Article 1: The Company Blizzard Entertainment Europe S.A.S, which head office is located in Velizy Villacoublay (78143), 32, avenue de l’Europe and operating under the commercial name of Blizzard (“Blizzard”) is organizing a competition (the “Competition”) which final will take place during “Gamescom 2011” exhibition on the 20th of August 2011 being held at Halle 6.1 (B21 & C30) at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany (the “Event”) with a limitation of twenty four (24) participants.
Article 2: The Competition is opened to individuals aged 18 or more who have purchased a ticket for the Event, except Blizzard's personnel and their family, affiliates or business partners (“Entrants” or “Entrant”).
Article 3: Entrants automatically accept the Terms and acknowledge the fact that this game being organized by a French company, the Competition is governed by French law.
Article 4: Failure to observe the Terms stated here will lead to the nullification of the participation.
Article 5: Only one entry per household will be accepted (same name, same address).
Article 6: In order to participate to the Competition Entrants have to show up during the Event in the costume which is described in the Article 7 of the Terms and register to the local Costume contest registration desk. In order to register the Entrant’s costume must comply with the requirements described in the Article 7 of the Terms.
Entrants may pre-register for the Competition by sending an email to the email address “gamescom2011@blizzard.com” before the 19th of August, 2011, 8:00 pm (CEST). The email may contain a photograph of themselves wearing the costume; or a simple description of the costume. If the pre-registration is confirmed by Blizzard and the Entrant has received a confirmation email, in this case the Entrant should show up to the local Costume contest registration desk on the day of the Competition and present a print version of the confirmation email from Blizzard.
The photographs must be submitted in .JPEG or .JPG format and cannot exceed 2 MB in size per file.
Entrants warrant and represent that (a) the Entrant has all of the rights necessary to legally submit the photographs to Blizzard for the Competition; and (b) all such photographs are original works of authorship on the part of Entrants and have not been copied, in whole or in part, from any other work and do not violate, misappropriate or infringe any copyright, trademark or other proprietary right of any other person or entity.
It is understood that ticket to the Event shall not be reimbursed or paid by Blizzard, and that this contest is opened for participation to individuals willing to attend the Event, and should not be considered an incentive to attend.
Twenty-four (24) participants shall be selected by Blizzard during the registration process.
Article 7: Aim of the competition.
Entrants have to create and model an original costume taking its design and theme from any Blizzard game. Costumes will be judged on originality, creativity, and complexity of the design.
A Blizzard staff jury will decide the winner (the “Winner”) on grounds of creativity, originality, and accuracy to the depiction of the character, class, event, or person the costume is based upon. The Winner will be required to give a valid mail address in order to receive their prize.
Article 8: The Winner selected amongst the 24 Contest finalists will be awarded the following prize: a trip for two (2) persons (the Winner and a guest) to 2011 BlizzCon event that includes:
i. round trip coach air fare from the regional airport nearest the Winner’s residence to the site of the 2011 BlizzCon event;
ii. three (3) nights lodging (double occupancy) at a hotel of Blizzard’s choice, meals and ground transportation, as determined by Blizzard, in its sole discretion, and
iii. accommodation and transportation from the airport to the hotel, from the hotel to the offices and back to the hotel, and from the hotel to the airport on the day of departure.
The approximate retail price of this prize package is estimated at 4,000 USD (excluding VAT), depending upon the cost of travel for the Winner and guest to attend the 2011 BlizzCon event. All travel must take place on the dates and times as specified by Blizzard. The Winner and the guest shall be responsible for obtaining, at their own cost and expense, all the necessary visas, passports, or other travel documents issued by the government of their country of citizenship so that they have the legal capacity to travel to the site of the 2011 BlizzCon event. Winner is responsible for any and all other costs and expenses associated with their prize that are not specifically set forth herein, including without limitation the cost of any required travel insurance.
Standard travel restrictions to the US may apply. Please check eligibility requirements at the U.S. Department of State’s Travel site: http://travel.state.gov/. The winner is solely responsible for ensuring eligibility to travel to and within the United States and obtaining any necessary visas.
Article 9: The winner will be warned within 10 working days.
Article 10: Resale of the prize is forbidden. No exchange of the prize worth against money, another prize, object or service different from a prize eventually won by an Entrant will be accepted.
Article 11: The details of each Entrant (name and e-mail address) will be collected during the Competition according to the « Informatique et Libertés » law, of the 6th of January 1978 and its later amendments, and according to the European directive number 95/46/CE.
Each Entrant grants Blizzard permission to use the information he is providing within the framework set by the« Informatique et Libertés » law of the 6th of January 1978. Each Entrant benefits from the right to access and modify his personal data.
Article 12: In case of litigation, only tribunals in the country of physical residence of the head office of the organizing company will have jurisdiction.
Article 13: Responsibility
In case of circumstances outside Blizzard’s control, in a fortuitous case, or under exceptional circumstances (fire, flood, natural disaster, malevolent intrusion in the IT system, strike, jeopardize of the financial and technical viability of the competition etc.), even in the case of its own responsibility (subject to its good faith), Blizzard retains the right to cancel the whole or part of the Competition. The present Competition will be cancelled in case circumstances outside Blizzard’s control, without the Entrants or a Winner being able to claim any form of compensation. Blizzard retains the right to exclude entry to the present Competition any individual having cheated, deceived, faked or disturbed the operations stated in this Terms. Blizzard retains the right to sue any individual having cheated, deceived, faked or disturbed the operations stated in this Terms, or tried to do so. A Winner having disturbed the Competition in any of the ways described in the present Terms will be rightfully denied the right to claim any prize. Any addition or amendment to these Terms will be announced on the Internet. They will be considered appendices to the present Terms.
Article 14: Grant of license
By submitting the photographs, Entrants hereby grant to Blizzard, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free license for the duration of the protection usually granted to authors by laws and convention on copyright to: display and reproduce the photographs which Entrants are submitting to Blizzard in association with Blizzard's Competition on its websites ("Licensed Materials"), including, but not limited to www.blizzard.com and www.wow-europe.com, for commercial, business, and trade purposes, as well as for advertising and/or publicity purposes. Additionally, Entrants hereby agree and acknowledge that Blizzard may, in its sole discretion, display the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, distorted in character or form, on its website/s.
Article 15: Blizzard is allowed to reproduce and use your full name, country of residence, age, personal photograph, contest participation video and picture footage and interview (hereinafter « the Elements »). You hereby authorizes Blizzard to reproduce, to digitize, to adapt, to diffuse, to represent and to communicate the Elements on any communication medium relative to the Product as: