Last Updated: November 5, 2026

Sponsor. Embark Studios AB (“Sponsor”).

These Official Rules govern Pick’ems (the “Promotion”), a free prediction game for The Grand Major 2026, a THE FINALS esports event at DreamHack Stockholm from Friday, November 27 to Sunday, November 29, 2026 (the “Event”). In the Promotion, eligible participants predict how the Event will play out and score points for each prediction that comes true. By submitting an Entry, you agree to these Official Rules and to the Embark Terms of Service and End User License Agreement referred to in Section 13. If you do not agree, do not enter.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The Promotion is free to enter. No purchase, payment, or in-game spending of any kind is required to enter or to receive a reward, and making a purchase will not improve your score or your chances of receiving a reward. The Promotion is for entertainment purposes only and does not involve any wagering. The rewards described in Section 9 have no monetary value.

Promotion period and key dates

The Promotion opens at 12:00 CET on Thursday, November 5, 2026, and Picks lock at 00:00 CET on Friday, November 27, 2026 (that is, at midnight at the end of Thursday, November 26, 2026) (the “Lock Time”). The period between those times is the “Promotion Period.” Entries not submitted by the Lock Time will not be accepted. All times in these Official Rules are Central European Time (CET).

Milestone	Date
Picks open	12:00 CET, Thursday, November 5, 2026
Picks lock (Lock Time)	00:00 CET, Friday, November 27, 2026
The Grand Major 2026	Friday, November 27 to Sunday, November 29, 2026
Badges granted	After the final results are confirmed, expected on or about January 1, 2027

Eligibility

Open worldwide where lawful. Void where prohibited. To enter, you must (a) be at least 13 years of age, or the minimum age required to hold an Embark ID account in your country of residence, whichever is higher, and, if you are under the age of majority where you live, have the permission of your parent or legal guardian to participate; and (b) have a valid Embark ID account in good standing. Holders of suspended or banned Embark ID accounts are not eligible. Employees and contractors of Sponsor and Nexon, and their immediate family and household members, are not eligible to participate. Players, substitutes, coaches, managers, and other staff of teams competing in the Event, and Event officials, broadcast talent, and any other person with access to non-public information about Event results, are also not eligible to participate.

How to enter

During the Promotion Period, sign in to the official Pick’ems page at https://pickems.reachthefinals.com/ (the “Pick’ems Page”) with your Embark ID, complete all three (3) prediction sections described in Section 4 (your “Picks”), and submit them (together, your “Entry”).

Complete Entries only. Only complete Entries are scored. An Entry that is not complete and submitted by the Lock Time will not be scored.
Picks are final. Once you have submitted your Entry, your Picks are final and cannot be changed.
Entry limit. One (1) Entry per person and per Embark ID. Submitting more than one Entry, using multiple accounts, using bots, scripts, or other automated means, or any other attempt to manipulate the Promotion or its results will result in the disqualification of all Entries involved.

How scoring works (500 points in total)

Section 1: Qualification (100 points). Pick the five (5) teams you think will qualify for Day 3 of the Event, in the order you think they will qualify. You score ten (10) points for each of your teams that qualifies for Day 3, and an additional ten (10) points for each of those teams that you placed in its exact qualifying position.

Section 2: Crowns (150 points). For each of your five (5) Section 1 teams, predict how many crowns that team will finish Day 3 with. You must pick one (1) of your teams as your champion, on three (3) crowns. You score points only if your prediction is exactly right, and only for teams that actually qualify for Day 3, as follows:

Your prediction	Points
3 crowns, and the team wins the Event (your champion)	50
2 crowns	45
1 crown	25
0 crowns	5

Section 2 is scored once, at the end of Day 3.

Section 3: Scotty & June’s Hot Seat (250 points). Answer the following ten (10) questions:

	Question	Points
Q1	Which team wins the opening Final Round of Day 3 and takes the Throne?	30
Q2	How many crowns are on the board at the end of Day 3?	30
Q3	How many different teams hold the Throne at any point during Day 3?	30
Q4	How many times does a challenger beat the Throne holder and take the Throne?	30
Q5	How many crowns does the first Throne holder finish Day 3 with?	20
Q6	Which region does the champion come from?	15
Q7	Which player finishes the Event with the most eliminations?	35
Q8	Which player records the most revives across the Event?	25
Q9	Which archetype is played the most across the Event?	10
Q10	Which team collects the most cash across the Event?	25

How Day 3 (The Throne) works, for scoring purposes

Day 3 is played by five (5) teams for one (1) Throne, and the first team to receive three (3) crowns wins. The following summary explains how Day 3 is played for purposes of scoring the Promotion:

Opening. The teams that qualified for Day 3 in 1st to 4th position play the opening Cashout, and the top two (2) teams from that Cashout play the opening Final Round (best of three (3)). The winner of the opening Final Round takes the Throne with zero (0) crowns.
Each following round. The four (4) teams not on the Throne play a Cashout, the top two (2) teams play a Final Round, and the winner of the Final Round challenges the Throne holder in a Throne Match (as defined in Section 6). The winner of a Throne Match earns one (1) crown and holds the Throne. Crowns are kept for the rest of Day 3, including by a team that later loses the Throne.
After every Throne Match. (a) A team on three (3) crowns is the champion. (b) If two (2) teams are on two (2) crowns, the other three (3) teams are eliminated, and those two (2) teams play a best-of-three (3) Grand Final. (c) If four (4) teams each have at least one (1) crown and one (1) team has none, the team with no crowns is eliminated and Sudden Death begins: the other four (4) teams play a Cashout, and the top two (2) teams play a best-of-three (3) match for the title.
Champion. The winner of a Grand Final or Sudden Death is the champion and finishes Day 3 on three (3) crowns.

How each question is decided

Throne Match means each best-of-three (3) match between the Throne holder and a challenger. The opening Final Round, a Grand Final, and Sudden Death are not Throne Matches.
Q2: the sum of every Day 3 team’s final crown count, with the champion counted on three (3) crowns.
Q3: the winner of the opening Final Round counts as a Throne holder from the moment it takes the Throne. A team that wins the Throne back after losing it counts only once. A Grand Final or Sudden Death does not put any team on the Throne.
Q4: only a challenger winning a Throne Match counts. The opening Final Round, a Grand Final, and Sudden Death do not count.
Q5: the opening Final Round earns no crown, so zero (0) is a possible answer. Crowns won later count even if the first Throne holder later loses the Throne.
Q6: the region from which the champion qualified for the Event, not the nationality of its players. A replacement team counts for the region it comes from.
Q7 to Q10: counted across every game played at the Event, whether won or lost. Only games actually played count; forfeits, games awarded by an administrator, and technical replays do not add any statistics. Substitutes cannot be selected as answers, and their statistics do not count. Q9 counts each player’s archetype in each game played. Because Q8 and Q10 are counted across the whole Event, players and teams that play more games have more opportunities to record revives and collect cash; this is intended.
Ties: if two or more players or teams finish level on Q7, Q8, Q9, or Q10, every tied answer counts as correct and is awarded full points.
Voided questions: if the statistics for any match are missing or unavailable, Sponsor will void any question affected by the missing statistics for all participants, and that question’s points will be removed from every total.

Withdrawn teams and players

A team that withdraws from the Event will be marked “Withdrawn” on the Pick’ems Page, and that team and its players can no longer be picked. If you have not yet submitted your Entry and any of your Picks names a withdrawn team or player, you must change that Pick before you can submit.
Any submitted Pick that names a withdrawn team or one of its players scores zero (0) points, whether or not it would otherwise have been correct. The rest of your Entry is scored as normal.
If the highest-ranked player or team for Q7, Q8, or Q10 has withdrawn, the correct answer is the highest-ranked player or team that has not withdrawn.
A team that replaces a withdrawn team before the Event takes the withdrawn team’s place on the Pick’ems Page.

Results, corrections, and decisions

Results are entered by Sponsor’s Competitive Operations team as they are confirmed, and scores on the Pick’ems Page update during the Event. Section 2 is scored once, at the end of Day 3.
If a confirmed result is later found to be wrong, Sponsor will correct it, and scores will update accordingly.
Any question about how a prediction is scored, or about the interpretation or application of these Official Rules, will be decided by Sponsor’s Competitive Operations team, and Sponsor will publish its decision on the Pick’ems Page. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Sponsor’s decisions are final and binding.

Rewards (badges)

Each eligible participant with a complete, scored Entry will receive an in-game badge based on the participant’s final ranking among all scored Entries, as follows:

Tier	Who receives it
Silver	Every participant with a complete, scored Entry
Gold	Entries ranked in the top 50%
Platinum	Entries ranked in the top 25%
Diamond	Entries ranked in the top 5%

Tiers are based on your final ranking among all scored Entries. If your score equals the cut-off score for a tier, you receive the higher tier. Where Entries have the same total score, ranking is decided by the higher Section 3 (Hot Seat) score, then the higher Section 1 (Qualification) score, and then the earlier submission time. These tie-breakers determine ranking only and do not affect which tier an Entry receives.

Badges are cosmetic in-game items in THE FINALS with no cash or monetary value. They cannot be sold, exchanged, transferred, or redeemed for cash or other items, and are subject to the Embark Terms of Service and End User License Agreement. Badges will be granted to the Embark ID account used to submit the Entry after the final results are confirmed. You must have a character in THE FINALS on that Embark ID account to receive your badge. If a badge cannot be granted for reasons outside Sponsor’s reasonable control, Sponsor may substitute a comparable in-game item.

Conduct and disqualification

Sponsor may disqualify any Entry, and/or withhold or revoke any badge, if Sponsor reasonably believes that the participant is not eligible, has violated these Official Rules or the Embark Terms of Service and End User License Agreement, has tampered with or attempted to manipulate the Promotion or the Pick’ems Page, or has acted in an abusive, threatening, or unsportsmanlike manner toward any other participant, team, player, or Sponsor personnel in connection with the Promotion or the Event.

Sponsor rights / changes / cancellation

Sponsor may update these Official Rules, for example if the Event schedule or format changes, and will post any update on the Pick’ems Page together with the date of the update.

Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Promotion (including its dates, questions, or scoring) if the Event or any match is postponed, cancelled, shortened, or materially changed, or if technical, security, or administrative issues compromise the fairness or integrity of the Promotion. In such case, Sponsor may void any affected questions for all participants, score Entries based on the results actually completed, or, if the Promotion cannot fairly be completed, cancel the Promotion. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, or corrupted Entries, or for any technical failure, outage, or error affecting the Pick’ems Page.

Privacy

Sponsor will process personal data submitted in connection with the Promotion, including your Embark ID, display name, Picks, scores, and ranking. This data is stored by Nexon, which operates the Pick’ems Page. This data will be used to administer and score the Promotion, grant badges, prevent fraud, and enforce these Official Rules. No information about any participant is displayed publicly on the Pick’ems Page. When signed in, you will see only your own Picks, score, percentile, and badge tier. Sponsor ranks all scored Entries only to determine percentiles and badge tiers. Our privacy policy, which explains your rights in relation to your personal data, is available at https://id.embark.games/the-finals/support/faq/123-privacy-policy.

Embark Terms of Service and End User License Agreement

Your participation in the Promotion and your use of the Pick’ems Page and your Embark ID are also subject to the Embark Terms of Service and End User License Agreement, available at https://embark.link/tos. If these Official Rules conflict with the Embark Terms of Service and End User License Agreement with respect to the Promotion, these Official Rules control.

Governing law / disputes

These Official Rules are governed by the laws of Sweden, and any disputes will be resolved by the courts of Stockholm, Sweden, unless mandatory local law provides otherwise.

Contact

Questions about the Promotion: contact Sponsor via esports@embark-studios.com.

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