Contest Rules

Participation constitutes entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules.

Promotion is open only to persons aged 18 and older who are legal residents of British Columbia only. Employees, directors and officers of Big Brother Productions and individual contest sponsors and their agents and affiliates and anyone with whom such persons are domiciled are not eligible to enter.

Void where prohibited. All federal, provincial, and local laws and regulations apply.

Burn The Floor Ticket Giveaway

Entries must be received by 5:00p.m. (Pacific) on Sunday, 4 April 2010 to be eligible.

Only one entry per person, per email address, is permitted for the duration of the Promotion. Entries that are not complete will be discarded.

Prizes have no cash value and must be accepted as awarded. Approximate retail price for each prize is CAD$153.00 based on the adult general admission selling price as of 24 February 2010.

The winners will be determined by a random draws on or about 4 April 2010 and will include all entries received up to and including the draw date.

Live Nation Concert Tickets

Entries must be received by the following dates to be eligible to win:

1. Sunday, 14 March 2010 for Indigo Girls
2. Sunday, 21 March 2010 for Scatterheart
3. Sunday, 28 March 2010 for Sia
4. Sunday, 11 April 2010 for La Roux

Non-winning entries from one draw date will automatically rollover to the next draw date until all four draws have taken place.

A total of four (4) prizes are available to be won each consisting of two pairs of tickets to either Indigo Girls on March 21st, Scatterheart on March 27th, Sia on April 10th or La Roux on April 18th.

Only one entry per person, per email address, per month, is permitted for the duration of the Promotion. Entries that are not complete will be discarded.

Prizes have no cash value and must be accepted as awarded. Approximate retail price based on the adult general admission ticket price as of 3 February 2010: Indigo Girls $73; Scatterheart $30; Sia $53; La Roux $45.

The winners will be determined by a random draws on or about 14 March 2010, 21 March 2010, 28 March 2010 and 11 April 2010 and will include all entries received up to and including the draw date.

The Manhattan Transfer Ticket Giveaway

Entries must be received by the following dates to be eligible to win:

1. Sunday, 24 January 2010
2. Sunday, 21 March 2010
3. Sunday, 16 May 2010

Non-winning entries from one draw date will automatically rollover to the next draw date until all three draws have taken place.

A total of three (3) prizes are available to be won each consisting of a pair of tickets to The Manhattan Transfer at The Vancouver Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday, 29 March 2010 at 8pm.

Only one entry per person, per email address, per month, is permitted for the duration of the Promotion. Entries that are not complete will be discarded.

Prizes have no cash value and must be accepted as awarded. Approximate retail price for each prize is CAD$69.50 based on the adult general admission ticket price as of 18 December 2009.

The winners will be determined by a random draws on or about 24 January 2010, 21 March 2010 and 15 May 2010 and will include all entries received up to and including the draw date.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Concert Tickets

Entries must be received by 5:00p.m. (Pacific) on the following dates to be eligible to win:

Wednesday, 30 September 2009 - VSO Pops Music of the Night (for concert 10 October @ Orpheum)
Sunday, 1 November 2009 - Mendelssohn & Schumann (for concert 9 November @ Orpheum)
Wednesday, 9 December 2009 - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (for concert 19 December @ Chan Centre)
Sunday, 3 January 2010 - Wagner, Rachmaninoff & Mozart (for concert 9 January @ Orpheum)
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Gershwin, Grofe & Good (for concert 6 February @ Orpheum)
Sunday, 14 March 2010 - VSO Pops The Swingin’ Seventies (for concert 19 March @ Orpheum)
Wednesday, 7 April 2010 - VSO Pops Cirque de la Symphonie (for concert 17 April @ Orpheum)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 - Motown Magic with Radiance & the VSO! (for concert 8 May @ Orpheum)
Wednesday, 2 June 2010 - Rimsky-Korsakov & Stravinsky (for concert 12 June @ Orpheum)

Only one entry per person, per email address, per month is permitted for the duration of the Promotion (entrants are permitted to enter once each month from 31 August 2009 through 2 June 2010). Entries that are not complete will be discarded.  Entries will rollover from one contest period to another for all contests.

A total of nine (9) prizes are available to be won consisting of two tickets to one of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concerts listed above (actual concert dates are in brackets).

Prizes have no cash value and must be accepted as awarded. Approximate retail price for each prize range in price from CAD$20 -  CAD$78.50 depending on the concert tickets (based on the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra individual ticket selling prices as of 31 August 2009).  Actual retail value of the tickets will be determined by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the time of each draw.

GayVancouver.Net and/or the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra reserves the right to substitute the listed concerts with any other concert if required.  The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will determine the actual seats allocated for each show at the conclusion of each draw date.

The winners will be determined by a random draw on or about the dates specified above and will include all entries received up to and including the draw date.

Vancouver Playhouse Contest

Entries must be received by 5:00p.m. (Pacific) on the following dates to be eligible to win:

Sunday, 4 October 2009 - The  Miracle Worker (for performance 16 October 2009)
Sunday, 15 November 2009 - Dirty Rotten Soundrels (for performance 27 November 2009)
Sunday, 10 January 2010 - Beyond Eden (for performance 22 January 2010)
Sunday, 14 March 2010 - The Love List (for performance 26 March 2010)
Sunday, 25 April 2010 - Dangerous Corner (for performance 7 May 2010)

Only one entry per person, per email address, per month is permitted for the duration of the Promotion (entrants are permitted to enter once each month from 1 September 2009 through 25 April 2010). Entries that are not complete will be discarded.  Entries will rollover from one contest period to another for all contests.

A total of five (5) prizes are available to be won consisting of two tickets to one of the Vancouver Playhouse productions listed above (actual performance dates are in brackets).

Prizes have no cash value and must be accepted as awarded. Approximate retail price for each prize is CAD$49.00 based on the Vancouver Playhouse individual ticket selling price for a Monday-Friday performance as of 1 September 2009.

The winners will be determined by a random draw on or about the dates specified above and will include all entries received up to and including the draw date.

General Contest Rules (All Contests)

The winners will have 24 hours to respond from the first day of being notified by email. Should the winners not respond within the 24 hours a new winner will be chosen and we will continue to draw names every 24 hours until such time as a winner responds. Email and/or telephone shall be the only methods of communication between the winner and the Sponsors.

The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible correct entries received for the Promotion.

The Sponsors of this Promotion are not responsible for and shall not be liable for late, lost, misdirected, or unsuccessful efforts to notify the winner as per the rules of this Promotion.

By entering this Promotion, winners agree to the publication and use of his/her name (first name and last initial only) and city/province of residence for publicity purposes without additional compensation. The winners may, at Sponsor's option, be required to sign and return a declaration of eligibility, release of liability, and, where lawful, a publicity consent agreement.

In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an online or mail-in entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail account.

All decisions of the Promotion judges are final and entries become the property of the Sponsors and will not be returned.

Void where prohibited. By entering you agree to be bound by the rules of this Promotion.

By entering, each participant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsors, which shall be final. Sponsors, agents and representatives of the Sponsors, its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, Promotion, and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors are not responsible for and shall not be liable for: (i) telephone, electronic, hardware or software program, network, Internet, or computer malfunctions, failures, or difficulties of any kind; (ii) failed, incomplete, garbled, or delayed computer transmissions; (iii) any condition caused by events beyond the control of the Sponsors that may cause the Promotion to be disrupted or corrupted; (iv) any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of the prize, or acceptance, possession, or use of the prize, or from participation in the Promotion; or (v) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Promotion.

Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to suspend or terminate the Promotion at any time and to award the Promotion prizes to individuals selected at random from the pool of entrants received up to the point of termination, if a computer virus, bug, tampering, unauthorized intervention, or other technical problem of any sort corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Promotion. The Sponsors also reserve the right to disqualify, in its sole discretion, any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the survey website, or who is otherwise in violation of the rules.

By participating in the Promotion, each participant agrees to release and hold the Sponsors and the employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives of Sponsors, its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, Promotion, and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors, harmless from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind in connection with the Promotion or resulting from acceptance, possession, or use of any prize, including without limitation, personal injury, death, and property damage, and claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy.

To enter by mail, send a postcard with your name, full mailing address and telephone number (including area code) plus the answer to the skill testing question indicating the name of the contest you are entering to:

Online Contests

<INSERT NAME OF CONTEST>
c/o Big Brother Internet Productions
#20 - 969 Richards Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 1A8

All mail-in entries must be received no later than the date specified for online entry above. By entering by mail you are also confirming you have read and will be bound by the rules specified above.

Big Brother Productions and the various Sponsors will not be responsible for entries which are incomplete, illegible, mutilated, misdirected, delayed, late, lost or otherwise undeliverable either by electronic entry or by mail-in entry.

Good Luck!

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