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Win 10,000 USD towards your trip of a lifetime



http://www.scottevest.com/contest/

Note: Non US residents can win as long as they  agree to waive any laws that may go beyond US laws


SCOTTEVEST: FOR THE TRIP OF YOUR LIFE CONTEST

Everyone has a dream, and SCOTTEVEST wants to make your travel dream a reality. Whether it is walking the Great Wall, a culinary tour of Paris, a week to reconnect with high school friends in Dayton Ohio, or following your favorite band’s tour across the country, the trip of your life doesn’t need to be complex, but it does need to be special.
We are giving away $10,000 and a full SCOTTEVEST wardrobe to one winner and their travel companions to make the Trip of Your Life a reality! To enter, send us a video, photos or story answering, “What is the Trip of Your Life?” and if your entry is our favorite you’ll get $10K to make it happen.
This contest is about living your dream, spreading the word and telling us all about it! Check out the details below and enjoy the Trip of Your Life!

THE RULES:

There is no limit to the number of entries you may make to the SCOTTEVEST For the Trip of Your Life contest, and all entries are due by December 31, 2011. Click here for the full rules, which may change at any time and without notice. See below for the process of entry.

THE PROCESS:
FILM, EDIT, SHOOT, WRITE - ENDS DECEMBER 31, 2011

Ten seconds, ten minutes or anywhere in between. You. Your SCOTTEVEST (if you have one!). Shoot a video, write a story, take photos, make popsicle stick dioramas, sing a song, paint on canvas.  Whatever medium you choose, make your most compelling case to answer the question: "What is the Trip of Your Life?" Tell us where you want to go, why you want to go, how you’re going to document your trip (video, photos, writing, etc.) and why we should choose you.  (If you are doing a video, work in some phrases like, “Go Away!” and “SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life!” so we can use clips in some of our compilation videos.)

Get some SCOTTEVEST inspiration from our Pocket Guide Videos, iPod Spoof, WIYS Contest, and other cool videos!

UPLOAD YOUR ENTRY TO YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, ETC. & TELL US ABOUT IT
To enter, post your video, photo, etc. online.  If you are posting to YouTube, do so as a video response to this video. Use the title/subject "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest Entry" and include a link back to www.SCOTTEVEST.com/contest in your description.

Please insert this graphic as the last three seconds of your video (optional, but preferred). You may also use: our theme song, X-Rays and Product images. (You may use them for your video entry purposes only.)

When you are done and it's posted, send us an email with your name, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, and a link to your entry video (or photos, or writing, etc.). Email us at: contests@scottevest.com. You must also include where you heard about the contest, since we want to give credit to our promoters! Remember, the sooner you enter the more time you have to get views!

All must be in by December 31, 2011, 11:59PM Mountain Time.

PROMOTE: MAKE IT VIRAL
Your ability to promote your entry and get people to watch it is just as important as how much we like it! A full 49% of the scoring is determined by how many views, comments and stars it gets on YouTube, likes on Facebook, retweets on Twitter, etc., so get your friends to vote on your SCOTTEVEST entry to WIN! Remember, the sooner you enter the more time you have to promote!
All entries must be posted by December 31 for the contest. Views, comments, stars and our judges' votes will then be tallied and winners will be announced in January, 2012. Post your entries ASAP so your View Count has time to grow!

WIN PRIZES
$10,000 to make the Trip of Your Life a reality, plus $1000 in SCOTTEVEST wardrobe to wear on your trip and we’ll announce you as the winner in an upcoming print ad!

AFTER YOU WIN
We want to see what the Trip of Your Life looks like!  So if you win, be ready to document it with video, photo, writing, etc.  We want to help you share the Trip of Your Life with the world, and inspire them to take the trips of their lives, too!



Official Rules

1. Eligibility.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Only legal U.S. residents over 18 (and any non-US residents who agree to waive any laws that may go beyond US laws) are eligible to enter the "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest" (the "Contest").

2. Entries.
To enter the Contest you must do the following:

(a) Fill out this form (all fields are required) and submit it electronically or via US Mail (address listed in Section 8, below). Required fields: (i) your name, mailing address, phone number, birthdate (including age), and where you heard about the contest and (ii) the link to the YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or post per below. If your entry cannot be viewed online, reference this in the notes section of the form and email your entry to contests@scottevest.com.  By doing so, you agree to the following statement, "I have READ and AGREE to the Official Rules of the "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest."

(b) Post: Entries may come in the form of a video, photo(s), essay, artwork, song, digital file, mixed media, etc. without limitation other than the entry or some representation of it must be shareable/viewable (not password protected) online.

If submitting a video: post your video as a video response on YouTube to this video: link. Use the Title/Description "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest Entry" along with any other description you'd like that explains your clip. In the YouTube description area, please provide some description about your clip together with a link to our website www.scottevest.com for more information. The final three seconds of video should include the SeV logo graphic, downloadable here, but it is not a requirement for entry.

If submitting photos: post your photos to Facebook, Twitter, etc. with the title/description “SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest Entry.”

If submitting text: post your text to Facebook, your blog, etc. with the title/description “SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest Entry.”

If submitting any other form of entry, please email to contests@scottevest.com.

Entries will be reposted on a variety of online sites, at SCOTTEVEST’s sole discretion.

(c) Deadline: Contest is open for submissions starting September 15, 2011 and is expected to end 11:59PM Mountain Time December 31, 2011. SCOTTEVEST reserves the right to extend any contest/round entry dates if no single entry meets our expectations. We don't intend to extend the contest but may need to do so if all of the entries don't merit a prize. By January 10, 2012 SCOTTEVEST will contact finalists. Finalists will need to submit their travel plan and budget for spending the $10K, and be given one last chance to convince us why you should win by January 31, 2012. SCOTTEVEST will announce a winner by February 7th, 2012.

(d) Promote: Send the link for your entry to all your friends, family and post it on any blogs you want. From the time of your entry and December 31, 2011 at 11:59PM MT, subject to extension, all YouTube views, comments and ratings will be tallied. On December 31, 2011 those items will be recorded and taken into account as 49% of the final score to determine the winner of the competition. SCOTTEVEST does not condone cheating by technical means to raise your number of views, but encourages creative promoting.

3. Our Right to Use Your Work and Information About You.
(a) Entries and other submitted material may be used by SCOTTEVEST with due credit given to the applicant from the information you submitted via the entry form. By submitting an Entry: (a) you represent and warrant that your Entry is wholly original and does not incorporate or include anything that is owned by any third party (other than SCOTTEVEST) and does not violate any copyright, trademark, publicity right, or any other right of any third party; and (b) in the event your Entry wins, you irrevocably assign to SCOTTEVEST the unlimited rights to use and display your entry for purposes of entertainment, advertising or trade. You represent and warrant that (i) YOU OWN AND/OR CONTROL ONE HUNDRED (100%) PERCENT OF ALL RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST IN AND TO THE CONTENT AND ALL ELEMENTS CONTAINED THEREIN, OTHER THAN ELEMENTS PROVIDED BY SCOTTEVEST FOR PURPOSES OF THE CONTEST (II) the Content does not and shall not infringe on any copyright or any other third party right nor violate any applicable law or regulation, (III) you have the right to grant any and all necessary rights and licenses provided herein, including without limitation, all necessary copyright and other related rights to the Content, free and clear of all claims and encumbrances without violating the rights of any person or entity, including any right to privacy or publicity. You hereby hold SCOTTEVEST harmless from and against any third party claim arising from use of the Content. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses, unless you are deemed the winner, and in such case your compensation is as described herein. You hereby represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and that you have read this release and are fully familiar with its contents.
(b) By submitting an Entry, if you are selected as one of the winners, you grant to SCOTTEVEST and its affiliated companies the right, except where prohibited by law, to use your name, likeness, picture, address (city and state), e-mail address, voice, biographical information, submission/Entry and written or oral statements, for advertising and promotional purposes in promoting or publicizing SCOTTEVEST and its products or services, without compensation other than the opportunity to possibly win the prizes described below, unless required by law.
(c) We reserve the right to withdraw permission to use any of our content and demand you remove from YouTube or other sites if we view your video to be derogatory in any fashion in our sole discretion. Note: funny is fine, offensive is not. Admittedly it is a fine line sometimes. We reserve the right to display your YouTube video embedded entry on our website or elsewhere at anytime.
(d) Immediately following notification, winners must provide their Entry Video and/or photos in high-resolution .MOV, .AVI or .MPG, .CR2, .TIF, .JPG format AND the project files/source files for their edits, such as the Final Cut Pro project file. Prizes will not be awarded until all files are provided to SCOTTEVEST.

4. Selection of Winner / Prize.

(a) All entries will be judged by Scott Jordan, CEO of SCOTTEVEST, and unnamed SCOTTEVEST employees who will judge the entries on the basis of the following criteria: originality, creativity, concept, and presentation, humor and how well your video answers the question, “What is the trip of your life?”. Scott will also take into account the number of views and feedback as displayed on YouTube (if entry is a video), worth 49% of the final score as described above. There will be one (1) winner of the Contest. Finalists will be selected by January 10, 2012 and contacted. Finalists must then provide details and plans about how they would spend the prize money, and how they would document their trip. Once those details are provided by January 31, 2012, one Winner will be selected between February 1 – 31, 2012, subject to extension as mentioned above. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Entries received. The decision of the judges shall be final and binding in all regards. Winner will be notified by telephone or email, and may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Publicity/Liability Release (and any other documents required by SCOTTEVEST, INC.), within five (5) days of notification. If a winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize, fails to return the completed and executed documents required above, if a prize is returned as undeliverable or if a winner fails to comply with any of the provisions of these rules, such winner's prize will be forfeited. If a prize is unclaimed or forfeited it will not be awarded.
(b) The Prize Winner will receive the following prizes(s): $10,000 to be spent for “the trip of your life” and up to $1000 (retail value) in SCOTTEVEST products of your choice for the winner and their travel companion(s), if any. The “cash prize” may only be spent for airfare, lodging, vehicle rental, excursions, dining, and other expenses deemed by SCOTTEVEST to be “travel expenses.” Up to $1000 of the prize may be earmarked as “spending money” for the trip, as approved by SCOTTEVEST. Any unused funds at the end of the trip will be presented to the winner as a check, which will be subject to all applicable taxes. The Winner must take substantially the same trip as presented and describe in their initial and subsequent application. Barring unforeseeable circumstances, unapproved changes to the nature of the trip will result in forfeiture of the portion of the prize that does not comport with the trip as presented. We understand the nature of trips and that they can change, but need to fulfill the original trip as planned. Email us at contests@scottevest.com with any questions regarding these points.

The Winner will also appear in at least one print advertisement for SCOTTEVEST, and on SeV videos, website and other places at SCOTTEVEST’s discretion.

Scott may also award one or several Honorable Mention prizes in SCOTTEVEST product(s). Taxes, fees and all other charges (including VAT and other international tarriffs), if any, are the sole responsibility of winner(s). Please take taxes into account when budgeting your trip.  Non cash prizes are not redeemable for cash or substitutable for any other item by winners.  SCOTTEVEST may pay for certain aspects of your trip directly to the vendors, which may possibly minimize your tax liability as we would view this as a promotional opportunity.  You would need to consult with your own tax accountant to determine whether this would make those portions not taxable.
(c) If the Winner is not capable of completing their trip as originally planned, SCOTTEVEST, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to cancel or modify the prize, without liability and award the prize to the first runner up.

5. Obligations of the Winner.
The trip must be taken by July 1, 2012 unless special arrangements are made with SCOTTEVEST. Selected Finalists must submit a detailed trip plan/agenda before selection as a Winner during the second phase (January 10 - 31, 2012). The Winner and their travel companion(s) are expected to wear exclusively SeV clothes to the extent available/appropriate on their trip(black tie event). The winning trip must be documented – video, photos, blog posts at a volume to be specified and agreed to by SCOTTEVEST before the prize is awarded. Part of the entry and second phase planning must include you plan to document your trip. If these things are not done, SeV has the right to invoice the winner for up to and including the full amount of the prize plus wardrobe. The winner must also provide sufficient materials to appear in a SCOTTEVEST ad campaign.

6. Issues of Law..
All Federal, state and local laws and regulations are applicable. THE IDAHO COURTS (STATE AND FEDERAL) SHALL HAVE SOLE JURISDICTION OF ANY CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THE CONTEST AND THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF IDAHO SHALL GOVERN THE CONTEST. EACH ENTRANT WAIVES ANY AND ALL OBJECTIONS TO JURISDICTION AND VENUE IN THOSE COURTS AND HEREBY SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. The Contest is void where restricted or prohibited by law.

7. Your Release of SCOTTEVEST from Any and All Liability..
Entrants agree that Contest Entities shall not be liable for losses or injuries of any kind resulting from: (i) acceptance/possession and/or use/misuse of prize(s), (ii) participation in the Contest, (iii) individual, joint or collective technical malfunctions of the telephone network and/or transmission line, computer on-line system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, hardware and/or software, or (iv) any delay or distortion of an Entry resulting from data transmissions that are garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, mutilated, delayed, corrupted, mechanically duplicated, illegible or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. Entrants also agree that the Contest Entities are not responsible or liable for any injury or damage to an entrant's or third person's computer related to or resulting from the Contest and/or its prizes. The Contest Entities are not liable for damage to a user's computer system (including, without limitation, any server failure or lost, delayed or corrupted data or other malfunction) due, either directly or indirectly, to an entrant's participation in the Contest or downloading of information in connection with the Contest. The Sponsor reserves the right to modify or cancel the Contest in the event that any portion of any website used to administer any aspect of the Contest becomes technically corrupted.

8. How to Get More Information.
a) To obtain a list of prize winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest" Winners List, SCOTTEVEST, PO BOX 1915, Ketchum, Idaho, 83340. All winners’ list requests must be received by February 1, 2012. Winners’ names will also be posted on the http://www.SCOTTEVEST.com website.
The sponsor of this Contest is SCOTTEVEST, INC. Questions regarding the Contest can be directed by mail to "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest", SCOTTEVEST, PO BOX 1915, Ketchum, Idaho, 83340 or contests@scottevest.com
(b) Copies of these Official Rules may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to "SCOTTEVEST: For the Trip of Your Life Contest" Official Rules, SCOTTEVEST PO BOX 1915, Ketchum, Idaho, 83340 (WA and VT residents may omit return postage.) Requests for Official Rules must be received by December 15, 2011. All times and dates in these Official Rules are US Mountain Time.

9. Misc.
We reserve the right to select the winner, and incorporate various aspects of different Entries (whether they are selected as winners or not) for our unrestricted use. If only portions of your Entry are incorporated, then it will be entirely up to us, in our sole discretion, to determine whether your efforts are entitled to any recognition or compensation. By submitting an Entry, you hereby agree to be notified of the winner via email, and to receive further email updates regarding SCOTTEVEST. However, you may unsubscribe at any time.
Each entry form must be signed electronically by all persons who appear in or have contributed to the production of the SCOTTEVEST Video. Multiple Entries per person are allowed.
Each entry must, however, have at least a valid email account in order to qualify. By entering, entrants agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges and these Official Rules and to comply with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
In the event of a dispute concerning who submitted an e-mail entry, the Entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized holder of the e-mail account from which the Entry is made.
Each submission must be original and created by you and must not incorporate or include anything that is owned by any third party or would require the consent of any third party and your submission must not violate any law or the copyright, trademark, publicity right, privacy right or any other right of any third party.