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Booth Call — Official Rules

Rules version: games-booth-call-2027.v1-2026-07-16

Booth Call — Contest Official Rules — effective July 16, 2026

Sponsor: Cody Blaze Enterprises LLC d/b/a MockSlate. MockSlate is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with the National Football League, any NFL team, or any player. All league and team names are used for descriptive reference only.

Eligibility: Open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and D.C. who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Employees, officers, and directors of Sponsor, and their immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling) and household members, are not eligible. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.

Entry Period: Entries open in early January 2027 at the final-standings flip and must be saved and locked by the officially announced 2027 schedule-release time ("Entry Deadline"). Sponsor's server clock is the official timekeeper.

Judging and Tiebreakers: Entries scored per the published Scoring Rubric (below). In the event of a tie: the tiebreakers published in the Complete Rules below apply; if still tied, the earliest-submitted entry wins. Sponsor's scoring decisions are final and binding. The Scoring Rubric and Tiebreakers are frozen at the Entry Deadline and will not be changed thereafter.

General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Contest if fraud, technical failure, or any other factor beyond Sponsor's reasonable control impairs the integrity of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor may disqualify any entrant it believes has tampered with entry, scoring, or the Service.

Privacy: Information submitted is handled per the MockSlate Privacy Policy at mockslate.com/privacy.

Disputes and Governing Law: All disputes are governed by these Rules and the MockSlate Terms of Service (including the arbitration and class-waiver provisions), and by the laws of the State of Florida without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Entry

  • Pro-only game — leaderboard glory, no prize. Anyone can read this page, the lists, and the crew tracker; playing requires MockSlate Pro. There is no cash award of any kind.
  • Entrants must be 18 or older with a MockSlate account. One entry per person.
  • Entries open early January 2027, at final standings — the moment the final standings confirm all 272 matchups — and lock at the officially announced schedule-release time. Change either list freely until then; after the lock your calls ride the season.

How to play

  • From the 272 known matchups, pick 18 games for Fox's #1 crew and 18 games for CBS's #1 crew — the games you predict each network’s top broadcast crew will call during the regular season. Crew identities are per-season configuration; the game is about the games, not the names.
  • The no-overlap rule: the two lists must not share a game — a game airs on one network, and knowing the carriage split is the skill. The two crew lists must not overlap — a game airs on one network. Any game appearing on both lists is voided from both.

Scoring & grading

  • +1 for each pick that crew actually calls during the regular season. Maximum 36.
  • Graded week by week as real crew assignments are announced (they firm up shortly before each week). Flexing needs no special handling — you’re graded against the game the crew actually called, wherever it ended up. Assignments are announced weekly and tracked by outlets like 506sports; results here are entered from those announcements.
  • The season leaderboard finalizes after Week 18.
  • Tiebreak: Ties break by total correct calls through the first 9 weeks (rewarding early-season precision), then by the earlier entry. Computed from the graded weeks — nothing is entered at pick time.

Strategy note

Fox traditionally carries NFC road teams and CBS the AFC — but cross-flex moves games between networks, doubleheader weeks change which crew travels, and the A-booth chases the marquee. The “CBS or FOX” explainer is this game’s strategy guide.

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