By clicking the SUBMIT button, I the Contestant as defined below, represent that I filled in the Application Form on this website page that is made a part hereof, and agree to the following:
“Contest” is an online competition organized by Premier Timed Event, LLC (“Premier Timed Events) in which people compete (“Contestant or Contestants”) after paying an entry fee, agreeing to Premier Timed Events Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Contest Rules, and this Contest Participation Entry Application and Release all of which are incorporated herein in full. Contestants submit an original video of a person or persons competing in their desired event or events for a chance to win prize money based on skill. Prize calculations are based on the number of Contestants in the Contest as of the time when entries close by Premier Timed Events.
Contestant represents that the video submitted with this application is an original work and Contestant has not granted anyone else any rights to use, distribute, publish, broadcast, or display the video.
An entry application must be completed and signed for each individual Contestant involved in the creation of a video submitted to enter the Contest. An entry application must be completed for any identifiable person that is a Contestant appearing in the submitted video in order for your entry to be considered complete and eligible for a prize. If any participant or creator is under 18, this form must be completed and signed by his/her parent or guardian. Although groups of Contestants may work together as a team, one participant must be designated as the primary contact.
Contestant acknowledges that participation in competitive Rodeo events is a sport which carries inherent risks of injury and damage to himself/herself, the animal used in the event and other property. In consideration of Contestant’s participation in events organized or sponsored by Premier Timed Events, Contestant knowingly assume all risks, whether known or unknown, of participating in the sport. By entering into a Contest or accepting any prize, Contestants, including but not limited to the winner(s), agree to indemnify, release and to hold harmless Premier Timed Events, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and agents, as well as the officers, directors, employees, shareholders and representatives of any of the foregoing entities (collectively, the “Released Parties”), from any and all liability, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever, including but not limited to injuries, damages, or losses to persons, animals or property which may be sustained in connection with participation in the Contest, the receipt, ownership, use or misuse of any prize or while preparing for, participating in and/or traveling to or from any prize related activity, as well as any claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy. Premier Timed Events may, in its sole and absolute discretion, require a Contestant to execute a separate release of claims similar to the one listed above in this Paragraph as a condition of being awarded any prize or receiving any payout.
Contestant agrees that Premier Timed Events is not responsible for: any incorrect, invalid or inaccurate entry information; human errors; postal delays/postage due mail; technical malfunctions; failures, including public utility or telephone outages; omissions, interruptions, deletions or defects of any telephone system or network, computer online systems, data, computer equipment, servers, providers, or software (including, but not limited to software and operating systems that do not permit a Contestant to participate in a Contest), including without limitation any injury or damage to any Contestant’s or any other person’s computer or video equipment relating to or resulting from participation in a Contest; inability to access the Website, or any web pages that are part of or related to the Website; theft, tampering, destruction, or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries and/or images of any kind; data that is processed late or incorrectly or is incomplete or lost due to telephone, postal issues, computer or electronic malfunction or traffic congestion on telephone lines or transmission systems, or the Internet, or any service provider’s facilities, or any phone site or website or for any other reason whatsoever; typographical, printing or other errors, or any combination thereof.
Further, Contestant hereby grants Premier Timed Events an irrevocable, fully sub-licensable, perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display any video submitted by Contestant (in whole or in part), and to incorporate such video into other works, in any format or medium now known or later developed. All entries become the property of Premier Timed Events and will not be acknowledged or returned.
Contestant consents to the use of his/her name, voice, and likeness/photograph in and in connection with the development, production, distribution and/or exploitation of any Contest or the Premier Timed Events website. Winners agree that from the date of notification by Premier Timed Events of their status as a potential winner and continuing until such time when Premier Timed Events informs them that they no longer need to do so that they will make themselves available to Premier Timed Events for publicity, advertising, and promotion activities.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
By entering a Contest, Contestant agrees to be bound by the Rules and the decisions of Premier Timed Events, which shall be final and binding in all respects. The Company, at its sole discretion, may disqualify any Contestant from a Contest, refuse to award benefits or prizes and require the return of any prizes, if the Contestant engages in conduct or otherwise utilizes any information the Company deems to be improper, unfair or otherwise adverse to the operation of the Contest or is in any way detrimental to other Contestants. These Terms prohibit entering a Contest if the Contestant is:
- Except as otherwise stated in the Eligibility section above, an Employee of Premier Timed Events or an immediate family member of such employee;
- Breaches any rules or policies of the Contestant’s employer, of any sports governing body, or any other professional body of which the Contestant is a member, including any rule or policy regarding participation in Contests or accepting prize money;
- Any person prohibited from participating pursuant to court order;
In addition, conduct that would be deemed improper also includes, but is not limited to:
- Falsifying personal information required to enter a Contest or claim a prize;
- Engaging in any type of financial fraud including unauthorized use of credit instruments to enter a Contest or claim a prize;
- Colluding with any other individual(s) or engaging in any type of syndicate play;
- Any violation of Contest Rules or the Terms of Use;
- Using a single Account to participate in a Contest on behalf of multiple Contestants or otherwise collaborating with others to participate in any Contest;
- Using automated means (including but not limited to scripts and third-party tools) to interact with the Website in any way (this includes, but is not limited to: creating a contest, entering a contest, withdrawing from a contest, creating a lineup, and editing a lineup);
- Using automated means (including but not limited to harvesting bots, robots, parser, spiders or screen scrapers) to obtain, collect or access any information on the Website or of any User for any purpose.
- Any type of bonus abuse, abuse of the refer-a-friend program, or abuse of any other offers or promotions;
- Tampering with the administration of a Contest or trying to in any way tamper with the computer programs or any security measure associated with a Contest;
- Obtaining other Contestants information and spamming other Contestants; or
- Abusing the Website in any way.
ANY ATTEMPT BY AN CONTESTANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF ANY CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND/OR CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, PREMIER TIMED EVENTS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
To be eligible to enter any contest or receive any prize, the Contestant may be required to provide Premier Timed Events with additional documentation and/or information to verify the identity of the Contestant’s account, and to provide proof that all eligibility requirements are met. In the event of a dispute as to the identity or eligibility of a Contestant, Premier Timed Events will, in its sole and absolute discretion, utilize certain information collected by Premier Timed Events to assist in verifying the identity and/or eligibility of such Contestant.
Premier Timed Events reserves the right to move and/or reclassify Contestants from the Contests they have entered to substantially similar Contests in certain situations determined by Premier Timed Events in its sole and absolute discretion.
CONTEST PRIZES AND PROMOTIONS
Prizes will only be awarded if a Contest is run. We reserve the right to cancel Contests at any time. In the event of a cancellation, all entry fees will be refunded to the Contestant except as specifically provided in the Premier Timed Events Terms of Use.
Guaranteed prizes are offered in connection with some of the Contests offered by the Website. Each Contest is governed by its own set of official rules which are hereby incorporated herein fully. We encourage you to read such Contest Rules before participating.
CONTEST OF SKILL
Contests offered on the Premier Timed Events website are contests of skill. Winners are determined by the objective criteria described in the Contest Rules, handicapping, scoring, timing, and any other applicable documentation associated with the Contest. From all entries received for each Contest, winners are determined by the individuals who use their skill and performance to accumulate the most points, or the fastest or otherwise best time, according to the corresponding scoring rules.
The judging panel is selected solely by Premier Timed Events and is final. The decision of Premier Timed Events panel of judges is final. The Premier Timed Events website and Contests may not be used for any form of illicit gambling.
CONTEST RESULTS
Contest results and prize calculations are based on the final statistics and scoring and timing results at the completion of each individual Contest. Once Contest results are reviewed, graded, or otherwise finalized, prizes are awarded. The scoring results of a Contest will not be changed except in Premier Timed Events’ sole discretion.
Premier Timed Events reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deny any contestant the ability to participate in head-to-head contests for any reason whatsoever. Further, Premier Timed Events may, in its sole and absolute discretion, invalidate any head-to-head contest result for the purposes of preventing abusive and/or any unfair or potentially unlawful activity, or in the event that there is a risk of any such abusive, illegal, or unfair activity.
PRIZES
At the conclusion of each Contest, prizes will be awarded by 12:00 NOON CST on the following Monday except in circumstances where technical failure, inability of the Company to verify Contestant’s compliance with these Terms, or other reasons prevent such timely payout. Contest prizes are listed in our prize table list. Prizes won are added to the winning Contestant’s account balance or by issuing a paper check at Premier Timed Events’ election. In the event of a tie, prizes are divided evenly amongst the Contestants that have tied.
PRIZE TABLES
Contest prize payouts will be published with the creation of each new Contest. Premier Timed Events reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend the contests (or any portion thereof) should virus, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or other causes corrupt administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper operation of the contest (or any portion thereof) warrant doing so. Notification of such changes may be provided by Premier Timed Events to its customers but will not be required.
PAYMENT AND WITHDRAWAL OF PRIZES
Winners are posted on the Website.
Before making any payment, Premier Timed Events may require that a Contestant complete and execute an affidavit of eligibility in which, among other things, the Contestant is required to represent and warrant that the Contestant is eligible to participate in a Contest, is otherwise in compliance with this Agreement and, potentially, is required to provide documentation or proof of eligibility and compliance. If Premier Timed Events requests that a Contestant complete and execute such an affidavit and the Contestant fails to do so within seven (7) days, or Premier Timed Events otherwise determines that the Contestant does not meet the eligibility requirements or is not in compliance with this agreement or the Terms of Use, Premier Timed Events reserves the right to terminate the Contestant’s account and withhold or revoke the awarding of any prizes associated with such account. In such a situation, Premier Timed Events may pay out any withheld or revoked prizes to the other Contestants in the relevant contest in a manner consistent with the Rules of the Contest.
Contestants may withdraw their cash prize awards as well as cash deposits by using the “Withdrawal” option on the Website. Contestants may be requested to complete an affidavit of eligibility and a liability/publicity release (unless prohibited by law) and/or appropriate tax forms and forms of identification including but not limited to a Driver’s License, Proof of Residence, and/or any information relating to payment/deposit accounts as reasonably requested by Premier Timed Events in order to complete the withdrawal of prizes. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in disqualification and forfeiture of any prizes. Disqualification or forfeiture of any prizes may also occur if it is determined any such Contestant did not comply with these Terms of Use in any manner.
Checks for winnings or withdrawal requests are processed within 14 business days, and are sent via U.S. Mail. Promotional deposits, credits, and other bonuses may not be withdrawn from a Premier Timed Events account unless appropriate terms of the promotion are achieved first by the user.
All taxes associated with the receipt of any prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. In the event that the awarding of any prizes to winners of Contests is challenged by any legal authority, Premier Timed Events reserves the right in its sole discretion to determine whether or not to award such prizes.
No substitution or transfer of prize is permitted, except that Premier Timed Events reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal value or greater if the advertised prize is unavailable. All prizes are awarded “as is” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability for a particular purpose).
Any withdrawal requests, after approved by Premier Timed Events, will be credited back to the same credit card or method of payment used to deposit funds on the Website. Premier Timed Events will only release withdrawals to a different credit card or other payment method other than that which was used to make deposit(s) after the aggregate amount of such deposit(s) has already been released back to the credit card(s) or payment method(s) used for the deposit(s).
Miscellaneous
Nothing in this document or the Terms of Use shall create or be deemed to create a partnership, agency, trust arrangement, fiduciary relationship or joint venture between you and Premier Timed Events. Premier Timed Event’ Terms of Use are hereby incorporated fully herein.
No professional or amateur sports league or any team associated with any professional or amateur sports league is associated with Premier Timed Events or in any way affiliated or associated with the Contests.
Premier Timed Events will not display or release any addresses, phone numbers or email addresses in connection with this submission.
This contest falls under any rule and regulations for such contest by the laws of the United States, including Copyright Laws. This Contest is Void where prohibited by Law.
This agreement is binding upon Contestant’s executors, heirs and assigns.
I have read, understand, and agree to the rules and disclosures described on the Contest Participant Entry Application and Release Form page Premier Timed Events retains the right to determine if the submitted entry complies with these rules.
If the Contestant is a minor, the undersigned parent or guardian of the above Contestant, understand that an original video has been created that includes work done by or images of me or a minor child of whom I am parent/guardian. In consideration of the minor’s participation in the Contest, the undersigned agrees that the terms and conditions of this Release of Liability and specifically including but not limited to the indemnity set forth above, shall be binding as to damage or injury to my minor, any animals or property involved belonging to the minor arising out of his or her participation. On behalf of the minor I grant full authority to Premier Timed Events to use, publish, display, reproduce, or replicate, without notice, the video submission and my or my child’s likeness, persona and/or voice contained in the video.
I acknowledge that I have read this Release of Liability and know and understand its contents.