Official Rules
Providence Bruins 50/50 Raffle
Sponsored by Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc.
Please read these Official Rules before entering the 50/50 raffle (the “Raffle”). By purchasing a ticket, you represent that you meet all of the below-stated requirements and agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc., nonprofit tax ID number 20-0172439 (the “Sponsor”), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, or its representative.
1. THE RAFFLE: The Raffle is a raffle whereby tickets are sold throughout the Amica Mutual Pavilion during Providence Bruins home games, each ticket carrying a unique ticket number or numbers. In or around the beginning of the third period (or at such other time as determined by the Sponsor), after Raffle ticket sales have closed, the winning Raffle ticket number will be randomly selected and announced at the Amica Mutual Pavilion and posted on pbruins.5050raffle.org (the “Website”). The fan who purchased the winning Raffle ticket will receive fifty percent (50%) of the proceeds of the Raffle (the “Prize”). All remaining proceeds from the Raffle shall be retained by the Sponsor to be used for its charitable purposes, or those of its charitable partners. Each Raffle begins and ends at the times specified by Sponsor before the start of the Raffle at Amica Mutual Pavilion (each a “Raffle Period”). All Raffle ticket sales are final.
2. ELIGIBILITY: The Raffle is only open to persons located within the Amica Mutual Pavilion at the time of purchase who are eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the date of such person’s purchase of the Raffle ticket (each a “Participant”). Employees, agents, representatives, and contractors of the Sponsor, and each of their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, and advertising/promotional agencies, and the immediate families and household members of each of the foregoing, are not eligible to enter or win. The Raffle is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, and is void wherever prohibited by law.
3. ENTRY: If you meet the eligibility requirements, you may enter the Raffle by agreeing to be bound by these Official Rules and purchasing Raffle tickets in one of the following amounts: Two (2) Raffle tickets for Five Dollars ($5.00), Twenty (20) Raffle tickets for Ten Dollars ($10.00), or Eighty (80) Raffle tickets for Twenty Dollars ($20.00), or such other special pricing as may be announced from time to time, from the uniformed Raffle sales volunteers circulating in and around Amica Mutual Pavilion, or from the stationary kiosk selling stations within Amica Mutual Pavilion. The purchase of a Providence Bruins game ticket or any other item is not required to enter the Raffle. Participant need not be present to win. All Raffle ticket purchases must be completed within the applicable Raffle Period. All Raffle ticket purchases are final and no refunds or replacement tickets will be issued. The Sponsor and any related entities are not liable for any lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, undelivered, or destroyed tickets regardless of cause including, but not limited to, any problem or technical malfunction of any device, computer, online system or server or technical problem.
4. DRAWING: The Raffle Prize winner will be selected in a random drawing. A single Raffle ticket number shall be randomly selected from all eligible Raffle ticket numbers sold during each Raffle Period. The drawing will be held at the end of the applicable Raffle Period. The random selection will be conducted by the Sponsor whose decision is final and binding. The randomly selected winning Raffle ticket will be announced at Amica Mutual Pavilion and posted on the Website.
5. CLAIMING A PRIZE: To claim a Prize, the holder of the winning Raffle ticket number (a “Prize Claimant”) must contact Sponsor and present the winning Raffle ticket within thirty (30) days of the applicable drawing either (i) in-person at Amica Mutual Pavilion Section 101, Providence Bruins Members Table, during a Providence Bruins home game, or (ii) to a Sponsor representative at 100 Legends Way, Boston, MA 02114. Each Prize Claimant must provide Sponsor with all information required to claim a prize including, without limitation, photo identification (for age verification), eligibility and tax identification information (completed Form W-9). The Prize Claimant will be required to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility & Liability/Publicity Release (“Affidavit”) in the form approved by Sponsor prior to receipt of the Prize. In the event that a Prize Claimant either: (a) does not notify Sponsor within thirty (30) days of the drawing; (b) is ruled ineligible for any reason; (c) refuses the Prize; or (d) does not return an executed Affidavit, then, in each such event, the Prize will be forfeited, the ticket deemed voided, and the Prize will be retained by Sponsor subject to a replacement drawing in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor has no obligation and is not in a position to contact holders of potential winning ticket numbers. All Prizes will be delivered to Prize Claimant and paid via check within forty-five (45) days of the Prize Claimant delivering the winning Raffle ticket, executed Affidavit, and all other required documents to Sponsor. For security and safety reasons, no cash payments will be made to the Prize Claimant. Unclaimed winnings will be retained by the Sponsor for its charitable purposes. Depositing Raffle tickets or related materials in the mail is a violation of federal law and could lead to criminal penalties.
6. ODDS: Odds of winning are variable based on the total number of Raffle ticket numbers sold during each Raffle Period. There is no minimum or maximum number of Raffle tickets that must be sold.
7. TAXES: Each Participant acknowledges that they have been informed that the IRS has taken the position that amounts paid for chances to participate in raffles, lotteries, or similar programs are not gifts and, therefore, the price of a Raffle ticket does not qualify as a deductible charitable contribution. The Prize is considered to be ordinary income by the IRS. The Prize Claimant is responsible for any and all federal, state and local taxes, fees and other government assessments on the awarded Prize. Furthermore, each Prize Claimant acknowledges that federal law requires that a tax withholding on certain prize values must be collected from winners upon award or distribution. Federal and state withholding laws are subject to change without notice. The withholding laws in effect at the time each Prize is claimed will be followed.
8. TRANSFER OF RAFFLE TICKET: Raffle tickets may not be resold, or permitted by a Participant to be resold. Any Raffle ticket which has been resold in violation of these Official Rules shall be void and such Raffle ticket numbers shall be ineligible to win. All individuals who re-sell, purchase, or receive a Raffle ticket in violation of these Official Rules shall be ineligible to participate in the Raffle or to win a Prize. The eligible individual in physical custody of the winning Raffle ticket shall be deemed the winner unless the ticket was re-sold or otherwise transferred in a manner in contravention of these Official Rules, in which case the winning ticket shall be voided and a new winner shall be randomly selected.
9. PARTICIPANT’S GRANT OF LICENSE: By participating in the Raffle or accepting a Prize, each Participant and Prize Claimant hereby irrevocably and perpetually grants to the Sponsor and their designees, a worldwide license to use, publish, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute and publicly display any images or likenesses taken or captured of the Participant or Prize Claimant in connection with their participating in the Raffle or receiving a Prize (collectively, the “Images”), in any form, media or content which now or hereafter exists, for advertising, promotional or any other commercial purposes as well as non-commercial purposes. Participant and Prize Claimant each waive any compensation for any use of such Images. Participant and Prize Claimant each hereby release and waive any claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities and causes of action arising from the Sponsor or their designee’s, uses of the Images, including, without limitation, any claims for defamation, libel, invasion of privacy, publicity, personality, or exploitation of the Participant’s name or likeness.
10. RELEASE OF LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY: By participating in the Raffle, Participant and Prize Claimant, both on each of his or her own behalves and on behalf of each of his or her spouses, assigns, guardians, administrators, executors and legal representatives, hereby release, waive, discharge, covenant not to sue, and indemnify the Sponsor, the Boston Professional Hockey Association, Inc., Delaware North Companies, Inc. – Boston, the National Hockey League, Maine Hockey Partners II, LP, PSE Agency, the Providence Bruins, and Amica Mutual Pavilion, together with all of the past, present or future predecessors, successors, assigns, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, related entities and persons, owners, shareholders, members, partners, trustees, elected officials, directors, managers, employees, servants, principals, agents, consultants, contractors, representatives, sponsors, and insurers of each of the foregoing (together, the “Released Parties”) from any claim or loss arising out of or related to the Participant’s or Prize Claimant’s participation in the Raffle, acceptance of the Prize, or any exercise by the Sponsor of any of its rights set forth herein or the Official Rules of the Raffle, including, but not limited to, any claims related to (i) any injury to the Participant (including death) or the Participant’s property that occurs in connection with participation in the Raffle, receiving the Prize or any related activities, (ii) any failure to report and pay any income taxes arising from acceptance of the Prize, and (iii) the Participant’s acts or the acts of any other party with respect to the Participant’s receipt of the Prize, or participation in the Raffle, regardless of whether any such claims are caused in whole or in part by the negligence of any entity or person released hereunder. Further, the Released Parties are not responsible for printing errors in any Raffle related material or any misdirected, incomplete, lost, late or illegible tickets or other errors or problems that may limit the Participant 's ability to participate in or win the Raffle. The Released Parties are not responsible for any other error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of tickets, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, including in connection with the administration of the Raffle and the announcement of any winner. A Raffle ticket will be void and no Prize will be awarded to the ticketholder if there is proof that the ticket was stolen, unissued, ineligible, altered, counterfeit in whole or in part, defective, printed in duplicate or printed/produced in error.
11. DISPUTES AND GOVERNING LAW: The Raffle shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rule of any jurisdiction. As a condition of participating in a Raffle, Participant and Prize Claimant agree that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Raffle, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively by arbitration in a location selected solely by Sponsor in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney fees, other than participants' actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering the Raffle), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. Any claims regarding the Raffle that are not deemed released and in the event arbitration is not enforced, must be brought in the State or Federal Courts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and Participant and Prize Claimant hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for purposes of any such action. The Raffle is void outside the United States and wherever prohibited by law. IN NO EVENT SHALL SPONSOR OR ANY RELATED ENTITY BE LIABLE TO FOR DAMAGES THAT EXCEED THE VALUE OF THE PRIZE AWARDED TO ANY INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT IN THE RAFFLE.
12. DISQUALIFICATION; CHANGES: Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that tampers or attempts to tamper with the ticketing process or the operation of the Raffle, re-sells their Raffle ticket, violates the Official Rules, or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. The Sponsor reserves the right to, at its sole discretion, cancel, suspend and/or modify the Raffle or these Official Rules or disqualify any individual or ticket for purposes of protecting the integrity of the Raffle or addressing changes in business operations or other circumstances, to the extent allowed under applicable law. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE RAFFLE IS A VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM AND/OR PROSECUTE ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
13. COPYRIGHT: All raffle materials are the property of the Sponsor and copyrighted by the Sponsor. Raffle materials may not be used or reproduced for any purpose whatsoever without Sponsor’s express prior written consent.
14. LOGOS: Sponsor logos are trademarks of the Sponsor. Any other logos, names or trademarks referenced in these Official Rules are used for charitable partner or prize identification purposes only and are the properties of their respective owners.
15. SPONSOR; WINNERS LIST: The Sponsor of the Raffle is the Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and the address of its headquarters is 100 Legends Way, Boston, MA 02114. You may obtain a list of the winning raffle ticket numbers by sending a request (identifying the “50/50 Raffle”) to the above address, together with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. The winning Raffle ticket numbers also will be posted on the Website.
