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NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. Void where prohibited. The Recipe Rumble Contest (the "Contest") starts on January 27, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. ET and ends on February 2, 2012 at noon ET ("Entry Period"). Judges' and Sponsor's decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel this Contest at any time without any obligation or prior notice to participants.

1. ELIGIBILITY. The Contest is open to legal residents of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older at the time of submission. Employees of The Boston Globe, Boston.com (collectively the "Sponsor"), any prize providers ("Prize Providers") and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, promotion and advertising agencies, and members of their immediate family (defined as spouse and parent, children and siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside), and persons living in the same household, whether or not related, of such employees, are not eligible to enter or win.

2. HOW TO ENTER. Visit www.boston.com ("Contest Site") during the Entry Period and complete an official entry form and upload a photo of, and recipe for (ingredients and how to make), what you think is the best Super Bowl recipe ("Entry"). Only one (1) Entry permitted per person. All Entries must be received no later than noon ET on February 2, 2012 and become the sole property of the Sponsor upon receipt by Sponsor and will not be returned.

3. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS. Entry must meet the following requirements to be eligible:

i. The Entry may not contain any content that is lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libelous, obscene, or that otherwise contains inappropriate content or objectionable material as determined by Sponsor in its sole and unfettered discretion.

ii. The Entry must be your original work, created solely by you, and must not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other intellectual rights of any person or entity.

iii. The Entry must not contain any personally identifiable information of any person other than you. Should you include personally identifiable information about yourself in your Entry, you acknowledge and agree that such information will be disclosed publicly and you are solely responsible for any consequences thereof.

iv. The Entry must not contain any commercial content or logos.
v. The Entry may not have been previously published and may not have won previous awards.

By submitting your Entry, you agree that your Entry conforms to these Official Rules and that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may disqualify your Entry for any reason at any time, including if it determines that your Entry fails to conform to these Official Rules in any way or otherwise contains unacceptable content as determined by Sponsor. In addition, by submitting an Entry, you hereby grant permission for the Entry to be posted online, at Sponsor's websites or other websites at Sponsor's sole discretion. You agree that Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for any unauthorized use of Entry by third parties. Released Parties do not guarantee the posting of any Entry.

4. JUDGING PHASE. On or about February 2, 2012 a panel of Boston.com judges will review all eligible Entries received and score them on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest). Judging will be based on the following criteria and weighted accordingly: Creativity (70%) and Originality (30%). The top ten (10) Entries with the highest total score will become finalists and be subject to additional judging by celebrity chef Paul Wahlberg, who will judge the finalists based on the same criteria. The Entry among the finalists with the highest overall score will be deemed the winner. In the case of a tie, the Entry involved in the tie with the highest score in Creativity will be deemed the potential winner. Sponsor reserves the right not to award all prizes if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified Entries.

5. POTENTIAL WINNER NOTIFICATION: Judges' and Sponsor's decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest. Potential winner will be notified by email and may be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release (unless prohibited by law) and any other documents required by Sponsor, which must be returned within seven (7) days of date appearing on prize notification. Failure to respond to email notification within 5 days will be grounds for Sponsor's disqualification of such potential winner. Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable, failure to sign and return requested documentation within the specified time period, the inability of Sponsor to contact a potential winner within a reasonable time period or noncompliance with these Official Rules by any potential winner will result in disqualification and, at Sponsor's sole discretion, the prize may be awarded to a runner-up.

6. ENTRANT'S PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION: Information collected from entrants is subject to Sponsor's Privacy Policy at http://www.boston.com/help/privacy_policy.

7. PRIZE: Limit of one prize per person, per Entry. Prize One (1) winner will receive a one hundred dollar gift card to Alma Nove, Paul Wahlberg's restaurant. Gift card is subject to certain terms and conditions as specified by issuers and is awarded "as is" with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied by Sponsor. You may not substitute, assign, or transfer prize or redeem prize for cash, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value. You are responsible for all applicable federal, state and local taxes, if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided. All prize details are at Sponsor's sole discretion.

8. GENERAL CONDITIONS: By participating, each entrant agrees: (a) to abide by these Official Rules and decisions of Sponsor and judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects relating to this Contest; (b) to release, indemnify, discharge and hold harmless Sponsor, Prize Providers, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, and the respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents and representatives of the forgoing (collectively, "Released Parties") from any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees), injuries, liability (including settlements), losses and damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from entrant's participation in the Contest or any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any awarded prize and (c) to the use of his/her name, voice, performance, photograph/video, image and/or likeness for programming, advertising, publicity and promotional purposes in any and all media, now or hereafter known, worldwide and on the Internet, and in perpetuity by Sponsor and its designees, without compensation (unless prohibited by law) or additional consents from entrant or any third party and without prior notice, approval or inspection, and to execute specific consent to such use if asked to do so. By participating, entrant also agrees not to release any publicity or other materials on their own or through someone else regarding their participation in the Contest without the prior consent of the Sponsor, which it may withhold in its sole discretion.

9. OWNERSHIP/USE OF ALL ENTRIES: By submitting your Entry to Sponsor, you grant Sponsor a royalty-free license to publicly display, reproduce, and use the Entry in any form or media for any and all editorial and related promotional purposes in perpetuity. You will retain the copyright to your Entry. You also warrant and represent that your Entry is your original work, does not violate the copyright or any other personal or property right of any third party, and you have obtained any and all releases and permissions necessary for our intended use.

10. MISCELLANEOUS: Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, stolen, delayed, misdirected, undelivered, or garbled Entries; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Contest Site, any website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of Entries, the announcement of the prize, the incorrect uploading of the Entry or in any Contest-related materials. Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to any person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading materials from or use of the Contest Site. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Contest or website, who act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified and all associated Entries will be void. Should any portion of the Contest be, in Sponsor's sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of Entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Contest and, if terminated, at its discretion, select the potential winner from all eligible, non-suspect Entries received prior to action taken using the judging procedure outlined above.

11. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS' FEES) FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

12. APPLICABLE LAWS AND JURISDICTION. This Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Issues concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules shall be governed by the laws of the State of Massachusetts, without regard to any principles of conflict of laws. All disputes arising out of or connected with this Contest will be resolved individually, and without resort to class action, exclusively by a state or federal court located in Boston, Massachusetts. Should there be a conflict between the laws of the State of Massachusetts and any other laws, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the laws of the State of Massachusetts. To the extent permitted by applicable law, all judgments or awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket damages (excluding attorneys' fees) associated with participation in this Contest and shall not include any indirect, punitive, incidental and/or consequential damages.

13. REQUEST FOR WINNERS' LIST: For a list of winners (available after 2/30/2012), send a self-addressed, stamped, envelope to: Recipe Rumble Contest Winner, c/o Boston.com, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125.

SPONSOR. Boston.com, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125