Official Terms and Rules:
A. "BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing 09 iPhone Contest"
Jurisdiction
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Description to BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing 09 iPhone Contest
1. Application and Competition
The BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing 09 racing game on the iPhone/iPod touch is commercially available for purchase, by way of digital download, from online stores owned and/or operated by Apple Inc. and/or its affiliates in select jurisdictions (the "Stores"), and subject to availability and observance of the terms and conditions applicable to transactions with, or of, each Store. The game is released on September 21, 2009.
The Contest is open to all countries, jurisdictions, states or provinces in which THE APPLICATION IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE except Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Vermont, Northern Ireland, the province of Quebec and any other country, jurisdiction, state, province or political subdivision thereof which prohibits promotions of this sort (the "Void Territories"). By entering this Contest, you hereby represent and warrant that you are not a resident of the Void Territories; please refer to section 3 (Eligibility) to confirm if you are eligible to take part in the contest.
Artificial Life reserves the full and unconditional right to determine or modify at any time, without notice: (i) all parts of the application including their availability; (ii) all terms and conditions of the contest including their availability.
The Terms of Use are applicable including "Lotteries"; therefore the Contest is considered to be a lottery.
2. Timing
The Contest shall run from 12:01 a.m. GMT on September 21, 2009 (07:01 p.m. EST on September 20, 2009) until the earlier of: (i) 12:00 p.m. GMT on November 30, 2009 (07:00 p.m. EST on November 30, 2009); or (ii) such earlier time as Artificial Life may determine at its sole discretion (the "Contest Period").
The application will continue to be available in Stores after the expiry of the Contest Period and for such a period as Artificial Life may determine at its discretion.
3. Eligibility
Subject to these official rules, the competition is only open to entrants who are 18 years or older on or before the end of the contest on November 30, 2009 (if the age of majority in a jurisdiction is different than 18, you must be of the age of majority within your jurisdiction to be eligible to receive the prize) and a legal resident of the country in which the application is available for sale. Entries are limited to individual consumers only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible.
Each valid entry submitted will compete against all other entries eligible to compete for one of the prizes in the Contest Period.
4. How to Enter
4.1 Game Entry
To enter the contest, entrants must complete the following steps and input specific information on their iPhone/iPod touch and also on the contest website.
On the iPhone/iPod touch:
Set up your in-game profile with a unique profile name and a valid email address. Ensure the "Sync Score" option under Online>Networks is set to "YES".
On contest website:
Activate your contestant identity by submitting the same email as you entered to your in-game profile (on your iPhone/iPod touch) in the form at http://www.botme.com/bmwf1race.
Players of the Game are feasible to enter the contest before or after they have completed the eight (8) laps in the Professional Mode. Whenever the players set the "Sync Score" option to "YES", the best times saved on their devices will be automatically synchronized to the Online Leaderboard.
4.2 No Purchase Entry
Go to http://www.botme.com/bmwf1race/webentry to complete a web entry form, fill in your name and email address (which must be a valid email address at the time of entry). Details of ranking and points earning systems are explained in Section 5 (Ranking and Scoring).
In the case that an entrant has registered via both entry methods, only the registration via "Game Entry" described in Section 4.1 will become valid and the daily points earned via "No Purchase Entry" described in Section 4.2 will be void.
5. Ranking and Scoring
5.1 Ranking
Entrants entering via "Game Entry" described in section 4.1 are ranked by the total sum of the best lap times for each of the eight (8) tracks in the Professional Mode (Quick Race or Championship). New best individual lap time(s) created after the first synchronization will be automatically updated onto your own record on the Online Leaderboard.
The Online Leaderboard is available at http://www.botme.com/bmwf1race and shows the top one hundred (100) records of Contest Ranking, Profile Name, Total Best Laps and Location created by entrants entering via the "Game Entry Method" described in section 4.1. Display of the Online Leaderboard results may be delayed and remains subject, and without prejudice, to these Official Terms and Rules.
Entrants entering via the "No Purchase Entry" described in section 4.2 will not be given any ranking or be displayed on the Online Leaderboard.
5.2 Scoring
5.2.1 Scoring for Entrants entering via the "Game Entry" described in section 4.1
Each entrant (via Game Entry) will be given seven thousand and five hundred (7500) Entry Points upon successful registration for the Contest. By the end of the Contest (07:00 p.m. EST on November 30, 2009), every entrant will be awarded zero to forty thousand (0 - 40000) Ranking Bonus Points according to their contest ranking. Please refer to the point system as follows.
| Contest Ranking | Entry Points | Ranking Bonus Points awarded on Nov 30, 2009 | Maximum possible points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7500 | 40000 | 47500 |
| 2 | 35000 | 42500 | |
| 3 | 32000 | 39500 | |
| 4 | 30000 | 37500 | |
| 5 | 29000 | 36500 | |
| 6 | 28000 | 35500 | |
| 7 | 27000 | 34500 | |
| 8 | 26000 | 33500 | |
| 9 | 25000 | 32500 | |
| 10 | 24000 | 31500 | |
| 11 | 23000 | 30500 | |
| 12 | 22000 | 29500 | |
| 13 | 21000 | 28500 | |
| 14 | 20000 | 27500 | |
| 15 | 19000 | 26500 | |
| 16 | 18000 | 25500 | |
| 17 | 17000 | 24500 | |
| 18 | 16000 | 23500 | |
| 19 | 15000 | 22500 | |
| 20 | 14000 | 21500 | |
| 21 | 13000 | 20500 | |
| 22 | 12000 | 19500 | |
| 23 | 11000 | 18500 | |
| 24 | 10000 | 17500 | |
| 25 | 9000 | 16500 | |
| 26 | 8000 | 15500 | |
| 27 | 7000 | 14500 | |
| 28 | 6000 | 13500 | |
| 29 | 5000 | 12500 | |
| 30 | 4000 | 11500 | |
| 31 | 3900 | 11400 | |
| 32 | 3800 | 11300 | |
| 33 | 3700 | 11200 | |
| 34 | 3600 | 11100 | |
| 35 | 3500 | 11000 | |
| 36 | 3400 | 10900 | |
| 37 | 3300 | 10800 | |
| 38 | 3200 | 10700 | |
| 39 | 3100 | 10600 | |
| 40 | 3000 | 10500 | |
| 41-60 | 2000 | 9500 | |
| 61-100 | 1000 | 8500 | |
| 100 onwards | 0 | 7500 |
5.2.2 Scoring for Entrants entering via the "No Purchase Entry" described in section 4.2
By entering your email address and clicking on the "Get your 100 points for today!" button at http://www.botme.com/bmwf1race/webentry, you (the Entrant) will be given one hundred (100) Daily Points. Each entrant is entitled to only one (1) click for every twenty four (24) hours. The Entry Points and Ranking Bonus Points mention under section 5.2.1 are not applicable here (section 5.2.2).
| Daily Points | Maximum possible points |
|---|---|
| 100 pts / click / day | 7100 |
6. Registration and Qualification
Registration is possible for entrants who hold a licensed copy of the Application and have successfully completed at least one (1) run on each of the eight (8) tracks in the Professional Mode.
Each entrant must have a unique profile name and a valid email address. The information is submitted once, saved for subsequent plays, used by the organizer to keep track of the Game's results, and may not be modified at any time during the Contest Period.
If an individual is found to have competed fraudulently under multiple/different identities or player tags, only the best record will be displayed on the Online Leaderboard.
Registering to compete in the contest does not guarantee that players will be qualified to participate in the contest. Artificial Life reserves the right to verify all eligibility criteria outlined in these official rules, even after contest has been closed.
Artificial Life takes no responsibility for misdirected entries or for entries that are lost, damaged or corrupted in the web transmission. Artificial Life reserves the right to disqualify any entry that has been incorrectly completed or contains invalid or incorrect information.
7. Prizes
The Contest shall have fifteen (15) winners who achieve the highest points under the scoring systems described in section 5.2 (Scoring). There will be one (1) grand prize, one (1) first prize, one (1) second prize and twelve (12) finalists, however this is subject to change. All prizes are announced on the contest website http://www.botme.com/bmwf1race. The remaining prizes and extra prizes which may be available for extra finalists will be announced before the end of the contest through the contest website and the results will be emailed to the contest news subscribers.
The winners of the Contest must be eligible entrants who have been awarded in accordance with the results of the contest.
The winners will be notified by email within approximately ten (10) days following the Contest Period. In order to claim the prizes, the winners will be required to sign and return to Artificial Life an affidavit of eligibility and release in respect of liability and publicity, in form and substance satisfactory to Artificial Life within seventy-two (72) hours of the date notice or attempted notice is sent. If a winner cannot be contacted, has not complied with these official rules, or fails to sign and return the statement within the specified time period, then he/she will be disqualified and will automatically forfeit the prize.
In the event that a winner is disqualified for any reason, Artificial Life may award the prize to an alternate winner who has complied with the Official Rules, and who is one rank after the disqualified winner.
Winners may expect to have their gifts shipped out within approximately one (1) month after Artificial Life has received the required signed affidavit for the prize claim.
Artificial Life will be responsible for the shipping of prizes and the corresponding incurred cost.
8. Publicity
By participating, you agree that Artificial Life and their respective designees may use your name, image, photograph, likeness, voice, hometown, prize and biographical information for publicity and advertising purposes in any and all media, now or hereafter known, worldwide, in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or permission, except where prohibited by law.
9. Disqualification of Entrants - Termination of competition
Artificial Life reserves the right, at its discretion, to: (i) disqualify any individual (and void all associated entries) that it has reason to believe has tampered with the type, process, or operation of the application in order to increase his or her position on the Online Leaderboard, has tampered with Artificial Life's web site, the entry process or the operation of the competition, is or has been acting in breach of these official rules, has provided any inaccurate or untrue information or has acted in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person; (ii) cancel, suspend and/or modify the competition, or any part of it, for any reason or for no reason including if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Artificial Life's reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the competition, as determined by Artificial Life at its sole discretion.
If for any reason the competition is not capable of being run as planned, Artificial Life reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the competition.
Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the competition may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Artificial Life reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies (including attorneys. fees) from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Artificial Life's failure to enforce any term of these official rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
B. Terms of Use and Private Policy Statement
The Terms of Use and Private Policy Statement of botme.com (http://www.botme.com/botme/en/services/termsofuse.htm) are applicable to this contest.
iPod is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc.
