KBAK KBFX U.S. ARMY ALL STARS VOTING CONTEST RULES

Contest: U.S. Army All Stars Voting Contest

Station: Sinclair Television Media, Inc., dba KBAK-TV/KBFX-CA

Station Address: 1901 Westwind Drive, Bakersfield, CA 93301

Contest Area: Kern County

Age of Eligibility: 15

Participating High Schools: Mira Monte, Ridgeview, South, Golden Valley, West, Liberty, Centennial, Frontier, Bakersfield, East, Garces, Independence, Tehachapi, Foothill, North, Highland, Bakersfield Christian, Wasco, Shafter, Taft, Arvin, Chavez, Kennedy, Delano, McFarland, Stockdale, Kern Valley, Frazier Mountain, Maricopa, NW Christian, Porterville, Monache, and Boron

Sponsor(s): U.S. Army, Press Promotions, The Douglas Group, Inc. dba UPICKEM

Prize Provider(s): U.S. Army, Press Promotions

Contest Period: September 6, 2015 to November 13, 2015

Entries Due: 12:00 p.m. each Friday during the Contest Period: September 11, 18, 25, 2015; October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015; November 6, 13, 2015

Online Voting Period: 6:00 p.m. PT each Sunday to 12:00 p.m. PT each Friday during the Contest Period, beginning on Sunday, September 6, 2015.

Entry is limited to one (1) entry per nominee. One (1) registration and vote per person.

Winner Selection Date(s): September 11, 18, 25, 2015; October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015; November 6, 13, 2015

Number of Winners on each Winner Selection Date(s): Two (2)

Total Number of Winners for the Contest Period: Twenty (20)

Prize(s) and Value(s): Each weekly winner will be eligible to participate in the draft for the 2016 U.S. Army Arena Bowl on Friday, May 13th, 2016. Weekly winners are not guaranteed to be drafted for the US Army Arena Bowl.

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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. This contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.

All capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth above.





Who Can Enter and Regsiter/Vote

1. To be eligible to be nominated in this contest, entrants must be U.S. residents who are at least the Age of Eligibility, and be football players from among one of the Participating High Schools. Nominations are not open to the public.

2. To be eligible to register and vote in this contest, voters must be U.S. residents who are at least the Age of Eligibility, and reside in the Contest Area.

3. Employees of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., Sinclair Television Group, Inc., and the Station (collectively, the “Company”), Sponsors, Prize Providers, contest software providers, social media platforms, their affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, any and all local television broadcast and cable stations, local radio and other media companies, and the immediate family members of each are ineligible. The term “immediate family” includes spouses, domestic partners, grandparents, parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, and any other relatives who reside in the same household with employee.

How to Vote

1. Each week during the Contest Period, KBAK/KBFX TV Sports Anchors Greg Kerr and Jon Tritsch, along with input from the Participating Schools’ football coaches, will select six (6) high school football player nominees from the Participating High Schools to be featured as U.S. Army All Stars of the Week. The weekly football player nominees will be selected based on playing statistics and ability. Each Sunday during the Contest Period, the six (6) weekly football player nominees will be announced during the Hometown Sports program, which airs on Channel 58 at 5:00 p.m. PT.

2. During the Online Voting Period, viewers will be prompted to register to vote for their favorite “US Army All Star of the Week” on the Station’s Website for the Contest with the following required information: name, address, city, state, zip code, email, birthdate and gender. Online Registration and Voting is limited to one registration and vote per person. Duplicate votes will be disqualified. Facebook “Likes” are not considered votes. Entrants and nominees are prohibited from obtaining votes by offering prizes or other inducements to members of the public, vote farming, vote purchasing, or any other activity that artificially inflates such entrant’s votes as determined by Station in its sole discretion.

3. The Station reserves the right to determine in its sole and absolute discretion whether the online votes are valid, and may disqualify any duplicate votes. Multiple and/or irregular votes or multiple votes from the same user or users, including but not limited to, votes generated by a robotic, programmed, script, macro, other automated means or other source will be considered invalid.

How to Win

The Number of Winners will be determined at the end of the Online Voting Period based on the two (2) nominees with the highest number of valid votes received, as determined by Station, in its sole and absolute discretion. In the event of a tie, one (1) winner will be randomly selected from among the tied entrants.

Contest Terms and Conditions

1. Station is not responsible for lost, late, garbled, or misdirected entries, printing errors, server unavailability, computer or any other electronic malfunction. All entries, including any required submission, received that are duplicate, mutilated, tampered with, incorrect, illegible, or from ineligible entrants will be void. All entries, including any required submission, become the property of the Company and will not be acknowledged or returned.

2. Station cannot be held liable for any lost or stolen entries, prizes or contest information. Station is not responsible for any technological malfunction, or human error relating to the Contest.

3. Prizes are provided “as is” without any express or implied warranty of any kind including warranties of merchantability, non-infringement or intellectual property, or fitness for any particular purpose. Prizes are subject to the Sponsor(s) and/or Prize Provider(s) standard terms and conditions, and expiration dates. For any ticket related prizes, Station, Sponsor(s) and Prize Provider(s) are not responsible if any event or performance is cancelled or postponed.

4. Each winner will be notified by email or phone. Before claiming any prize, each winner must provide his/her correct name, address and telephone number to Station at the time of notification. Each winner must sign and return a release and affidavit of eligibility, which must be received within three (3) days of notification (or less due to prize use time constraints), at the time winner claims his/her prize in person at the Station. Each winner must show picture identification to claim his/her prize. Station reserves the right to examine additional identification and may choose to accept or deny awarding any prize based on the identification presented.

5. If a winner cannot be notified within two (2) days, or does not timely sign and return the release and affidavit of eligibility, then the winner will be disqualified, the prize will be forfeited, and time permitting, the prize will be awarded to an alternate winner, which shall be determined in the same manner as the disqualified winner. If time does not permit for an alternate winner to be selected, then the prize will be forfeited, and the prize will remain the property of the Station.

6. There will be no substitutions or cash alternatives for any prize except at the sole discretion of Station. The Station has the right to substitute a prize of similar value. No sale, transfer or assignment of any prize is allowed.

7. Each winner is responsible for paying all local, county, state and federal taxes on prizes based on the estimated retail value of the prizes as set forth in these rules. Each winner must sign a W-9 form.

8. Only one prize will be awarded per household if more than one prize is awarded. Entrants are eligible to win only one prize within any 90 day period, regardless of the number of contests entered.

9. The Company is not liable if the provider of any part of a prize fails to satisfy its obligations to furnish its portion of the prize.

10. The Company, Sponsor(s), and Prize Provider(s) accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any injuries, losses or damages of any kind directly or indirectly caused by or resulting from the acceptance, possession or use of any prize awarded in the Contest. By entering, entrants agree to release the Company, Sponsor(s), Prize Provider(s), contest software providers, social media platforms, and each of their respective parent, affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, from any and all claims, loss, damage or injury as a result of or incident to his/her participation in the Contest or his/her use of the prize. Entrants further acknowledge and agree that if a winner, the Company has the right to publicize entrant’s name, character, likeness, photograph, voice and the fact that entrant is a winner of the Contest for promotional purposes, without financial remuneration.

11. Complete Official Rules for the Contest are available Monday through Friday during normal business hours at the Station and on the Station’s Website. For a list of prize winners, send a separate, self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Station at the Station Address within thirty (30) days of the last day of the Contest Period.

12. The Station has the right to disqualify any entrant it determines has not complied with the Contest Rules. All decisions by the Station shall be final and binding relating to this contest, including the interpretation of the Contest Rules. Station reserves the right to make rules and contest changes and change the contest dates. Station reserves the right to cancel/terminate, modify or suspend the Contest if in Station’s sole determination it believes that the integrity of the Contest has been, or could be, compromised or that the Contest is not capable of running as planned or fairly, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or force majeure or any other causes beyond the Station’s control.

13. The Contest is subject to the Station’s Privacy Policy and the Station’s Website Terms and Conditions located on the Station’s Website.