{Nox fansite contest}

Official Rules and Conditions

1.  Entry.  NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  To enter, contestants must create and submit the URL of their own NOX fan site, full name, address, email address and birth date via email to noxfansitecontest@westwood.com before February 28th, 2000.  Instructions and guidelines for the creation of all official NOX fan sites are located at the official NOX homepage http://www.noxworld.com. No other methods of entry will be accepted. All entries submitted must contain the official NOX news applet, and must not contain or support profanity, illegal activities, or disparage the NOX game or Westwood in any way. You may only enter once.  Sponsor assumes no responsibility for lost, incomplete, incorrect, or misdirected entries. Entrants accept and agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules and Conditions.  Entrants warrant that submissions are their own creations and do not violate the rights of any third party.  All Entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.  By entering, entrants agree that Sponsor may post submission on Sponsor’s web site along with entrants’ names and hometowns without any compensation to entrant.  Entrants agree that Sponsor has the right to use the submission, entrant’s name, likeness and any other information supplied by entrant, in any and all publicity and advertising for NOX or this contest without any notification or compensation, except where prohibited by law.   Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may edit and modify any submission for publication.

 

2.  Prizes. One (1) prize package with an approximate retail value of t $225.00 in NOX merchandise will be awarded to the top fan site in each category for Design (consisting of graphic and web site design originality), Activity (consisting of activities and events by the fan site), Self Promotion (a review of all self-promotion activities handled by each fan site), and User Participation (an overall visitor count and review of activity at each).  A total of four prize packages will be awarded. A single $4,000 Cash Grand Prize will be awarded to the best fan site based on the overall best total score in all four categories.  Winners will be selected under the auspices of Sponsor and all decisions of Sponsor are final.  No transfer or substitution of prizes for cash or otherwise is permitted, except that Sponsor retains the right to substitute a prize of approximately equal value.  Winners will sign a publicity release in the form provided by Sponsor, if requested.  Failure to sign a requested publicity release form will result in forfeiture of prize and a new winner may be chosen.

 

3.  Eligibility and General Conditions.  This contest is open to U.S. residents only, other than residents of Florida.  Employees of Electronic Arts Inc., and its affiliates, subsidiaries, representatives, advertising, promotion and publicity agencies and the immediate families of each are not eligible for this contest.  Contest is void where prohibited, restricted or taxed by law, and is subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations.  Taxes on prizes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the individual winners. Sponsor is not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic or other communications.  Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person who tampers with entry process or the operation of the web site, or who is otherwise in violation of these rules.  Sponsor has the right to cancel, terminate or modify this contest if it is not capable of completion as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort.]  Sponsor and its affiliates and subsidiaries, representatives, advertising, promotion and publicity agencies, are not in any way responsible or liable for damages, loss or injury resulting from submission of any entry, or acceptance, loss or use of any prizes awarded in this contest.

4. Winners list.  The winner will be announced at http://www.noxworld.com after February 28th and posted until March 15th, 2000, and is available by sending a stamped, self addressed envelope marked Nox Fansite Contest to Westwood Studios, 2400 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas, NV. 89128.

5.  Sponsor.  This contest is sponsored by Westwood Studios

 

6.  Legal: (c) 2000 Electronic Arts.  Nox, Westwood Studios and Westwood Online are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Electronic Arts in the U.S. and/or other countries.  All rights reserved. Westwood Studios is an Electronic Arts(tm) Inc. company.