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Mark Fields’ ’69 Camaro was the 2013 Show It Off At SEMA Contest winner.
I’m not sure where the month of June went, but we are full steam ahead with a ton of activity this summer.
One of the biggest social media contests we run is the Show It Off at SEMA Contest that allows one lucky winner to display his or her vehicle at the not open to the public SEMA Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center as a FEATURE VEHICLE. This year’s event will be held Nov. 4-7, 2014.
This is the fourth year we will host the contest that will launch July 14, 2014 on our Facebook Fan Page. We are returning to the original format of Entry Period, Online Voting, and Judging of the finalists determined by the top FIVE who receive the most votes online.
We have been fortunate to not only have great vehicles but also great people as our guests, so the bar is set high for whomever this year’s winner will be!
I’m also super excited about this year’s independent panel judges.
Townsend Bell - Royal Purple sponsored race car driver in this year’s Indy 500 and we also sponsor his efforts in the TUDOR Sportscar Championship with AIM Autosport driving the No. 555 Ferrari 458 Italia. He is also a TV personality for IndyCar and Red Bull Global Rallycross.
Tim “Skrape” Katz – Vice President and Co-Founder of the Tapout and Authentic Brands Group LLC, he has been a regular on the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour and Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational behind the wheel of his ’66 Nova wagon.
Jeff Thisted – He’s worked with Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right” and hosted his own game-shows on GSN, but you know him best from Discovery Channel’s show “Rods ‘N Wheels” where he wrenches on classic American Iron.
Carrie Strange – Carrie and her husband Tim of Strange Motion Rod & Custom, brought her lavender ’64 Corvair hot rod to the SEMA Show as the 2013 Royal Purple Ladies selection.
Mark Fields – Last year’s winner was Mark’s ’69 Camaro. It’s been the tradition of the contest to ask the winner from the previous year’s contest to serve as a judge.
Here is the timeline for the contest.
July 14 – 24: Submit your photo via our Facebook Fan Page using the Contest App.
July 25 – 31: Online voting period – Besides choosing the perfect photo, this is where your work comes in. Get everyone you know, friends, family, colleagues, post on your social media or send an email blast to get the votes! People can vote for your car ONE time per 24 hour period during the open voting window.
Aug. 1: Finalists are announced. All five will have FIVE days to submit a complete spec sheet and 10 photos total of additional views of the exterior and interior of the vehicle. These are what the judges are basing their decisions on, so good, quality, clear photos are imperative!
Aug. 5 – 9: Judging
Judges will rank the five cars based on the following criteria. Each category is worth 10 points with 1 being the lowest a vehicle can earn and 10 being the highest. The vehicle with the most first place rankings wins. Please pay close attention to #3 – use of Royal Purple products DOES count!
1. Vehicle
You’ve been to the SEMA Show and have seen the type of vehicles displayed there. Because it’s not open to the public, the opportunity to show a vehicle is a bucket list item that only a few have the chance to experience. Please rate the vehicle on its SEMA Show worthiness. (Overall originality, workmanship, modifications).
2. Mechanical Quality
Based on the supplied vehicle specs and photos, how does it rate in comparison to the other finalists?
3. Royal Purple worthy
Use of Royal Purple products, did they specify which ones they use? RP is all about high performance does the vehicle fit the image of RP?
4. Cool Factor
Total quality of the car in all categories, and how well everything works together. A million-dollar paint job with a poor interior does not score high. Full engine work, but no suspension work should not score highly. What you are looking for is a car in the class that YOU would want to feature at the SEMA Show? All of the modifications are done correctly and equally balanced.
5. Picture Quality
This is a photo contest after all. Finalists were asked to send 10 of their best photos of the vehicle exterior and interior shots. Because you can’t see the vehicle in person, how well did the photos represent the vehicle?
Okay – I’ve been going on long enough!
Remember the contest opens on July 14!
Good luck!
Below are the OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES.
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A PURCHASE, PAYMENT OR COMMITMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Void where prohibited.
Eligibility: Royal Purple’s Show It Off at SEMA Photo Contest (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) who are at least twenty-one (21) years old at the time of entry. Employees of Royal Purple, Officers, Directors of Sponsor, Calumet Specialty, SEMA and their respective parents and affiliate companies, suppliers (collectively, “Contest Parties”) as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor and judge’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
Primary Sponsor: Royal Purple LLC. One Royal Purple Lane, Porter, TX 77365
Timing: The Contest begins on July 14, 2014 at 12 a.m. Central Standard Time (“CST”) and ends on Aug. 11, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. CST (the “Contest Period”).
Vehicle Requirements: Vehicle submitted for consideration must be unique and aligned with the industry, e.g., race vehicles, custom sport compacts, prototypes, project cars, antiques and classics. Stock vehicles with minor modifications will not be accepted.
Entry must indicate Royal Purple product use including product name and viscosity if applicable.
Winners from the 2012 and 2013 contests are not eligible.
Participants must abide by all SEMA Feature Vehicle Guidelines and Rules. Full rules will be provided to each finalist to review.
*Placement of vehicles at the show is determined by Show Management in its sole and absolute discretion. There is no guarantee of vehicle placement in any particular area of the facility. (Placement is NOT in the Royal Purple exhibitor booth).
Contest Timeline: Photo entries will be accepted on the Contest Tab located on the Royal Purple Facebook Fan Page (www.facebook.com/officialroyalpurple) from July 14 – 23, 2014. Open voting window is July 24 – 31, 2014. Royal Purple will announce the finalists Aug. 1 on the Facebook fan page. In order to be considered by the judges, finalists must submit by Aug. 1-5, 2014 the following items: 10 photos total (interior and exterior), detailed list of vehicle specs and modifications, proof of ownership, valid Driver’s License and insurance. Failure to submit finalist items by the Aug. 5 deadline at 5 p.m. CST will result in disqualification and an alternate will be chosen. Judges will consider the finalists between Aug. 5 -10, 2014. Royal Purple will announce the winner of the Contest on the Royal Purple Inc. Facebook Fan Page on Aug.11, 2014 at 11 a.m. CST. One Winner and a Runner-Up will be selected in the event the winner cannot fulfill Contest winner requirements.
How to Enter: During the Contest Period, submit on the Contest Tab located on the Royal Purple Facebook Fan Page, a photo of your vehicle filling in the required information. Limit one (1) entry per person during the Contest Period. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by any method will void that participant’s entries and that participant may be disqualified. Potential winner must be at least twenty-one (21) years old to win. Winners will be required to show proof of their identity and age AND ownership of the vehicle. The Contest winner will be notified via email.
Verification of Potential Winners: Potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. Except where prohibited, the potential Contest winner, must sign and return, within seven (7) days of being notified, an Affidavit of Eligibility & Liability/Publicity Release in order to claim his/her prize. If a potential Contest winner does not sign and return the Affidavit of Eligibility & Liability/Publicity Release within the required time period, he/she will be disqualified.
Prizes: All five (5) finalists will receive two (2) 6 qt. cases of Royal Purple engine oil (API, HPS or HMX only) in their viscosity choice.
Grand Prize: One (1) Winner will be selected by the judges and will receive the following: Paid registration as a Feature Vehicle (Feature Vehicles are placed at the discretion of SEMA and ARE NOT IN the Royal Purple exhibitor’s booth. WE DO NOT control if the vehicle is placed inside the convention or outside.) at the 2014 SEMA Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, Credentials as Feature Vehicle owners (2), Brag board designed by Royal Purple, hotel accommodations, winner’s dinner hosted by Royal Purple and Royal Purple wearables.
Does not include: Airfare or transportation to and from Las Vegas, transportation from the airport or at any time spent at the SEMA Show/Las Vegas area, hotel incidentals or room charges, vehicle transportation, meals (except the winner’s dinner) and spending money. We will assist with covered vehicle transportation (by Pilot or Reliable) pricing if requested.
No cash equivalent and all prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any listed prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Except as may be stated in the prize description, winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use.
Release: By receipt of any Contest prize, winner agrees to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Contest Parties and each of their respective parent companies, affiliates and each such companies’ officers, directors, employees and agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim, cause of action, liability, lawsuit, demands, damages, judgments, proceedings, fines, penalties, loss, cost or expense (including attorneys’ fees and legal costs) including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property (collectively, “Claim”), arising out of or in connection with the participation in the Contest or receipt, delivery, installation, possession, acceptance, defect or use or misuse of any prize.
Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Contest constitutes winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.
General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other Contest or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for, and entrants hereby release, indemnify and hold the Released Parties harmless from any Claim in connection with: (1) 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 Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Contest; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrants’ participation or inability to participate in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant’s entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the “Contest” play, provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Contest, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, at its discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.
Entrants’ Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy: http://www.royalpurple.com/rp-privacy-policy.html
Contest Winner List/Official Rules: For a Contest Winner List/Official Rules, send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to: “Royal Purple Show It Off at SEMA Official Rules,” 1 Royal Purple Lane, Porter, TX, 77365. Requests for winners list must be received by Sept. 30, 2014.
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