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Yu-Gi-Oh! 2021 Holiday Giveaway - Official Rules

Yu-Gi-Oh! 2021 Holiday Giveaway

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 48 UNITED STATES AND D.C. ONLY. VOID IN ALASKA AND HAWAII. 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

  1. Eligibility

The Yu-Gi-Oh! 2021 Holiday Giveaway (the “Giveaway”) is open only to legal residents of the Contiguous United States, who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Proof of residency and age may be required. Employees and their Immediate Family Members and members of the households of (i) The Wildflower Group LLC, (ii) Konami Cross Media NY, Inc, (iii) Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (iv) ADK Emotions Inc. (v) Nihon Ad Systems, Inc. (vi) Shueisha, Inc.,(vii) TV TOYKO Corporation and their subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, and advertising or promotional agencies or individuals involved with the design, production, execution or distribution of the Giveaway and the immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win. “Immediate family members” shall mean parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, siblings, stepsiblings, or spouses, regardless of where they live. “Household members” shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year, whether related or not. In order to enter the Giveaway or receive a prize, you must fully comply with the Official Rules and, by entering, you represent and warrant that you agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, whose decisions shall be binding and final in all respects relating to this Giveaway. The Giveaway is governed by these Official Rules and is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

  1. Sponsor 

The Wildflower Group LLC, 1422 Grand Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030.

  1. Timing

The Giveaway begins November 19, 2021 at 12:00 P.M. Eastern Time and ends January 3, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (the “Giveaway Entry Period”).

  1. How to Enter

There are two (2) ways of entering during the Giveaway Entry Period:

Receive entries when purchasing Yu-Gi-Oh! merchandise from the e-commerce store. You will automatically receive one (1) entry for each ten dollars ($10.00) of Yu-Gi-Oh! merchandise you purchase from the e-commerce store (https://shop-yugioh.com/). Shipping and tax excluded from computation. Amounts from one transaction do not carry over.

Enter by Mailing In.  Send your name, mailing address, email address  and phone number on a sheet of paper and mail to: “Yu-Gi-Oh! 2021 Holiday Giveaway” C/O The Wildflower Group, 1422 Grand Street, Unit 4D, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030. Entries must be handwritten. Entries must be postmarked within the Giveaway Entry Period and received by January 11, 2022.  You will automatically receive ten (10) entries for each mail in received by the Sponsor.

Entrants may only use one email address to enter the Giveaway. You are not permitted to share the same email address with another entrant. Use of any automated system to enter is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, or misdirected entries all of which will be ineligible to win a prize. In the event of a dispute as to any entrant, the authorized account holder of the email address used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential winners may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder to be awarded the prize. All entries become the sole and exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be returned or cancelled.

  1. Winner Determination

On or about January 18, 2022 there will be a random drawing of all entries received during the Giveaway Entry Period for the six (6) prize packages described below. The potential winners will be contacted using the email address and/or phone number provided with the entry and may be awarded the prize subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the terms of these Official Rules. The potential winners will be notified by email and/or phone on or about the day after the random drawing. Failure by a potential winner to respond to the initial verification within forty-eight (48) hours of notification will result in disqualification and Sponsor will select an alternate potential winner in the same manner. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Limit of one prize per person / per household. 

  1. POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY SPONSOR. SPONSOR’S DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE ADMINISTRATION, OPERATION, SELECTION OF THE WINNERS AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE GIVEAWAY. 
  2. Verification of Potential Winners

Potential winners may be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability and Publicity Release (where permitted by law) (collectively, the “Affidavit”) by the date specified by Sponsor, or an alternate potential winner may be selected. In the event: (a) potential winner cannot be reached for whatever reason after a reasonable effort has been exerted or the potential winner notification or Affidavit is returned undeliverable; (b) potential winner declines or cannot accept, receive or use the prize for any reason; (c) of noncompliance with the above or within any of the aforesaid time periods, (d) potential winner is found to be ineligible to enter the Giveaway or receive the prize, (e) potential winner cannot or does not comply with the Official Rules, or (f) potential winner fails to fulfill the Affidavit-related obligations, the potential winner shall be disqualified and an alternate potential winner may be selected, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, from among the other eligible entries received. Sponsor reserves the right to modify the notification and Affidavit procedures in connection with the selection of alternate potential winner, if any.

  1. Prize Packages 

Six (6) random prize packages will be awarded.  Each prize winner will receive a prize package that consists of the following items:  One (1)  Hypland x Yu-Gi-Oh! collaboration rug, randomly chosen to be either of the following 3 designs: Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon rug, Millennium Puzzle rug, Yugi Muto rug (estimated retail value $150 each);  One (1) Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Ghosts From the Past Collector’s Box (estimated retail value of $14.99 each); One (1) Madrid Skateboard x Yu-Gi-Oh! collaboration skateboard, randomly chosen to be either of the following 6 designs: Yami Yugi, Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Exodia the Forbidden One, Seto Kaiba, Blue-Eyes White Dragon (estimated retail value $79.95 each); One (1)  Surreal Ent. Fleece blanket, randomly chosen to be either of the following 2 designs: Yami Yugi and Monsters, Seto Kaiba and Blue-Eyes White Dragon (estimated retail value $24.99 each); One (1) Fanattik, Silver Plated Blue-Eyes White Dragon XL Pin Badge (estimated retail value $22.69 each); and One (1) set of 5 exclusive Yu-Gi-Oh!  decal stickers (estimated retail value of $10 each).  The approximate value of each prize pack is ARV $300.

For all prizes: No cash equivalent for the prize, prize is non-transferable, and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion.  Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the listed prize for one of equal or greater value for any reason. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. All federal, state, and local tax liabilities, as well as any other costs and expenses not specified herein as being awarded are the sole responsibility of the Winner. Winner may be required to complete and return an IRS W-9 form (i.e. Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification). Prize will be awarded only if the potential prize winner fully complies with these Official Rules.  The total ARV of all prizes is ARV $1,800.

  1. Entry Conditions and Release

Each entrant agrees to: (a) comply with and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor which are binding and final in all matters relating to this Giveaway; (b) defend, indemnify, release and hold harmless the (i) Sponsor,(ii) Konami Cross Media NY, Inc, (iii) Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (iv) ADK Emotions Inc. (v) Nihon Ad Systems, Inc. (vi) Shueisha, Inc.,(vii) TV TOYKO Corporation and their respective parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies, celebrities, and any other person and organization responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Giveaway, and all of their respective past and present officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to a participant’s entry, creation of an entry or submission of an entry, participation in the Giveaway, acceptance, possession, attendance at, defect in, delivery of, inability to use, use or misuse of prize (including any travel or activity related thereto) and/or the broadcast, exploitation or use of entry. Each winner acknowledges that all prizes are awarded as-is without warranty of any kind.

You further understand and agree that all rights under Section 1542 of the Civil Code of California (“Section 1542”) and any similar law of any state or territory of the United States that may be applicable with respect to the foregoing release are hereby expressly and forever waived.  You acknowledge that Section 1542 provides that: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.”  The releases hereunder are intended to apply to all claims not known or suspected to exist with the intent of waiving the effect of laws requiring the intent to release future unknown claims.

  1. Publicity

Except where prohibited or restricted by law, winner’s acceptance of prize constitutes the winner’s agreement and consent for Sponsor and any of its designees to use and/or publish winner’s full name, city and state of residence, photographs or other likenesses, pictures, portraits, video, voice, testimonials, biographical information (in whole or in part), and/or statements made by winner regarding the Giveaway or Sponsor, worldwide and in perpetuity for any and all purposes, including, but not limited to, advertising, trade and/or promotion on behalf of Sponsor, in any and all forms of media, now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, print, TV, radio, electronic, cable, or World Wide Web, without further limitation, restriction, compensation, notice, review, or approval.

  1. General Conditions 

Sponsor and its subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors shall not have any obligation or responsibility, including any responsibility to award any prize to entrants, with regard to: (a) entries that contain inaccurate information or do not comply with or violate the Official Rules; (b) entries, prize claims or notifications that are lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, damaged or otherwise not received by the intended recipient, in whole or in part, due to computer, human or technical error of any kind; (c) entrants who have committed fraud or deception in entering or participating in the Giveaway or claiming the prize; (d) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (e) any inability of the winner to accept the prize for any reason; (f) if a prize cannot be awarded due to delays or interruptions due to Acts of God, natural disasters, terrorism, weather or any other similar event beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control; or (g) any damages, injuries or losses of any kind caused by any prize or resulting from awarding, acceptance, possession, use, misuse, loss or misdirection of any prize or resulting from participating in this Giveaway or any promotion or prize related activities. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be (a) tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Giveaway, or with any Website promoting the Giveaway; (b) acting in violation of the Official Rules; or (c) entering or attempting to enter the Giveaway multiple times through the use of multiple email addresses or the use of any robotic or automated devices to submit entries. If Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that technical difficulties or unforeseen events compromise the integrity or viability of the Giveaway, Sponsor reserves the right to void the entries at issue, and/or terminate the relevant portion of the Giveaway, including the entire Giveaway, and/or modify the Giveaway and/or award the prize from all eligible entries received as of the termination date.

  1. Limitations of Liability

The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) 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 Giveaway; (b) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (c) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Giveaway; (d) technical or human error in the administration of the Giveaway or the processing of registrations; or (e) 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 Giveaway or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant’s registration is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Giveaway. No more than the stated number of each prize will be awarded.

  1. Disputes

Entrant agrees that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Giveaway, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (b) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Giveaway, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved exclusively by the United States District Court or the appropriate New Jersey State Court located in Hudson County, New Jersey; (c) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Giveaway, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (d) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Giveaway, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New Jersey, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of New Jersey or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New Jersey.

  1. Entrant’s Personal Information

In connection with the Giveaway entry process Sponsor will be collecting personal data about entrants on the Website in accordance with its privacy policy. Please review the privacy policy located at: https://shop-yugioh.com/pages/privacy-policy. By participating in the Giveaway, you hereby agree to Sponsor’s collection and usage of your personal information and acknowledge that you have read and accepted Sponsor’s privacy policy. When you enter at the Website, you may be asked to consent to receive Giveaway emails and reminders for upcoming Giveaway and information about Sponsor. Consenting to receive such emails is optional and does not have to be agreed to in order to be eligible to enter the Giveaway and does not improve your chances of winning.

  1. Giveaway Results 

For Giveaway results, send an email with the subject line of “Please e-mail me the winner list for Yu-Gi-Oh! 2021 Holiday Giveaway” to customersupport@shop-yugioh.com. Requests for the Winners List must be received by January 28, 2022.