C.H.A.D. Introduction and Rules

$50 to enter, 100% of entry fees will go into prize pool.

Games are picked straight up, no spreads, ties are losses.

Pool starts with this week's preseason games (8/8-8/11). For the four preseason weeks, picks will be due prior to kickoff of the first game of the week. During the regular season, the deadline will be noon eastern on Sunday.

You are allowed one strike in the preseason, but first loss in the regular season and you're out. So, basically you just need to survive the preseason at 3-1 (or better), and then its a "normal" survivor pool. If you start out 3-0 in the preseason, no need to make a fourth pick and burn a team, you'll just automatically advance to the regular season (Note: This only applies to going 3-0, and not getting to the final preseason week with zero strikes in another fashion).

Each team can only be taken once, no exceptions.

RE-BUYS: One entry per person, but re-buys are allowed up until the start of the regular season. The cost of a re-buy will depend on how many weeks are left in preseason, how many entries are left, how many strikes those entries have, and the total prize pool. Entrants will be able to go from two to zero strikes, two strikes to one, or one strike to zero. Re-buy entries will still not be able to use the teams used on the entry which was already eliminated. You can re-buy as many times as you want (while still never having more than one live entry at a time) until the regular season begins.

LATE BUY-INS: Initial registration for C.H.A.D. is open until noon on the first Sunday of the regular season. However, the entry fee will increase each week, and there will be an additional 10% premium for late buy-ins; the cost to register for C.H.A.D. will be calculated each week at fair value of a zero-strike entry plus 10%. Additionally, for each week that's already passed prior to registration, that entry will be randomly assigned a team which they won't be able to pick at any point throughout the contest.

Pool is winner-take-all.

TIEBREAKERS: The first tiebreaker will be which week (not date) you initially registered for C.H.A.D. The second tiebreaker will be which week (not date) that particular entry began its journey through C.H.A.D. The third tiebreaker will be how many strikes you had in preseason (including strikes you may have bought back). The fourth tiebreaker will be the point differential of your entry's picks throughout the contest.

Please contact cvillehatersanddegens AT gmail DOT com (include your Twitter handle in the email) for details on payment and such. That is also the email everybody will use to submit their picks each week.

PICK SUBMISSION: You can send up to two pick submission emails this week, with the second one always overriding the first. This way, you can submit a "backup" pick earlier in the week, in case you forget or whatever. Any pick after the second email will be ignored, and likely mocked.

When submitting picks, please include either "pick" or "picks" in the subject of your email, so it will be filtered correctly and not seen by anybody else until after the deadline. Submit your selection without "pick" or "picks" in the subject at your own risk.

If you fail to submit a pick by the deadline during preseason, you'll be assigned a default pick (the default pick for the first week is Denver). The second time you fail to submit a pick, you'll just be given a loss. If you miss the deadline during the regular season, you're eliminated from the contest.

POOL ADMIN FEES: There are no fees because I'm not a fucking asshole. I will also not be soliciting/expecting/accepting tips, because, well, same deal. Actually there was already a $5 tip, which goes straight into the pot. However, a TBD amount of money will come out of the winner's cut to pay for bumper stickers and a huge fucking check which will be given to the winner at the post-C.H.A.D. dinner/reception/ceremony/bar crawl (all details TBD due to it being a thing I just made up).