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Want to win the ultimate Medal of Honor™ Warfighter Pack?
 
Thanks to Linkin Park & Icon Film Distribution, we have some awesome prizes to give away to celebrate both the launch of Zero Dark Thirty in Australian cinema January 31 and Linkin Park's Australian Tour.
 
5 lucky winners will receive the following:
 • One Double Pass to see Linkin Park at their Sydney show on the 26th of February 2013(Names added to Door list)
• A copy of Linkin Park's Living Things LP
• One Double Pass to Zero Dark Thirty (valid for cinema season)
• A MOH Warfighter Soldier Cap
• One DLC Code for 'The Hunt' MOHW Map Pack (on available platform of your choice)
 
You don't have to live in Sydney to be eligible for this competition, but you do have to be able to organise your own transport and accommodation. For full terms and conditions, please see here.
 
All you have to do is comment below, in 25 words or less, who your Ultimate Fireteam buddy would be and why.
 
Just don't say Chuck Norris. We asked him, and he said he didn't need a buddy.

Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Eligibility: Medal of HonorTM Warfighter ultimate prize pack (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of Australia, who are at least 15 years of age and as old as the minimum age of majority in the jurisdiction from which they enter the Contest. Those who are employees of Electronic Arts Proprietary Limited (“Sponsor”) or its affiliates, subsidiaries, representatives, advertising, promotion and publicity agencies (“agents”) or who are immediate family members or persons living in the same household of each such employee are not eligible. Subject to all applicable laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. By participating in the Contest, the participant signifies his or her full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules.
2. Timing: The Contest begins on 29th January 2013 at 12:00:01 Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) and ends on 12th February 2013 at 23:59:59 AEST (the “Contest Period”) and consists of the phases set forth in the chart below:
Phase 1
Start Date at 12:00:01 AEST
End Date at 23:59:59 AEST
Submission
January 29th 2013
February 12th 2013
Judging
February 13th 2013
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ENTRANTS: ENTRANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE APPLICABLE CONTEST ENTRY PERIOD TIMES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE TIME ZONES.
3. How to Enter: During the Submission phase, visit www.ea.com/au/news/linkin-park-zd30-comp (the “Contest Site” or “Site”), fill in all of the required registration fields and follow the directions to
submit your comment (collectively, the “Submission”) in order to receive one (1) Contest entry. By uploading your Submission, you agree that it conforms to the Submission Guidelines and Content Restrictions as defined below (collectively, the “Guidelines and Restrictions”) and that Sponsor, may disqualify you from the Contest if it believes, in its sole discretion that your Submission fails to conform to the Guidelines and Restrictions.
Guidelines and Restrictions:
 Technical Requirements
o Entries must be submitted as a comment following the entry instructions above.
 Content Requirements
o Entrants’ submitted Submission must be the entrant’s own originally created content (“Original Creations”). Entries must pertain to Medal of HonorTM Warfighter. No group, or team efforts, or multi-author(ed) designs will be accepted in this Contest. For purposes of this Contest all Entries will be presumed authored by the person submitting the Entry. You may not incorporate your own facial likeness, or that of another person, within your comment. Entries submitted in this Contest must not contain any pornography, or other illicit, illegal, defamatory, morally offensive or obscene content, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any Entry containing racial, religious, or ethnic slurs, explicit language, obscene, pornographic, violent, or sexual content, or libel, hate speech, references to alcohol, drugs or other illicit substances, or otherwise objectionable, offensive, illegal, inappropriate or prohibited material. Submission of previously published art is prohibited. Any Entry that incorporates prohibited content, including but not limited to, third party creations, trademarks, names, or other third party property(ies), or the work of creative consultants, or the entrant’s likeness, or the likenesses of any other real-life individuals, or any content that is pornographic, illicit, or otherwise in Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion violates the above Guidelines and/or is not in compliance with these Official Rules, may not be accepted for entry and may not be eligible to win any prize in this Contest.
o By entering, entrants warrant that their Entries contain only their own, Original Creations. Entrants further warrant their Entries do not contain any third party copyrighted materials, and otherwise do not violate or infringe the rights, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademark rights or rights of publicity/privacy, of any third party.
 Limitations
o Each entrant may enter the Contest one (1) time during the Contest Period. Submissions received from any person or email address in excess of the stated limit will be void. Submissions generated by script, macro or other automated means are void.
o Uploading a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If requested, entrant will sign any documentation required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Submission.
Released Parties (as defined in Section 9, below) are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Submissions, all of which will be void. Physical copies of Submissions become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.
o By providing any Contest Assets for entrants’ use Sponsor is granting entrants a limited, non-exclusive, non-commercial license to use the Competition Assets solely in connection with, and as a part of, the Contest. Entrants shall otherwise have no right, title or interest in or to any Contest Assets except as otherwise granted by Sponsor, and any use of the Competition Assets (including use of the entrant’s Entry that contains Contest Assets) other than as permitted by these Official Rules may constitute copyright and/or trademark infringement.
o In the event of a dispute regarding any Submission, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the entrant or participant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder.
o Submissions will be accepted in English, only.
4. Personal Information: Nothing in these Official Rules shall be deemed to exclude or restrict any of the winner’s or the entrant’s statutory rights as a consumer. Participation in the Contest implies authorization to collect, use and discloses entrant’s personal information including the right to transfer personal data to the United States for purposes of administration of the Contest and prize fulfilment. All information submitted to the Sponsor as part of this Contest will be treated in accordance with the EA’s privacy policy, available at [http://www.ea.com/1/privacy-policy]. Personal information includes name, address, email address, birthday and will be used to: (a) contact potential winners; and (b) if an entrant selects to receive additional information from the EA on the entry form, to send additional information to that entrant. The recipient of your personal data is the Sponsor and Administrator. Entrants have the right to access, withdraw, and correct their personal data. Entrants may request such action by sending a message with the request, subject line EA’s MEDAL OF HONORTM WARFIGHTER ULTIMATE PRIZE PACK COMPETITION to EACommunityANZ@ea.com.
5. Winner Determination: Winners will be determined according to the process set forth below.
a. Judging Phase: During the Judging Phase, a panel of qualified judges determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion will select Four (4) entrants with the highest-scoring Submissions (the “Top Entry” or “Top Entries”) based on the following criteria (“Judging Criteria”): 50% for creativity and 50% for appropriateness to the topic.
b. In the event of a tie, the entrant whose Submission received the highest score for creativity, as determined by the qualified judges, in their sole discretion, will be deemed the potential Grand Prize winner. Sponsor reserves the right to select fewer than 4 Top Entries if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified Submissions.
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6. Notification: The potential winners will be notified by mail, email or phone. Except where prohibited, each potential winner will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release within the required time period, fails to answer the skill-testing question correctly (if applicable), or prize is returned as undeliverable, potential winner forfeits prize. In the event that a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate winner using the skill-based criteria set forth above.
7. Prizes1: Top 5 winners will receive 5 double passes to see Linkin Park on the 26th February 2013 at Sydney Entertainment Centre Sydney (winners will be responsible for their own transport costs to the venue). Also they will receive one (1) in season pass for Zero Dark Thirty. Along with a The Hunt Map Pack DLC code on the winner’s platform of choice out of Playstation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox® videogame and entertainment system and PC. Total value $ 1281.75 AUD.
• 1 x Double pass to Linkin Park show on 26th February 2013 at the Entertainment Centre
• 1 x Double Season Pass to Zero Dark Thirty
• 1 x The Hunt Map Pack code on platform of choice (out of Playstation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox® videogame and entertainment system and PC.)
Prize 2: 25 runners up will receive an in seasons pass to Zero Dark Thirty, along with a The Hunt Map Pack DLC code on platform of choice (out of Playstation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox® videogame and entertainment system and PC). Total prize value $1348.75 AUD.
If for any reason an advertised prize is unavailable, Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. Limit one (1) prize per person per prize period. The odds of winning depend upon the number of eligible entries received and relative skill of entrants. Allow 2-4 weeks after title release date for shipment of prize(s).
8. General Terms:
a. By participating in this Contest, each participant agrees: (1) To the extent allowable under applicable law, to release and hold harmless Sponsor and its agents from any and all liability or any injury, loss, damage, right, claim or action of any kind arising from or in connection with this Contest or any Contest-related activity or the receipt, possession, use or misuse of any prize won; (2) That Sponsor’s decisions will be final and binding on all matters related to this Contest; (3) That by accepting a prize, Sponsor may use your name and place of residence online or in any other media, in connection with this Contest, without payment or compensation to the winner or anyone else, except where prohibited ; and (4) The Contest is governed by the laws of the Australia and all claims must be resolved in Australia.
b. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. If terminated, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, determine the winners from among all non-suspect, eligible entries received up to time of such action using the judging procedure outlined above. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or those of any other Contest or in
an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner and void all associated entries. Any attempt by any person to
deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies (including attorneys’ fees) from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
c. Winners are responsible for any applicable taxes on prizes.
9. Winner(s) List: Winner List requests will only be accepted after the end date of the Contest Period (listed above) and no later than March 6th, 2013. For the Winner List, E-MAIL: If you send an e-mail to the e-mail address below on or before March 6th, 2013 we will provide you with a list of winners that received a prize: EACommunityANZ@ea.com
10. Sponsor: Electronic Arts Australia Proprietary Limited, L3/24 York St, Sydney, NSW 2000.
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