Grand Prize:
» A $100 RiffTrax Gift Certificate
» 5 T-shirts with your design
» A 10-DVD sampler of Legend Films / RiffTrax DVDs
Finalist Prizes:
» Each of the 16 finalists will receive a $10 RiffTrax Gift Certificate redeemable at RiffTrax.com!
Assets
RiffTrax Logo (Adobe Illustrator) | RT Bomb by itself
DisembAudio renders (Zipped PSD)
Available T-Shirt Fabric Colors
Your very own design could be the next RiffTrax t-shirt! That’s right! If you’ve got the skills, your design could be chosen to grace the chest and backs of RiffTrax fans across the world! Feel free to design for both the front and back of the shirt, or one side only. In order for your design to qualify it will need to meet our tech specifications: Illustrator EPS is the preferred file format, but at minimum must be a 300 dpi Photoshop file.
To submit your entry, you must first email a low-res PDF of your design to entries@rifftrax.com.
Mike Nelson and the RiffTrax gang will narrow all the submissions down to 16 finalists, and then you’ll have an opportunity to vote on the final choices in a head-to-head, single elimination, bracket-style format beginning June 10th.The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on or about Friday June 20th, and the winning design will be used for an official RiffTrax T-shirt sold to the public for a limited time. We’ll provide you with our RiffTrax logo and artwork to incorporate into the design. Use it. Don’t use it. It’s all up to you! Finalists will be judged based on creativity and quality of the design. The RiffTrax fans will determine the winner.
» 16 Finalists Announced Tuesday June 10th!
» Grand Prize Winner announced on or about Friday June 20th!
Official Rules
PLEASE READ THESE OFFICIAL RULES CAREFULLY. BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY FOR THIS CONTEST, YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE RULES. THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND LEGEND FILMS, INC. & RIFFTRAX ("SPONSOR").
Eligibility: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To be eligible for the RiffTrax T-Shirt Design Contest (the "Contest"), you must be eighteen (18) years of age or older; Employees of the Sponsor, or any of Sponsor’s subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotional agencies, or members of any such employee's immediate families or households, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
How To Enter: To enter, you must create a design (the "Design") in accordance with the "Rules For Uploading Graphics" located at: http://RiffTrax.com/contest. Your initial entry must be submitted as a lower-resolution PDF that will be emailed to us at entries@rifftrax.com, and the 16 finalists must then submit High-resolution versions of their Design via FTP to our servers (details of which will be provided later).
Contest Period: A completed entry is referred to herein as an "Entry." To be eligible your Entry must be emailed to entries@rifftrax.com and received by Sponsor during the "Contest Period" which begins May 22, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. PDT and ends June 5, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. On June 10th the top 16 finalists will be announced and made visible on the RiffTrax site. Site visitors will then vote and narrow down the 16 choices in a head-to-head “bracket”, single-elimination competition over the following days, until only one remains. A Grand Prize winner will be announced on or about June 20th. During the Contest Period, Sponsor will collect all complete and eligible Entries and submit the Entries to the judge described below to be judged in the manner set forth below. Only a complete Entry that has been received during the Contest Period will be eligible for the Contest. In the event of a dispute over who submitted the winning entry, the holder of the e-mail account named in the winning Entry will be deemed the winner.
Number of Entries Deemed Eligible: You may enter up to 3 Entries for the entire Contest Period. Disclaimer: Sponsor does not assume responsibility for any late, misdirected, delayed, lost, incomplete, scrambled or otherwise damaged Entries or for any hardware, software, browser, computer, online, network, electronic, human, telephone or technical malfunctions, difficulties or errors that may occur. Furthermore, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entries it deems, in its sole discretion, to be obscene, unlawful, threatening or otherwise inappropriate. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend the Contest or any portion thereof should any cause beyond Sponsor’s control disrupt, corrupt and or compromise the administration, security or proper play of the Contest or for any reason Sponsor deems such suspension necessary.
Odds of Winning: The odds of winning the Contest will be determined solely by the number of Entries submitted and deemed eligible for the Contest.
Prize Details: The Grand Prize Winner(s) will be announced on or about June 20th. The Grand Prize(s) shall consist of:
» A one-hundred dollar ($100.00) RiffTrax Gift certificate redeemable at www.rifftrax.com
» Five (5) T-Shirts embodying the Design, and
» a Ten (10) DVD sampler of Legend Films / RiffTrax DVDs.
Finalist Prizes: Each of the 16 finalists will receive 1 (one) $10 RiffTrax Gift Certificate redeemable at www.rifftrax.com.
Prize(s) are non-transferable and non-exchangeable. Prize Winner(s) are solely responsible for all taxes that may be incurred as a result of winning the prize, including, without limitation, any and all state and federal income taxes. Prize Winner(s) are also solely responsible for any and all prize-related expenses not specified above. If a Prize Winner does not claim his or her Prize within three (5) days of the Sponsor’s notifying a Prize Winner that he or she has won a Prize, an alternative winner will be selected as set forth in Section 10 below. There will be no substitution of Prizes, except at the sole discretion of Sponsor. Prize Winners should allow approximately 60 days for delivery of the Prize.
Judging Criteria: The initial Judges shall be the RiffTrax team. The top 16 entries will be selected on the basis of merit as determined in the discretion of the Judges. Entries will be judged on the creativity/originality of the Design. The top 16 entries will face off in a competition on the RiffTrax site, and the Grand Prize Winner will be determined by a vote of the RiffTrax site visitors. The winning design will be sold to the public as an official RiffTrax T-shirt for a limited time.
Conditions: By submitting an Entry, you agree to be bound by these complete Official Rules, and the decisions of Sponsor and Judge, which shall be final and binding in all respects. All federal, state, and local laws apply. By submitting your Entry you hereby warrant and represent that all information provided by you as part of the Entry is true, accurate and complete, and that you are the sole creator of the Design, the Design is entirely your original work of authorship and that the Entry was not created at your job, using your employer's equipment or on your employer's time, or in any other manner that would result in your employer claiming intellectual property rights in the Design. You further agree to indemnify and release Sponsor, and Sponsor’s subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, agencies, agents and representatives and the officers, directors and employees of each from any and all liability for any claims, charges, injuries, losses or damages of any kind caused by, resulting from or arising out of your participation in the Contest, or Sponsor’s use of the Entry, or any prize or your acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize. By submitting your Entry you hereby agree to the following terms: The Design will be deemed a "work made for hire", as that phrase is used in the United States copyright law, and all right, title and interest in and to the Design will vest automatically in Sponsor. To the extent the Design is not deemed to be a "work made for hire," You hereby assign, transfer and convey, and agree to further assign, transfer and convey, to Sponsor any and all your intellectual property rights in the Design. You hereby represent and warrant that you are eighteen (18) years of age or older and that you are free to enter into this agreement; You agree that if you are chosen as a Prize Winner you shall promptly sign any documents reasonably requested by Sponsor to evidence or perfect its rights in the Design, such as a hard copy of these Official Rules, before you are eligible to collect the Prize. Entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. This Contest shall be governed by California law. By participating in this Contest, entrants agree that California courts shall have jurisdiction over any dispute or litigation arising from or relating to this Contest and that venue shall be only in California.
Notification of Prize Winner(s): Once the Prize Winner(s) have been selected, Sponsor will contact the Prize Winner(s) via electronic mail. Sponsor shall use the email addresses that were provided to it on the Entry and shall not be responsible for any changes of such addresses and has no duty to confirm the accuracy of such information before sending its notification to the Prize Winner(s). The Prize Winner(s) must contact Sponsor and accept the Prize within three (3) days from the day Sponsor send the notification. If only one Prize Winner is selected, and such Prize Winner fails to contact Sponsor and accept the Prize within the required period, Sponsor shall, in the same manner set forth above, notify the contestant that received the next highest score from the Judge. This contestant must contact Sponsor and accept the Prize within three (3) days of the date Sponsor sent the notification. If this contestant fails to contact Sponsor and accept the Prize, Sponsor shall repeat this process with the next highest score until the Prize is claimed. Sponsor is not responsible for any late, lost, delayed, incomplete or misdirected notifications. As a condition to winning a Prize, Sponsor may require the Prize Winner(s) to complete an affidavit of compliance and eligibility that states that such Prize Winner has complied with all of these Official Contest Rules and that such Prize Winner is eligible to receive the Prize. In addition, the Prize Winner(s) may be required to sign a liability release and a publicity release.
Use of Your Identity and Name: You hereby agree to be bound by these Official Rules and that should you be deemed a Prize Winner, Sponsor and Sponsor’s designees may use your name, likeness, name of your company or affiliation, and any statements, quotes or testimonials, photographs, software, audio-files or other such materials provided by you or requested of you, for promotional and publicity purposes without further compensation.
List of Prize Winner(s) and Additional Copies of the Rules: To receive additional copies of these Official Rules, or a Prize Winner list, send an email to support@rifftrax.com; Attention RiffTrax T-Shirt Design Contest. Specify Prize Winner list and/or Official Rules on your request. Replies will be sent after the completion of the Contest. Prize Winner list requests must be received within six (6) months of the end of the Contest Period.