OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

PIGSKIN PICKS 2008-2009 SEASON

Description of Contest

A. Throughout the 2008 National Football League® Season, The Rob, Arnie and Dawn show will announce and post predictions of each winning team for each week’s games. Show members Rob Williams, Arnie States, Dawn Rossi, Producer Cristi, Producer Brandon and contributor Steve Mickelson of the Grand Sierra resort Casino Sports Book will all individually predict each game on each week’s schedule. Each show member will have a member of the listening audience assigned to him or her for the entire season. At the end of the regular season (or ensuing tie breaking games described below), whichever show member has correctly predicted the greatest number of games, that show member will be declared the winner of the Pig skin picks season and that show member’s assigned listener will win the grand prize of one (1) Lasik surgery, with pre and post operative consultation, from the Griffin and Reed Eye Care Center, Fulton Avenue, Sacramento, California. If the winning listener is deemed to not be eligible for lasik surgery, Griffin & Reed, at their sole discretion, will offer the listener the opportunity to transfer the surgery to a party of the listener’s choice or cash it out for a one-time $1500 payment.

B. How to Enter and play:   Beginning on Monday, August 18 at 5:00 a.m. through Thursday, August 21st at 9:59am., Rob, Arnie and Dawn (RAD) will invite listeners to send in their contact information (Name, Address, Phone, Email) by email to win@robarnieanddawn.com. Each household and/or email address may only submit one entry. Any duplicate entries will be destroyed and not eligible for the drawing.

On Thursday morning, August 21st at 10am, RAD will choose (off the air), one by one, at random, six (6) emails representing the 6 primary listeners who will then be offered the chance to choose the RAD show member they wish to be paired with. Chosen listeners will be contacted in the order their email is pulled out and allowed to choose from the remaining show members whom they wish to be paired with. For example, the first email chosen will choose from all six show members. Once a show member has been chosen by a listener, that show member is no longer available as a playing partner.

E-mails chosen on Thursday august 21st  at 10am will have 24 hours to make contact with RAD producers before being deemed “unreachable” at which time they will forfeit their eligibility and alternate listeners will be chosen to replace them. Alternate listeners will be assigned drafting positions lower than all originally chosen emails, pending confirmation of their eligibility.

At no time does being paired with a show member grant the listener any input, on-air time or claim to which team each show member picks weekly.

Beginning Thursday morning, September 4th, and continuing weekly through the end of the NFL® season, each show member shall post, online at www.robarnieanddawn.com their choices for each victorious team participating in that week’s games. Once picks are posted, they will be deemed final and unchangeable each week.

Any games ending in ties are thrown out of the Pig Skin picking scoring. Any games cancelled and not made up at a later time are also thrown out.

      If at any time during the season a show member is incapacitated or in any way becomes
Incapable of making football picks (or is no longer a member in good standing of the show)
Williams Broadcasting, at its sole discretion, will appoint a stand in proxy show member
To assume all picking duties of the former (or incapacitated) show member.

       If, after the full 17 week regular season, two or more show members are tied in number of Wins, picking will continue during the playoffs, weekly, amongst all show members, until a Winner emerges by one full victory. In the event that, prior to the final “big game,” of the 2008-2009 season, scheduled to be played on February 1st , one or more show members are Still tied, all remaining members will choose not just the winner of that week’s game, but Also a total amount of points scored by both teams and, as a secondary tie-breaker, a total Amount of  offensive yards gained by both teams combined. Winners will be chosen by Mathematical closeness.

C.   General Rules

Decisions.  By participating in this contest, participants agree to be bound by the decisions of show personnel, who shall interpret these rules and resolve any disputes, conflicting claims or ambiguities concerning the rules of the contest and their decisions shall be final.  Show reserves the right to terminate this contest, modify contest rules, or make such other decisions regarding the contest as the show deems appropriate.  All decisions will be made by Williams Broadcasting and are final.  Williams may waive any of these rules in its sole discretion.  Material changes to the contest rules will be broadcast on-air, when practical.

Eligibility and Limitations.  Participants and winner(s) must be residents of California or Nevada (as limited in the following sentence) and at least 18 years old.   

Release.  By participating in the Contest, each participant and winner waives any and all claims of liability against the Company, its parents, affiliates, its employees and agents, the Contest’s sponsors and their respective employees and agents, for any personal injury or loss which may occur from the conduct of, or participation in, the Contest, or from the use of any prize.  In order to receive a prize, participants must sign an official waiver form provided by the Station.  Failure or refusal to sign the waiver form will result in all prizes being forfeited.  Winners of ALL contests must sign a release form acknowledging that they have 1) read and understand the contest rules, 2) that they are eligible under the contest rules to receive the prize, and 3) they understand and agree that Williams Broadcasting and its sponsors of contests (Griffin & Reed Eye Care), shall have the right to publicize and/or broadcast their name, character-likeness, voice and the fact that they have won a prize, and all matters thereof, without further compensation.  Refusal by any participant to sign a release shall result in the participant being disqualified from the contest.  

1. No purchase is necessary to enter or win.  Prizes are non-transferable, except as allowed by primary sponsor, Griffin & Reed Eye Acre, at its sole discretion.

2. Winner will be responsible for all taxes, including United States Income Taxes, that are associated with acceptance of any cash prize and Griffin & Reed will issue the winner an IRS Form 1099 for reporting the value of prize(s) as income on tax returns.

3. Winners will be required to furnish their Social Security number for tax reporting purposes.  Failure to provide a valid Social Security Number can be grounds for disqualification and forfeiture of the prize. 

4. RAD reserves the right to disqualify any contestant if 1) the contest rules are not followed, 2) a contestant is found to not be eligible under the general or specific contest rules, 3) or the contestant has engaged in fraudulent behavior as determined by RAD.  A contestant can be disqualified at a later date than winning the prize if any rule has been violated and 1) is not discovered until a later date or 2) time is needed to investigate whether winner meets all rules and conditions or contest rules.

5. Contest void where prohibited.  If contest is found to violate State, County, or Federal Law, or any rule of the Federal Communications Commission, the contest shall be declared invalid and shall end at the moment of discovery.  Williams Broadcasting  is not responsible for any monetary or other compensation to any party involved in or any contestant of any contest that is declared invalid by violation of any law of federal rule. 

6. RAD and Williams Broadcasting are not responsible for lost, misdirected, or incomplete entries nor for electronic transmission, technical, computer, or network errors of any sort or combination thereof nor for delays, omissions, oversights or failure of the phone company including, but not limited to, any other local telephone service provider, any cellular phone company or RAD’s internal phone system or ISP to deliver the entry to RAD.  This includes, but is not limited to, email failure or any other possible technical malfunctions not listed.  All entries become property of Williams Broadcasting and will not be acknowledged or returned.   

A copy of these rules can be (1) found online at www.robarnieanddawn.com