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Ten Ton Hammer Holiday Spoof-a-Long Forum Contest Official Rules

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Posted December 17th, 2007 by Shayalyn

The Ten Ton Hammer "Holiday Spoof-a-Long" forum contest is operated by Master Games International, Inc.

Entrants acknowledge and agree that, by participating in The Ten Ton Hammer "Holiday Spoof-a-Long" contest, they have read and understand the official contest rules, and that they will abide by the official contest rules.

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

1. HOW TO ENTER THE CONTEST:

Entries to The Ten Ton Hammer "Holiday Spoof-a-Long" contest can be submitted between Monday, December 17th, 2007 and Saturday, December 29th, 2007 in the Ten Ton Hammer Community Forums. To submit an entry, follow these steps:

(a) Choose your favorite MMOG and navigate to the contest thread in the appropriate forum:



(b) Select a popular holiday song and rewrite the lyrics to make the song about your favorite MMOG. (You might write a song about World of Warcraft to the tune of Jingle Bells, for instance.) Here's an example if you need more inspiration.

(c) Post your song in the appropriate forum thread. Be sure to include the title of the original song. If your rewritten song is called Barrens Hell, for example, post a note letting us know that your song was written to the tune of Jingle Bells. Please keep your entries PG-13!

Online entries will be deemed to be made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the poster's forum account at the time the winner is chosen. Master Games International, Inc. is not responsible for entries not received due to difficulty accessing the Internet, service outages or delays, computer difficulties or any reason whatever, whether within or beyond the control of Master Games International, Inc. or its agents or employees.

Entrants may post as many entries as they like in any of the appropriate forum threads. 

2. ELIGIBILITY:

(a) The contest is open only to residents of the United States or Canada. The contest is open only to adults 18 years of age or older.

(b) Master Games International, Inc. employees, its affiliated advertising/public relations agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, and the members of their immediate families are ineligible to enter or win.

3. SELECTING THE WINNER:

Entries received on or before December 29, 2007 will be judged by the Ten Ton Hammer staff between December 30, 2007 and January 5, 2008. Entries will be judged for creativity and humor value. Decisions of Master Games International, Inc. with respect to the contest are final and not subject to appeal. The winner will be contacted via e-mail or Ten Ton Hammer forum private message by a Master Games International, Inc. representative on or around the week of Januray 6, 2008. If the first winner cannot be located within 1 week, a substitute winner will be selected by repeating the original selection process. The names of the winners will be posted on http://www.tentonhammer.com/HolidayForumContest as soon as all winners have been contacted and have accepted their awards.

4. PRIZES:

  • One (1) winner will receive up to a 6 month prepaid game card for their favorite MMOG.*
  • Two (2) runners up will receive up to a 2 month prepaid game card for their favorite MMOG.*

* Game cards are available for the following games: EVE Online, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Tabula Rasa,  and World of Warcraft. EVE Online prepaid cards are available in 50 and 100 day increments and will be awarded as such.

5. CONDITIONS:

(a) No purchase necessary.

(b) The contest is void where prohibited or where restricted by U.S., international, federal, state or local law.

(c) Entrants are required to provide truthful information. Master Games International, Inc. will reject and delete any entry (on-site, Internet, or mail-in) that it discovers to be false or fraudulent or to contain any incorrect statement.

(d) Contest entries become property of Master Games International, Inc. and will not be returned.

(e) Entrants declare that the entry is submitted by them and not by a third person on their behalf.

(f) Master Games International, Inc. will be permitted to use the entry without further notice or approval of the contest winner.

(g) No royalties are payable to the contest winner for Master Games International, Inc.'s use of the entry(if any) and no further consideration will be provided to the contest winner (other than prizes).

(h) Entrants in the contest, the winner and their guests agree to have their names, voices, or likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to this contest, without additional financial or other compensation, and will sign a publicity release to that effect. Contest winner may be required to sign a liability/publicity release prior to acceptance of the prize. Pursuant to the liability/publicity release, the winner will agree to hold Master Games International, Inc., its affiliated companies and officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of them harmless against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or participation in the contest.

(i) Master Games International, Inc. is not responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone failures of any kind, loss or delay of mail, lost or unavailable network connections, fraud or incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by the sponsors, users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the promotion or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submission which may damage a user's system or limit an entrant's ability to participate in the contest. Master Games International, Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or with the operation of the contest.

(j) Any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this contest, or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration. Any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this contest, but in no event attorney's fees.

(k) Master Games International, Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, but shall in no event be obligated, to cancel, terminate or suspend part or all of this contest should viruses, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, loss by any cause of mailed-in entry forms or other causes corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the contest or for any other reason.

(l) Master Games International, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to the rules of the contest, including the substitution of a prize or prizes of equal or greater value, which will become effective upon announcement and Master Games International, Inc. shall incur no liability with respect to such changes.

(m) Failure to comply with the contest rules may result in an entrant's disqualification at the sole discretion of Master Games International, Inc.

(n) The Ten Ton Hammer "Holiday Spoof-a-Long" contest shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, U.S.A. Entrants in the contest, the winners and their guests agree irrevocably to conform to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of such State and hereby waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens.

(o) Prizes are not transferrable.

(p) All prizes are awarded "AS IS" and without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, except as provided by the manufacturer.

(q) The contest is being operated solely by Master Games International, Inc. No developer or publisher of the game titles listed in these rules is affiliated with this contest in any way. Any issues/disputes arising as a result of this contest will be handled by Master Games International, Inc. 

6. COPY OF OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES:

Copies of the official contest rules are available upon request by email to ethec@tentonhammer.com or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

TenTonHammer.Com
866 River Trail
Pipe Creek, Texas
USA 78063



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