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Submission of predictions

• Players may submit their prediction for a Currie Cup game at any time up until the kick-off of the match. However, it is generally advised that predictions be submitted a minimum of a few hours before the listed kick-off time.
• The submission of predictions is final and predictions may not be changed after being lodged in the game database.
• The Currie Cup schedule stored in the application is that which has been officially released as the fixtures list prior to the start of the tournament.
• It is possible that the kick-off time of a game may change. Nevado Ltd will make best attempts to make sure that any changes are noted in the game database, but under no circumstances does it guarantee that the kick-off times listed are correct.
• If for any reason players are unable to submit their predictions (e.g. server malfunction, client-side malfunction, incorrectly listed kick-off time) they may submit their predictions by email instead to admin@superbru.com. These must be in a format that advises the game in question, the predicted winning team (or draw) and the predicted winning margin. The timestamp of the email will be checked to confirm the validity of the predictions (they must have been sent before kick-off of the game(s) in question). The email may not be attended to immediately but if it is valid it will be entered and scoring retrospectively adjusted.
• If a player does not make a prediction through omission on his or her own part, he or she will qualify for a Default Pick in the first ten instances of not making predictions. A Default Pick assumes the home team to win without a specification of margin, and qualifies the player only for Win Points (no Margin Points, Bonus Points or Grand Slam Points). After the player has used up his or her ten Default Picks no Default Picks will be made and no points will be scored by the player unless real predictions are made.

Scoring

• The finality of scoring is totally at the discretion of Nevado Ltd.
• Scoring may be changed at any time by Nevado Ltd without exception. Examples of where this may be necessary include the correction of an incorrect score submission and the updating of scores to reflect the input of players' predictions that were submitted by email and only loaded some time later.
• Several categories of points are on offer in the gaming model. In the regular season (i.e. round robin league stage) these include:
  
  

  Name	Value	Description	Context
  Win Point (WP)	1 pt (round robin games) 2 pts (semi-finals) 3 pts (final)	A Win Point will be awarded to every player correctly predicting the winning team of a game, regardless of predicted margin. A Win Point will also be issued if a player correctly predicts a draw.	Pool and global, all rounds, valid for Default Picks
  Margin Point (MP)	0.5 pts	A Margin Point will be awarded to every player whose margin prediction is within 5 points of the real margin, taking into account winning team. In the case of close games where the real margin is less than 5 points, players will qualify for a Margin Point if their prediction was for the incorrect team but within 5 points of the real margin. E.g. Player predicts Team A by 2 and Team B wins by 1 - player's prediction is within the 5 point range and a Margin Point is awarded. A Margin Point will not be awarded outside of this range. E.g. Player predicts Team A by 20, Team B wins by 18, no Margin Point is awarded.	Pool and global, all rounds, not valid for Default Picks
  Bonus Point (BP)	1 pt (split)	A Bonus Point is awarded to the player predicting the closest margin to the actual margin in his or her pool. The player must correctly predict the winner of the game (or draw) in order to qualify. If two or more players tie for qualification, the point is split amongst them.	Pool only, all rounds, not valid for Default Picks
  Grand Slam Point (GSP)	1 pts	A Grand Slam Point will be issued to all players correctly predicting the winning teams (or draws) for every match in a round, irrespective of predicted margin.	Pool and global, round robin rounds only, not valid for Default Picks (if one or more in applicable round)

  
  
• In the knockout stages of the season, the Win Point will increase to 2 pts (semi-finals) and 3 pts (final). No Grand Slam Points will be awarded in either the semi-finals or final round. No default picks will be available in either round.
• Players' total scores from each game (WP + MP + BP) and any Grand Slam Points are fed into the pool and global leadeboards. The pool leaderboard features only the members of the pool in question, and takes into account the Bonus Point. The global leaderboard features the entire playing community and does not take the Bonus Point into account.

Conduct

1. All players are kindly requested to adhere to the spirit of the game, which is one of lively but polite, sports-loving, intellectual debate.
2. In the BanterBoards and other public message systems on the site, no hate speech, racism, homophobia, profanity, or inciteful speech will be tolerated.
3. Any player identified as making offensive remarks in the context of (2) above will be given an official warning.
4. Any player who persists in the behaviour identified in (2) above after receiving an official warning will be banned from using the public messaging systems.
5. Bannings are totally at the discretion of the SuperBru Currie Cup administrators.
6. If you have been offended by a comment made on one of the public messaging systems, please contact us, quoting the message and the offending player.
7. You are free to make any statement you wish in the private messaging system, BruMail.
8. Any player may elect to ban any other player from sending him or her BruMail. This is totally at the discretion of the player, and he or she may unban the offending player at any further point.
9. The contents of BruMail messages will never be revealed to other players unless by choice; however the SuperBru Currie Cup adminstration team reserves the right to read them.

Pool management

1. There are two types of SuperBru Currie Cup pools: public pools, created automatically as players join up, and private pools, set up by players.
2. A private pool's captain has responsibility for that pool. He or she may control its size, decide whom to admit and whom to reject, and do anything else within the powers afforded to him or her by the site's functionality.
3. The SuperBru Currie Cup administrators may overrule any decision of a private pool captain should it see fit.
4. A player may choose to join a different pool at his or her own discretion.
5. If a player elects to join a public pool, he or she will be accepted automatically as long as the pool size is currently no greater than 18 players.
6. If a player elects to join a private pool, his or her application will be presented to the captain of that pool. The captain may decide to accept or reject the application.
7. Inter-pool movements before the kick-off of the first game suffer no penalty.
8. Inter-pool movements after kick-off of the first game will come with the penalty of losing any Bonus Points earned thus far in the tournament.
9. Towards the end of the tournament, the ability to join new pools will be shut off to prevent players hopping amongst pools to try to garner honours.

These rules may be augmented at any time by Nevado Ltd.

In the event of any dispute regarding the Rules, conduct, results and all other matters relating to the Competition, the decision of Nevado Ltd shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.