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Contest link<\/a>
\nclick to Nominate, and complete all required fields of the onscreen registration form including providing your answers to Sponsor-specified questions about your surprise party and a Nomination Essay (as defined below), to receive one (1) entry into the Contest. As the entrant you will herein be referred to as the \u201cNominator\u201d. You will be required to provide the name of the person you are nominating for a surprise party as well as why this person deserves the surprise party (\u201cNomination Essay\u201d). The person the Nominator is nominating to receive the surprise party will herein be referred to as the \u201cNominee\u201d. Nominee must be a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia) or Puerto Rico and Nominator must know Nominee.<\/p>\n

Nomination Period Time Period
\n1 12:00 AM ET on 2\/1\/14 through 11:59 PM ET on 2\/28\/14
\n2 12:00 AM ET on 5\/1\/14 through 11:59 PM ET on 5\/31\/14
\n3 12:00 AM ET on 8\/1\/14 through 11:59 PM ET on 8\/31\/14<\/p>\n

Limit: one (1) entry per person\/email address per Nomination Period.<\/p>\n

Entries MUST adhere to the following:<\/p>\n

Nomination Essays must be no less than two hundred and fifty (250) characters long and no more than five hundred (500) characters long.<\/p>\n

Judging to Determine the Winners: All Entries for each Nomination Period will be judged by a panel of Sponsor representatives (selected in Sponsor\u2019s sole discretion), based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n

40% – Creativity\/uniqueness of Entry;
\n40% – Overall appeal of Nomination Essay;
\n20% – Feasibility of surprise party<\/p>\n

Prizes: Eleven (11) Grand Prizes [three (3) for Nomination Period 1 and four (4) each for Nomination Period 2 & 3]: Eleven (11) Grand Prizes, each a surprise party (\u201cParty\u201d) worth up to $14,000, as outlined in the winning Nominator\u2019s Entry, and a Sponsor-determined amount of money (up to $6,000, depending on the amount of the party), awarded in the form of a check to the winning Nominator only (to defray taxes) shall be awarded. There shall be three (3) Grand Prizes awarded for Nomination Period 1, four (4) Grand Prizes awarded for Nomination Period 2, and four (4) Grand Prizes awarded for Nomination Period 3. The maximum Approximate Retail Value (\u201cARV\u201d) of each Grand Prize is $20,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contest link click to Nominate, and complete all required fields of the onscreen registration form including providing your answers to Sponsor-specified questions about your surprise party and a Nomination Essay (as defined below), to receive one (1) entry into the Contest. As the entrant you will herein be referred to as the \u201cNominator\u201d. 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