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GameSpot Beat the Pros Sweepstakes-July 2024
Jul 14, 2025 5:22 PM

  NO PURCHASE OR WIRELESS DEVICE NECESSARY TO ENTER

  OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF

  WINNING. YOU HAVE NOT YET WON. MUST BE A LEGAL RESIDENT

  OF THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA (EXCLUDING QUEBEC)

  AT LEAST 18 OR AGE OF MAJORITY, WHICHEVER IS OLDER IN

  STATE OF RESIDENCE, AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES.

  SWEEPSTAKES IS VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL US TERRITORIES

  AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. MSG AND DATA RATES MAY

  APPLY.

  Sponsor & Administrator: CBS Interactive Inc. ("CBSI"), 1401 W. Cypress Creek

  Road, Suite 200, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309

  Prize Provider: TAIS - Shop Toshiba, 9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA 92618

  Sweepstakes Entities: CBSI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. ("CBS"), 51 West 52nd Street,

  New York, NY 10019 and TAIS - Shop Toshiba

  THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR

  ADMINISTERED BY FACEBOOK AND/OR TWITTER.

  Message and data rates may apply when participating, see Section 4 for details.

  1. Acceptance of Rules. By entering the GameSpot Beat the Pros Sweepstakes

  (the "Sweepstakes") operated via Twitter on GameSpot Beat the Pros Page, accessible at the

  domain "twitter.com" (the "Twitter Service"), you hereby accept and agree to these official rules

  (the "Official Rules") of this Sweepstakes, and the decisions of the Administrator in connection

  with this Sweepstakes, whose decisions are final.

  2. Eligibility. This Sweepstakes is offered and open to persons who are: (a) Registered Users

  (as defined below) of the Twitter Service; (b) legal residents of the United States or Canada

  (excluding Quebec); and (c) at least 18 years old or age of majority, whichever is older in

  their state of residence, at the date of entry in this Sweepstakes. For purposes of these Official

  Rules, "Registered User(s)" means a person that has successfully completed the registration

  form and has obtained a User Identification ("ID") and associated password ("Password") on the

  Twitter Service; there is no fee associated with becoming a Twitter Service follower. Employees

  and directors, and their immediate family members, of the Sweepstakes Entities, and their

  parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies are not eligible to participate in this Sweepstakes.

  For purpose of the foregoing "immediate family" means parents, spouses, children, siblings or

  any members of the same households of such employees and directors. This Sweepstakes is void

  in Puerto Rico, all U.S. territories and possessions and where prohibited by law.

  3. Sweepstakes Period. The Sweepstakes begins on January 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM PT and ends at

  5:00 PM PT on January 28, 2014 (the "Sweepstakes Period"). The Sweepstakes Period has Four

  (4) separate entry periods (each, an “Entry Period”) as shown in the Entry Period and Prize (as

  defined below) drawing schedule below.

  Entry Period and Prize Drawing Schedule:

  Entry Period 1 begins at 3:00 PM PT and ends at 3:30 PM. Drawing will be conducted on or

  around 4:00 PM PT.

  Entry Period 2 begins at 3:30 PM PT and ends at 4:00 PM PT. Drawings will be conducted on or

  4:30 PM PT.

  Entry Period 3 begins at 4:00 PM PT and ends at 4:30 PM PT. Drawings will be conducted on or

  5:00 PM PT.

  Entry Period 4 begins at 4:30 PM PT and ends at 5:00 PM PT. Drawings will be conducted on or

  5:30 PM PT.

  4. Entering the Sweepstakes. To enter this Sweepstakes, send a tweet to @GameSpot with the

  hash-tag #Beatthepro via Twitter; and you will receive an entry into the Sweepstakes. Limit one

  entry per person per Entry Period. There is a maximum of four (4) entries per person for the

  Sweepstakes Period.

  If you are a wireless service subscriber and have a smart phone, tablet or wireless device

  that allows you access to the internet or to download the Twitter, you may submit your tweet

  via any of those devices during the Sweepstakes Period. You may be charged data rates for

  accessing Twitter according to the Terms and Conditions of your Service Agreement with your

  wireless carrier. Each wireless carrier's rate plan may vary, and participants should contact their

  wireless carrier for information on rate plans and charges relating to your participation in this

  Sweepstakes.

  Mobile and wireless service is offered on an 'as is' basis, may not be available in all areas at all

  times, and may not continue to work in the event of product, software, coverage or other service

  changes made by your wireless carrier. Your wireless service carrier may change or discontinue

  your service, may charge you additional amounts at any time by giving you prior notice, and may

  provide, it may discontinue service if you disagree to additional charges.

  5. Prizes (the "Prizes"). The Sweepstakes will award a total of four (4) Prizes; one (1) Prize

  per Entry Period. Winners (as defined below) will each get one (1) Toshiba Q Series SSD.

  Total approximate retail value ("ARV") of each Prize is One Hundred Seventy Five Dollars

  (US$175.00).

  Total ARV of all prizes to be awarded in this promotion is Seven Hundred Dollars (US$700.00).

  6. Prize Restrictions. No assignment, transfer, conversion to cash or cash redemption or

  substitution of a Prize is permitted, except Administrator reserves the right to substitute a Prize

  with a prize of comparable or greater value should a Prize become unavailable. Prize is solely for

  personal use and may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion. All Prize details are

  at the sole discretion of the Sweepstakes Entities.

  7. Odds/Drawings/Winner Notification. Odds of winning a Prize depends on the number of

  eligible entries received during each Entry Period. The random Prize drawings will be conducted

  according to the schedule outline in Section 3 of these Official Rules. Any potential winner (the

  “Winner”) who is a resident of Canada will be required to correctly answer, without assistance

  of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question

  administered online or offline in order to be declared a Winner. The Prize drawings will be

  conducted at random by Administrator, whose decisions are final and binding in all respects.

  Potential Prize Winners will be notified by a direct message to their twitter account. If a potential

  Winner cannot be reached after a reasonable effort has been made during three (3) business days

  from the first notification attempt, such person may be disqualified, with an alternate Winner

  selected in accordance with these Official Rules. Administrator will only select up to one (1)

  alternate winner per prize. If no contact has been made with the alternate after a reasonable effort

  has been made, the Prize shall not be awarded. Unclaimed Prizes will not be awarded.

  8. Prize Taxes. All federal, state, local and other tax liabilities arising from this Sweepstakes,

  including, without limitation, winning a Prize, will be the sole responsibility of each Winner.

  9. Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and Publicity Release. Winners may be required to

  complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release, and where lawful,

  a Publicity Release (collectively, the "Release Forms") within five (5) days of notification of

  winning. Failure to return Release Forms in a timely manner, or if a Prize notification or Prize

  is returned as non-deliverable, or if Winner is found not to be eligible or not in compliance

  with these Official Rules, may result in disqualification with an alternate Winner selected in

  accordance with these Official Rules.

  10. Publicity Release Terms. Except where prohibited by law, a Winner's acceptance of a Prize

  constitutes permission for the Sweepstakes Entities to use Winner's name, photograph, likeness,

  statements, Twitter Service entry, biographical information, voice, and address (city and state)

  worldwide and in all forms of media, in perpetuity, without further compensation.

  11. Improper Conduct. Administrator, in its sole discretion, may disqualify any entrant from

  participation in or use of any or all portions of this Sweepstakes, and refuse to award a Prize, if

  entrant engages in any conduct Administrator deems to be improper, unfair or otherwise adverse

  to the operation of the Sweepstakes or detrimental to other entrants of the Sweepstakes. Such

  improper conduct includes, without limitation, falsifying personal information required during

  entrant registration or Prize claim, violating any term or condition stated herein, accumulating

  entries through methods such as automated computer scripts or any other programming

  techniques, allowing others to use entrant's personal information for the purpose of accumulating

  entries, or intentionally trying to defraud, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise tamper with

  the computer programs in connection with this Sweepstakes. Entrants agree that Administrator

  may void any part of a Prize that entrant may have won and/or require the return of any part

  of a Prize that entrant may have won as a result of such improper conduct. Entrant further

  acknowledges that any forfeiture of a Prize and/or return of a Prize shall in no way prevent

  Administrator from pursuing other avenues of recourse such as criminal or civil proceedings in

  connection with such conduct. WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE

  OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE

  A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT

  BE MADE, EACH OF THE SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK

  DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR

  SUCH ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

  12. Integrity of Sweepstakes. If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes is not capable of running

  as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized

  intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which Administrator, in its sole

  opinion believes could corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper

  conduct of this Sweepstakes, Administrator reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel,

  terminate, modify or suspend this Sweepstakes and select the Winner from entries received prior

  to the action taken or in such other manner as Administrator may deem fair and appropriate.

  13. Lost or Corrupted Entries. The Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and

  subsidiary companies and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are

  not responsible for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with,

  lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, stolen, misdirected, illegible or postage due entries or mail,

  if applicable; or for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or Internet

  hardware or software malfunctions, unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or

  inaccurate capture of entry or other information, or the failure to capture any such information.

  The Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies, advertising

  and promotion agencies, are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether

  caused by registration information submitted by end users or tampering, hacking, or by any of

  the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes, and assumes

  no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or

  transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to the

  Sweepstakes.

  14. Damaged Property. Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary

  companies and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible

  for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, injury or damage

  to any entrants or to any other person's computer or property related to or resulting from

  participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials from this Sweepstakes.

  15. Sweepstakes Errors. The Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary

  companies and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible

  for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, errors and/

  or ambiguity: (a) in the Sweepstakes; (b) in any related advertising or promotion of this

  Sweepstakes; and/or (c) in these Official Rules. In the event of any ambiguity(s) or error(s)

  in these Official Rules, Administrator reserves the right to modify these Official Rules for

  clarification purposes or to correct any such ambiguity or error (s) without materially affecting

  the terms and conditions of the Sweepstakes.

  16. Prizes and Winners. The Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary

  companies and advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible

  for, and you/entrant hereby forever waive/s any rights to any claim in connection with, the

  selection and announcement of a Winner, the distribution of a Prize, the acceptance/possession

  and/or use/misuse of any part of a Prize and/or any injury or damage to any entrant's or third

  person's property related to or resulting from any part of a Prize or any part of this Sweepstakes.

  17. Release and Indemnity. Each entrant in this Sweepstakes, including, without limitation,

  the Winners, hereby releases and agrees to hold harmless the Sweepstakes Entities and their

  parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies and their respective directors,

  officers, employees, representatives and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss

  or damage of any kind to person, including death, and property, arising in whole or in part,

  directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a Prize, participation in this

  Sweepstakes and participation in any activity related to this Sweepstakes.

  18. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL THE SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES, THEIR

  PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR

  ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS,

  DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, BE RESPONSIBLE

  OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT,

  INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT

  OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SWEEPSTAKES OR THE DOWNLOADING

  FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM THE SWEEPSTAKES.

  SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF

  LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF

  IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS

  MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS

  OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

  19. Disclaimer of Warranties. THE SWEEPSTAKES AND PRIZES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS"

  WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING

  BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

  20. Identity Disputes. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of a winner based on an email

  address or wireless phone number, the winning entry will be declared made by the Authorized

  Account Holder of the email address and/or phone number submitted at time of registration

  into Twitter and entry into the Sweepstakes. For purposes of these Official Rules, "Authorized

  Account Holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by

  an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business,

  educational, institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain

  associated with the submitted email address.

  21. Binding Arbitration. The parties waive all rights to trial in any action or proceeding

  instituted in connection with these Official Rules and/or this Sweepstakes. Any controversy or

  claim arising out of or relating to these Official Rules and/or this Sweepstakes shall be settled

  by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American

  Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual

  basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other

  party. The arbitration shall be conducted in the State of New York, in the City of New York and

  judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof.

  22. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. This promotion is governed by US law and is subject to all

  applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law. All issues

  and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these

  Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrant and Administrator in connection with this

  Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of

  New York, U.S.A., without giving effect to the conflict of laws rules thereof, and any matters or

  proceedings which are not subject to arbitration as set forth in Section 21 of these Official Rules

  and/or for entering any judgment on an arbitration award, shall take place in the State of New

  York, in the City of New York.

  23. Winner List/Official Rules. For the name of the Prize Winners send a self-addressed stamped

  envelope for receipt by January 31, 2014 to "Winner's list, GameSpot Beat the Pros" c/o CBS

  Interactive Inc., 1401 W. Cypress Creek Road, Suite 200, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309. For

  Official Rules send a self- addressed stamped envelope to the above address marked "Official

  Rules: GameSpot Beat the Pros" for receipt by February 2, 2014. The full name of the Prize

  Winners may be posted and the Official Rules will be posted on http://www.gamespot.com/

  community/

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