Mark Lamutt
02-02-03, 08:24 PM
DBSTalk.com Presents The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest
Sponsored exclusively by Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) and DBSTalk.com.
The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Official Rules of Play:
1. The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest is sponsored by DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/). CBS, Mark Burnett Productions, Dish Network, DirecTV, and Zenith are in no way affiliated with the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest. All trademarks are property of their respective companies.
2. All rules concerning game play of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest are subject to modification. If modification of the rules becomes necessary, the rule changes will be posted at DBSTalk.com.
3. All decisions made by the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator are final.
4. All DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest participants are required to be registered members of DBSTalk.com to enter the Contest. While participants from around the world are allowed to play, prizes will be only awarded to residents of the United States.
5. Winners of any DBSTalk.com Contests are eligible to win only one time in every 12 month period. Second and Third Place finishers may continue to enter. Grand Prize winners from previous DBSTalk Survivor Contests are also inelligible to win the Grand Prize.
6. Prizes:
Grand Prize: Your choice between a Dish Network 811-HD receiver (valued at $399) or a Zenith HD-Sat520 receiver (valued at $599) provided by Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/). Dish Depot will ship the receiver directly to the winner upon completion of the Contest and verification of the Contest results. Second Place Prize will be a DVD of the participant’s choice (valued up to $30) or two items from the DBSTalk.com online store (valued up to $30). Third Place Prize will be one item from the DBSTalk.com online store (valued up to $20).7. The Participant with greatest number of points at the conclusion of the Contest will choose which receiver is to be awarded to him/her.
8. Odds of winning depend on how well participants answer the poll questions, and on the number of participants in the Contest. Prizes will be awarded when Survivor: Pearl Islands ends its season on CBS in December 2003 or January 2004. Prize winners will be notified via email. DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) will pay any shipping charges for prizes. There will be no substitution of the Grand Prize by the Contest Winner allowed. No purchase is necessary to participate or win.
9. In the event Survivor: Pearl Islands ends before its complete run on CBS (i.e. network cancellation), the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest participants leading at the time of Survivor: Pearl Island’s end will be awarded the prizes.
Should current world events lead CBS to pull Survivor: Pearl Islands from the current schedule for a limited period of time, the contest will be "put on hold" until such time as Survivor: Pearl Islands resumes on CBS. The DBSTalk Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator shall be the sole judge of the definition of the term "limited".
Should events outside of the DBSTalk.com Administrators' control cause DBSTalk.com to cease operations during the contest for a temporary time, the contest shall be put on hold until such time when DBSTalk.com becomes operational again. Any weeks missed will not be counted in the overall results, but the DBSTalk Contest Coordinator shall revise point awards and poll values to attempt to make up for points lost. Should events outside of DBSTalk.com control force the closure of DBSTalk.com permanently, the contest will end at that point, and the prizes shall be awarded to the current leaders at the time of the closure.
10. In the event of a tie, the tiebreakers will be as follows:
Tiebreaker #1 – the participant casting votes in the greater number of Contest Polls in the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be awarded the prize. Tiebreaker #2 – the participant with the greater number of correct picks for the Survivor voted out of the Tribe over the course of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be awarded the prize. Tiebreaker #3 – the participant with the greater number of correct picks in the "Random" polls (of which there will be at least 2 per week) over the course of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be awarded the prize. Tiebreaker #4 – the prize will be awarded to the participant picked in a random drawing by the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator.11. DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) staff members, employees and their immediate families and household members, while eligible to participate, are not eligible to win prizes. Employees of Mark Burnett Productions, CBS, and CBS affiliates also are not eligible to win prizes. Participants who fall under these conditions are required to inform the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator of their status before entering the Contest.
12. The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be conducted entirely online at DBSTalk.com. Weekly Contest entries will only be accepted when submitted online at DBSTalk.com. Once votes are cast in the polls, they cannot be changed, so vote carefully!
13. DBSTalk.com is not responsible for weather incidents (such as ice storms) or any other acts of God that may prevent the participants from entering. DBSTalk.com and the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator are not responsible for entry errors or for transmission errors.
14. DBSTalk.com is in no way responsible for any problems, technical malfunctions or traffic congestion on the Internet or on the DBSTalk.com web site which may limit entries into the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands contest. In the event of a database failure within the DBSTalk.com web site resulting in a loss of entries for any given week, the game will continue from a backup source file. After the database is restored, any votes entered after the backup point and before restoration will need to be reentered. If such an event occurs, full details of procedure will be provided in the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest forum.
15. By entering the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands contest, participants release DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) from liability for any technical malfunction of prizes awarded, and for any damage and/or injury incurred from prizes. Prize winners agree to allow DBSTalk.com to use their name and or likeness on DBSTalk.com and/or in advertisements. Winners will provide DBSTalk.com a photograph (preferably digital) of themselves with their prize.
16. Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage the DBSTalk.com web site or the Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) reserve the right to seek damages from the offending participant to the fullest extent of the law.
17. Contest void where prohibited by law.
How to Enter Each Week:
1. Participants will vote in a minimum of four polls each week. Each correct vote will be worth a set number of points announced when the poll is posted. The participants with the most points at the end of Week 13 of Survivor: Pearl Islands will be the winners of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest. If a poll question is rendered invalid by events that occur in the show, all votes in that poll will be considered correct, and full points will be awarded to all participants who voted.
2. During the course of play, Bonus Polls worth varying numbers of points may be added at the discretion of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator. In past contests, the Bonus Polls were the "randomizer" polls. As each week will contain at least 2 "randomizer" polls, Bonus Polls will NOT occur each week.
3. Polls will be posted one day after the airing of the week’s Survivor: Pearl Islands episode.
4. Weekly DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Island Contest entries must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Time the day before the weekly Survivor: Pearl Islands episode airs on CBS. The DBSTalk.com clock will be used as the official time for the Contest. If the weekly episode airs on Thursday, all Contest entries must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Time Wednesday. Some Survivor: Pearl Islands episodes may air on another day of the week during the season. Air schedule and Contest schedule updates will be posted at DBSTalk.com.
5. Weekly DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest results will be updated and posted on the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Official Web Site (http://survivor.dbstalk.com/) on or before the second day after the airing of the week’s Survivor: Pearl Islands episode. Players will not be notified of weekly results via any other method.
6. The points will be awarded as follows:
Each week, participants will receive 2 points for every poll in which you vote. Weeks Before the Tribes Merge: As the polls will change from week to week, generally polls in the weeks before the Tribes Merge will be worth 1/2 of the points of the polls after the Tribes Merge. Weeks After the Tribes Merge: As the polls will change from week to week, generally polls in the weeks after the Tribes Merge will be worth twice the points of the polls before the Tribes Merge. In Week 13 (The Final Week), participants will vote in at least six polls. The final week will be worth at least 50 points.Please note the changes listed above for the points and the polls. There is going to be much more variation in what the poll questions are, and the point values assigned to the polls than you have seen in previous DBSTalk Survivor contests.
Special Bonus Points for Participation:
During Weeks 1 through 6, one participant who voted in all of the polls that week will be randomly chosen and awarded 10 points. During Weeks 7 thorugh 12, three participants who voted in all of the polls that week will be randomly chosen and awarded 10 points each. During Week 13, five participants who voted in all of the Week 13 polls will be randomly chosen and awarded 10 points each. Random point award drawings will take place after the weekly polls have closed and will be conducted by DBSTalk.com staff. All participants will be elligible for the random bonus points, including participants not elligible to win prizes. (That is if the name Mark Lamutt is drawn, I get the points for the week, even though I'm not elligible to win.) Vote in every poll during the Contest: 20 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in 1-12 polls during the Contest: 15 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in 13-24 polls during the Contest: 10 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in 25-36 polls during the Contest: 5 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in more than 36 polls during the Contest: 0 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest.
7. Participants do not have to enter each week to be eligible to win. Of course, your odds of winning prizes are better if you play each week. Good Luck from the Staff at DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/)!
Sponsored exclusively by Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) and DBSTalk.com.
The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Official Rules of Play:
1. The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest is sponsored by DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/). CBS, Mark Burnett Productions, Dish Network, DirecTV, and Zenith are in no way affiliated with the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest. All trademarks are property of their respective companies.
2. All rules concerning game play of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest are subject to modification. If modification of the rules becomes necessary, the rule changes will be posted at DBSTalk.com.
3. All decisions made by the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator are final.
4. All DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest participants are required to be registered members of DBSTalk.com to enter the Contest. While participants from around the world are allowed to play, prizes will be only awarded to residents of the United States.
5. Winners of any DBSTalk.com Contests are eligible to win only one time in every 12 month period. Second and Third Place finishers may continue to enter. Grand Prize winners from previous DBSTalk Survivor Contests are also inelligible to win the Grand Prize.
6. Prizes:
Grand Prize: Your choice between a Dish Network 811-HD receiver (valued at $399) or a Zenith HD-Sat520 receiver (valued at $599) provided by Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/). Dish Depot will ship the receiver directly to the winner upon completion of the Contest and verification of the Contest results. Second Place Prize will be a DVD of the participant’s choice (valued up to $30) or two items from the DBSTalk.com online store (valued up to $30). Third Place Prize will be one item from the DBSTalk.com online store (valued up to $20).7. The Participant with greatest number of points at the conclusion of the Contest will choose which receiver is to be awarded to him/her.
8. Odds of winning depend on how well participants answer the poll questions, and on the number of participants in the Contest. Prizes will be awarded when Survivor: Pearl Islands ends its season on CBS in December 2003 or January 2004. Prize winners will be notified via email. DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) will pay any shipping charges for prizes. There will be no substitution of the Grand Prize by the Contest Winner allowed. No purchase is necessary to participate or win.
9. In the event Survivor: Pearl Islands ends before its complete run on CBS (i.e. network cancellation), the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest participants leading at the time of Survivor: Pearl Island’s end will be awarded the prizes.
Should current world events lead CBS to pull Survivor: Pearl Islands from the current schedule for a limited period of time, the contest will be "put on hold" until such time as Survivor: Pearl Islands resumes on CBS. The DBSTalk Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator shall be the sole judge of the definition of the term "limited".
Should events outside of the DBSTalk.com Administrators' control cause DBSTalk.com to cease operations during the contest for a temporary time, the contest shall be put on hold until such time when DBSTalk.com becomes operational again. Any weeks missed will not be counted in the overall results, but the DBSTalk Contest Coordinator shall revise point awards and poll values to attempt to make up for points lost. Should events outside of DBSTalk.com control force the closure of DBSTalk.com permanently, the contest will end at that point, and the prizes shall be awarded to the current leaders at the time of the closure.
10. In the event of a tie, the tiebreakers will be as follows:
Tiebreaker #1 – the participant casting votes in the greater number of Contest Polls in the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be awarded the prize. Tiebreaker #2 – the participant with the greater number of correct picks for the Survivor voted out of the Tribe over the course of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be awarded the prize. Tiebreaker #3 – the participant with the greater number of correct picks in the "Random" polls (of which there will be at least 2 per week) over the course of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be awarded the prize. Tiebreaker #4 – the prize will be awarded to the participant picked in a random drawing by the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator.11. DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) staff members, employees and their immediate families and household members, while eligible to participate, are not eligible to win prizes. Employees of Mark Burnett Productions, CBS, and CBS affiliates also are not eligible to win prizes. Participants who fall under these conditions are required to inform the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator of their status before entering the Contest.
12. The DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest will be conducted entirely online at DBSTalk.com. Weekly Contest entries will only be accepted when submitted online at DBSTalk.com. Once votes are cast in the polls, they cannot be changed, so vote carefully!
13. DBSTalk.com is not responsible for weather incidents (such as ice storms) or any other acts of God that may prevent the participants from entering. DBSTalk.com and the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator are not responsible for entry errors or for transmission errors.
14. DBSTalk.com is in no way responsible for any problems, technical malfunctions or traffic congestion on the Internet or on the DBSTalk.com web site which may limit entries into the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands contest. In the event of a database failure within the DBSTalk.com web site resulting in a loss of entries for any given week, the game will continue from a backup source file. After the database is restored, any votes entered after the backup point and before restoration will need to be reentered. If such an event occurs, full details of procedure will be provided in the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest forum.
15. By entering the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands contest, participants release DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) from liability for any technical malfunction of prizes awarded, and for any damage and/or injury incurred from prizes. Prize winners agree to allow DBSTalk.com to use their name and or likeness on DBSTalk.com and/or in advertisements. Winners will provide DBSTalk.com a photograph (preferably digital) of themselves with their prize.
16. Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage the DBSTalk.com web site or the Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/) reserve the right to seek damages from the offending participant to the fullest extent of the law.
17. Contest void where prohibited by law.
How to Enter Each Week:
1. Participants will vote in a minimum of four polls each week. Each correct vote will be worth a set number of points announced when the poll is posted. The participants with the most points at the end of Week 13 of Survivor: Pearl Islands will be the winners of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest. If a poll question is rendered invalid by events that occur in the show, all votes in that poll will be considered correct, and full points will be awarded to all participants who voted.
2. During the course of play, Bonus Polls worth varying numbers of points may be added at the discretion of the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Coordinator. In past contests, the Bonus Polls were the "randomizer" polls. As each week will contain at least 2 "randomizer" polls, Bonus Polls will NOT occur each week.
3. Polls will be posted one day after the airing of the week’s Survivor: Pearl Islands episode.
4. Weekly DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Island Contest entries must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Time the day before the weekly Survivor: Pearl Islands episode airs on CBS. The DBSTalk.com clock will be used as the official time for the Contest. If the weekly episode airs on Thursday, all Contest entries must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Time Wednesday. Some Survivor: Pearl Islands episodes may air on another day of the week during the season. Air schedule and Contest schedule updates will be posted at DBSTalk.com.
5. Weekly DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest results will be updated and posted on the DBSTalk.com Survivor: Pearl Islands Contest Official Web Site (http://survivor.dbstalk.com/) on or before the second day after the airing of the week’s Survivor: Pearl Islands episode. Players will not be notified of weekly results via any other method.
6. The points will be awarded as follows:
Each week, participants will receive 2 points for every poll in which you vote. Weeks Before the Tribes Merge: As the polls will change from week to week, generally polls in the weeks before the Tribes Merge will be worth 1/2 of the points of the polls after the Tribes Merge. Weeks After the Tribes Merge: As the polls will change from week to week, generally polls in the weeks after the Tribes Merge will be worth twice the points of the polls before the Tribes Merge. In Week 13 (The Final Week), participants will vote in at least six polls. The final week will be worth at least 50 points.Please note the changes listed above for the points and the polls. There is going to be much more variation in what the poll questions are, and the point values assigned to the polls than you have seen in previous DBSTalk Survivor contests.
Special Bonus Points for Participation:
During Weeks 1 through 6, one participant who voted in all of the polls that week will be randomly chosen and awarded 10 points. During Weeks 7 thorugh 12, three participants who voted in all of the polls that week will be randomly chosen and awarded 10 points each. During Week 13, five participants who voted in all of the Week 13 polls will be randomly chosen and awarded 10 points each. Random point award drawings will take place after the weekly polls have closed and will be conducted by DBSTalk.com staff. All participants will be elligible for the random bonus points, including participants not elligible to win prizes. (That is if the name Mark Lamutt is drawn, I get the points for the week, even though I'm not elligible to win.) Vote in every poll during the Contest: 20 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in 1-12 polls during the Contest: 15 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in 13-24 polls during the Contest: 10 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in 25-36 polls during the Contest: 5 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest. Miss voting in more than 36 polls during the Contest: 0 bonus points awarded at the conclusion of the Contest.
7. Participants do not have to enter each week to be eligible to win. Of course, your odds of winning prizes are better if you play each week. Good Luck from the Staff at DBSTalk.com and Dish Depot (http://www.dishdepot.com/)!