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Over the Slate — Official Rules

Rules version: games-over-the-slate-2026.v1-2026-07-16

Over the Slate — 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 are open now and must be saved and locked before the first Week 1 kickoff of the 2026 season ("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 and watch both boards; entering requires MockSlate Pro. There is no cash award of any kind — which is exactly why a Pro-gated game carries none.
  • Entrants must be 18 or older with a MockSlate account. One entry per person.
  • Entries open with the released 2026 schedule and lock at the 2026 Week 1 kickoff (the entry page counts down to the real kickoff time). Edit or withdraw freely until then; after the lock your slate rides all season.

How to play

  • Pick 10 games — any weeks — you predict will finish among the season’s highest-scoring by Game Score, and rank them 1–10 in the order you think they’ll finish.
  • The season’s Highest-Scoring Games board — the live top 25 by Game Score — is the answer key. It updates weekly as games complete, filling through Week 1, full and churning from Week 2 on.

Scoring

  • +1 for each of your 10 picks that finishes anywhere in the season’s top 25 by Game Score.
  • +3 bonus for each pick that finishes in the actual top 10.
  • +2 bonus for each pick placed at its exact rank within the top 10 (you ranked it 3rd, it finished 3rd).
  • Max score = 60. Weekly standings are provisional — the board churns all season; scoring is final after Week 18.
  • Game Score = combined final points + (combined net yards ÷ 25) + 5 per combined defensive/return TD + 10 if the game goes to overtime. Big totals and wild games score big.

Tiebreak & edge cases

  • Tiebreak: at entry time you predict the Game Score of the season’s #1 game. Tied point totals rank by whoever’s prediction lands closest; still tied, the earlier-submitted entry ranks ahead.
  • A postponed-then-cancelled game simply never posts a Game Score — a pick on it can’t land on the board. (Rare; the risk is part of the call, matching the suite’s postponement stance.)

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MockSlate is an independent fan tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, FIFA, or any team or national federation. Team names are used for identification purposes only.