Are you and your roommate the best combo in the country?

…then enter RoomSync’s Best Roommates Video Contest today! All you have to do is submit one 30-60 second video to the RoomSync Facebook wall, and you could win prizes like iTunes gift cards, a dinner for two at Chili’s, or a pair of tickets to the movies!

How To Enter:

Entering the contest is simple. Simply post either a YouTube or a Facebook video to the RoomSync Facebook wall. The video must be of you and your roommate, and you must be roommates that met using the RoomSync app. In your video, please reference us as RoomSync (we recently changed our name from RoomBug to RoomSync!). The 30-60 second video must include:

-Your names

-Your university

-What you love about RoomSync

-What you love about your roommate

 

The Prizes:

Third Place Prize: $10 iTunes Gift Card

Second Place Prize: Chili’s Dinner For 2 or Movie Tickets for 2

First Place Prize: $10 iTunes Gift Card + Chili’s Dinner For 2 + Movie Tickets For 2

 


Entry Deadline:

The contest will end on September 23, 2011 at 6:00PM EST. For all rules and regulations go to http://blog.roomsync.com/?p=344  .

All it takes is 30 seconds of your time to enter for a chance to win some great prizes- so enter your video today!

 

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ROOMSYNC

BEST ROOMMATES VIDEO CONTEST

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID IN PUERTO RICO AND WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.

1. Entry: To enter, “like” the RoomSync Facebook Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/roomsync) website (the “Website”).  Sweepstakes begins at 6:00 p.m. ET on 9/2/11 and ends at 6:00 p.m. ET 9/23/11.  Limit one (1) entry per set of roommates. No automatic, programmed, robotic or similar means of entry are permitted.

2. Eligibility: This Sweepstakes is only open to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees and agents of Sponsor and their respective affiliates, officers, distributors, agencies, and prize suppliers, and their immediate family members and persons residing in the same household of such employees are not eligible to enter or win.

3. Drawing: Sponsor will select three (3) Prize winners from all eligible entries on or about 9/23/11  in Gainesville, FL. Entrants need not be present to win. Entrants need not be present to win. Potential winner will be notified via Facebook Message. If any prize notification is returned as undeliverable, or if winner does not respond to notification within five (5) days of the date of notification, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected. Except where prohibited by law, potential winner will be required to complete, sign and return a notarized Affidavit of Eligibility/Ownership/Liability Release and Publicity Release (the “Affidavit”). Affidavit must be returned within ten (10) days from the postmark date or time-stamp on the prize notification letter or prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected.

4. Prize/Odds. Sponsor will award one (3) Prizes. Prizes consist of a chosen combination of a $20 gift certificate to a National Restaurant Chain, $25 in Fandango movie vouchers, and a $10 iTunes gift certificate.  Sponsor will determine specific prize components in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Winner is responsible for all taxes on prizes and expenses, including, without limitation, federal, state and local sales, and income taxes, luxury taxes and any other costs incurred in claiming or using the prize. Unclaimed prizes may not be awarded. No prize substitutions or cash equivalent of prize is permitted except at Sponsor’s sole discretion, and then only for a prize of equal or greater value. Prize will be delivered to winner’s residence, within the United States, given to Sponsor by Winner at time of notification.

5. General: Sweepstakes is subject to applicable federal, state and local laws. Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of the judges, which are final and binding in all respects. By entering this Sweepstakes, entrants expressly acknowledge that these Official Rules have been drafted in the English language, and that any translation prepared for any reason will be of no legal effect and the English version of these Official Rules shall govern any dispute. By participating, contestant releases Sponsor, and its respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and agencies and their directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all liability for any injury, death, loss, tax liability or damage of any kind arising from contestant’s participation in this Sweepstakes, or resulting from entrant’s acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize. Except where prohibited by law, acceptance of the prize constitutes and signifies winner’s consent that Sponsor and/or its agents may use winner’s entry, name, address (city and state only), prize information, and/or likeness for promotional purposes in any media now existing or hereinafter devised, without additional compensation. (Tennessee residents need not consent to, or sign any, publicity release.) Subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Sponsor is not responsible for: (1) late, delayed, incomplete, delayed, destroyed, garbled, or incomplete entries, (2) incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry or story information; (3) any human error, technical malfunctions, or lost-delayed data transmission; (4) any omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, or software; or (5) inability to access any website or online service, or any other error or malfunction. Sponsor reserves the right to: (i) disqualify from this or any Sweepstakes it sponsors, now or in the future, any person it finds, in its sole discretion, has intentionally violated these Official Rules, tampered with the entry process, the operation of the Sweepstakes or Website, or any other aspect of this Sweepstakes; and (ii) cancel or suspend the Sweepstakes in its entirety should tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond Sponsor’s control corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper play of the Sweepstakes. Information collected from contestants is subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy available on the Website.

6. WARNING. ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS; AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT OR OTHER PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING SEEKING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

7. Winner’s List. For winner’s name, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by 9/30/11 to Winners’ List/ U-Match, LLC., 101 SE 2nd Place Suite 109, Gainesville, Florida, 32601.

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