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Official Rules

Competition Synopsis
The competition aims to find the world's best Need For Speed: Underground 2 car customisers and to put their work on display for all to see. EA is not affiliated with this competition and has not approved of it or endorsed it.

Structure
The competition will be run in three rounds, General Entry, Semi Finals and Final Selection.

Entry rules
There are 10 General Entry days, each day 100 entries will be featured. Each NFSUnlimited user is eligible to have two entries in the competition. Entries will be accepted up to 24 hours before the given car is scheduled to run in the competition. Each entry must consist of one picture following the rules below:

  • The image must be taken on a PC version of NFS Underground 2. If you own a console, you can have your screenshot made here
  • The image must have dimensions of 800x600, with a 3% allowance for variation in either of these dimensions.
  • The total file size of the image file must not exceed 150kb.
  • The image must be an unedited screenshot, taken from the 'Customise Car' / 'Select Car' screen in game.
  • The image must not be noticeably enhanced or edited in any way and must contain only direct game output.
  • The car portrayed in the entry must be equipped only with 'parts' and customisations as provided with the game release. Entries portraying 'hacked' parts are not permitted.
  • There are no restrictions on the customisations that are applied to the car portrayed. Any combination of game parts, accessories and features may be used.
  • Graphics settings Over bright and Enhanced contrast must be turned OFF.

In addition to this main image, up to two additional images may be submitted in support. These images must portray the same car as depicted in the main image, and can be taken from any area of the game, thus allowing action 'in game' shots and so forth. All applicable constraints listed above also apply to these images. All images submitted for a given entry will be displayed together during the competition.

Demo pictures of allowed entries are available here.

Eligibility
The competition will be open only to registered members of NFSUnlimited.net over or exactly 13 years of age. Members must authenticate to the site in order to gain access to the competition entry submission controls. NFSUnlimited.net staff and their family members are not eligible for entry.

General Entry
The General Entry stage will run for 10 days. Each day 100 different cars from different users will be presented. Each registered member of NFSUnlimited.net will be allowed to enter 2 cars.

Entries submitted to the competition will be displayed in a section of the NFS Unlimited site, dedicated to the competition. An automated system will randomly display cars which will provide equal chances to each entry.

The time period for each day will range from 00h00 GMT t0 23h59 GMT.

Entries will be rated by NFS Unlimited members and visitors to the NFS Unlimited site using a web form located under each displayed entry. Entries are rated from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest rating attainable. To keep the ratings fair, the site will permit one vote per entry from a given IP address.

An automated vote tally system will record all votes and yield two winning entries per day, at the end of each day's competition. These entries will be those with the highest average ratings received throughout the day. Each of these winners earns a place in the semi final round.

Semi Final Round
At the completion of the General Entry round, all 20 daily finalists will be displayed in a dedicated site section. NFS Unlimited members and site visitors now use the same rating mechanisms to rate the semi finalists from scratch. This voting will continue for three days. At the end of this time, the automated vote tally system will yield the ten highest rated cars. These ten entries are entered in the Final Selection round.

Final Selection
At the completion of the Semi Finals, results from the automated vote tally system will indicate the ten highest ranked entries. These are to be posted separately, with voting controls removed. Final selection can then take place.

Selection of the final winners winning entries from the final pool of ten finalist cars will be made by a committee of sponsor represantatives, EA represantative, NFSUnlimited.net staff and possibly staff from other important Need for Speed fansites.

The committee members will give the top 5 cars scores ranging from 5 (for the best car) to 1 (the 5th car). To determine the final winners, all scores will be counted and the car with the most points will be selected as winner.

Winners will be directly notified by email

Privacy Information
The only data collected from NFSUnlimited.net users is an email address and a fictituous 'screen name'. Users may choose to disclose certain other personal information to the public via the website, however this is done of their own free will, with adequate privacy disclaimers provided.

Personal data shared with NFS Unlimited.net will never be provided to any third party. Real name and address information, by necessity, will be collected from the winners of the competition for the purposes of prize distribution and will not made public or used for any other purpose.