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REGISTER IN THE HOKIE NATION NETWORK

and get a chance to win a Hokie Bowl game prize package this football season! Details below.

The Virginia Tech Alumni Association and Martin Travel are excited to give away a bowl game prize package to a lucky Hokie Nation Network registrant or current user. Hokie Nation Network is a free online social and professional networking site, exclusively for Hokies.

If you would like an opportunity to win, alumni and students should:

  1. Visit the Hokie Nation Network site at www.alumni.vt.edu/hnn
  2. Login
  3. Create a profile by December 1, 2009
    (Current users will also be included in the drawing)

Prize package includes:

  • Two tickets to this season’s bowl game for the Hokies
  • Lodging for two nights
  • Air transportation for two

 

Martin Travel

Hokie fans get a 5% discount on trips booked with Martin Travel! Remember to mention your 5% Virginia Tech discount when you call 1-800/817-1227 or click on "VT 5% discount" when you visit their website at www.martintravel.com.


Official Rules

Eligibility. The Hokie Nation Network Bowl Contest (the “Contest”) is open only to Virginia Tech alumni and Virginia Tech students. Entrants must login to the Hokie Nation Network with their Virginia Tech PID and password and create your profile. Subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. Employees of Virginia Tech’s Alumni Relations staff and the Martin Travel staff are ineligible to receive any prizes awarded.

Sponsor. The Sponsor of this Contest is the Virginia Tech Alumni Association and Martin Travel.  All questions regarding this Contest should be directed by e-mail to vtalumnet@vt.edu.

Timing. The Contest shall run from 12:01 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2009 and ends on December 1, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. EDT.  Alumni and students who have logged onto the Hokie Nation Network prior to the Contest will also be eligible. Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device for this Contest.

How to Enter. 

          Logon to the Hokie Nation Network and update your profile and you will automatically be entered into the Contest.

    Entrants that have logged into the Hokie Nation Network prior to the Contest begin date, will automatically be eligible.

Sweepstakes. Sponsor is the sole judging organization whose decisions as to the operation of the Contest and the selection of the potential winner are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest.

Verification of Potential Winner.  To win a prize, the potential winner must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules. The potential winner will be notified by email or telephone call within approximately three (3) days following selection of the winner. In order to claim a prize, the potential winner will be required to sign and return to Sponsor an Affidavit of Eligibility/ Liability & Publicity Release (“Affirmation”) within forty-eight (48) hours of the date notice or attempted notice is sent.  If winner is a minor (under 18, or under 19 in Alabama and Nebraska), prize will be awarded to minor’s parent or legal guardian, who must sign and return all required documents. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, or fails to sign and return the Affirmation within the specified time period, the potential winner is disqualified and forfeits the prize.

In the event that a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor may award the applicable prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries.

Prizes. One (1) winner will receive two tickets to this season’s Virginia Tech Bowl game; Lodging for two nights (1 room for two nights) near the Bowl location (Ending Destination); two domestic roundtrip airline tickets from a major gateway city (Home Destination), closest to the winner’s home residence, to the closest major gateway city to the Ending Destination. The winner whose home residence is in close proximity to the Ending Destination will not be eligible for the airline transportation.

Limitations of Prizes.  Sponsor makes no warranties with regard to any prize. No cash or other substitution is permitted, except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Prize is nontransferable, unless otherwise specifically approved by Sponsor in writing. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any listed prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Except as specifically included in the prize description, the winner is solely responsible for all applicable taxes, fees and surcharges associated with prize receipt and/or use.

Release.  By receipt of any Sweepstakes prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor and its subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/Contest agencies and each such company’s officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize or participation in any Contest-related activity and for any claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy and merchandise delivery.

Publicity.  The winner agrees to allow Sponsor to use his or her name, photograph, likeness, voice, prize information, and biographical information for publicity and Contest purposes without further compensation where permitted by law.

Conditions of Participation.  Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, stolen, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, misdirected, technically corrupted or garbled entries, which will be disqualified, or for problems of any kind whether mechanical, human or electronic. Proof of submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor. 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 beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prize at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with Sponsor’s web site, the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other Contest or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. 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 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.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability.  The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, TRAFFIC CONGESTION or disconnections in phone OR INTERNET lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Contest; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize including any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Contest.

Governing Law.  These Rules and this Contest are governed by and controlled by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, applicable to contracts made and performed therein without reference to the applicable choice of law provisions. All actions, proceedings or litigation relating hereto will be instituted and prosecuted solely within the Commonwealth of Virginia, Montgomery County. The parties consent to the jurisdiction of the state courts of Virginia and the federal courts located with such state and county with respect to any action, dispute or other matter pertaining to or arising out of this Contest. This Contest is subject to all applicable laws. Void where prohibited.

Winner’s List.  The winner will be listed online at www.alumni.vt.edu/hnn within approximately ten (10) days following the End Date.