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E: 06/03 Two return tickets to China or 1 of 10 iPod Shuffle's (Cathay Pacific)

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http://chinachallenge.cathaypacific.co.uk/
* Grand Prize – 2 x return economy class tickets to any destination that CX or our sister airline Dragonair fly to in China. The winner may choose between the following destinations: Sanya, Fuzhou, Haikou, Changsha, Hangzhou, Guilin, Ningbo, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Kunming, Chengdu, Dalian, Qingdao, Xian, Shenyang, Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen.
* Other prizes: The 10 runners-up will receive an Apple Ipod Shuffle 1Gb
How to Play
1. You will be presented with 8 famous locations or tourist attractions of China, your task is to locate each one on a map of China
2. Position the cursor on the map of China closest to where you think the correct location is.
3. Left click on your mouse when you have decided you located the correct position
4. The faster you do it and the more accurate you are, the more points you get - good luck!
* Grand Prize – 2 x return economy class tickets to any destination that CX or our sister airline Dragonair fly to in China. The winner may choose between the following destinations: Sanya, Fuzhou, Haikou, Changsha, Hangzhou, Guilin, Ningbo, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Kunming, Chengdu, Dalian, Qingdao, Xian, Shenyang, Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen.
* Other prizes: The 10 runners-up will receive an Apple Ipod Shuffle 1Gb
How to Play
1. You will be presented with 8 famous locations or tourist attractions of China, your task is to locate each one on a map of China
2. Position the cursor on the map of China closest to where you think the correct location is.
3. Left click on your mouse when you have decided you located the correct position
4. The faster you do it and the more accurate you are, the more points you get - good luck!
“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.” - Alan Turing (1912-1954)
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1. SPONSOR
Cathay Pacific Airways, 03 Shortlands , London W6 8AQ, UK. The Company is incorporated and registered in Hong Kong under No.2672 and also registered as a branch in England under Branch Registration No.BR1755.
The company organises via www.chinachallenge.cathaypacific.co.uk a free game/contest with no purchase obligation. The game is open between 06 February – 06 March 2008. Entrants need not be customers of Cathay Pacific Airways.
2. PARTICIPATION
This game is open to any resident (principal place of residence) in the UK; excluding any person involved, whether directly or indirectly in the organisation of the competition or employees of the organising companies and their families (same surname, same address).
Participation in the game implies full acceptance of these Game Rules Conditions and General Information currently in effect on the Internet, and of laws and regulations applicable to free games and competitions.
Failure to comply with the Game Rules and conditions shall entail cancellation of the competition entry and any associated applications or sponsorship.
3. ANNOUNCEMENT
This game is open for public between 06 February – 06 March 2008, on www.chinachallenge.cathaypacific.co.uk. Registration or entries received after 06 March 2008 will be disqualified.
All personal data will be retained by Cathay Pacific Airways. CX conforms to the Data Protection Act.
4. CONDITIONS
In order to participate in the prize draw, participants must register their score in the high scores entry form after the game is finished. The game is played as follows:
HOW TO PLAY:
Each game participant must identify whereabouts on a map of China certain places or tourist attractions are located. The closer they get to the correct location and the faster they do it, the more points they win. After 8 rounds of identifying different places, they are awarded a final score. The winner of the competition is the person with the highest score at midnight on 06 March 2008. The closest ten scores to the winning score are the runners-up. Only one entry to the game is allowed unless, a participant refers a friend who also enters the game, at that point, the original entrant will be allowed a further single entry to the game.
5. NAMING OF WINNER
The winner of the top prize will the entrant who has the most points on midnight 6th March. The closest ten scores to the winning score are the runners-up.
6. AUTHORISED ENTRIES
The participant must fill out all fields in the form required for his/her registration including names of 5 rats found and click on the “submit” button. Incomplete or incorrect registration will not be considered and will render participation null and void.
Anyone registering with multiple different e-mail addresses will be disqualified. Any attempt of fraud on the part of a participant will render null and void any participation forms sent from that household.
7. PRIZE
* Grand Prize – 2 x return economy class tickets to any destination that CX or our sister airline Dragonair fly to in China. The winner may choose between the following destinations: Sanya, Fuzhou, Haikou, Changsha, Hangzhou, Guilin, Ningbo, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Kunming, Chengdu, Dalian, Qingdao, Xian, Shenyang, Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen.
* Other prizes: The 10 runners-up will receive an Apple Ipod Shuffle 1Gb
No cash or credit alternatives will be offered. Cathay Pacific Airways will try to accommodate the winner’s request for intended dates of travel but ask that they be flexible. The prize is for direct travel via Hong Kong only, no open-jaws or one-way travel will be permitted. Travel will be on Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair only. It is the prizewinner’s responsibility to organise hotel accommodation, transfer to and from the airport and any intended tours or day-trips during their stay.
8. ATTRIBUTION OF PRIZES
Notification of winner and prize validation:
The winner will be notified of his/her prize by e-mail.
If the winner does not respond within 30 days after the end of the game, he/she will be considered to have waived his/her prize, and no new winner will be named for this prize. Winner must comply with the Game Rules. If the winner fails to meet the criteria of the present Game Rules, his/her prize will remain the property of Cathay Pacific.
Prizes may not be returned or exchanged against their value in cash or against any other prize, or transferred to third parties. However, in the event of force majeure or if circumstances require, Cathay Pacific reserves the right at any time to replace the prize offered with another prize of higher or equivalent value.
No challenge or claim of any kind will be accepted with regard to the prize. Winner undertakes to make no claim in liability against Cathay Pacific with respect to the prize, or its delivery, condition, attributes or any consequence entailed by the possession or use of the prize.
9. CHANGES TO GAME DATES
Cathay Pacific accepts no liability, if in the event of force majeure or of events beyond its control, should it cancel the present game, reduce it, extend it, postpone it or modify its conditions.
In all cases, Cathay Pacific reserves the right to extend the period of participation, to prepare a new list or an additional list of the dates and times of the winning periods.
10. USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Data will be discarded after the Lucky Draw is completed, unless participant has indicated they wish to receive the latest offers email from Cathay Pacific Airways.
11. LIABILITY
Cathay Pacific shall not be liable in the event of any dysfunction of the Internet that prevents access to the game or its proper progression. In particular, Cathay Pacific shall not be held liable for any external acts of malice.
Although Cathay Pacific makes every effort to provide users with available and verified information and/or tools, it may not be held liable for mistakes (in particular mistakes in display on the game sites, erroneous sending of e-mails to participants), for lack of available information, and/or the presence of viruses on the site. Participation in this game implies awareness and acceptance of the characteristics and limitations of the Internet, lack of protection of certain data against possible misappropriation or pirating, and risks of contamination by any viruses circulating over the system. It is each participant’s responsibility to take all appropriate measures to protect his/her own data and/or software stored on his/her computer and telephone equipment against any attack. Connection to the site and participation in the game by any person is done entirely under that person’s responsibility. In addition, Cathay Pacific is not liable in the case of:
Telephone connection problems
Hardware or software problems,
Destruction of information supplied by participants for a reason not attributable to Cathay Pacific.
Errors of human or electrical origin,
Disturbances that might affect the proper progression of the game, or the dysfunction of the automated drawing process.
Cathay Pacific is not liable for the consequences of any delays, losses, thefts or damage to regular or electronic mail that are not attributable to it.
Addressees must make claims directly to the companies having been responsible for handling said mail.
In all cases, in which the proper administrative and/or technical operation of the Competition is negatively affected by a virus, computer bug, unauthorised human action or any other cause for which Cathay Pacific is not responsible, Cathay Pacific reserves the right to interrupt operation of the Competition.
Any fraud or non-compliance with the Game Rules may give rise to exclusion from the game: if necessary, Cathay Pacific reserves the right to take legal action against it.“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.” - Alan Turing (1912-1954)0 -
I wa so pleased with myself when I scored over 62000 only to discover that one person has managed to get 9 out the 10 top spots on the leaderboard - that is so unfair! I know if you refer friends you can have more entries but it should be your highest score that goes on the leaderboard - somebody is going to end up with all the prizes!:j:T Total Prize Value 2012 - £1835 :T:j
:AThanx to all the good people that post comps (and answers!):A
Be Good, Be Lucky, Be Happy:)
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I wa so pleased with myself when I scored over 62000 only to discover that one person has managed to get 9 out the 10 top spots on the leaderboard - that is so unfair! I know if you refer friends you can have more entries but it should be your highest score that goes on the leaderboard - somebody is going to end up with all the prizes!
Thats what I thought but then I thought, hang on this is a prize draw so being in the top ten should not matter.0 -
The winner of the competition is the person with the highest score at midnight on 06 March 2008. The closest ten scores to the winning score are the runners-up. Only one entry to the game is allowed unless, a participant refers a friend who also enters the game, at that point, the original entrant will be allowed a further single entry to the game.
It does look like you have to be in the top ten to win0 -
blue_sushi_cat wrote: »It does look like you have to be in the top ten to winIn order to participate in the prize draw, participants must register their score in the high scores entry form after the game is finished.0
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This looks like a very tall order. I scored 71000pts. There are only 8 locations to get closest to by putting your pin in the map with only 10000pts max to gain per question. The leaderboard starts at 76000pts! You need to get everything all but spot on under a time limit for this....good luck, your gonna need it!!Comp wins 2010 (Feb onwards) - loads of books, CD, Toys, Photographic lighting rig, Mobile phone, 16GB ipod Nano, Digital cameraComp wins 09 - £4500, 08 - £345.70!0
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Anyone fancy sharing a Chinese friend?!“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.” - Alan Turing (1912-1954)0
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