Official Rules

Apple is not a sponsor

Apple is not a sponsor of, and is not involved in any way with, any competition, contest or sweepstake run through Bad Blokes Club. Apple does not organise, run, judge, endorse or administer any competition, and takes no responsibility for any entry, result, prize or dispute arising from one. Any question or complaint about a competition should be directed to its organiser, or to us at the address at the foot of this page — never to Apple.

Who runs each competition

Every competition is created, organised and run by the Bad Blokes Club member who set it up — the commissioner. That member is the sponsor and organiser of their own competition: they choose who is invited, set the scoring and any entry fee or prize, enter results where results are entered by hand, and decide any dispute.

Bad Blokes Club supplies the software, the sports data and the scoring. We do not run competitions, do not select or judge winners beyond applying the commissioner’s published settings, and are not a party to any arrangement between members about money.

Eligibility

You must be 18 or over and hold a Bad Blokes Club account. Competitions are private and invite-only: you can only enter one if its commissioner gives you an invite link or code. There is no public entry, no open draw, and no way to enter a competition you have not been invited to.

Entry is void where prohibited or restricted by the law that applies to you. It is your responsibility, and the commissioner’s, to make sure a competition is lawful where you both are. Commissioners must not run a competition that breaches local gambling or trade-promotion law.

No purchase through Apple

No purchase is necessary to enter any competition, and no entry, prize or advantage can be bought through the App Store or from Apple. Bad Blokes Club sells nothing in the app: there are no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no paid tiers. Where a competition has an entry fee, that fee is arranged privately between members and never passes through Apple.

How to enter

Open the invite link or enter the invite code, then confirm your entry. Some competitions also ask you to name your entry. Once you have entered, make your selections before the lock time shown on the competition’s screen. Selections can be changed freely until they lock; after they lock they are final and cannot be edited.

Lock times are published in the app and derive from the scheduled start of the relevant sporting event. If you miss a lock, the competition may make a random selection on your behalf, or score you as having made none, depending on the commissioner’s settings.

How winners are determined

Competitions come in several formats, and more may be added over time. Whatever the format, the same principles apply.

Each competition is scored automatically from the settings its commissioner published, using results from public sports data feeds or, where no feed covers an event, results the commissioner enters by hand. Those settings — what earns points or advances an entry, what ends the competition, and how any prize is split — are shown to entrants in the competition’s own screens before selections lock. Read them there: they are the specific terms of the competition you are entering, and these rules govern all of them.

The winner is whichever entry finishes first under those published settings when the competition ends. Where entries finish level, the competition’s published tiebreak decides between them; if they are still level, they share the place and split its share of any prize equally.

Settings should not be changed once selections have locked. If a result is wrong or disputed, the commissioner may correct it and scores are recalculated from the corrected result.

Entry fees and prizes

Entry fees and prizes are optional and set entirely by the commissioner. Where they exist, they are settled privately between members outside the app — cash, bank transfer, however that group already settles up. Bad Blokes Club never holds, collects, transfers or takes a cut of any money, and does not process payments of any kind. The app records only who the commissioner has marked as having paid, as a convenience for the group.

Because we hold no money, we cannot pay, recover or refund a prize or an entry fee, and we cannot compel any member to do so. A commissioner who advertises a prize is responsible for awarding it. Prizes have no cash value from us, are not transferable through the app, and are not provided, guaranteed or insured by Bad Blokes Club or by Apple.

Fair play

Selections stay hidden from other entrants until they are locked, so nobody can see what a rival has chosen and then change their own. Do not share another entrant’s selections before they lock, do not enter a competition twice under two accounts unless the commissioner has explicitly allowed more than one entry, and do not use another person’s account. A commissioner may void an entry that breaks these rules, and we may suspend an account that does so repeatedly.

Changes and cancellation

A commissioner may cancel a competition, and should tell entrants why and settle any entry fees already collected. Where a change to a competition’s settings after locking is unavoidable, entrants are scored on the settings published when they made their selections. We may update these rules — the date at the top of this page shows when they last changed, and the current version always governs.

Disputes

Raise a dispute with your competition’s commissioner first; their decision on their own competition is final. If something is wrong with the app itself — a scoring bug, a bad result from a data feed — contact us and we will look into it.

Contact

Bad Blokes Club — badblokesclub@gmail.com

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