Official Competition Rules

Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition

 

ATTENTION:  The BEC has expanded its efforts with three separate YEP competitions.

YEP Humboldt- For young people from Humboldt County

YEP Siskiyou– For young people from Modoc and Siskiyou Counties.

YEP Shasta– For young people from Shasta, Trinity, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Del Norte, and Plumas Counties.

YEP teams are determined by county of residence.  When you register for the competition, you are automatically placed in the correct competition.

 

 

Official Rules

Prizes:

Grand Prize – one monetary prize worth $1,000 (monetary prizes awarded by BEC during award ceremony) 

1st Place - 14 – 18 year old category - one prize worth $500

1st Place – 19 – 27 year old category – one prize worth $500

Fan Favorite - one prize worth $300 each

Honorable Mentions –Up to three prizes worth $100 each

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS COMPETITION:

REGISTERING FOR COMPETITION. Register to enter this competition at www.YEPSC.org by ?????. To continue eligibility in competition, all deadlines as outlined in Deadlines and Dates must be met. You must agree ("opt-in") to receive email from BEC.

ELIGIBILITY: All legal U.S. residents residing in the California counties of Shasta, Trinity, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Humboldt, Del Norte, Modoc, Siskiyou, or Plumas Counties who are 14 to 27 years on???? may participate in this BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition. In addition full-time students of Shasta College and College of the Siskiyous are also eligible to compete in the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition. You may only enter this competition once per year. Your business concept plan MAY NOT BE a currently existing business. Those under the age of 18 must have parental permission to enter the competition. By entering this BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition you represent to BEC that you are either at least 18 years of age or have consent from a parent/legal guardian. Employees of BEC and its immediate families and members of their households are not eligible to participate in this BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition. By registering to win the prize, the winners grant BEC permission to use his/her name (including screen name) and likeness for advertising and future promotion purposes without additional compensation (except where prohibited by law). Unaccepted prizes may not be awarded. This BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition is subject to these complete and official rules.

SELECTION OF WINNERS. Winners will be selected by the panel of judges selected by BEC on the day of the competition. The winners must be present to win. BEC reserves the right to modify scheduling of the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition without prior notice. If the judges determine in their sole discretion that there is any suspected or actual electronic tampering with the entries that may compromise the integrity of the competition, the judges reserve the right to void the entries at issue, and/or terminate the competition. BEC may require winners to provide proof that they are the authorized account holders of the email addresses used to enter the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet service provider, online service provider, or organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the email address. Any winner who does not comply with the official rules will be disqualified and an alternate winner will be selected.

NOTIFICATION: Prize winners will be notified during the award ceremony at the conclusion of the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition. All winners of the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition are to be posted on the BEC YEP web site 72 hours after the competition ends. Email BEC at rosbrink@shastacollege.edu. BEC is under no obligation to notify finalists by any means other than e-mail. BEC is not responsible for notifications that are misdirected or not received because of email addresses or mailing addresses that are no longer correct. If a potential finalist cannot be reached after a reasonable effort has been made during one business day from the first notification attempt, such person may be disqualified, with an alternate winner selected.

REDEMPTION: BEC will deliver the prizes as previously stated. Each prize will be awarded to the appropriate winners within 14 business days after completing appropriate documentation at the BEC office. Prizes are non-transferable and no substitutions are allowed except by permission of BEC.

CONDITIONS: By participating in the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition, you agree to release and hold BEC and its directors, officers, employees and agents, and all prize suppliers harmless from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind in connection with the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition or any product purchased, or resulting from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize, including, without limitation, personal injuries, death, and property damage, and claims based on publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy, whether suffered by you or a third party. This BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition is void wherever prohibited or restricted by law and is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of BEC and waive any right to claim ambiguity in the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition or these official rules. All decisions regarding the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition, including, but not limited to, selecting winners, will be made by BEC, whose decisions shall be final. Winners are solely responsible for all applicable federal, state and local taxes.

LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS: For a written list of prize winners, mail a self-addressed stamped envelope, accompanied by a hand-printed request indicating "Winners List", to BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition, Business & Entrepreneurship Center, 2990 Innsbruck Drive, Redding, CA 96003. BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition is governed by U.S. law. The names, logos, and icons identifying the products and services of BEC are proprietary marks of BEC. BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition rules are subject to change at any time without notice.

BEC is not responsible for errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects in part or whole, delays in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for any technical or non-technical network, telephonic, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate or partial transmission of or failure to receive entry information by BEC on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, at any web site or any combination thereof. BEC is not responsible for any injury or damage to entrants or any other person's computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any materials in the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition, or for entries that are lost, late, misdirected, damaged, incomplete, altered, or illegible. All entries remain the contestants’ property but will not be returned without written request sent by ????, to Business & Entrepreneurship Center, 2990 Innsbruck Drive, Redding, CA 96003. BEC reserves the right to cancel temporarily or permanently the electronic method of BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition entries if it becomes technically corrupted.

DISQUALIFICATION: All of your entries in this and all other competitions sponsored by BEC in the past, present, or future, will be automatically disqualified without notice or recourse if you promote the competition through unsolicited commercial email, multiple repetitive postings to UseNet Newsgroups or even one posting to inappropriate UseNet Newsgroups.

All of your entries will be disqualified, at the sole discretion of BEC, if you attempt (i) to enter the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition through any means other than as described in these official rules; or (ii) to disrupt the BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition, circumvent the terms and conditions of these official rules, or in any way tamper with BEC YEP Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition. If either of the above occurs, BEC has the right to remedy any such action, disruption, or circumvention, and to seek damages from you to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Questions?  Call Rick Osbrink at the BEC (530) 242-7630 or email him at  rosbrink@shastacollege.edu