Welcome to the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars competition. Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars is an exciting and interactive competition where your role as selector of your own group of drivers is to select a team of drivers that will score as the most Fantasy points. Compete against your family and friends for ultimate bragging rights.

This competition is based around the 2010 V8 Supercars season to be contested between March and December.

In your role as selector, you will be allocated a salary cap of $15 million ($15,000,000) to spend on drivers. You are not allowed to exceed your salary cap when selecting your group of drivers. The value of drivers will fluctuate throughout the season depending on their recent form.

How well your selected fantasy team performs depends on the real, actual performances of your selected drivers in each round. Your drivers earn fantasy points for statistics such as qualifying position, race position and how many positions they improved between qualifying and the actual race.

The aim of the competition is to score the most fantasy points over the duration of the season. Fantasy V8 supercars scores will be processed and displayed at the completion of each round. You can check in throughout the competition to trade non-performing drivers for in-form drivers and to measure how well your team is performing in your League, or overall.

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If you have any feedback or experience any problems on the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars competition, please email the Sportal Fantasy Sports Team at fantasysports@sportal.com.au

When you register for Fantasy V8 Supercars, you can elect to start a private league, join an existing private league or be entered in a public league.

If you opt to start a private league, you will be asked to enter a name for your league. On the Your League page, you will have the opportunity to enter the email addresses of friends, family and colleagues inviting them to join your league.

If you are responding to a friend's invitation and joining a private league, you should enter the league number that was supplied to you.

This season there will be a head to head competition within you league. Leagues will be made up of 15 fantasy teams. Once the competition is underway, any leagues with less than 15 teams will have other teams added.

League standings will be determined by the player with the most ?points' gained from the head to head league matches. League competition will feature a head to head fixture based competition for each league. A fantasy 'regular season' will be played between rounds 1 to 14, where each team in the league plays every other competitor once. The V8 Supercars Fantasy league ladder will consist of matches played, wins, draws, losses, for, against, point's differential, league points (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw). The league ladder will be ranked using league points, then point?s differential, then wins and then points for. If after all that, the two teams cannot be separated teams will be ranked alphabetically.

During Round 15 and Round 16, a virtual finals series will be played between teams 1 to 4. Round 15 will see teams 1v4 and 2v3 play each other. The losers will be eliminated and the winners will progress to the grand final.

The winner of the 'virtual' grand final will be the winner of the league.

The winner of the overall standings in the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars competition will be the winner of the competition.

The overall winner of the competition from Australia or New Zealand will win a prize supplied by Sportal.

Note that prizes for Sportal Fantasy Sports Competitions can only be won by current residents of Australia and New Zealand only. Residents of other countries are welcome to register and compete in Sportal Fantasy Sports Competitions, but will not be eligible to win any prizes on offer.

In order to play any of the Fantasy Sports competitions on Sportal, you will need to register as a Fantasy Sports user. Be sure to follow the links from the Registration page to read Sportal's Privacy policy. Once you have registered as a Fantasy Sports user, you will be able to enter one team in any of the fantasy sports competitions offered by Sportal.

Once you have filled out the registration form, you will be sent an activation code to the email address you specified.

You can either click on the link provided to activate your account, or return to the login page, and copy and paste the activation code from the email into the activate account field.

You may only register for Fantasy Sports once and you may only enter one team in each fantasy sports competition.

Note that prizes for the fantasy sports competitions are open to residents of Australia and New Zealand only. Residents of other countries are welcome to register and compete in fantasy sports, but will not be eligible to win any prizes on offer.

Anyone found to be registered more than once, or in control of more than one team in any one game at any stage of the Competition, will face disqualification.

Once you have registered as a Fantasy Sports user, you must register a team.

You must agree to the Terms and Conditions of the competition before proceeding.

Fantasy points are awarded to the real drivers for the real performances in the actual races of the 2010 V8 Supercars season. Fantasy Points are awarded for the following statistics;

Position	Qualifying for Race 1	One Race Round	Two Race Round	Three Race Round
1st	70	500	250	125
2nd	58	464	232	116
3rd	56	448	224	112
4th	54	432	216	108
5th	52	416	208	104
6th	50	400	200	100
7th	48	384	192	96
8th	46	368	184	92
9th	44	352	176	88
10th	42	336	168	84
11th	40	320	160	80
12th	38	304	152	76
13th	36	288	144	72
14th	34	272	136	68
15th	32	256	128	64
16th	30	240	120	60
17th	28	224	112	56
18th	26	208	104	52
19th	24	192	96	48
20th	22	176	88	44
21st	20	160	80	40
22nd	18	144	72	36
23rd	16	128	64	32
24th	14	112	56	28
25th	12	96	48	24
26th	10	80	40	20
27th	8	64	32	16
28th	6	48	24	12
29th	4	32	16	8
30th	2	16	8	4

For the start of the competition, you will be allocated an initial sum of $15 million ($15,000,000) with which to select your group of 4 V8 Supercars drivers. Each player will have a salary amount which you will need to pay for their services. You will need to select your team while keeping within the salary cap.

You must have a valid group of 4 drivers selected prior to the competition commencing. You can make an unlimited number of changes as to your team before the competition starts. Once the competition starts, any selection changes you make to your team will come from your available trades.

You can visit the ‘Standings’ page to see how your team (‘Find Me’ button) is performing against several criteria. You can see how your team is performing against all entrants in the Fantasy V8 Supercars competition based on Current Round score, Average Per Round Score and Overall.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (Fantasy V8 Supercars)

1. Information on how to enter the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition, Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition Rules and the Web Site terms and conditions form part of these General Terms and Conditions of entry into the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition (Terms and Conditions).

2. In the event of any conflict between the Website terms and conditions and these General Terms and Conditions, these General Terms and Conditions shall take precedence.

3. By entering and continuing to participate in the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition, entrants agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions and by any changes to the Terms and Conditions.

4. Please ensure you have read and understand the Terms and Conditions for the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition.

5. Entry is open to Australian and New Zealand residents only, who are currently residing in Australia or New Zealand. Competitors from other countries may enter the competition, but will be ineligible to win any prizes on offer.

6. Employees of Sportal Australia or Sportal New Zealand ('Sportal') and any agencies associated with this promotion and their immediate families are ineligible to enter.

7. Sportal takes no responsibility for lost, damaged, misdirected, late or illegible entries, incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information, or for any human error, technical malfunctions, loss, omission, deletion, defect, or any other error or malfunction.

8. Sportal reserves the right to verify the validity of any entry.

9. Sportal reserves the right to disqualify any entrant for tampering with the entry process, attempting to act in a fraudulent or otherwise dishonest manner, registering a name that is derogatory or offensive, or sending a derogatory or offensive email to competition administrators .

10. Sportal does not recommend, support or take responsibility for entrants who bet on the outcome of the Sportal Fantasy competitions.

11. All decisions of Sportal are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

12. All entries become the property of Sportal.

13. The winner will be emailed or telephoned at the email address or telephone number provided, within 7 days of the completion of the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition. This notification will include information on how a Prize may be claimed.

14. Winners should allow 28 days for delivery of the Prize, following confirmation of their delivery address when notified.

15. Sportal reserves the right to substitute any of the prizes for a similar prize of a similar value. All prizes are non transferable and not redeemable for cash.

16. If Sportal is unable to contact the winner of a Prize after a period of one month following the Competition closing date, having made reasonable efforts to do so, that winner's entry will be declared invalid and Sportal will award the prize to the runner up.

17. Sportal take no responsibility for prizes being sent to incorrect addresses or any delays in delivery of prizes.

18. The Winner agrees to be available for reasonable publicity purposes without compensation including, but not limited to, photographs and interviews. The Winner acknowledges that their personal details may be published in newspapers, magazines and on the internet.

19. Entry into the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition is consent by the entrant to receive email correspondence from Sportal in relation to the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition, Sportal promotions and other Sportal competitions.

20. Sportal reserves the right to terminate the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition at any time, and at its sole discretion, without prior notice. Sportal's Terms and Conditions in relation to disclaimer, limitation of liability and governing law shall survive termination.

21. Sportal and its associated agencies and companies shall not be liable in any way (including, without limitation, in negligence) for any loss or damage whatsoever suffered (including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss) or for any loss or damage or personal injury suffered or sustained in connection with this promotion, the prize or using any prize, except any liability that cannot be excluded by law.

22. Sportal is not liable for any tax implications that may arise as a result of winning any prize.

23. Sportal collects and holds personal information provided with each entry to be used for the purposes of the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition and in particular to notify prize winners and to verify prize winners' identities. Under the Privacy Act 1993, entrants have the right to access and correct their personal information. Further information on Sportal's privacy policy can be found by following the link at the footer of any competition page.

24. The promoter and organizer of the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition is Sportal Australia Pty Limited, 120 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia.

25. To enter the promotion entrants:

(a) must complete the Sportal Fantasy Sports registration process as detailed in the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition rules;

(b) submit entries through this Web Site (www.sportal.com.au or www.sportal.co.nz);

(c) read and accept the Terms and Conditions; and

(d) register and provide information that is accurate and complete.

26. The prize or prizes awarded will be in accordance with the Sportal Fantasy V8 Supercars Competition Rules.

During the competition, after every round, there will be trading periods where the competition will open and allow you to make driver transactions. There will be opportunities to trade injured or non-performing drivers out of your team for drivers who are currently in form.

Note that you may make multiple trades and changes at one time, but the changes are not valid until they are saved. The save button is located at the bottom of the selection screen. You must make your team changes before the corresponding round lockout commences and trading is closed. When the trade period closes, the competition will be in lockout mode until the latest round of races is completed.

You will have a maximum of 25 trades for the entire competition. For each trading period, you will be allowed a maximum of two trades.

The trading periods are as follows;

Times are listed in Melbourne local time and are subject to change.
Competition Opens - 1 February
Lockouts will occur the scheduled start time of the qualifying session which generally occurs on a Saturday.

Lockout 1 - begins - Friday 19 February - 2pm
Lockout 1 - ends - Monday 22 February
Open for Trade Period 1
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 2 - begins - Friday 26 February - 2pm
Lockout 2 - ends - Monday 29 February
Open for Trade Period 2
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 3 - begins - Friday 12 March - 2pm
Lockout 3 - ends - Monday 15 March
Open for Trade Period 3
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 4 - begins - Friday 26 March - 2pm
Lockout 4 - ends - Monday 29 March
Open for Trade Period 4
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 5 - begins - Saturday 17 April - 2pm
Lockout 5 - ends - Monday 19 April
Open for Trade Period 5
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 6 - begins - Saturday 1 May - 2pm
Lockout 6 - ends - Monday 3 May
Open for Trade Period 6
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 7 - begins - Saturday 15 May - 2pm
Lockout 7 - ends - Monday 17 May
Open for Trade Period 7
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 8 - begins - Saturday 5 June - 2pm
Lockout 8 - ends - Monday 7 June
Open for Trade Period 8
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 9 - begins - Saturday 19 June - 2pm
Lockout 9 - ends - Monday 21 June
Open for Trade Period 9
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 10 - begins - Saturday 10 July - 2pm
Lockout 10 - ends - Monday 12 July
Open for Trade Period 10
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 11 - begins - Saturday 11 September - 2pm
Lockout 11 - ends - Monday 13 September
Open for Trade Period 11
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 12 - begins - Saturday 9 October - 2pm
Lockout 12 - ends - Monday 11 October
Open for Trade Period 12
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 13 - begins - Saturday 23 October - 2pm
Lockout 13 - ends - Monday 25 October
Open for Trade Period 13
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 14 - begins - Saturday 6 November - 2pm
Lockout 14 - ends - Monday 8 November
Open for Trade Period 14
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 15 - begins - Saturday 20 November - 2pm
Lockout 15 - ends - Monday 22 November
Open for Trade Period 15
Maximum of 2 trades allowed

Lockout 16 - begins - Saturday 4 December - 2pm
Lockout 16 - ends - Monday 6 December
Competition Complete - Open for checking results and winners announced.