PHEAA
$33,000 Halftime Kick Contest
Official
Promotion Rules
1) Description of the Promotion: Pennsylvania
Higher Education Assistance Agency (the “Sponsor”), is offering the “PHEAA $33,000 Halftime
Kick Contest”, (the “Promotion”) and will make a series of random selections
from valid entrants to determine one Final Field Goal Kick Competitor (“Final
Kick Competitor”). The Final Kick Competitor will have the opportunity to
attempt to make a successful field goal kick as defined by the Field Goal Kick
Competition Rules (See Section 7), conducted at the half-time festivities of
the PNC Big 33 Football Classic, June 16, 2007, Hershey, PA, (“Big 33 Football
Game”).
2) Eligibility: The Promotion is open only to legal PA and OH state residents, who
are currently enrolled in an institution of higher learning or technical school
in OH or PA and 2007 graduating high school seniors from public or accredited
private schools in PA or OH and who plan to continue their education in an
accredited institution of higher learning or technical school.
The
following categories of individuals are NOT eligible:
(a)
Current
or former professional or semi-professional soccer, rugby or football player
and coaches.
(b)
Anyone
who has played or coached high school or collegiate football, rugby or soccer
at any level (freshman, junior varsity or varsity in men’s or women’s
competition) or has played on or coached an international soccer, rugby or
football team in the past five (5) years.
(c)
Employees,
officers, representatives, agents, successors or assignees of Pennsylvania
Higher Education Assistance Agency, (“PHEAA”) and the Big 33 Scholarship
Foundation, their affiliated organizations and companies, advertising and
promotion agencies and any company involved in the design, execution or
production of the promotion are not eligible
This
Promotion is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
3) Contest Contestants: There will be twenty-one (21)
Contestants and (5) Alternate Contestants randomly selected who will be invited
to attend the Big 33 Football Game and participate in the half-time festivities
where one (1) of the Contestants will be randomly selected at the Final Kick
Competitor.
4) How the Final Kick Competitor is
determined. At the Big 33 Football Game, the twenty-one (21)
Contestants will each be assigned a unique number which he/she will record on
the back of his/her placard. Each
Contestant will place his/her placard (face/number down) on the field during
half-time festivities. A professional
sky diver will make a jump over the football field at half-time and the
Contestant’s placard which the sky diver randomly selects to land on or closest
to, as determined by Contest Officials, will be determined as the Final Kick
Competitor. In the event the participation of a skydiver is prevented for
weather or for any other reason, the assigned numbers of the Contestants will
be placed in a random drawing from which the one of the Contestants will be
selected as the Final Kick Competitor.
The odds of being determined the Final Kick Competitor are 1:21.
5) How to Enter for Chance to be a
Contestant at the Big 33 Football Game: There are two (2) methods by which
Contestants will be randomly selected.
On-line Entry – Visit www.pheaa.org between 12:01 AM April 23, 2007
Eastern Time (ET) and 11:59 PM June 2, 2007 (“On-Line Entry Period”) and
complete the registration form with your first and last name, street address,
city, state, zip code, telephone number, email address, your date of birth, the
name of the post secondary school (college, university or technical school) you
are currently attending or the name of the OH or PA high school at which you
are currently a graduating senior and the name of the institution at which you
plan on continuing your post secondary education. You will also be asked to
verify that you have not played
or coached high school or collegiate football, rugby or soccer at any level
(freshman, junior varsity or varsity in men’s or women’s competition) or played
on or coached an international soccer, rugby or football team in the past five
(5) years. You will also be given the opportunity to “opt in” to receive further
electronic communication from PHEAA.
Opting to receive communication is not a requirement for valid entry nor
does it increase your chances of winning. (Please see the link below to the
PHEAA privacy policy.) There is a limit
of one (1) entry per person per email address. Ten (10) entrants will be
randomly selected all eligible on-line entrants as Contestants to participate
in the half-time festivities at the Big 33 Football Game.
The odds of being selected as one of the Contestants by entering on-line
depend upon the number of eligible on-line entries received.
By Invitation at PHEAA Sponsored Luncheons – Eligible individuals who have received a Big
33 scholarship and who are present at the Big 33 luncheons on April 2, 2007,
April 9, 2007 and April 16, 2007 are automatically entered into the respective
drawings, which will be held at each luncheon. One (1) Contestant will be
randomly selected at the April 2 luncheon, five (5) Contestants at the April 9
luncheon and five (5) Contestants at the April 16 luncheon. The odds of being
selected a Contestant at one of the luncheons depends on the number of
attendees at each of the respective luncheons.
Additionally, five (5) Alternate Contestants will be randomly selected at
the Big 33 luncheons to attend the Big 33 Game.
Two (2) Alternate Contestants will be randomly selected at the April 9,
2007 luncheon, and three (3) Alternate Contestants will be randomly selected at
the April 16, 2007 luncheon.
An alternate Contestant will participate in the half-time festivities
ONLY if needed as determined by Officials to replace one of the Contestants due
to absence or disqualification. If needed for participation, a random drawing
will be conducted from the five (5) Alternate Contestants to determine the one
to be named as a Contestant.
All Contestants and Alternate Contestants will be
required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility &
Liability/Publicity Release (the “Affidavit”) (where legal) within five (5)
calendar days of being provided the Affidavit. Failure to return the satisfactorily
completed Affidavit within the stated time frame will result in
disqualification and the selection of an alternate.
6) Contestant Prize: Each of the twenty-one (21)
Contestants and the five (5) Alternate Contestants will receive three (3)
tickets to the PNC Big
33 Football Classic, June 16, 2007,
7) Field Goal Kick Competition Rules
(“Kick Competition Rules”): The Field Goal Kick Competition
(the “Competition”) will be officiated by three (3) Competition Officials (the
“Officials”) selected by the Sponsor.
The Officials will certify they have supervised and conducted the Competition
in accordance with the following Kick Competition Rules.
The Field Goal Kick Competitor…
(a)
Will not be permitted any practice, warm-up or
pre-qualifying kicks.
(b)
Will be permitted only ONE attempt to make the field
goal kick.
(c)
Must kick from an Official NFL one-inch (1”) kicking
tee.
(d)
If a male, must kick the football provided from a
distance of not less than 40 yards (i.e. no closer than the 30-yard line).
(e)
If a female, must kick the football provided from a
distance of not less than 35 yards (i.e. no closer than the 25-yard line).
A successful kick (“Winning Kick”) will be defined
as one in which the ball passes completely through the uprights of the goal
posts “on the fly”, after leaving the Final Kick Competitor’s foot and prior to
making contact with any surface or obstacle other than the goal itself. Further, the Final Kick Competitor’s kick
must be such as would otherwise qualify as a successful field goal from the
specified distance under NFL rules.
Contest Officials reserve the right to disqualify
ANY Contestant, including the Final Kick Competitor, prior to, during or
subsequent to the kick, who they find, in their sole discretion to be acting in
violation of the Kick Competition Rules; to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or
disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any
person.
The decision of the Contest Officials in all matters
related to the Competition are final and subject only to review as to
compliance with the Kick Competition Rules by McLarens Young International, an
independent judging firm.
8) Field Goal Kick Competition
Prize: If the Final Kick Competitor
complies with all Promotion Rules and Kick Competition Rules and executes a
winning kick as defined by the Kick
Competition Rules, he/she will be named the winner and will be awarded $33,000
in scholarship funds which will be (a) added to the winner’s Big 33 existing
Scholarship Award (if the Final Kick Competitor received a Big 33 Scholarship
Award) or (b) used to establish a Big 33 Scholarship Award for the winner.
If the Final Kick Competitor complies with all Promotion Rules and Kick
Competition Rules, but fails to execute a winning kick as defined by the Kick
Competition Rules, he/she will be awarded a consolation prize of $3,300 in
scholarship funds which will be (a) added to the Final Kick Competitor’s Big 33
existing Scholarship Award (if the Final Kick Competitor received a Big 33
Scholarship Award) or (b) used to establish a Big 33 Scholarship Award for the
Final Kick Competitor.
The Sponsor will transmit the applicable scholarship funds directly to
the Big 33 Scholarship Foundation, which will administer the funds in
accordance with the guidelines established for the Big 33 Scholarship Program.
If the Final Kick Competitor fails to comply with the requirements of the Big
33 Scholarship program, the entire Scholarship amount or any remaining portion
of the Scholarship amount may be forfeited.
Any all taxes and income reporting associated with receiving any
Scholarship Funds are the sole responsibility of the recipient. If the Final
Kick Competitor is a minor, Scholarship Funds may be awarded in the name of
his/her parent or legal guardian.
9) General: Contestants and Alternate
Contestants will be contacted by phone and/or email on or about June 5, 2007
and will be required to complete, sign
and return an Affidavit of Eligibility & Liability/Publicity Release (where
legal). The Affidavit must be returned within five (5) calendar days of
Sponsor’s provision of the Affidavit. Failure to return a satisfactorily
completed Affidavit within the specified time period will in disqualification
and selection of an alternate. If any Affidavit is s returned as undeliverable,
the potential Contestant or Alternate Contestant will be disqualified and an
alternate selected.
ANY AND ALL
TAX LIABILITY RESULTING FROM AN INDIVIDUAL’S RECEIPT OF ANY PRIZE IS THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL. Scholarship funds are not redeemable for
cash and there are no prize transfers or prize substitutions except at the sole
discretion of the Sponsor.
In the
event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an
electronic entry, the entry will be deemed to be submitted by the
"authorized account holder" person in whose name the email account is
registered, provided that person meets all eligibility criteria set forth in
the Eligibility section of these official rules. "Authorized Holder"
shall mean the natural person assigned to an email address by an Internet
access provider, on-line service provider or other organization that is
responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the
submitted email address.
By
entering, entrants (a) agree to comply with and be bound by the Official
Promotion Rules, the Kick Competition Rules and the decisions of the Officials
and the Sponsor which are final and binding in all respects; (b) agree to
release Sponsor and its employees and agents from any and all liability, loss,
damage or injury resulting from participation in this Promotion or from the awarding,
receipt, possession use and/or misuse of any prize; (c) acknowledge that the
Sponsor, and its employees and agents have neither made nor are in any manner
responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express
or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any prize including, but not limited
to, its quality, mechanical condition or fitness for a particular purpose; (d)
consent to use of his/her name, photograph and/or likeness, statements and
voice for advertising and promotional purposes in all media worldwide and in
perpetuity without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law; and e)
understand that their sweepstakes registration information is being left at a 3rd
party website provider to PHEAA and that the 3rd party website is
governed by the PHEAA privacy policy
available at http://www.pheaa.org/about/Privacy_Policy.shtml.
Sponsor is
not responsible for any lost, late, delayed, misdirected, garbled, illegible,
incorrect or inaccurate information or entries that are misdirected or
misrouted as a result of interrupted or unavailable network, phone or internet
connections or transmissions for any reason, or for any computer, phone, phone
line hardware or software malfunction, failure or error of any kind, whether
mechanical, human or electronic. Any on-line entries received by using robotic,
automatic, programmed or similar techniques are not eligible. Any attempt by an
entrant to interfere with the operations of the Promotion is a violation of
criminal and civil laws; Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any
such entrant to the fullest extent permitted by law. If, for
any reason, the on-line portion of the Promotion is not capable of running as planned,
including, without limitation, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering,
unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes
beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration,
security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Sponsor
reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or
suspend the on-line portion of the Promotion and to the extent feasible select
Contestants and Alternate Contestants in a random drawing from among all
eligible entries received prior to the cancellation. All entries are the
property of the Sponsor.
10) Release: BY ENTERING THE PROMOTION, YOU RELEASE AND HOLD THE SPONSOR AND THE
EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, AGENTS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF
SPONSOR AND ITS AFFILIATES, HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LOSSES,
DAMAGES, CLAIMS, AND ACTIONS OF ANY KIND ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE
PROMOTION OR RESULTING FROM ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF, OR
DEFECTS IN, A PRIZE, OR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROMOTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION CLAIMS BASED ON PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, PROPERTY LOSS OR DAMAGE,
PUBLICITY OR PRIVACY RIGHTS, AND/OR DEFAMATION.
11) Disputes: Except where prohibited, as a condition of participating in
this Promotion, entrants (and their parents/legal guardians if entrants are
minors) agree that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the
parties, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this
Promotion, or any prizes awarded, or the determination of Contestants,
Alternate Contestants or Final Kick Competitor or winner shall be resolved
individually, without resort to any form of class action exclusively by
arbitration pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American
Arbitration Association, then effective. Further, in any such dispute, under no
circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby
waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or
any other damages, including attorneys' fees, other than entrant’s actual
out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering the Promotion) and
entrant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. All
issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and
enforceability of the Official Promotion Rules and the Kick Competition Rules
or the rights and obligations of entrant and Sponsor in connection with the
Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., without giving effect to the conflict
of laws rules thereof, and all proceedings shall take place in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, County of Dauphin.
12) Cancellation/Force
Majeure: If for any reason the Promotion is not
capable of running as planned for any reason, including by reason of fraud, act
of God, or any other factor beyond Sponsor's reasonable control, Sponsor
reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Promotion. If the Contest is canceled, terminated, modified or suspended,
Sponsor has no obligations to award any prizes and Sponsor’s only
responsibility will be the timely notification of Contestants and Alternate
Contestants. .
13) Contestant/Winners List: For a
names of Contestants, Alternate Contestants and the Final Kick Competitor, send
a self addressed stamped
envelope for receipt no later than September 1, 2007 to: PHEAA $33,000 Field
Goal Kick Contest Winner’s List,
Sponsor: PHEAA,