries submitted using any bot, script, macro, or promotion submission service), copies, third party entries, facsimiles and/or mechanical reproductions are not permitted and will be disqualified. Only eligible entries actually received by Promotion Entities before the end of the specified entry period will be considered for a prize in this Promotion. Unintelligible, incomplete or garbled entries will be disqualified.

To play, pick up a game piece from a participating Force Support Squadron food and beverage facility to include, clubs, snack bars, bowling centers and golf course snack bars.

2.   Conduct: By entering the Promotion, Entrants agree to comply with and be bound by these Official Rules. The Official Rules will be posted at the Promotion Website throughout the Promotion. Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in disqualification from the Promotion. Entrants further agree to comply with and be bound by the decisions of the officials, which will be final and binding in all respects. Air Force Services reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual found to be: (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the registration or entry process or the operation of the Promotion, the Basic Game, or any associate website; (b) violating the Official Rules; (c) violating the terms of service, conditions of use and/or general rules or guidelines of any AF Services property or service; or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. CAUTION: Any attempt by an entrant or any other individual to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the base game or this promotion may be a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, criminal and civil laws.

3.   Prizes: Four prizes are being awarded based on a random drawning – they include:

a. Grand Prize – $10,000

b. 2nd Prize – $5,000

c. 3rd Prize – $2,500

d. 4th Prize – $1,000

4.   Winner Notification: Odds of winning a randomly selected Prize is based on the number of eligible entries received. Prizes cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion or offer. Prizes may not be transferred or assigned except by sponsor. Only listed Prizes will be awarded, as applicable, and no substitutions, cash equivalents or redemptions will be made. Expenses not specifically stated above, together with the reporting and payment of all applicable taxes, fees, and/or surcharges, if any, arising out of, or resulting from, acceptance or use of a Prize, are the sole responsibility of the winner of that Prize. The U.S. Air Force and its Sponsor(s) expressly disclaim any responsibility or liability for injury or loss to any person or property relating to the delivery and/or subsequent use of the prizes awarded. Restrictions, conditions, and limitations apply. Promotion Entities will not replace any lost or stolen prize items.

PLEASE NOTE: INSPITE OF WHERE YOU FINISH IN THE BRACKET SELECTIONS, ALL PRIZES ARE AWARDED BY RANDOM DRAWING. BRACKET SELECTIONS ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

Winner(s) will be notified within 21 days after selection date via email, U.S. mail, telephone and/or by base officials. Each Prize winner will be required to fully complete, sign, notarize and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release ("Affidavit/Release"), together with any additional information (such as social security number or resident alien identification number), that may be required by Promotion Entities. The information provided in potential winner's Affidavit/Release must be correct and mirror the information provided in winner's Registration Information or the potential winner will be disqualified. Except where prohibited by law, a potential winner must return all such required documents within fourteen days following attempted notification or prize may be forfeited. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize or fails to return the properly completed and executed Affidavit/Release as required, or if the prize notification or prize is returned as undeliverable, prize will be forfeited and awarded to another participant. Each Winner will be issued an IRS Form 1099 which documents the value of the prize for tax purposes. Any difference between actual value of a prize and the approximated value of a prize as stated in these Official Rules will not be awarded.

5.   General Conditions: This Promotion is governed by the laws of the United States. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

By entering, participants: (a) release and hold harmless Promotion Entities, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to persons, including death, or property damage resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize, participation in this promotion, or while traveling to, preparing for or participating in any prize-related activity, and (b) grant to Promotion Entities the right to use and publish their proper name and state online and in print, or any other media, in connection with the Promotion.

Except where prohibited by law, a winner's acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for Promotion Entities to use such winner's name, address (city and state only), statements, photograph, voice and/or likeness for any advertising and promotional purposes relating to the Promotion without further notice, compensation, consideration, review or consent.

6.   Limitations of Liability: Promotion Entities assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected, or garbled entries, or for theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to, entries. Promotion Entities assume no responsibility for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Basic Game or the Promotion, by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions, data entered by contestants, or registration in the Basic Game or the Promotion. Promotion Entities assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, providers, computer equipment, software, email, players, or browsers, whether on account of technical problems, traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or on account of any combination of the foregoing, that may occur (including but not limited to any such problems which may result in the ability to access the Promotion Website or to process any transaction(s) in connection with the Promotion). Promotion Entities assume no responsibility for any injury or damage to participants or to any computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Promotion. If, for any reason, the Basic Game or the Promotion 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 Promotion Entities which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Basic Game or this Promotion, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Basic Game or this Promotion, and, in its sole discretion, to award prizes only within that portion of the entrant pool not affected by the disruption, if any. In addition, should the 2010 Tournament be postponed, shortened, interrupted, modified, or cancelled for any reason, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to award prizes at the time the 2010 Tournament is affected, or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Promotion.

7.   After notification, winner´s names will be posted on the www.afhoops.com web page.