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Is it against Riot Games Worlds Pick&#39;em contest rules to collaborate with others in predicting the result?
<p>The contest in question is the League of Legends Worlds <a href="https://pickem.lolesports.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pick'ems</a>. Entrants are to rank teams in order of winning probability for both virtual and physical prizes.</p>
<p>As there are a limited number of permutations of team rankings, a strategy I thought of was to gather many valid entrants and systematically choose each permutation so that one person is guaranteed to win the prize.</p>
<p>However, I am unsure if this voids my entry. The closest clause in the <a href="https://pickem.lolesports.com/#contest-rules" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Contest rules</a> that disqualifies such strategies is:</p>
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<p>Any use of robotic, repetitive, automatic, programmed or similar methods will void all Entries by that Entrant.</p>
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<p>However, without any background in law I am unsure if that clause or any other clause applies to my situation.</p>
<p>Will using such strategies void my entry?</p>

<p>That's probably not a violation of that rule...but that's not your biggest problem.</p>
<p>The most reasonable interpretation of that line in the terms is that you can't use a bot or do anything that looks kind of like using a bot.  So if you and all your friends used a script to enter your picks for you, that wouldn't be allowed.  Manually entering picks based on some predetermined methodology is hardly &quot;robotic, repetitive, automatic, programmed or similar.&quot;</p>
<p>Your much larger problem is mathematical, not legal: you'll need 42,467,327 friends (plus yourself) to guarantee a perfect pick.  It seems like you need to correctly rank 4 groups of 4 in order, plus correctly guess the result of an additional 7 two-team games, so that's <a href="https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%284%20nPr%204%29%20%5E%204%29%20*%202%5E7&amp;assumption=%7B%22C%22%2C%20%22nPr%22%7D%20-%3E%20%7B%22InfixFunctionOperator%22%7D" rel="nofollow noreferrer">((4 nPr 4) ^ 4) * 2^7 = 42467328</a> entries required to cover all possible rankings.  Last year, there were 5 million participants (and only one perfect pick among them), so if you get that many people to enter, I'd bet Riot would be more than happy to give you a free computer for advertising their tournament to so many people.</p>
