I may be long winded, but I can't make up stuff like this. Here are the official rules to our contest. If you're an insomniac, you're welcome.
"On
Frozen Pond" Contest Official Rules
The
"On Frozen Pond" Florida Panthers Opening Night Trivia
Contest (the "Contest") begins October 2, 2008 and ends
October 8, 2008 ("Contest Period"). The Contest is open to
all legal U.S. residents of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach
counties who are at least 18 years of age as of October 8, 2008
("Contestant"). Contestants must be registered users of
MiamiHerald.com. Employees of The Miami Herald Media Company, and
their licensors and prize suppliers, The McClatchy Company, and the
foregoing entities' respective parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates
(collectively, the "Contest Entities"), and such employees'
immediate families and household members are not eligible. The
Contest is sponsored and administered by the Miami Herald Media
Company ("Sponsor").
How
to Enter. No purchase necessary. Online submissions only. To enter,
answer the Trivia Question found on the "On Frozen Pond"
blog by George Richards at www.miamiherald.typepad.com/flapanthers.
Then, send your answer to grichards@miamiherald.com.
Make sure to include your name, day and evening phone on the email.
No hand or e-mail deliveries will be accepted. None of the Contest
Entities are responsible for late, incomplete, void, corrupted,
garbled, misdirected, or otherwise unintelligible Submissions and for
any problems, bugs or malfunctions Contestants may encounter when
submitting their Submissions. Incomplete, garbled, corrupted or
otherwise illegible Submissions are void and will not be accepted.
Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify false submissions or
submissions suspected of being false. Sponsor will not verify receipt
of submissions. Only one submission per natural person per email
address per day. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of a
winner, the winner will be deemed to be the person in whose name the
e-mail account governing the e-mail address was opened.
Prize:
On October 9, 2008, or a reasonable time thereafter, one Grand Prize
winner will be selected from all entries who have answered a trivia
question correctly. One winner will receive: Four (4) tickets to
October 11 Florida Panthers game at the BankAtlantic Center; a
Florida Panther's team signed stick; limousine service to and from
the game (50 mile limit in one direction); 4 Florida Panthers hats
and backpacks. All other expenses not specifically listed above will
be the winner's responsibility, including, but not limited to any
taxes. Selected Contestant's full name, hometown may be announced and
posted at the On Frozen Pond blog at www.miamiherald.com
Selected Contestant will be sent an affidavit of eligibility /
liability / publicity release ("Release"). Unless
restricted by law, each Selected Contestant will be required to
complete and return the Release within the time period specified
therein. Should Selected Contestant be unwilling or otherwise unable
to provide such permissions and or releases or otherwise cannot
accept or receive the prize for any reason, another Contestant will
be chosen.
No
substitution, transfer, or cash redemption of prize, provided however
that Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize with another
prize of equal or greater value should the advertised prize become
unavailable for any reason. If a Selected Contestant is unable to
participate in or accept the prize or any portion of the prize for
any reason, Sponsor shall have no further obligation to the
Contestant.
CONTEST
Conditions. This Contest is void outside the U.S. and where
prohibited or restricted by law, and is subject to applicable
federal, state provincial and local laws. By participating,
Contestants agree: (i) to be bound by these Official Rules and the
decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final and binding; and (ii) to
waive any right to claim ambiguity in the Contest or these Official
Rules, except where prohibited by law. Taxes, if any, are the sole
responsibility of Selected Contestant, and Contestants may be issued
an IRS Form 1099 for the ARV of any awarded prize. By participating,
all Contestants agree to release and hold harmless each of the
Contest Entities together with the respective directors, employees,
officers, licensees, licensors and agents, and respective advertising
and promotion entities and any person or entity associated with the
production, judging, or administration of the Contest, (collectively,
the "Releasees") from and against any and all rights,
claims and causes of action whatsoever that they may have, or which
may arise, against any of them for any liability for any matter,
cause or thing whatsoever, including but not limited to any injury,
loss, damage, whether direct, compensatory, incidental or
consequential, to person, including death and property, arising in
whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from their acceptance,
possession, use or misuse of the prize in the Contest, or their
participation in the Contest, or their participation in any Contest
or prize related activity.
Sponsor
reserves the right to disqualify any Contestant it finds to be
violating these Official Rules. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel
or suspend the Contest, in its sole discretion, due to circumstances
beyond its control, including natural disasters. Sponsor may, in its
sole discretion, cancel, modify or suspend the Contest should a
virus, bug, computer problem, unauthorized intervention or other
causes beyond Sponsor's control, corrupt the administration, security
or proper play of the Contest. Sponsor may prohibit a Contestant from
participating in the Contest or winning a prize if, in its sole
discretion, it determines such contestant is attempting to undermine
the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, plagiarizing,
engaging in any deception, or any other unfair playing practices of
intending to annoy, abuse, threaten, undermine or harass any other
players or Sponsor representatives.
Disputes
regarding these Official Rules and/or this Contest will be governed
by the internal laws of the State of Florida. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO
DELIBERATELY DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE
CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND WILL
RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST. SHOULD
SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES
AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY FEES) TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE
LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
Contest
Entities shall not be liable to the Selected Contestant for failure
to supply any Prize or any part thereof, by reason of any acts of
God, any action(s), regulation(s), order(s) or request(s) by any
governmental or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not the
action(s), regulations(s), order(s) or request(s) prove(s) to be
invalid), equipment failure, threatened terrorist acts, terrorist
acts, air raid, blackout, act of public enemy, earthquake, war
(declared or undeclared), fire, flood, epidemic, explosion, unusually
severe weather, hurricane, embargo, labor dispute or strike (whether
legal or illegal), labor or material shortage, transportation
interruption of any kind, work slow-down, civil disturbance,
insurrection, riot, or any other similar or dissimilar cause beyond
any of the Releasees' control. None of the Contest Entities are
responsible for: (a) lost, late, misdirected, undeliverable,
incomplete or indecipherable entries due to system errors or
failures, or faulty transmissions or other telecommunications
malfunctions and/or entries; (b) technical failures of any kinds; (c)
failures of any of the equipment or programming associated with or
utilized in the Contest; (d) unauthorized human and/or mechanical
intervention in any part of the submission process or the Contest;
(e) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of
the Contest or the processing of entries; or (f) any injury or damage
to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly,
in whole or in part, from any contestant's participation in the
Contest or receipt or use of any prize.
Publicity.
Sponsor reserves the right to use the Selected Contestant names,
likenesses and hometown names for publicity purposes only in
connection with the Contest and for no other reason.
Privacy.
All personal information collected by Sponsor will be used for
administration of the Contest and in accordance with Sponsor's
privacy policy. Any questions regarding privacy matters should be
directed to the address set out below.
Official
Rules and WINNERS' List. For a copy of these Official Rules or the
name of Selected Contestant, send your request in a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to: On Frozen Pond Contest, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami FL
33132-1693. Request must be received by October 31, 2008.
©
2008 The McClatchy Company. All rights reserved.
