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Rules refresher

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Bandwagon Flairs

These will be back again this year. There are 16 flairs each in a red wagon for the 16 playoff teams. . They can be acquired the same way you normally select flair.

Fancy headers on old Reddit for

New Reddit and mobile browsers/apps have never made it possible to have headers for specific matchups ups and it was only a CSS hack on old Reddit. Old Reddit is now only 8% of the total traffic to . We decided to move to one unified playoff header for all of Reddit going forward so it's the same experience for all.

Daily Free Talk sticky

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