The deadline for a specific action. Most NFL picks and votes use the Sunday 12:00 PM ET main lock. An early-game pick uses that game’s five-minutes-before-kickoff lock.
The process of publishing accepted signed picks and votes after an applicable lock. Early-game picks publish by lock cohort; remaining picks and votes publish after the main Sunday lock.
The minimum starting principal before strategy gains or losses and refunds. For NFL Survivor it is 20,000 USDC or eligible paid entry fees, whichever is greater.
A next-week pick or vote accepted while the entry’s prior-week result is unresolved. It counts if the entry survives and is ignored if the entry is eliminated.
A weekly snapshot showing how eligible entries selected teams. Early-game cohorts remain hidden in the Bald app until kickoff; remaining picks stay hidden until the main Sunday deadline.
A Survivor disruption ruling for an affected locked pick that cannot receive a normal result in its original official NFL week. The entry survives, but the selected team remains used.
A pick or vote authorized by the player in the app and durably accepted by the backend before its lock. A wallet signature alone is not confirmation of backend acceptance.
An elimination game where each entry picks one team per week and cannot reuse a team. Under Bald’s NFL rules, a win or tie survives and a loss eliminates.
The fallback used when every entry alive entering a week is eliminated that week. Valid pickers split if any valid picks were submitted; otherwise, every entry alive entering the week splits.
The deadline after which a weekly strategy vote can no longer be submitted or changed. NFL ballots close Sunday at 12:00 PM ET unless the authoritative app timestamp says otherwise.
