OFFICIAL RULES
“OLN 2006 Million Dollar Slap Shot Sweepstakes”
NO PURCHASE OR ON-LINE USE NECESSARY. MAKING A PURCHASE WILL NOT
INCREASE ODDS OF WINNING.
1. TO ENTER: There are two ways to enter for the
grand prize drawing: 1) To enter online simply log on to www.olntv.com
and register with OLN between 12:00am ET May 5, 2006 and 11:59pm
ET June 7, 2006 (“Promotion Period”). For online entries,
only an e-mail address subscribed to and registered in an entrant’s
name may be used by such entrant. In the event of a dispute about
entries submitted by multiple individuals using the same e-mail
account, entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized
subscriber of the e-mail account used to enter the sweepstakes at
the actual time of entry. The authorized e-mail account subscriber
is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned an e-mail address
by an Internet-access provider, an online-service provider or another
organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses
or the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. 2) Alternatively,
you may enter by hand printing your name, complete address (including
zip code), daytime phone number, cable provider, name of participating
store where you heard about this offer on a tear pad entry form
available at participating locations or a 3”x 5” card
and mailing it, postage prepaid, to: The Million Dollar Slap Shot
Sweepstakes, Marlin Entertainment, 1771 Post Road East #326, Westport,
CT 06880. Limit one entry per person, per household, per email address,
per day. Mail-in entries must be postmarked by June 8, 2006 and
received no later than June 15, 2006. No responsibility is assumed
for viruses, technical, hardware, software or other online entry
malfunctions of any kind or unavailable network connections, or
failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic
communications caused by the sender, or by any of the equipment
or programming associated with or utilized in the sweepstakes which
may limit the ability to participate, or by any human error which
may occur in the processing of the entry for the sweepstakes. If
the Sweepstakes is not capable of being conducted as described in
these Official Rules, Sponsor shall have the right, at its sole
discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes.
In such an event, Sponsor reserves the right to choose winner from
all eligible entries received. Mutilated entries will not be accepted.
Multiple or duplicate entries received will be disqualified. Responsibility
for receipt of entry rests solely with the entrant. All entries
become the property of the Sponsor. Sponsor will not return or acknowledge
receipt of entries. To enter the instant win game: Approximately
120 selected participating stores (“Participating Stores”)
will each have a Million Dollar Slap Shot Sweepstakes display that
will contain approximately 300 instant win hockey pucks (“Instant
Win Hockey Pucks”) with a Game Booklet. Limit of one Instant
Win Hockey Puck/Game Booklet per person during the Promotion Period.
Instant Win Hockey Pucks/Game Booklets are only available while
supplies last. The supply may run out before the end of the promotion
period. To see if you are an instant winner open the Game Booklet
which is attached to the Instant Win Hockey Puck. If the Game Booklet
states that you are an instant winner then send by certified mail
(return receipt requested) the original Game Booklet and a 3”
x 5” piece of paper with your name, address, date of birth,
daytime telephone number and the retail location and address at
which you obtained your Game Booklet to: Marlin Entertainment, 1720
Post Road East, Suite 131, Westport, CT 06880. Game Booklet must
be postmarked by 6/8/06 and received by 6/15/06. It is recommended
that you retain a photocopy of the original special notifications
for your records. All prize claims are subject to verification.
Following verification of a prize claim, the winners will be notified.
Any unclaimed prize will not be awarded.
2. ELIGIBILITY: The sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the
50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of
age or older as of May 5, 2006. Sweepstakes not open to employees,
and their families, of Sponsor, Administrator, the NHL Entities,
Participating Stores, Sponsor’s Advertisers, Sponsor’s
Cable Affiliates or any of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries,
advertising agencies, participating sponsor or any other company
involved with the design, production, execution or distribution
of the sweepstakes (collectively the “Affiliated Parties”).
Current or former professional or semi-professional hockey players
or coaches, college varsity hockey players or coaches who have played
or coached at that level in the past five (5) years, Junior A (Major
or Minor), B, or C hockey players or coaches who have played or
coached at that level in the past five (5) years and individuals
who have played or organized recreation-league hockey teams in the
past five years are also not eligible. This offer is void wherever
prohibited, and subject to all federal, state and local laws and
regulations.
3. RANDOM DRAWING FOR GRAND PRIZE CHANCE: Three (3) winners will
be selected in a random drawing on or about July 1, 2006 from among
all eligible entries received. Decisions of the Sponsor are final
and binding. Odds of winning the grand prize drawing will depend
on number of eligible entries received. Winner will be notified
by mail, email or phone at the address/number provided.
4. SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES: One (1) grand prize will be awarded. Grand
Prize Winner will receive a single slap shot try for a chance to
win one million dollars ($1,000,000). This cash prize to be paid
as an annuity over a 30 year period ($33,330 per year for 30 years).
Slap shot try to be conducted at a pro hockey rink chosen at the
Sponsor’s sole discretion. The eligible participant (“Participant”)
will not be permitted any practice, warm-up, or qualifying shots.
The Participant, using an NHL-regulation hockey stick must strike
one NHL-regulation hockey puck (or one of equivalent specifications)
a distance of ninety (90) feet, causing it to pass COMPLETELY through
a hole in a designated, secured target template. The hole in the
target template will measure no more than 5 inches across and be
stationary. From the moment control of the puck is released to the
Participant until the Participant’s hockey stick last touches
the puck, both the puck and Participant must remain at least ninety
(90) feet from the hole in the target template. Puck cannot make
contact with any surface or obstacle other than the hockey stick,
ice and target hole once the puck has been hit by the Participant.
Banked shots are not allowed. Failure or disregard of any of the
above shall relieve Sponsor, Administrator and Affiliated Parties
of any and all liability hereunder and no prize will be awarded.
Slap shot try will occur between August 1, 2006 and November 30,
2006 at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. One (1) second prize
winner will receive one (1) Fifteen Hundred ($1,500) certificate
redeemable for authentic signed hockey memorabilia as provided by
Steiner Sports (ARV: $1,500). One (1) third prize winner will receive
one (1) 26” Sharp LCD/HDTV television set (ARV: $1,200). There
will be a total of 120 instant game winners. The instant game winners
will receive a Fifteen Hundred ($1,500) certificate redeemable for
authentic signed hockey memorabilia as provided by Steiner Sports
(ARV: $1,500). Odds of being an instant winner are 1:300. No warranty
or guarantee will be given by Sponsor, Administrator, the NHL Entities
or other Affiliated Parties with respect to any prize. Any and all
guarantees and warranties are subject to the manufacturer's or service
provider’s terms and conditions. Prizes are non-transferable.
No substitution, cash redemption, assignment or transfer of prize
permitted, except by Sponsor, who reserves the right in its sole
discretion to substitute a prize with another prize of greater or
equal value. All winners will be sent an affidavit of Eligibility
and liability/publicity release. This affidavit must be signed,
notarized and received by Sponsor within 10 days of winner notification,
or the prize package will be deemed forfeited.
5. GENERAL: Prize is nontransferable, and substitution is not allowed,
except by the Sponsor, who reserves the right to award a prize of
equal or greater value. All federal, state and local taxes, if any,
related to a prize are the responsibility of the individual winner.
Sponsor, the NHL Entities and Administrator make no representation
about the condition or fitness of any part of the prizes. Prize
will not be awarded until affidavit of publicity and release forms
are completed and returned. An additional statement of eligibility
and execution of certain release forms may be required prior to
the award of the prize. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission
of winner to use his/her name, voice and likeness/image for promotional
advertising, publicity or trade purposes in any and all media worldwide
in perpetuity by Sponsor, Administrator, the NHL Entities and other
Affiliated Parties without further compensation except where prohibited
by law. By entering this sweepstakes, entrants accept and agree
to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of the judges,
which are final on all matters relating to this sweepstakes. Sponsor,
Administrator, the NHL Entities and the other Affiliated Parties
are not responsible for illegible, incomplete, late, lost, damaged,
destroyed, incorrect, postage due, delayed or misdirected entries.
Sponsor, Administrator, the NHL Entities and the other Affiliated
Parties are not responsible for computer, telephone, cable network,
electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, failures,
connections, availability, or garbled or jumbled transmissions.
Sponsor, Administrator and Affiliated Parties are not responsible
for Internet/web site/use, net accessibility or availability, traffic
congestion or unauthorized human intervention, or for any damage
to user’s system occasioned by participating in the sweepstakes
or downloading any necessary information. By participating in this
sweepstakes and/or by accepting the prize, entrants, winner and
guest release and forever discharge Sponsor, Administrator, the
NHL Entities and the other Affiliated Parties and their respective
parents, shareholders, partners, interest holders, affiliates, subsidiaries,
directors, officers, agents, authorized representatives, employees,
advertising agencies from and against any and all liability with
respect to or in any way arising from participation in this sweepstakes
and/or acceptance or use of any prize, including, without limitation,
for personal injury, damage, loss or death, and claims based on
publicity rights, defamation, invasion of privacy and merchandise/prize
delivery. Sponsor is not responsible if any prize cannot be awarded
due to delivery cancellations, delays or other interruptions due
to acts of God, acts of war, natural disasters, weather or acts
of terrorism. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any individual
it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry
process or otherwise failing to abide by these Official Rules.
6. NAME OF THE WINNER: For the name of the winner, send a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to: OLN, Million Dollar Slap Shot Sweepstakes
Winner List, 281 Tresser Boulevard, Two Stamford Plaza, Stamford
CT, 06901 before July 31, 2006.
7. The Sponsor of this promotion is OLN, 281 Tresser Boulevard,
Two Stamford Plaza, Stamford, CT 06901.
8. The Administrator of this promotion is Marlin Entertainment,
1720 Post Road East, Westport, CT 06880.
9. The NHL Entities are the NHL, NHL Enterprises, L.P., NHL Enterprises
Canada, L.P., NHL Enterprises B.V., NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises,
L.L.C. and the Member Clubs of the NHL. |