OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
Contest: The Tennis Channel Second Serve Contest
Company: The Tennis Channel, LLC
Company Address: The Tennis Channel, LLC, 3003 Exposition Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Contest Area: The Fifty (50) United States of America and the District of Columbia
Sponsor(s): The Tennis Channel
Prize Provider(s): The Tennis Channel
Age of Eligibility: Eighteen (18)
Contest Period: July 28, 2024 to August 20, 2024
Entries Due: 11:59 PM EDT on August 19, 2024
Entry is limited to one (1) entry per person.
Drawing Date(s): August 20, 2024
Number of Winners on Each Drawing Date: One (1)
Total Number of Winners: One (1)
Prize(s) and Value(s): One (1) Nationwide Winner will receive a trip for two (2) to the 2025 Cincinnati Open, held August 7-18, 2025, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Trip Package includes roundtrip airfare with connections, economy class, for two (2) between a major gateway airport near winner’s residence and Cincinnati, Ohio; three (3) consecutive nights’ hotel accommodations at a hotel selected by Prize Provider in its sole discretion (one standard room, double occupancy); and two (2) tickets for two (2) days of play (as selected by Prize Provider in its sole discretion) to the 2025 Cincinnati Open. Winner and guest must travel on the same itinerary. Prize components may not be separated. The total approximate retail value of the Trip Package will not exceed $2,500. and is subject to change based on winner’s location and airfare at time of booking. Winner will be notified of the actual prize value.
In connection with any visit to any Prize Provider location, please be advised that the Prize Provider’s policies, CDC guidelines, and the recommendations of health officials must be followed. Please note that any public location where people are present provides an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19, and the Company and Prize Provider cannot guarantee that any person will not be exposed during a visit.
Company’s Website: www.tennischannel.com; https://www.tennis.com/baseline/
Contest Website: www.secondservesweeps.com
Company’s Privacy Policy: https://sbgi.net/privacy-policy
Company’s Website Terms and Conditions: https://sbgi.net/terms-conditions
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. This contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.
Odds of winning depend on the number of valid and correct entries received.
All capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth above.
How to Enter
To enter, (i) log onto the Company’s Website and click on the Contest tab; or (ii) log onto the Contest Website to access the Contest entry page; or (iii) alternatively, stop by any participating Basket & Bushel retail store (see website for locations - https://basket-bushel.com/ ) and use a QR code reader (scanner) on your mobile device to link to enter. Data rates may apply. Complete the online entry form with your name, address, phone number, and birth date in the provided area and click submit. No mechanically reproduced or completed entries will be accepted.
How to Win
The Number of Winners on each Drawing Date will be selected by random drawing from among valid entries received.
Eligibility
- To be eligible to participate in the Contest, entrants must be U.S. residents who are at least the Age of Eligibility, except in the State of Nebraska the age of eligibility is nineteen (19), and reside within the Contest Area. Residents and citizens of the European Union are not eligible to enter or win this Contest.
- Employees of Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC, Sinclair Television Group, Inc., The Tennis Channel, LLC (collectively, the “Company”), Sponsor(s), Prize Provider(s), contest software providers, social media platforms, each of their parent and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, any and all local television broadcast and cable stations, local radio and other media companies, and the immediate family members of each are ineligible. The term “immediate family” includes spouses, domestic partners, grandparents, parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, and any other relatives who reside in the same household with employee.
Contest Terms and Conditions
- Company is not responsible for lost, late, garbled, or misdirected entries, printing errors, server unavailability, computer or any other electronic malfunction. All entries received that are duplicate, mutilated, tampered with, incorrect, illegible, or from ineligible entrants will be void. All entries become the property of Sinclair and will not be acknowledged or returned.
- Company cannot be held liable for any lost or stolen entries, prizes or contest information. Company is not responsible for any technological malfunction, or human error relating to the Contest.
- Prizes are provided “as is” without any express or implied warranty of any kind including warranties of merchantability, non-infringement or intellectual property, or fitness for any particular purpose. Prizes are subject to the Sponsor(s) and/or Prize Provider(s) standard terms and conditions, and expiration dates. For any ticket related prizes, Company, Sponsor(s) and Prize Provider(s) are not responsible if any event or performance is cancelled or postponed. Any trip related prizes are subject to advance reservation, availability and black-out dates, and do not include any meals, other transportation, gratuities, travel insurance, baggage fees, miscellaneous airline fees, excursions, spa treatments, or any other expenses. The Company, Sponsor(s) and Prize Provider(s) are not responsible for winner’s failure to take the trip by the Prize Provider’s expiration date, or cancellation of the trip by the winner.
- Each winner will be notified by email or phone. Before claiming any prize, each winner must provide his/her correct name, address and telephone number to Company at the time of notification. Each winner must sign and return a release and affidavit of eligibility, which must be received within three (3) days of notification (or less due to prize use time constraints), at the time winner claims his/her prize. Each winner must provide picture identification to claim his/her prize. Company reserves the right to examine additional identification and may choose to accept or deny awarding any prize based on the identification presented. All persons traveling on the trip must be 18 years of age or over, unless travelers under 18 are accompanied by at least one adult who is the parent or legal guardian of all of the minors. All persons traveling on the trip must also sign and return a release which must be returned with the winner’s release and affidavit of eligibility within three (3) days of winner’s notification.
- If a winner cannot be notified within two (2) days, or does not timely sign and return the release and affidavit of eligibility, then the prize will be forfeited, and time permitting, the prize will be awarded to an alternate winner randomly selected from among remaining valid and correct entries. If time does not permit for an alternate winner to be selected, then the prize will be forfeited, and the prize will remain the property of the Company.
- There will be no substitutions or cash alternatives for any prize except at the sole discretion of the Company. The Company has the right to substitute a prize of similar value. No sale, transfer or assignment of any prize is allowed.
- Each winner is responsible for paying all local, county, state and federal taxes on prizes based on the estimated retail value of the prizes as set forth in these rules. Each winner must sign a W-9 form.
- Only one prize will be awarded per household if more than one prize is awarded. Entrants are eligible to win only one prize within any 90-day period, regardless of the number of contests entered.
- The Company is not liable if the provider of any part of a prize fails to satisfy its obligations to furnish its portion of the prize.
- The Company, Sponsor(s), and Prize Provider(s) accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any injuries, losses or damages of any kind directly or indirectly caused by or resulting from the acceptance, possession or use of any Prize awarded in the Contest. By entering, entrants agree to release the Company, Sponsor(s), Prize Provider(s), contest software providers, social media platforms, and each of their respective parent, affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents, from any and all claims, loss, damage or injury as a result of or incident to his/her participation in the Contest or his/her use of the Prize. Entrants further acknowledge and agree that if a winner, the Company has the right to publicize entrant’s name, character, likeness, photograph, voice and the fact that entrant is a winner of the Contest for promotional purposes, without financial remuneration.
- Complete Official Rules for the Contest are available on the Company’s Website. For a list of prize winners, send a separate, self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Company at the Company’s Address within thirty (30) days of the last day of the Contest Period.
- The Company has the right to disqualify any entrant it determines has not complied with the Contest Rules. All decisions by the Company shall be final and binding relating to this contest, including the interpretation of the Contest Rules. The Company reserves the right to make rules and contest changes and change the contest dates. The Company reserves the right to cancel/terminate, modify or suspend the Contest if in the Company’s sole determination it believes that the integrity of the Contest has been, or could be, compromised or that the Contest is not capable of running as planned or fairly, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or force majeure or any other causes beyond the Company’s control.
- The Contest is subject to the Company’s Privacy Policy and the Company’s Website Terms and Conditions located on the Company’s Website.