Terms

Who can enter

• You must be at least 13, and old enough to hold your own Twitch and Steam accounts where you live. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission, and they agree to these terms for you.
• Entering must be legal where you live. Tournaments are void where prohibited or restricted by law.
• You may not enter if you live in, or are ordinarily resident in, a country or region under comprehensive United States sanctions, or if you are on a United States government restricted party list.
• Admins, moderators and people helping run a tournament may be excluded from that tournament's prizes.

Your entry and accounts

• One entry per person per tournament, with one Steam account per entry. Duplicate, shared or bought accounts can be removed.
• The Steam account you link must own the game and be yours.
• Your information must be accurate and kept up to date, including your answers to the entry form's questions. Any streaming or social links you add must be to channels or profiles you run. You are responsible for anything done through your Twitch, Steam and Discord accounts.
• Entry is free. No purchase is ever necessary to enter or to win.

Selection and decisions

Spots are limited, and entering does not guarantee a spot. Admins choose players at their discretion and may consider Twitch followers and viewers, account history, ban records, region, the channels you link, your answers to the entry form and anything else relevant to a fair and successful tournament. Players who are not chosen may be placed on a waitlist, and admins decide whether anyone moves up.

Decisions are final, to the extent permitted by law. We are not required to explain individual decisions.

Check-in, schedule and changes

Accepted players must check in during the check-in window. A spot that is not checked in may be given to someone else.

We may change the date, time, format, rules, number of spots or prizes of a tournament, or postpone or cancel it, including because of technical problems, game or platform changes, or circumstances outside our control. We will post changes on the tournament page and, where practical, email affected players.

Fair play and conduct

You agree not to:

• Cheat, use unauthorised software, exploit bugs, collude, throw matches, or share your account.
• Harass, threaten, discriminate against or abuse anyone, including other players, admins, moderators, streamers and viewers.
• Break the game publisher's terms, Twitch's or Steam's rules, or the rules of our Discord.
• Interfere with the site, try to access other people's information, or use the site in a way that breaks the law.

An account with a VAC, game or community ban may be refused. If you break these rules, we may disqualify you, remove results, withhold or reclaim prizes, and ban you from future tournaments.

Prizes

Prizes, if any, are described on each tournament's page. Tournaments are competitions of skill, and results depend on how players perform.

• Before receiving a prize, a winner may need to confirm their identity, age, location and eligibility, and provide tax information such as a United States W-9 or W-8BEN form.
• Prizes for players under the age of majority are awarded to a parent or guardian.
• Winners are responsible for any taxes, fees or duties on a prize in their country.
• Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged. We may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the original is unavailable.
• A prize that is not claimed within 60 days of our first attempt to contact the winner, or that cannot legally be delivered, is forfeited.
• Where a prize is shared by a team, it is split as the tournament page states, or equally if it does not say.

Streaming, recording and publicity

Tournaments may be streamed, recorded and shared. By entering, you give us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use, stream, record, edit and share your usernames, in-game name, gameplay, match results and, if you appear on camera, your likeness, in connection with the tournament and promoting our tournaments, without payment.

Tournament voice channels and match comms may be recorded or streamed. If you join them, you consent to being recorded. If you do not want your voice recorded, do not join those channels.

Third-party services

The site relies on Twitch, Steam, Discord, game servers and other services we do not control. We are not responsible for their outages, changes or decisions. Our tournaments are independent and are not sponsored, endorsed or run by Twitch, Valve, Discord or any game publisher unless a tournament page says so. Game names and logos belong to their owners.

Our content

The site, its design and its content, other than game names, logos and third-party material, belong to Peanut Productions or our licensors. You may not copy or reuse them except to take part in our tournaments or share tournament pages.

Disclaimers

The site and tournaments are provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent permitted by law, we make no promises that the site will be uninterrupted, error free or secure, or that any tournament will take place as planned. We are not responsible for entries or check-ins that are lost, late or incomplete because of technical problems, including problems with Twitch, Steam, email delivery or your internet connection.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Peanut Productions, its members, admins, moderators, partners and streamers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, opportunities or goodwill, arising from the site or any tournament. Our total liability for any claim is limited to US$50.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK, Australia or another country with mandatory consumer protections, you keep those rights.

Your responsibility for claims

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to cover Peanut Productions and the people who run our tournaments for any claims, losses and costs, including reasonable legal fees, that arise from your breaking these terms or the tournament rules, your conduct, or your violating anyone else's rights.

Suspension and ending access

We may refuse, suspend or remove any entry or account, or stop offering the site or a tournament, at any time, including if we reasonably believe you broke these terms. You may stop using the site and withdraw from tournaments at any time. Sections about publicity, disclaimers, liability, claims and disputes continue to apply after you stop.

Governing law and disputes

If you have a problem, email Peanutsedit@gmail.com first. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days.

These terms are governed by the laws of the state in the United States where we are based, without regard to conflict of law rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be handled by the courts there, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you may also have the right to bring claims in the courts where you live and to rely on the mandatory laws of your country.

To the extent permitted by law, disputes will be resolved individually, and not as part of a class, collective or representative action.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We change the date at the top when we do. Changes apply to tournaments you enter after the update. If a change materially affects a tournament you have already entered, we will tell you, and you may withdraw.

General

• These terms, the tournament rules and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the site and tournaments.
• If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
• If we do not enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours as part of a reorganisation or sale of our activities.
• These terms are written in English. If we provide a translation and it differs, the English version applies, unless your local law requires otherwise.

Contact

Peanut Productions, operator of Peanut Matches at matches.burntpeanut.com. For questions about these terms, email Peanutsedit@gmail.com.