Welcome to the FBFT Sports Writing Competition 2011
First things first: this competition is Free To Enter. We are looking for the best sports writers to send us exciting, original, even abstract sports writing to help add zest and vigour to the genre.The contest is open to entrants of 18 years and older. You may write about any subject … as along as it relates to sport. Any sport. Even pseudo-sports like synchronised swimming, if you must.
Entries may be anything up to 1000 words and must be written in English. Please read the full FBFT Sports Writing Competition Terms and Conditions before entering. The closing date for entries is the final day of the Premier League football season: 22 May 2011.
Now, to the prizes:
First Prize: £50
Second Prize: £30
Third Prize: £20The three winning entries will also be published on our website.
If you are ready to submit your entry, fill in and submit the form below. If not, have a look round our site to read some of the sports articles or perhaps find the latest free bets and gambling tips.
Enter your name, a valid email address and the title of you article, then paste your article into the box.
We promise we will not use your email address for anything other than contacting you about this contest, that is, one email confirming receipt of your entry, and one - perhaps - to let you know you have won a prize!
(Please complete all fields to submit an entry)
FBFT Sports Writing Competition Terms and Conditions:
1. The FBFT Sports Writing Competition 2011 is open to residents of any country aged 18 years or over except employees of DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd, their families, agents or anyone else professionally associated with this competition. Previous freelance contributors to www.freebetsfreetips.com may enter.
2. All information detailing how to enter forms part of these terms and conditions. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules. Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
3. Entries should be submitted through the form on the www.freebetsfreetips.com website or be emailed to sportswriter@freebetsfreetips.com and must include the entrant’s name, email address, article title and article text. If the entry is emailed directly, all information must be contained within the body of the email. Emails with attachments will be deleted.
4. All entries must be received by midnight on the published closing date of 22 May 2011. Late entries will be deleted.
5. To participate in this competition, entrants must write an article relating to sport of no more than 1000 words. Entries must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that no element of their entry infringes the copyright of any third party or any laws. Entries will be judged on which are the most original, entertaining and interesting.
6. The judging panel will be comprised of members the www.freebetsfreetips.com Sports Editorial Team. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
7. Copyright in all submissions to the competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in order to allow publication on the website of the three winning entries, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd to be published on the website www.freebetsfreetips.com. All published articles will contain the author’s credits.
8. No entries will be published in part or in full on www.freebetsfreetips.com or any other medium without the express permission of the entrant. If the entry is chosen for a prize (top three), permission is assumed for publication on said website, as detailed under these terms and conditions.
9. Illegible, incomplete or defaced entries will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries and proof of sending will not be accepted as proof of receipt. Entries must not be sent through agencies or third parties.
10. The winning entries will be published on www.freebetsfreetips.com within 21 days of the closing date of the competition.
11. The winning entrant will receive £50. The entrant chosen in second place will receive £30, and the entrant chosen in third place will receive £20. All prize money will be paid in British Pounds Sterling. Payments may be made by bank transfer to a UK bank account or PayPal.
12. Events may occur that render the competition itself or the awarding of the prizes impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Promoter and accordingly the Promoter may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to the Promoter as a result thereof.
13. www.freebetsfreetips.com is responsible for the publication and adjudication of this competition. Provision of the prizes is the responsibility of DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd trading as www.freebetsfreetips.com.
