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WP GM Mode prizes: official rules

1. Who runs this contest

The sponsor is WP North Entertainment Group Ltd., which operates WP Hockey Predictor (the "Sponsor"). Questions: [email protected].

2. The contest period

A contest, with two prizes, runs for each WP GM Mode season. The 2026-27 contest began with the first week of the season, November 2, 2026, and ends when the last game of the WP Cup final has been scored, expected on or about April 11, 2027 (the "Contest Period").

3. Who may win

• You must be a resident of Canada, other than Quebec, and have reached the age of majority in your province or territory on the day the prize is awarded. The rules and the game are offered in English only, which is why residents of Quebec are not eligible for the prize.
• Directors, officers and employees of the Sponsor, and people who live in the same household as any of them, are not eligible for the prize.
• People outside these limits are welcome to play WP GM Mode. They are not eligible for the prize.

4. How to enter

You enter by running a club in WP GM Mode during the Contest Period. There are two ways to get a club, and they are treated identically for the prize.

1. With a pass. Hold a WP GM Mode pass and take a club.
2. Free entry, no purchase. Send an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject "WP GM Mode free entry". Give your full name, your province or territory, and the e-mail address of your WP Hockey Predictor account (creating an account is free). The Sponsor will let that account take a club for the rest of the season at no charge, within three business days, while clubs are available. A free entry gives access to WP GM Mode only, not to the other content a pass includes.

The pre-season club draw. Clubs differ in strength, so before each season the clubs without a general manager are allotted by lot. The draw window opens when the regular season ends. The draw is held at noon Eastern time, one week before the first week of the new season. While the window is open, the eight clubs highest in the roster ranking cannot be taken directly and are available only through the draw; other open clubs can still be taken at once. To enter the draw, a person who may take a club and does not run one chooses a handle, may name up to five clubs in order of preference, and chooses what happens if none of them is open. Entrants are placed in a random order, and each in turn receives the first club on his or her list that is still without a general manager, or failing that the club given by his or her fallback choice. Entrants with a pass and free entrants are drawn together on the same terms. A general manager who already runs a club keeps it and is not in the draw. Each entrant is shown only his or her own result. At other times, open clubs are taken first come, first served.

One club per person at a time. There are 32 clubs. If every club has a general manager, no further entries of either kind can be accepted that season.

5. How the winners are decided

Both prizes are won by skill in managing a club over the season. Each week a club's result is calculated from what the players in its lineup did in real professional games, as described on the WP GM Mode page (read it here). The regular season is followed by playoffs for the WP Cup.

The WP Cup prize

• The winner is the eligible general manager whose club wins the WP Cup.
• If the club that wins the WP Cup is not run by an eligible entrant, the winner is the eligible general manager whose club went furthest in the playoffs. If two went equally far, or none reached the playoffs, the one whose club placed higher in the final regular-season standings wins.
• To be eligible to win, a general manager must have run that club continuously since before the season's trade deadline. A club taken after the deadline cannot win the prize that season.
• Clubs that no person has taken are run by the WP GM engine. They play to win and they cannot receive a prize.

The Most Improved prize

• When a person takes a club, the Sponsor records the club's starting position. Until four weeks of the season have been scored, it is the club's place in the roster ranking. After that, it is the club's place in the league standings at that moment or its place in the roster ranking, whichever is the better (lower-numbered) place. The roster ranking orders the 32 clubs by the average WP rating of each club's twenty highest-rated active players. The starting position is shown on the general manager's own club page and never changes.
• A club's climb is its starting position minus its place in the final regular-season standings as shown on the league page. A club that starts 24th and finishes 15th has climbed nine places. The playoffs do not count toward the climb.
• The winner is the eligible general manager whose club has the largest climb. A climb of at least one place is required. If two climbs are equal, the club that finished higher in the final regular-season standings wins.
• To be eligible, a general manager must have run that club continuously since before the season's trade deadline, the same as for the WP Cup prize.
• One prize per person per season. The person selected for the WP Cup prize cannot also win the Most Improved prize, which goes to the eligible general manager with the next largest climb.
• If no eligible general manager's club climbed at least one place, the Most Improved prize is not awarded that season.

6. Your chance of winning

Your chance depends on your skill, on the skill of the other general managers, on how many eligible general managers take part (there are at most 32 clubs), on the club you choose or are allotted in the draw and where it stands when you take it, and on how real players perform in real games, which nobody controls. A stronger club has a better chance at the WP Cup prize. A club with a lower starting position has more room to climb and a better chance at the Most Improved prize.

7. Claiming a prize

• Both prizes are decided when the WP Cup final ends. The Sponsor notifies each selected general manager inside WP GM Mode at that time.
• Before being declared the winner, he or she must, within 14 days: confirm eligibility under these rules, and correctly answer, without help of any kind, a mathematical skill-testing question. Up to 3 attempts are allowed.
• If a selected person is not eligible, does not respond in time, or does not answer correctly, that prize is forfeited. The Sponsor may, but need not, offer it to the next eligible general manager under rule 5.
• A prize is added to the winner's account as soon as these steps are complete.

8. The prizes

• Two prizes per season. The WP Cup prize is twelve months of the WP Ultimate pass, approximate retail value CAD $239.88. The Most Improved prize is six months of the WP Ultimate pass, approximate retail value CAD $119.94. Each starts when it is claimed, or when any GM Mode pass time the winner already holds runs out.
• A prize must be accepted as awarded. It cannot be transferred, sold or exchanged for cash.
• A prize does not cancel a paid subscription. A winner who already pays for a pass through this website or through Apple should cancel that subscription himself or herself if he or she does not want to be charged during the prize period.

9. General

• By entering you agree to these rules and to the Sponsor's decisions, which are final on all matters about the contest.
• The winner agrees that the Sponsor may publish his or her WP GM Mode handle and club as the winner. The Sponsor does not publish names or e-mail addresses.
• Personal information is collected only to run the contest and award the prize, and is handled under the privacy policy.
• The Sponsor may disqualify anyone who cheats, uses more than one account, colludes with another general manager to move players unfairly, or interferes with the game.
• If the game cannot run as planned for any reason outside the Sponsor's reasonable control, including a change to the real season, the Sponsor may suspend, change or end the contest, and may award the prizes on the standings as they then are.
• There is no wagering in WP GM Mode. Nobody stakes money on a result, and nothing is won other than the prizes described here.
• This contest is not sponsored by, endorsed by, administered by or associated with Apple Inc., the National Hockey League, its clubs, the NHL Players' Association, or Electronic Arts Inc.
• The contest is governed by the laws of Ontario and the laws of Canada that apply there. It is void where prohibited.

These rules were last updated on November 13, 2026.