Rules / Prizes
1. The “Show Us Your Sickest Trick Contest" presented by LifeSkooltv.com and Machinima.com (the "Contest") begins at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time ("PT") on October 01, 2007 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT on March 03, 2008 ("Contest Period"). Online access via Contest website (as detailed below) is required for detailed information and instructions.
2. Eligibility: Contest is offered only in the United States to Legal Residents of the 48 contiguous United States (including the District of Columbia), who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry and have Internet access.
Employees, producers and directors of Machinima, Inc., (the "Sponsor"), LIFESKOOL TV, their respective affiliated and subsidiary companies, advertising and promotional agencies, Webmasters and Web suppliers and the immediate family members (spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, ward, daughter or son) or members of the households of such employees or directors or family members (whether or not related) (collectively, the "Releasees") are not eligible to enter or win a prize. By entering, you agree to be bound by these Official rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects.
4. HOW TO ENTER: To Enter: During the Contest Period, go to http://www.machinima.com/lifeskool (the "Web Site")
1. Limit one (1) person (author) per entry. Multiple entries from the same person are permitted, but each must be submitted entirely separate from any other entry.
3. All entries (submissions) must be submitted via upload and received on the Web Site during the Contest Period.
To enter, submit/upload the following as directed at the Web Site:
* a machinima video recording (in WMV, MOV or AVI format, maximum file size of 30 mb) of a "sick game trick" which shows a great in-game skill or trick and must be at least 30 seconds and no more than 90 seconds in length. (See FAQ or demo video on Web Site for examples.)
6. By submitting an entry you irrevocably assign to Machinima, Inc. (“Machinima”) and LIFESKOOL the right to display, modify and edit your entry for the purposes of promoting and advertising your entry and the Contest. By entering, entrants agree to be bound by these Official rules including all eligibility requirements. By accepting a prize, winners consent to the use of their names, images, likenesses, photo, voices, and biographical materials for advertising, publicity, and promotional purposes by Machinima, LIFESKOOL, or a party designated by Machinima or LIFESKOOL, including but not limited to, any online announcements, without additional notice or compensation, except where prohibited by law. Entrants agree that the conditions of submission set forth in these Official rules, and all documents and agreements incorporated in these Official rules by reference, solely govern the relationship between entrants and Sponsor in connection with this Contest.
7. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for illegible, lost, delayed, misdirected or incomplete entries, system errors and failures, faulty transmissions, or other telecommunications malfunctions. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend part or all of this Contest, if in the Sponsor's opinion there is any suspected or actual evidence of electronic or non-electronic tampering with any portion of the Contest, or if virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or integrity and proper play of the Contest. In such event, Machinima may void any entries they suspect are at issue and award prizes from among all eligible entries received up to the date of cancellation.
8. Judging Criteria: One Grand Prize Place Winner will be chosen by a panel of judges including Chris Burke, rocker Tommy Lee and film director Zack Snyder based on the following criteria: creativity, originality and difficulty of trick the video portrays. One “People’s Choice Winner” will be chosen by the online community, via a provided voting/rating system at machinima.com. All decisions by the Sponsor are final.
Starting at midnight, February 05, 2008 (that being 12:00:00 A.M. PDT), anyone can simply go to a video entry page, review the video, and rate the video by clicking on the stars. Voting will end on 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on February 22, 2008
If no one has rated the video yet, all stars will be blank. If others have rated the video, the weighted average will appear with red filling in the stars. The weighted average displayed is rounded to the nearest half point, i.e. 3.5, 4.0, etc., though our database keeps the actual number. When you rate the video, your current selection shows stars highlighted with a gold border. The red coloring is still the overall weighted average with your rating included.
You can only rate a video once. If you change your mind about your rating, the most recent rating you selected will be calculated into the total, and your previous selection will be removed. So voting a hundred times for your own video isn’t going to help you.
At the end of the voting period, we may have clear winners, or we may not. Our contest staff will, if necessary, apply a fair mathematical algorithm which will give a slight, additional weight to entries with more votes. This is to prevent a 5.0 winner with one vote from winning over a 4.9 average rating with 100 votes, for example.
We may also enable, if necessary, a program to prevent low-vote abuse. In other words, we would like to discourage you from voting for one video with a 5 and all other videos with a 1 to throw the system off balance. If we see low-vote abuse, we reserve the right to withdraw all votes from the offending user, and/or disqualify any entry associated with that user.
In order for ratings to work, you must have JavaScript and browser cookies enabled.
10. prizes:
Grand Prize Winner: Grand Prize winner will receive a trip to NYC that includes the following: (i) round trip coach air transportation to NYC for winner departing from a major airport nearest winner’s residence; (ii) up to 12 nights hotel accommodations for winner at a hotel selected by sponsor; (iii) $1000 spending money and (iv) a chance to meet with Chris Burke of Bong + Dern, Inc., creator of This Spartan Life. Approximate retail value of the Grand Prize is $5000. Actual value of Grand Prize depends on winner’s place of residence. Trip must be taken within 12 months of winner notification or Grand Prize will be forfeited. Travel and hotel are subject to availability and blackout dates, and certain restrictions may apply.
- Approximate value not to exceed $5,000.
- People’s Choice Winner: one individual will be awarded a video game console of their choice, not to exceed approximate retail value of $1,000.
All winners must sign, complete and return a notarized Release of Liability, Affidavit of Eligibility and (except where prohibited) a Publicity Release before receiving any prize. prizes are not exchangeable, transferable, or redeemable for cash. For all prizes, Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize of equal value. This Contest is governed by U.S. law and is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void in Puerto Rico, all U.S. territories and possessions, overseas military installations and wherever prohibited by law. Any and all other costs, fees, taxes and expenses not explicitly stated herein as being awarded, are the sole responsibility of the prize recipient.
11. Winners: The selected potential winners will be notified by email or telephone within ten (10) days of the close of the Contest Period. The potential winners will have seventy-two (72) hours from the moment such notification is issued to respond to such notification by following the instructions provided therein. If a potential winner timely responds to such notification, he/she may then be sent an affidavit of eligibility and a liability/publicity release by email, and must complete, sign and return all required documentation within forty-eight (48) hours of issuance. If the potential winner does not reply to the notification within seventy-two (72) hours of its issuance or does not return the signed documents within forty-eight (48) hours of their issuance (if applicable), he/she is ineligible, or he/she cannot or does not comply with these official rules as determined by Sponsor, he/she will be disqualified, the prize will be forfeited, and an alternate winner may be selected, at Sponsor’s discretion. In the event of noncompliance with either the rules or any of these time periods, an alternate winner may be selected at Sponsor’s discretion. Sponsor has the right to revise dates and procedures mentioned in these rules.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: ENTRANTS HEREBY AGREE TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD HARMLESS MACHINIMA, INC., LIFESKOOL, AND EACH OF THEIR AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, PARENT AND RELATED COMPANIES, ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "RELEASEES") FROM ANY CLAIMS, ACTIONS, INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH, RESULTING FROM PARTICIPATING IN THIS CONTEST, INABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST OR FROM THE ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, OR USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE AWARDED OR PARTICIPATION OR INABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY PRIZE-RELATED ACTIVITY. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THAT APPLIES TO ALL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) COMPENSATORY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOSS OF DATA, INCOME, OR PROFIT; LOSS OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY; AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES. PARTICIPANTS AGREE THAT RELEASEES HAVE NOT MADE NOR IS IN ANY MANNER RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR GUARANTEE, STATUTORY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE), IN FACT OR IN LAW, RELATIVE TO THE CONTEST. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, MACHINIMA DOES NOT MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE WEB SITE AND MACHINIMA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS RELATED THERETO. THESE TERMS GIVE YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS. THE PROVISIONS REGARDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARE VOID IN SOME PROVINCES WHERE IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARE PRESCRIBED BY LAW. Releasees are not responsible for lost, late, illegible, damaged, or stolen entries or submissions, or problems of any kind, whether mechanical, human or electronic. Releasees are not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, inability to access a website, fraud, incomplete, garbled, or delayed computer transmissions or inaccurate transcription of entry information, whether caused by Machinima, users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this promotion or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions which may damage a user's system or limit a participant's ability to participate in the promotion. Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered are void. WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEB SITE OR ANY ONLINE SERVICE RELATED TO THIS PROMOTION OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY'S FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. Machinima's failure to enforce any term of these Official rules shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other provision. Machinima reserves the right to disqualify entrants who violate the rules or interfere with this Contest in any manner. If an entrant is disqualified, Machinima reserves the right to terminate that entrant's eligibility to participate in the Contest. Any attempts by an individual to access any web site associated with this competition via a bot script or other brute force attack or any other unauthorized means will result in the IP address and all entries from that IP address becoming ineligible. Use of automated entry devices or programs is prohibited.
13. Cheating: Participants agree not to knowingly damage or cause interruption of the Contest and/or prevent others from utilizing the Contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE COMPETITION VIOLATES CRIMINAL OR CIVIL LAWS. IF SUCH AN ATTEMPT IS MADE, SPONSOR MAY DISQUALIFY ANY PARTICIPANTS MAKING SUCH ATTEMPT AND SPONSOR MAY SEEK DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. This Contest and these Official rules are governed, construed and interpreted under the laws of the State of California and any or all claims pursuant to these shall be brought in the courts of the State of California. Any provision of these rules deemed unenforceable will be enforced to the extent permissible, and the remainder of these rules will remain in effect.
14. WINNERS' LIST: For the names of the winners, available after March 03, 2008 please visit the site at http://www.machinima.com/lifeskill
15. Sponsored by: MACHINIMA.COM
LIFESKOOL IS NOT A SPONSOR OF THIS PROMOTION.
