2024-25 Fantasy Harness Racing Terms and Conditions

Introduction
1. By registering and participating in the 2024-25 Fantasy Harness Racing game, participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules.
2. The game is part of an online Fantasy Sports community, where during its duration, Eligible Participants are able to create one (1) user registration, and enter one (1) team in the Game. There are no fees, charges, or purchases required to play the Game, other than relevant internet usage costs.

Term of Game
1. The Game commences at 12:01 am Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time ("AEDT") on 19 December, 2024 and closes at 11.59 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time ("AEST") on 20 July, 2025 ("Promotion Period").
2. The Game is defined as 25 rounds over 25 weeks between 28 January, 2025 and 20 July, 2025

Who is Eligible to Participate
1. Participation in the Game is open to all Australian residents. However, management and employees of Harness Racing Australia, Committee members, employees and contractors of any of its states and race clubs, contractors of HRA or a Participant * who can determine or affect the outcome of a race are ineligible to win any prizes. Management and employees of Fan Hub Media Pty Ltd and their agencies and other firms or companies associated with this Game and their immediate families are also ineligible to win any prizes on offer.

How to Participate
To participate, the individual Eligible Participants must themselves, during the Promotion Period:
• complete the online registration process for the Game, located at http://fantasyharnessracing.com;
• choose a team name and create a complete squad of 22 drivers comprising the following regions:
• 5 drivers in Queensland;
• 5 drivers in New South Wales;
• 5 drivers in Victoria; and
• 7 drivers in WASAT (2 from Western Australia, 2 from South Australia and 2 from Tasmania) and a reserve from any of WA, SA or Tasmania,
• and subject to the prescribed team salary cap for the season ("Salary Cap"), as notified on the Website ("Team");
• before the lock-out time for the upcoming Round (as notified on the Website) ("Lock Out"), submit:
• 22 active players from the Team in the following positions:
• 4 drivers in Queensland;
• 4 drivers in New South Wales;
• 4 drivers in Victoria; and
• 6 drivers in WASAT;
• a Team captain and vice-captain; and
• 4 reserve drivers from their remaining drivers in the squad who are not Active drivers;
• Agree to receiving communications from Harness Racing Australia and selected partners; and comply with the Harness Racing Australia Privacy Policy found HERE.


1. Only one Registration per Eligible Participant (and per email address supplied) will be accepted.
2. If an Eligible Participant is invited to join a league, they may enter the appropriate details to join that league during Registration.
3. An Eligible Participant may advise a person about the Game and invite them to join by sending them an email through the Website. The Eligible Participant warrants that any person they send an email to in this manner has consented to the receipt of the email.
4. An Eligible Participant may choose and edit their Active drivers from the initial 22 selected, for a Round at any time before the Lock Out time for that Round as notified on the Website.
5. After Registration, Eligible Participants may participate in all remaining Rounds which have not already been completed or Locked-Out.
6. If, after participating in a Round, an Eligible Participant does not amend their Active drivers for the upcoming Round, their Active drivers from the previous Round will be used, regardless of whether or not those drivers will be driving in the corresponding Round.
7. Eligible Participants can replace drivers in their Team via the Trade page of the Website. Entrants can make a maximum of 2 trades every Round beginning after the completion of Round 2 of the Fantasy Harness Racing season. Trades must be made prior to the commencement of the upcoming Round and will be subject to the Salary Cap. If you don’t use these Trades in a given round, you don’t get to bank them.
8. Participants will get unlimited trades prior to their first lockout regardless of what round they enter (e.g. Creating a team in Round 5)
9. Player values for the Salary Cap can be found on the Team and Trade sections of the Website.

Scoring of Points

1. Eligible Participants will score points based upon the real-life performance of their Active drivers for each Round, based on the point system set out below.
2. Points will be awarded for each performance result attributed to each Active driver during the Round as follows:

RACE RESULT	Points Awarded
FIRST	10 Points
SECOND	5 Points
THIRD	3 Points
FOURTH	2 Points
ALL OTHER FINISHING POSITIONS	1 Point

3. The Team Captain will score double points. In the event the Team Captain does not score a point in that particular round and therefore scores 0 points, the Vice-captain will score double points.
4. The reserve drivers will not score points unless they replace an Active driver. In order to be replaced, an active driver must have scored zero points for that particular round. If necessary, a reserve driver will be added to the Active drivers in the same region as the Active driver who is being replaced.
5. Entrants will only receive the points accumulated by drivers whilst they are in the Entrant's team.
6. In the event of a race meeting being abandoned due to an unavoidable occurrence – eg. Bad weather – no points will be awarded for that particular race meeting.
7. In the case of a race meeting cancellation or postponed there will be no points awarded to drivers if the event is to take place later in the season.
8. Eligible Participants will be ranked on the Website by their score for the previous Round ("Round Ranking"), and their overall score for the Game to date ("Overall Ranking"), where in each case the highest score is the highest rank.
9. The scoreboard will be updated following the completion of each Round, and Eligible Participants will be sent their score for each Round via email.
10. In the event of a tie between two (2) or more Eligible Participants for a position on the scoreboard after any Round (for a Round Ranking or an Overall Ranking) the Eligible Participant, from the tied Eligible Participants, who registered to participate in the Game on the Website first in time, as determined by the Promoter, will be ranked higher.

General

1. The Promoter is Harness Racing Australia ABN 19 877 460 923 of L1, 400 Epsom Road, Flemington, VIC, 3031.
2. By participating in the Game, Eligible Participants agree to being contacted (including via email) by the Promoter and/or Genius Sports Pty Ltd from time to time in conjunction with the Game. Eligible Participants also agree to information about them and their participation in the Game being displayed on the Website, and to their participation being tracked via the use of cookies.
3. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any Registrations not received for any reason during the Promotion Period. Registrations will be deemed to be accepted at the time of receipt and not at the time of transmission. No responsibility will be taken for lost, late or misdirected Registrations. The Promoter is not responsible for technical difficulties with the online Registration process and does not warrant that the online Registration will be available at all times.
4. If for any reason this Game is not capable of running as planned, including due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the Promoter, which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this promotion, the Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion to take any action that may be available, subject to compliance with any laws.
5. Any participant who, in the opinion of the Promoter, tampers or interferes with the entry mechanism in any way, or who does not properly comply with the entry process (including submitting incomplete Registrations), will be ineligible to participate.
6. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify participants in the event of non-compliance with these Rules.
7. In the event there is a dispute concerning the conduct of the Game, the decision of the Promoter is final and binding on each person who participates and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. To the extent permitted by law, the Promoter shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever (including but not limited to direct or consequential loss) or personal injury suffered or sustained in connection with this Game.
9. Information about Eligible Participants is used by the Promoter and Harness Racing Australia to assess and process registrations for the Game. If a person wishing to participate in the Game does not provide the required information (see clause 4 above), the Promoter cannot process the registration and the person will not be entered into the Game. All registrations and information contained in them become the property of the Promoter and will be entered into a database. Information emanating from the Eligible Participant's participation in the Game is used by the Promoter and its agencies associated with it for the determination of the scoreboard. Eligible Participants consent to the publishing of their personal information and score on the Website by the Promoter. The Promoter will not be held responsible for, and expressly excludes, any loss of reputation, status or otherwise in connection with an Eligible Participant's score.
10. By participating in the Game, the Eligible Participant (and their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age) understands and agrees that the Promoter may use and disclose the information provided by the participant to the Promoter, and to the Promoter by Genius Sports Pty Ltd, on the terms and for the purposes (including marketing) set out in the Promoter's Privacy Statement available at HERE, as if they were a customer of the Promoter. The Eligible Participant (and their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age) agrees that the Promoter can continue to contact them even after this Promotion ends. If the participant would like to access or correct the personal information that the Promoter holds about the participant, or if the participant does not wish the information to be disclosed, the participant should advise the Promoter by contacting them via this link http://legacy.harness.org.au/contact-us.cfm
11. By participating in the Game, the Eligible Participant (and their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age) agrees and acknowledges that:
• they may be contacted by the Promoter to provide comments about the Game and the Promoter (or an agent of the Promoter) may take photos of them;
• the Promoter may use such comments or photos (the "Materials") for the Promoter's future promotional and marketing purposes without further reference or compensation to them;
• the Promoter may duplicate, alter, adapt and utilise the Materials as the Promoter wishes at any time, anywhere, and by any means. The Promoter may license, authorise or otherwise transfer the rights in the Materials to others to do the same;
• they acknowledges that the Promoter retains all right, title and interest, including copyright, in the Materials and, by participating in the Game, they assign to the Promoter on creation of the Materials all right, title and interest which might, but for these terms and conditions, vest in them;
• they unconditionally and irrevocably consents to any act or omission that would otherwise infringe any of their moral rights in the Materials (as defined in Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)) and present and future rights of a similar nature conferred by statute anywhere in the world whether occurring before or after this consent is given ("Moral Rights");
• they waive all Moral Rights in the Materials that arise outside Australia; and
• they agree not to institute, maintain or support any claim or proceeding for infringement of their Moral Rights in the Materials.
12. Apple is not a sponsor and is in no way involved in this promotion.

If any participant attempts to deliberately damage the website or the information on the website, or to otherwise undermine the legitimate operation of the game, the promoter reserves the right to take legal action permitted by law.