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Official Rules
Tournament Rules Framework · Last updated: November 6, 2026
This document is a draft pending legal review and will be finalized before launch.
This framework explains, in plain language, how tournaments in Prize Showdown work and the rules every tournament follows. It is not the complete rules of any single tournament: each tournament room and each tournament period has its own full Official Rules, shown in the App near that room’s buy-in button, listing the exact prize, its value, the period dates, and any details specific to that promotion. The Official Rules govern. If this framework and a promotion’s Official Rules ever differ, the Official Rules control.
The sponsor and administrator of all tournaments is Rageful Yeti Productions (Brad Peterson, sole proprietor) (“Sponsor”). Where a prize is donated, these rules and the promotion’s Official Rules will say so (“Prize provided by ___”), but the Sponsor remains responsible for running the promotion and awarding the prize as advertised.
1. No purchase necessary
1.1. No purchase is necessary to enter or win, and no purchase will improve anyone’s chances. Prize Showdown contains no in-app purchases at all — there is nothing to buy in the game — so this is structural, not a slogan.
1.2. Tournament entry is earned only through free play, as described in Section 3. A purchase is not possible, and effort beyond ordinary free gameplay is never required: the free daily reward schedule in Section 3 provides Tournament Tickets with no gameplay at all.
2. Who can enter (eligibility)
To play in a tournament game, earn Prize Entries, or win a prize, you must be:
- 18 years of age or older;
- a resident of the United States;
- playing on a linked (non-guest) account in good standing; and
- otherwise eligible under the promotion’s Official Rules.
Players aged 13–17 cannot enter tournaments: Tournament Tickets never accrue on an under-18 account and tournament rooms are locked for those accounts. Entries earned by an ineligible player are void, and prizes will not be awarded on void entries — including where ineligibility is discovered after a drawing, for example where a false date of birth was given. Void where prohibited.
3. How entry works — free, earned, never sold
3.1. Tournament Tickets. Tournament games are bought into with an in-game item called Tournament Tickets. Tournament Tickets are earned only in these ways, at fixed, published rates that are the same for every player:
- +1 Tournament Ticket for every standard game finished, win or lose; and
- the published daily reward schedule (a 7-day cycle; ticket days currently pay 1 ticket on Day 3, 2 tickets on Day 6, and 3 tickets on Day 7 — claiming is free, and no gameplay is required to claim).
3.2. Tournament Tickets are never sold, never bundled with anything, are never awarded in amounts decided by chance, and never vary with how well a game was played. They are universal — the same ticket works in every room.
3.3. Buy-in. One tournament game costs 3 Tournament Tickets, spent at buy-in. Buy-ins are uncapped: within a period you may play as many games as your tickets allow. Leaving a tournament game early forfeits the game; the buy-in is not refunded and nothing is recorded for that game.
4. Rooms, periods, and standings
4.1. Tournaments run in tournament rooms. Rooms have no fixed theme — each room is identified by the prize it offers that period, and prizes vary from room to room and period to period. Each room runs a period of 4 weeks (28 days). Rooms are staggered roughly a week apart, so rooms open and settle at different times. A room runs only when its prize is in hand; a period whose prize is not in hand does not start. The App shows each room as LIVE (with an “Ends in” countdown) or NOT STARTED (with a “Starts in” countdown).
4.2. Standings are kept per room, per period: your standing is the cumulative total of your best 10 games in that room that period. Final standing ties are broken by best single game; if still tied, the rank is shared and any coin finish bonus is split.
4.3. At period end, standings pay Blitz Coin finish bonuses: 1st 500, 2nd 300, 3rd 150, and 50 for a top-10 finish (a tie at 10th place counts as a top-10 finish). Blitz Coins are an in-game item with no cash value.
5. Prize Entries and the drawing
5.1. Every tournament game awards Prize Entries into that room’s period-end drawing, based on your placement in that game:
- 1st place: 5 entries
- 2nd place: 3 entries
- 3rd place: 2 entries
- 4th–10th place: 1 entry
5.2. Ties share placement. Tied players each receive the full entries of the tied rank. Ties at the 10th-place line make the cut: if your score ties the 10th-place score, you receive the entry as if inside the line (the paid field can therefore occasionally exceed 10).
5.3. Prize Entries exist only inside the drawing. They cannot be spent, transferred, or carried over, and they expire when the period ends.
5.4. The drawing. When a period ends, that room’s prize winner is drawn at random from the period’s Prize Entry pool, weighted by entries: each entry is one chance. Entries are chances, not guarantees — having the most entries does not guarantee a win, and a single entry can win.
5.5. Prize Entries are earned only through play. They are never sold, never given for watching an advertisement, never awarded for referrals, and never tied to any purchase (there is nothing to purchase).
6. Prizes
6.1. Prizes are real-world products or gift cards (for example, electronics, beauty products, outdoor gear, or a prepaid gift card). Prizes vary from room to room and period to period. There are no cash prizes. Prizes are generally donated by sponsors in exchange for advertising exposure in the tournament lobby; a self-funded prize is labeled as such in the Official Rules.
6.2. The total value of the prizes in any single promotion (one room, one period) is kept under $5,000 fair market value, including where a prize is donated — donated prizes count at full retail value.
6.3. The exact prize, its approximate retail value (ARV), and any sponsor credit for a specific period are stated in that promotion’s Official Rules. We never advertise a prize we do not have in hand before the period starts.
6.4. Prizes are awarded as described and cannot be exchanged for cash or substituted, except that the Sponsor may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the stated prize becomes unavailable.
7. Winner notification, verification, and claim
7.1. The drawn winner is notified in the App (and by email, if the winner provided one in Settings). The winner has 30 days from notification to complete the claim, with reminder notices during the window. A winner who does not complete the claim in time forfeits the prize, and an alternate winner is drawn from the remaining eligible entries.
7.2. Verification. Before a prize ships, the winner must verify eligibility: a real person, 18 or older, a US resident, holding the linked account that earned the winning entry. Claiming requires providing a real name and a shipping address.
7.3. One prize per person per cycle. Regardless of entries, accounts, or games played, one person may receive at most one room prize per tournament cycle, across ALL rooms combined. If a person is drawn in more than one room in the same cycle, they receive the first prize drawn and an alternate winner is drawn for each additional room.
7.4. Taxes are the winner’s responsibility. Prizes are income to the winner. For a prize (or a winner’s prize total) with fair market value of $600 or more, the Sponsor must collect a completed Form W-9 before shipping and will issue Form 1099-MISC to the winner as the law requires. No prize ships before required tax paperwork is complete.
7.5. Allow reasonable time for delivery after a completed claim, as stated in the Official Rules.
7.6. Publicity. By claiming a prize, the winner agrees — where the law permits — to be listed on the in-App Winners page: their in-game username, equipped avatar, state, the room and period, the prize and its value, and the size of the drawing (total entries) they won from. Real names are never published in the App.
7.7. Winner photos (optional). During the claim, the winner is asked to sign a separate photo/publicity release covering photos they choose to submit. After delivery, the winner may submit a photo with their prize; submitting is always optional, and a prize is never withheld, delayed, or reduced because a winner declines. A winner whose submitted photo is featured (Winners page, social channels, store listing, or advertising) receives a one-time bonus of 500 Blitz Coins, published here in advance and the same for every winner. Photo bonuses are Blitz Coins only — never prize entries. Every photo is reviewed before use: the release must be on file, the prize must be the actual awarded prize, no minors may appear, and no private information (addresses, plates, documents) may be visible. The Sponsor may crop or lightly edit a featured photo without changing its meaning.
8. Fair play
8.1. Entries or standings obtained by cheating, bots or automation, multiple accounts used to exceed the published earning rates, collusion, a false date of birth, or any tampering with the game, the economy, or the drawing are void, and the accounts involved may be disqualified or terminated under the Terms of Service.
8.2. The Sponsor’s records of scores, placements, entries, and drawings are the official records. Decisions of the Sponsor about eligibility, entries, and winners, made in good faith on those records, are final.
8.3. If a technical failure disrupts a tournament game or a drawing, the remedy stated in the promotion’s Official Rules applies (which may include re-drawing from the recorded entry pool). The Sponsor is not responsible for lost entries caused by tampering by any player.
9. General
9.1. Tournaments are void where prohibited and are intended for US residents only.
9.2. Sponsors who donate prizes or advertise in tournament lobbies are not the administrators of the promotion and are not responsible for its rules, drawings, or fulfillment, except as the Official Rules state.
9.3. By entering, players agree to this framework, the promotion’s Official Rules, and the Terms of Service.
10. Random giveaways
10.1. Alongside tournaments, the Sponsor runs recurring random giveaways: small drawings held every two weeks (14-day windows — two giveaways per tournament period). They are a separate promotion type from tournaments — no gameplay, standings, or Tournament Tickets are involved.
10.2. Entry is automatic on login. A player is entered in a giveaway window by logging in with a linked account at least once while the window is open. Each eligible person receives exactly one entry per window. Entries are never weighted by games played, scores, time in the App, or anything else.
10.3. Only 18+ linked accounts are entered. Guest accounts are not entered until linked; under-18 accounts are never entered. One account per person; duplicate accounts void entries.
10.4. Giveaway prizes are small physical items or gift cards of modest value, always far under the Section 6.2 promotion cap, and in hand before the window opens. The prize and its approximate value are stated in the in-App giveaway announcement for that window.
10.5. After the window closes, one winner is drawn at random from the window’s entrants. The winner is notified in the App and claims by confirming a shipping address (or an email address, for a gift card) within the claim window in Section 7.1. An unclaimed prize is forfeited; the Sponsor may draw an alternate winner. No tax forms are required at these values, but the claim and address confirmation still apply.
10.6. A giveaway win does not affect tournament eligibility, entries, or standings, and a tournament win does not affect giveaway eligibility. The one-prize-per-cycle limit (Section 7.3) applies to tournament room prizes; giveaways stand on their own.
10.7. Giveaway winners are published on the Winners page alongside tournament winners, labeled as giveaway wins.
11. Contact and winners list
Sponsor: Rageful Yeti Productions (Brad Peterson, sole proprietor)
Email: bradisaraddad77@gmail.com
Completed drawings are published on the in-App Winners page (see Section 7.6). A winners list for a completed period (winner’s first name, last initial, state, and prize) may also be requested by email after the period settles, as stated in the Official Rules.
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