It's that time again - we're here to kick off another round of our fabled IGN AU Community Competitions! Want to write a review and win a game? Just head to this page. Here's what you need to know about entering:
Firstly, you must be living permanently in Australia to enter. Easy.
Second, you must write a fresh review for each competition - we won't be accepting any re-hashed, re-run, re-promoted reader reviews. You must write and post the review between the date the competition opens and the date it closes. When you post your review, send an email to The Outreach Inbox with your name and address so we can get in touch with you easily!
Third, the winner is the person with the most overall thumbs-ups, so if no-one reads and likes your review, it won't win. We're not saying be a shameless self promoter, but you should definitely get your work out there! If there is a tie, it will be at our discretion who wins, and we'll base this off of the quality of the writing.
Finally, use this as an exercise for honing your writing skills - get creative, get clever, show your love (or hate) for a game. If your review does the job, people will be more inclined to give you the thumbs-up you deserve. Wanna get into games journalism? Here's a great way to show your stuff.
The competition closes on June 15, so get playing and start writing. Post info about your reviews in this thread and stick to a link and game title only - don't post your review in the thread.
For our Thread of the Fortnight Comp, entering is dead-easy - just start a thread in the IGN AU Forums and discuss whatever you want.
We'll choose our favourite at the end of the fortnight (on June 15 to be precise), and the winner will get some crazy promotional crap from off our very cluttered desktops! Satisfaction isn't guaranteed, but we can promise you'll get something… erm, unique and game-related to treasure, dispose of or sacrifice to the gaming gods. It's your choice, really.
Remember - it's all about quality, so take your time and get writing in the PAL Community Forums!
For full terms and conditions, check over the page.
Conditions of Entry
1. Information on how to enter & prizes form part of these terms & conditions. Any entry not complying with these terms and conditions is invalid.
2. Entry is open to residents of Australia. Employees & their immediate families of the Promoter, the Promoter's associated companies and agencies are ineligible to enter.
3. The Promotion commences at 9 am AEST on 30 May, 2007 & closes at 11:59pm AEST on June 15, 2007 ('promotion period').
4. These competitions are all games of skill. To enter the reader review competition, participants must submit a reader review, which will be judged by our reader trust system. The winner will have the most "thumbs up" marks based on this system. In the event of a tie, the winner will be chosen by IGN AU staff based on the quality of the submission. The judge's decision is final.
5. The Promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of entries and reserves the right to disqualify any entrant for tampering with the entry process or for submitting an entry which is not in accordance with these Conditions of Entry.
6. The winners will be notified by email and on the site on June 15, 2007.
7. The winner of the Reader Review competition will receive one console game, valued at no more than AU$120. The winner of the Forum Thread Competition will receive the promotional gaming items of our choosing. Total prize pool is no more than AU$500.
8. The Promoter reserves the right to choose new winners in the event of any entrant being unable to satisfy these competition conditions or forfeiting or not claiming a prize.
9. Prizes are not transferable & cannot be taken as cash, unless otherwise stipulated.
11. Prize values are correct at time of printing but no responsibility is accepted for any variation in the value of any prizes.
12. The Promoter is not liable for any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered, including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss, or for personal injury suffered or sustained during the course of accepting or using the prize, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law.
13. Promoter's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
14. If the winner is under the age of 18 years, the prize will be awarded to the winner's parent/guardian on their behalf.
15. The winner should look to the manufacturer of products awarded as prizes for all warranties.
16. In the event that any prize item is unavailable despite the Promoter's reasonable endeavours to procure within Australia, the Promoter reserves the right to substitute a different prize item of equal or greater value.
17. The winner agrees to the use of their name, image and photograph/s for publicity and promotional purposes, without compensation, and agrees that the Promoter will own copyright in any such images and photograph/s and in all material incorporating the photograph/s.
18. Prizes will only be delivered in Australia.
19. If for any reason this promotion is not capable of running as planned (whether caused by infection by computer virus, line drop out, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other cause beyond the control of the Promoter which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or integrity of the promotion), the Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion, (subject to any written direction given by a relevant Regulatory Authority), to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the promotion. The Promoter may in its sole discretion disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process.
20. Entries are deemed to be received at the time of receipt into the Promoter's database. The Promoter is not responsible for receipt of incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, either caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated or utilised in this competition, or by any technical error that may occur in the course of administration of this competition. The Promoter assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to or alteration of entries.
21. The Promoter collects information about you to include you in the promotion and, where appropriate, to award prizes and may also use the information to assist it in improving its goods and services and to contact you, including by electronic communication methods (including email and SMS) in the future with special offers. The Promoter may share your information with its Australian related companies who may contact you with special offers. The Promoter may also share your information with other persons or entities who assist it in running promotions or with other companies who provide prizes for promotions or reader offers.
The Promoter is part of a global media and entertainment company. The Promoter would like to share your information with these overseas related companies so they can contact you with special offers, but if you would prefer us not to, please write to our Privacy Officer at 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 or online via
www.news.com/feedback. You can also gain access to your personal information by contacting our privacy officer.
By entering the promotion, each entrant agrees in addition to the above uses, that the Promoter may disclose entrants' personal information, to State and Territory lottery departments, the winners' names will be published as required under the relevant lottery legislation and the Promoter may publish or cause to be published the winner's names and suburb in any media.
22. The Promoter is News Interactive Pty Ltd. News Interactive, Level 3, 2 Holt St, Surry Hills NSW 2010. ACN: 000 529 457 13 ABN: 82 000 529
