Southwest Wanna Get Away Contest

Official Rules

No Purchase Necessary

  1. Description of the Contest:
    The Southwest Wanna Get Away Contest, (“Contest”) Sponsored by Southwest Airlines, (“Sponsor”) is a skill-based promotion in which a grand prize will be awarded to the Entrant who submits the best video according to the Contest requirements and the sponsor’s panel of judges. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be awarded as a result of public voting. All videos that meet the requirements set forth in rule 3 will be reviewed by a panel of qualified judges, who will select the Grand Prize Winner.

  2. Eligibility:
    The Contest is open to legal residents of the United States who are at least 21 years of age at time of entry. Employees of Sponsor, and each of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and members of their immediate families, regardless of whether they reside in the same household, are not eligible to participate (“Excluded Parties”). The Contest is void where prohibited.

  3. How To Enter:
    You must register at www.youtube.com/group/SouthwestContest and www.southwestwannagetaway.com by following the onscreen instructions. Registration must be completed before a video can be submitted and by February 20, 2007. At the time of registration you will be required to acknowledge that you have read the rules and the policies, terms and conditions for You Tube site use and the Southwest Wanna Get Away Rules and Regulations, and that you agree to be bound.

    Prepare one or more original video(s) no more than 20 (twenty) seconds in length, with the theme of ”Wanna Get Away”, and upload your video(s) at www.youtube.com/group/SouthwestContest in an avi, mov or mpg format. No other format will be accepted. Do not add Southwest Airlines’ logo or voice over’s in your video. Use all 20 seconds to tell us your best Wanna Get Away moment. If your video wins the grand prize, Southwest Airlines will add the necessary elements needed for it to broadcast on national TV. If your video contains audio, it must be in English. All video must be received by February 20, 2007. Your video must be entirely original; it must not infringe the property rights of any third party, and must not have won an award of any sort. Any video that contains, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, any content that is obscene, violent, sexually provocative, discriminatory, or material that is deemed unfavorable to the Sponsor’s image, will not be accepted. By submitting a video, you will NOT be automatically entered into the Contest. Pending Sponsor’s approval, your video will be posted for viewing at www.youtube.com/group/SouthwestContest and www.southwestwannagetaway.com.

    If the video is produced by more than one person, they may submit the video as a team under the team name. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for disputes between persons claiming authorship of the video. All entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.

  4. Judging:

    1. Grand Prize:
      All Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges based on the following criteria: creativity/uniqueness of idea (33%); quality of execution (33%) quality of writing and acting (33%). In the event of tie, the entrant with the highest score in creativity/originality will be judged the winner. If ties still remain, the entrant with the highest score in quality of execution will be deemed the winner. If ties remain, the tied entries will be re-judged on the same criteria. Decisions of the judges are final. Winners will be notified by mail, phone or email at Sponsors discretion.

    2. Public Voting:
      Videos will be posted for public viewing and voting on www.southwestwannagetaway.com and www.youtube.com/group/SouthwestContest between December 12, 2006 and February 20, 2007. Persons may vote for their favorite video once per IP address. The video that receives the highest number of votes with the highest rating will be deemed the 1st prize winner, the video with the second highest number of votes with the highest rating will be deemed the 2nd prize winner, and the video with the 3rd highest number of votes with the highest rating will be deemed the 3rd prize winner. All votes cast not in conformity with these rules, and the voting instructions, will be disqualified in the Sponsors’ sole discretion.

  5. Prizes:
    One Grand Prize: The winning video will be used as a Nationally run Southwest Wanna Get Away commercial, and the winner will receive a Wanna Get Away Vacation for 4 which will include hotel, two (2) nights and three (3) days (double occupancy), car rental and air transportation for four to any Southwest Airlines Vacations Destination of choice on published scheduled service. Approximate value: $2,000.

    1st Prize: Wanna Get Away Vacation for 4 which will include hotel two (2) nights’ and (3) days, (double occupancy) car rental and air transportation for two to any Southwest Airlines Vacations Destination of choice on published scheduled service. Approximate value: $2,000.

    2nd Prize: Four (4) Southwest Airlines Tickets to anywhere Southwest flies. Approximate value: $1600.

    3rd Prize: Two (2) Southwest Airlines Tickets to anywhere Southwest flies. Approximate value: $800.

    No transfer or substitution of prizes, except by Sponsor in the event the advertised prize is unavailable. Taxes are the responsibility of the winner.

  6. Rights:
    By submitting a video you warrant that it is wholly original and does not infringe any copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy or other proprietary right of any third party, union or guild. Entrants in the Contest agree to assign the rights, title and intellectual property rights in their Submissions to Sponsor as a condition of competing for a prize. Winner must sign all necessary documents to effect the transfer of rights.

    Entrants grant permission to Sponsor to use their names, likenesses, biographical information for promotional or advertising purposes in all media worldwide, without notice or further compensation, unless prohibited by law. By participating, entrants hereby release the Excluded Parties from any and all liability, or loss, damage, harm, injury, cost or expense which may occur in connection with their preparation for the Contest, or from their acceptance, use/misuse of a prize. Winners agree to indemnify and hold the Excluded Parties harmless from and against any claims, suits, losses, damages, and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, that arise in connection with any allegation that their Submission violates the intellectual property rights of any third party.

  7. Entry Errors:
    Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, damaged, stolen, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected Submissions. Sponsor is not responsible if online service or equipment is interrupted including without limitation (1) interruptions to any network, server, Internet, website, telephone, satellite, computer or other connections, (2) failures of any telephone, satellite, hardware, software or other equipment, (3) garbled, misdirected or jumbled transmissions, or traffic congestion, (4) other errors of any kind, whether human, technical, mechanical or electronic, or (5) the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry of entry or other information or the failure to capture any such information. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, modify or terminate the Contest if any of the foregoing occurs and reserves the right, but not the obligation, to select winners from Submissions, received as of the date of termination of modification.

  8. Disputes/Choice of Law:
    Except where prohibited, each entrant agrees that this Contest shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas and: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by state or federal courts situated in Dallas, Texas (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) no punitive, incidental, special, consequential or other damages, including without limitation lost profits may be awarded (collectively, “Special Damages”), and (4) entrant hereby waives all rights to claim Special Damages and all rights to have such damages multiplied or increased.

  9. Winner’s Lists:
    For the names of the winners, visit www.southwestwannagetaway.com. Winners lists will be available on or about March 7, 2007.

  10. Sponsor:
    This Contest is sponsored by Southwest Airlines Co.
    2702 Love Field Drive
    Dallas TX 75235.

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