Due to this wacky thing called the law, we’ve had to make a change to our PRGAAMWA prize pack. We didn’t want to, but we had to. One Pink Raygun reader will still win a prize at the end of the tournament in March; however, that prize will no longer be a big box of sixty-four DVDs as we had initially planned. Let me explain.
The Pink Raygun Association of Associated Movie Watchers Associated DVD tournament was born out of frustration in March 2007 when the Arizona Wildcats lost the NCAA tournament in the first round and we suddenly had a bunch of time on our hands. Normally, we would have been watching basketball. Lots of it. Instead, with our team out of the tournament, we watched movies. Lots of ‘em. We paired the movies up in a March Madness bracket and made them fight.
For the 2008 PRGAAMWA Tournament, we had planned to run a bracket contest with the grand prize of all sixty-four DVD finalists. The winner of the bracket contest would win the whole pack. Part of the plan was to charge a one dollar entry fee per bracket, which would offset the cost of Pink Raygun buying all those DVDs.
Well, this is where the law comes in.
We were concerned about legal difficulties with running the contest in different states and consulted with a lawyer. Making this thing adhere to FTC guidelines as well as state contest laws was nigh impossible – simply stamping it with “Void where prohibited” wasn’t going to be enough to keep us out of legal trouble if someone decided to make an issue of it.
Causing the most trouble was that one dollar entry fee per bracket.
We couldn’t legally keep the entry fee, but we needed the entry fees to offset the cost of the grand prize. Our best course of action was to scrap the entry fee and change the grand prize.
Here are the final changes to the contest:
The 2008 PRGAAMWA Tournament will be free to enter. Look for your printable bracket soon.
One winner will have his or her choice of the following: the tournament’s eight highest ranking DVDs (to be determined) OR a $100 Amazon gift certificate.
John and I apologize for making this change, but it was unavoidable.
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