H-E-B Friday Night Football Challenge Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
A PURCHASE WILL NOT improve your chances of winning. Contest begins 8/31/05 and ends 9/28/05 ("Program Period"). All contest entries must be postmarked by 9/29/05 and received by 10/4/05.

WHO MAY ENTER:
Contest is open only to public high schools located within a 50-mile radius of an H-E-B Food & Drug Store or an H-E-B Pantry store. The H-E-B Market Area of the participating H-E-B store nearest the entering school determines the H-E-B Market Area in which that school will be entered for the Contest. To find out what Market Area an H-E-B store is in, inquire at the store’s Customer Service Center. Market Areas are: Central Texas; Houston; San Antonio/West Texas; South Texas. . Winning school may be required to provide proof of public school status at time prize is claimed. Void where prohibited by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

HOW TO ENTER:

• Each entering public high school should designate a contest coordinator (the “School Coordinator”) to coordinate the collection of Eligible Receipts from persons such as students, students’ parents, faculty members, and staff (without limitation). An “Eligible Receipt” is any receipt for the purchase of a Participating Product (listed below) from a participating H-E-B Food & Drug or H-E-B Pantry store during the Program Period (8/31/05-9/28/05). Each Participating Product listed on the Eligible Receipt is worth 1 point, subject to a maximum of 25 points per receipt. To be counted, the Participating Products should be circled or highlighted on the Eligible Receipt(s) (subject to the maximum of 25 per receipt) and the Eligible Receipts submitted to the School Coordinator. Only receipts for purchases during the Program Period are eligible. Must submit the original receipt.
  
• Throughout the Program Period, the School Coordinator collects and reviews the submitted receipts and keeps a running count of the aggregate number of Participating Products circled eligible receipts.
  
• At the end of the Program Period, the School Coordinator performs a final count of the total number of participating products circled on the receipts. The School Coordinator must then prepare a contest submission package that contains ALL of the original receipts collected by the participating school AND an 8-1/2” x 11” sheet that lists the high school’s name, address, phone number, contest coordinator’s name, H-E-B market area, and total number of points collected. Entering schools are solely responsible for the accuracy of the count. Sponsor assumes no responsibility to review or correct counts but reserves the right to audit submissions. Sponsor may change market area designations of entering schools at its sole discretion but assumes no responsibility to do so. Sponsor’s Market Area designation decisions are final.
  
• The School Coordinator must mail the contest submission package to H-E-B Friday Night Football Challenge, PO Box 3122, Grand Rapids, MN, 55745-3122 to be received by 10/4/05. Limit one bulk contest submission per high school. Each school’s entry package must be postmarked by 9/29/05 and received by 10/4/05. Incomplete, illegible, damaged, incorrectly addressed, late, lost, misdirected and postage due contest submissions are ineligible.
  
• Any person may collect points for an eligible high school without making a purchase by hand-writing his/her name, address, phone number, selected high school name and address, the school’s H-E-B Market Area, the name(s) of up to 25 participating products, and the corresponding UPC number(s) of the referenced participating product(s) on a 3”x5” index card and mailing the card to H-E-B Friday Night Football Challenge, PO Box 3122, Grand Rapids, MN, 55745-3122 to be received by 10/4/05 . Each 3”x5” participating product listed on an index card equals 1 point, subject to a maximum of 25 points per index card. Individuals may submit as many 3”x5” cards as they wish, but each card must be mailed separately in a hand-addressed envelope to be eligible. All cards must be postmarked by 9/29/05 and received by 10/4/05. Incomplete, illegible, damaged, incorrectly addressed, late, lost, misdirected and postage due contest submissions are ineligible. All write-in points will be recorded by high school name and will be added to the high school bulk contest submission by Sponsor for proper verification. Cards should be submitted directly by participating individuals and may not be submitted in School Coordinators’ submission packages. Cards designating schools that do not submit eligible submission packages will be void.

• In accordance with H-E-B policy, all entrants and other persons are prohibited from soliciting H-E-B customers in or around H-E-B stores or adjacent areas, including parking lots. Any receipts determined to have been collected in violation of this policy may be deemed void. H-E-B reserves the right to disqualify any entering school that it finds to have violated this rule or to have encouraged or knowingly permitted the violation of this rule.

PRIZES & ODDS OF WINNING:
Grand Prize (4 Grand Prizes available – 1 per H-E-B Market Area):$25,000 (delivered in the form of a check to the public high school submitting the contest submission package) and a pep rally event at the winning school on the date specified below featuring H-E-B & Kraft foods cooked on the “World’s Largest Grill and Smoker,” H-E-B s soda, limited giveaway items for attendeesand a live music concert on a pre-selected date. Winning schools must be able to accommodate the pep rally event on the dates specified by Sponsor at time of notification or forfeit that portion of the prize. Total Grand Prize retail value approx $65,000. Odds of winning depend on then number of eligible contest submissions received.

SELECTION OF WINNING SCHOOLS:
Grand Prize will be awarded to the one participating public high school with the greatest number of points submitted in each of the four designated H-E-B Market Areas. H-E-B (and/or its designated independent judging representatives) may count certain contest submissions and verify corresponding receipts/write-in entries for eligibility and accuracy. The decisions of judges shall be final, binding, and conclusive in all matters relating to the Contest. Winning schools will be notified by phone and/or by mail and will be required to sign eligibility, liability, and publicity release documents in order to receive prize.

PRIZE RESTRICTIONS:
Prizes will be delivered only to eligible high schools as defined above. All taxes (including, without limitation, federal, state, and local taxes) on or connected with any prize, and the reporting consequences thereof, are the sole and exclusive responsibility of respective winning schools. Sponsor reserves the right to withhold and remit to the appropriate taxing authorities the amount of any tax or taxes due and to issue appropriate tax documentation. As to all prizes, winning schools are responsible for all expenses incurred that are not specifically provided for herein, including but not limited to any pep rally event expenses not described herein, taxes or fees; and any costs associated with obtaining or redeeming prizes. Prizes are not transferable. No substitution or cash redemption of any prize is permitted. If a Grand Prize winning school is unable to accommodate the pep rally event portion of the Grand Prize on the exact date specified by the Sponsors, that portion of the Grand Prize will be forfeited. Pep rally event is subject to changes in scheduling and availability of performing artist(s). Sponsors reserve the right to substitute the prize(s) or any of its components with another prize of equal or greater approximate value for any reason.

MISCELLANEOUS:
a. General Rules Governing Participants and Winning Schools. If any potential winning school is found to be ineligible or has not complied with these official rules, such potential winning school will be disqualified and their prize forfeited. Any false statement in any document submitted to Sponsor will be grounds for Sponsor to require prompt return of a Prize or, at Sponsor’s option, the cash equivalent of the Prize. Sponsor is not responsible for incomplete, illegible, misdirected, late, lost, damaged, stolen, or postage-due submissions. Contest materials submitted become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. By participating, submitting a contest submission package, or redeeming a prize, schools and other persons making submissions release and agree to hold harmless Sponsor, Product Suppliers, their successors, assigns, parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives, and agents, and prize suppliers (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all costs, injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including, without limitation, death and injury, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, to participation in the Contest, or arising out of participation in any Contest-related activity, or the receipt, use or misuse of any prize, or typographical or other error in the printing, offering or announcement of any prize. By submitting potential winning Contest materials, except where legally prohibited, each verified Contest winning school and its representatives agrees to the use their name, likeness, address (city and state) and any statements made by or attributed to such winning school’s representatives in any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, without notice, review or approval, in perpetuity and throughout the universe for advertising and promotional purposes in connection with the Contest and other promotions without further compensation, and releases the Released Parties from any liability with respect thereto.

b. Disqualification/Force Majeure. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any school or individual who Sponsor finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the integrity of the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, modify, or suspend all of part of the Contest, if they determine at any time and in their sole discretion, that the Contest is compromised or corrupted or that fraud, errors, problems, failures, malfunctions of any kind, or in the event that Force Majeure Events (as defined below) have undermined the integrity of the Contest. “Force Majeure Events” shall mean any events beyond the reasonable control of Sponsor, including, but not limited to, fire, flood, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute or strike, acts of God or public enemy, satellite or equipment failure, riot or civil disturbance, terrorist threat or activity, war (declared or undeclared), health emergency, or any federal, state or local government law, order, or regulation, order of any court or jurisdiction.

LIST OF WINNING SCHOOLS:
For a list of the four winning schools, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for receipt no later than 10/28/05 to: H-E-B Friday Night Football Challenge Winners List, H-E-B Friday Night Football Challenge, PO Box 8064, Grand Rapids, MN, 55745-8064

SPONSOR:
This sweepstakes is sponsored by:
HEB Grocery Company LP (“H-E-B” or “Sponsor”)
646 S. Main Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78204