OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

HOW TO ENTER: This weekly contest begins 9:00 A.M. EST on March 15, 2010 and ends 8:59 A.M. EST on Monday, March 21, 2011.  Every Monday, beginning 9:00 A.M. EST

March 15, 2010 a new weekly contest will begin.  Each weekly contest will run for seven days with the final contest ending 8:59 A.M. on March 21, 2011.  SI Kids reserves the right to cancel the contest at any time between 9:00 A.M. EST on March 15, 2010 and 8:59 A.M. EST on March 21, 2011.  To enter go to http://sikids.com/contests/tshirt-contest and follow instructions to submit your original “T-shirt design”.  A parent/legal guardian email address will be required to submit the design.  Once the design is submitted, an email will be sent to the parent/legal guardian with notification that the design has been submitted.   Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, ineligible, or incomplete entries or entries not received for any reason.  Entries become sole property of Sponsor and none will be acknowledged or returned.  By entering, Entrant warrants that his or her entry (1) is original and does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party, (2) has not been published in any medium or (3) has not won an award.
 

2. JUDGING:  All designs submitted will be viewed and monitored each week by SI Kids edit staff for appropriate content to qualify for entry into the contest.  SI Kids edit staff will judge the qualified designs based on originality and creativity to grant approval for entry. Unlimited number of designs can be submitted. After approval, the parent/legal guardian will be notified by email that the design is approved and the design will be placed into a database lineup for a seven day waiting period.  After the seven day waiting period ends, the approved design will be eligible for viewing on the website and voting in the contest that is scheduled to begin on the upcoming Monday.  The following is an example of the waiting period process:  If a design is approved on Wednesday, it will remain in the database lineup for seven days until the following Wednesday, and eligible for contest entry the following Monday at 9:00 A.M. EST.  Designs will be randomly paired against each other in an “A vs. B” selection. Designs are randomly chosen to equally distribute voting across all designs currently in voting.  A voter selects their favorite design by clicking on A or B with their computer mouse.  A clicked selection is considered a vote “for” the design. Then two new design images appear and the voter reselects A or B again.  The A or B selection process repeats over and over until the contest ends.  The total number of “for” votes is recorded as wins.  Designs are then ranked by their win percentage. Win percentage is calculated by dividing the number of recorded votes by the total voting opportunities a design receives. The win percentage is the measure used to determine a winner during the stated contest period for awarding a prize.  SI Kids will monitor voting weekly to ensure the voting is distributed evenly within reason. In the event of a tie, an additional “tie-breaker” judge will determine the winner using the judging criteria above. SI Kids edit staff reserve the right to select a winner based on judgment of most appropriate design and with the highest win percentage.  Every week the votes from the prior week are reset to zero in the system and a fresh competition begins.  This equalizes all designs so that a new entry has the same chance as a design submitted in prior weeks to win.   Incomplete and/or inaccurate entries and entries not complying with all rules are subject to disqualification. Any use of a “spider”, “robot”, or any computer program designed to modify voting data will result in the banning of the user and deletion of this data. We reserve the right to remove any user or design deemed to benefit from non-human voting.  Decisions of the judges are final and binding.  Winning designs will be removed from voting once winning is approved. Every Monday at 9:00 A.M.EST a new contest begins and the cycle of voting starts over. Designs that did not win the previous week will have another chance to win against new designs that are entered for the current contest. The winner will be notified by email to the parent/legal guardian the week following the end of the prior week’s competition. For example, if the competition ends on Monday, April 6 at 8:59 A.M. EST, an email to the parent/legal guardian will be sent on or before Monday, April 13 at 5:00 P.M. EST with the announcement that the design won the contest. The email will also request the mailing address. The prize will be received within 10 business days after receiving the winner’s address.  The winning design may be featured in a future issue of SI Kids Magazine.

3. ELIGIBILITY:  Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 7 -15 years of age at time of entry.  Void where prohibited by law.  Employees of Sponsor, its promotional partners and their respective parents, affiliates and subsidiaries, participating advertising and promotion agencies (and members of their immediate family and/or those living in the same of household of each such employee) are not eligible.   

4. PRIZES AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE:  All approved designs will be available for sale at third party vendor, Zazzle.com without compensation to any contestant. All other expenses not specified herein are the responsibility of the Winner. 

Beginning 9:00 A.M. EST Monday, May 10, 2010 until 8:59 A.M. EST Monday, June 7, 2010 the weekly winner will receive a signed poster, Babolat Aero Backpack, T-shirt, cap, accessory pack - $150 value. One grand prize winner will receive a signed racquet, signed poster, Babolat Team 9-pk Racquet Bag and Backpack, T-shirt, cap, accessory pack - $400 value. The grand prize winner will be the winning weekly entry that has the highest win percentage from the four prior weeks. Win percentage is explained in JUDGING point 2 above.

.ALL TAXES ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNER.  The prize is awarded without warranty, express or implied, of any kind. Limit one prize per person or household.  

5. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:  No transfer, assignment, or substitution of a prize permitted, except Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize (or prize component) for an item of equal or greater value at Sponsor’s sole discretion.  Nothing in these official contest rules shall obligate Sponsor to publish or otherwise use any entry submitted in connection with this Contest.  All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.  Entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Contest.  By entering, Entrant represents that any designs and other materials submitted as part of Entrant’s contest entry are original and will not constitute defamation or an invasion of privacy or otherwise infringe upon the rights of any third party, and that the Entrant owns or has the rights to convey any and all right and title in such designs and other materials.  In addition, by entering, Entrant grants to Sponsor a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to edit, publish, promote, republish at any time in the future and otherwise use Entrant’s submitted design, along with Entrant’s name, likeness, biographical information, and any other information provided by Entrant, in any and all media for possible editorial, promotional or advertising purposes, without further permission, notice or compensation (except where prohibited by law). Potential Winner, and parent or legal guardian where the Potential Winner has not reached the age of majority in their state of residence at time of entry, as a condition of receiving any prize, also may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and where legally permissible a Publicity Release and confirmation of a license as set forth above within 7 days following the date of first attempted notification, certifying, among other things, the following: (a) entry does not defame or invade the privacy of any party; (b) entry does not infringe upon the rights of any third party; and (c) the design and other materials submitted are original and have never been published and entry has never won an award.  Failure to comply with this deadline may result in forfeiture of the prize and selection of an alternate winner. Return of any prize/prize notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.  Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for Sponsor and its agencies to use Winner’s name and/or likeness, biographical information, and design for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.  By entering and/or accepting prize, Entrants and Winners agree to hold Sponsor and its promotional partners, its directors, officers, employees and assigns harmless for liability, damages or claims for injury or loss to any person or property relating to, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, participation in this Contest, the acceptance and/or subsequent use or misuse, or condition of any of the prizes awarded, or claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy.  False or deceptive entries or acts will render the Entrant ineligible.  Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the immediate and unrestricted right to disqualify any entrant or prize winner, if either commits or has committed any act, or has been involved or becomes involved in any situation or occurrence which the Sponsor deems likely to subject the Sponsor, entrant or winner to ridicule, scandal or contempt or which reflects unfavorably upon the Sponsor in any way.  If such information is discovered by Sponsor after a winner has received notice of his prize and before the prize is awarded, Sponsor may rescind the prize in its entirety.  If a portion of his/her prize has already been awarded, Sponsor may withdraw the remainder of the prize that has been fulfilled.  Decisions of the Sponsor are final and binding in all matters related to this paragraph.  Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the contest, or in the announcement of the prize.

6. INTERNET:  Sponsor is not responsible for lost or late entries nor for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor or presenter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or any combination thereof.  If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering (which shall be deemed to include automated voting), unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process or any entry that has been the subject of such tampering by third parties, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.  Sponsor reserves the right to select winners from eligible entries received as of the termination date.  CAUTION: Any attempt by a contestant to deliberately damage any Web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the game is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such contestant to the fullest extent of the law.  If there is a dispute as to the identity of the Entrant, the prize will be awarded to the authorized account holder of the email address.  The “authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person to whom the email address is assigned.

7. GOVERNING LAW:  This Contest is governed by the internal laws of the state of New York without giving effect to any conflicts of laws rules which may result in the application of the law of any other jurisdiction.  All cases and claims pertaining to this Contest must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in the City of New York, without recourse to class action suits.

8. SEVERABILITY:  If any provision of these Rules is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or appointed arbitrator, such determination shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision herein.

9. WINNER’S LIST:  For name of Winner(s), available weekly after each contest cycle ends,

beginning April 20, 2009, send a separate self-addressed, stamped envelope to: SI Kids T-shirt Design Contest, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 31^st Floor, New York, NY 10020.

10.  SPONSOR:  The Sponsor of this Contest is SIKIDS.com, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 31^st floor, New York, NY 10020.