SKATE OCTOBER 2025 T-SHIRT UGC CONTEST - Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. YOU MUST OWN OR HAVE ACCESS TO SKATE. ON PLAYSTATION
4, PLAYSTATION 5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES X|S, OR PC AND HAVE CONNECTED IT TO
YOUR VALID EA ACCOUNT BEFORE OCTOBER 14, 2025.
You will need a Discord account to
participate. If you do not already have
a Discord account, you can visit discord.com to create one for free.
This Contest is sponsored by Electronic Arts
Inc. (“EA”), 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA, USA 94065. Discord
is not sponsoring, endorsing or associated with this contest in any way.
1.
Eligibility. To enter the SKATE OCTOBER 2025 T-SHIRT UGC
CONTEST (“Contest”):
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You must be a
legal resident of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan,
Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore,
Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,
Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, or the United States (including the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
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You must be
at least 18 years of age.
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Must be a
member of the skate. Discord server (see discord.gg/skateea).
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Your
participation in the Contest means you agree to these Official Rules.
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You may not
be an employee of EA or any of its related companies or representatives
(“Agents”) or the immediate family member or household member of an employee.
This
Contest is subject to various national, state, territory, and local laws and
regulations, and is void where prohibited. EA’s decisions are final in all
matters related to the Contest.
2. To
Enter. You will need an EA account (FREE) and a Discord account (FREE) to
participate in the Contest. If you do not already have an EA or Discord
account, you can visit www.ea.com and/or www.discord.com to create one. Between
October 20, 2025 9:00 am Pacific Time and November 3, 2025 11:59 pm Pacific
Time (“Contest Period”), create an original two-dimensional t-shirt design,
visit the skate. Discord server at discord.gg/skateea and submit your design by posting it to the #skate-tshirt-contest
channel with the hashtag #skatetshirtcontest
(“Entry”). Entries must be submitted in one of
the following formats: .jpeg, .jpg, or .png. The minimum resolution of all
Entries must be 1920x1080 or 1080x1920. Entries must not be created through the
use of Generative AI tools. Entries that do not include the required hashtag
will be void. No other method of entry will be accepted. EA will accept 1 Entry per person. Completed Entries must be received by Nov 3,
2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time.
All Entries become the property of EA and will
not be returned.
Limitations
on Entries: You may not share the same username and/or email address with
multiple entrants. If you attempt to
obtain more than the permitted number of Entries by using multiple or different
email addresses, identities, or any other method, your Entries will be
void. If you use any automated process
or cheat to participate, such as a bot, EA will disqualify you from the
Contest. No group/team efforts, or
multi-author(ed) Entries will be accepted in this Contest. For purposes of this
Contest, all Entries will be presumed authored by the person submitting the
Entry.
By
entering, you warrant that your Entry contains only EA-provided materials
and/or your own original creations. You further warrant that your Entry does
not contain any third party copyrighted materials, and does not violate or
infringe the copyrights, trademark rights, rights of publicity/privacy, or any
other rights of a third party. If EA has provided creative materials for use in
the Contest, you understand that EA grants you a limited, non-exclusive,
non-commercial license to use those materials solely in connection with the
Contest. Entries must not incorporate any person’s facial likeness or name
(including yours). Entries must not have been submitted in other contests or
been previously published. Entries must be appropriate for all ages. Entries must
not contain any racial, sexist, homophobic, religious or ethnic slurs, explicit
language, obscene, pornographic, violent, or sexual content, libel, hate
speech, references to alcohol, drugs or other illicit substances, or otherwise
unlawful or inappropriate content, as determined by EA in its sole discretion.
3. Prizes. There are three (3) prizes.
Your odds of winning a prize depend upon the number of eligible Entries and the
relative skill of the other entrants. All approximate retail values (“ARV”) are
expressed in U.S. Dollars, Australian Dollars, and Euros. ARV of total prize
pool: $225 USD; $338.86 AUD; € 191.74 EUR. Limit one (1) prize per person. Prizes are not transferable, and no
substitution of prizes for cash or other goods and services is permitted. If
for any reason an advertised prize is unavailable, EA reserves the right to
substitute a prize of equal or greater value. Winners are responsible for any
applicable taxes on prizes.
Prize: Three (3) winner(s) will see their t-shirt design incorporated
into the Skate. video game in a future game update (ARV $0 USD, $0 AUD, 0 €
EUR), and receive three (3) t-shirts (1 t-shirt of each winning design from the
Contest) (ARV $75 USD, $ 112.95 AUD; € 63.91 EUR).
T-shirt
sizes are limited to XS through 4XL; winner’s preferred size is not guaranteed.
Prizes will be distributed based on preferred sizes, as indicated by the
winners, on a first-come first-serve basis in the order in which winner
responses are received.
Winning
designs will be incorporated into skate. in a future game update. Skate.
(available separately), internet access, EA account, and all game updates
required to equip this digital content in-game . Applicable platform account
and/or subscription (sold separately) may be required.
4. Entry Judging. At the close of the Contest Period, qualified employees of EA or its
Agent (“Contest Judges”) will evaluate the eligible Entries and select three
(3) potential winner(s) according to the following skill-based criteria: 30%
originality of design displayed in artwork; 40% creativity of skills and
thought put into artwork, and 30% quality of artwork. The Contest Judges’
decisions regarding the selection of the potential winner(s) are final and
binding.
5.
Winner Notification. Potential
winners will be notified on or about November 10, 2025 by direct notification
in Discord’s #skate-tshirt-contest channel tagging the Discord username
specified in the winning Entry or by direct message in Discord. If EA cannot
contact a potential winner, the potential winner is deemed ineligible, the
prize is returned as undeliverable, or a potential winner fails to sign and
return any requested documents or information within the required time period,
the potential winner forfeits the prize.
If a potential
winner is disqualified or ineligible, or the prize is forfeited for any reason,
EA will award that prize, time permitting given the nature of the prize, to an
alternate winner using the skill-based criteria set forth above from all
remaining eligible Entries. Only 3 alternate winners will be selected, after
which EA may donate the prize to a charity of EA’s choice.
6. To
Claim a Prize. If you are selected as a
potential winner, you may be required to complete and sign a Winner Declaration
& Release (“Winner’s Release”) to claim your prize, which EA will provide
within 14 days of the first attempt to notify you. Potential winners may be
required to provide a shipping address to claim a prize. Allow 4-6 weeks for
delivery of a prize via mail.
7.
Release. To the extent allowable under applicable law and, in Australia,
subject to and without excluding, restricting or modifying any rights or
remedies to which you may be entitled as a consumer under the consumer
guarantee provisions of the Australian Consumer Law in relation to the
operation of the Promotion and any prize won, you agree to release EA, Discord
and their Agents, officers, directors, and employees (the “Released Parties”)
from any legal claims, including without limitation claims related to personal
injury, death, or damage to or loss of property arising out of participation in
the Promotion, or receipt, use, or misuse of any prize, except for residents of
the United Kingdom and France with respect to claims resulting from death or personal
injury arising from EA’s negligence and for residents of the United Kingdom
with respect to claims resulting from the tort of deceit or any other
liabilities that may not be excluded by law.
For residents of Austria, Germany, Poland,
Switzerland: By participating in this Promotion, you
acknowledge: (1) In regard to a prize or any other products or services offered
by EA and/or its affiliates free of charge, EA shall only be liable for intent
and gross negligence. (2) In all other cases, EA shall only be liable in cases
of intent and gross negligence. In case of slight negligence, however, EA is
only liable for the breach of essential contractual obligations, such as delay
or impossibility of performance, for which EA can be held responsible. The
liability in the event of breach of such an essential contractual obligation is
limited to the typical contractual damage, whose occurrence could be expected
by EA upon conclusion of the contract based on the circumstances known at that
time. “Essential contractual obligations” are those obligations whose
fulfillment is essential to enable the proper implementation of the contract,
and the achievement of its purpose and whose observation you as an end consumer
may rely upon. The foregoing limitations of liability shall not apply in the
case of explicit guarantees by EA, in case of malice and injuries to life, body
or health, as well as in the case of mandatory statutory regulations. Nothing in these Official Rules shall deprive
you of the consumer protection rights granted to you by the laws of your
residence that cannot be derogated from by agreement.
8.
Privacy and Publicity. Nothing in these Official Rules shall be deemed to exclude or restrict
any of your statutory rights as a consumer.
If you participate in the Contest, you consent to EA’s processing your
personal information [LIST INFORMATION COLLECTED AS PART OF THE PROMOTION]
(“Personal Information”) in accordance with EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy,
which you can read at https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-policy. You also consent to EA’s use of
your Entry, personal name, user/screen name, social media handle, likeness,
photograph, voice, opinions, and/or hometown and state (“Entry Data”) for
promotional purposes. EA (or its Agent)
has the option, but not the obligation, to use your Entry Data in any media,
worldwide, without any further attribution,
notification or compensation. Some
jurisdictions prohibit the mandatory consents described above, so some or all
of them may not apply to you.
For Residents of the European Union: The organizing entity shall
be considered the data controller for the database containing Personal
Information, and it provides for an appropriate data protection level. You understand that your Personal information
shall be processed for the purposes outlined below, in accordance with EA’s
Privacy and Cookie Policy, (see https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-policy).
Personal
Information will be used for the purposes of:
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Organizing,
running and monitoring the Promotion and prize fulfillment, including, if you
win a prize, publishing (i) your name on the Winner(s) List and (ii) your name
and country of residence online or in any other media in connection with the
Promotion, as described in this Section 7 above; and
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Any
additional processing activities to which you consent and/or acknowledge as
applicable.
9. License. By
entering this Contest, you expressly grant to EA and its Agents a
non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, complete, sub-licensable and irrevocable
right to quote, re-post, publish, use, adapt, translate, archive, store,
reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, syndicate, license, print,
sublicense, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and
publicly display and perform the Entry, or any portion thereof, in any manner
or form, without notice, payment or attribution of any kind. You agree not to
assert any moral or similar rights you may have in your Entry. EA has the
right, but not the obligation, to use any of the Entries.
10. General Conditions. EA
reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Contest, (or any part of
it) if fraud, technical failure, human error or any other problem impairs its
proper operation. In that event, EA may hold a random drawing from among all
eligible Entries received up to the date of suspension for any of the prizes
offered. EA reserves the right to disqualify any person it finds to be in
violation of these Official Rules (including tampering with the entry process
or the operation of the Contest), or acting in an unsporting or disruptive
manner. If you attempt to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of
the Contest, it may be a violation of criminal and/or civil law, and EA
reserves the right to seek damages from you to the extent permitted by law.
EA’s failure to enforce any term in these Official Rules shall not be a waiver
of that term.
11. Limitation of Liability. The
Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) inaccurate information, whether
caused by entrants, typographical errors, or by equipment or programming
associated with the Contest; (2) technical failures, including without
limitation network malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections; (3)
unauthorized intervention in the entry process or the Contest; (4) technical or
human error in the administration of the Contest or the processing of Entries;
(5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail or electronic
communications; (6) ineligibility for any reason, including entrant’s
misunderstanding of the Official Rules and requirements or the entry
process. If for any reason your Entry is
confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or
corrupted, your sole remedy is another Entry in the Contest, if possible. EA
will award no more than the stated number of prizes. If production, technical,
programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes to
be available and/or claimed, EA reserves the right to award only the stated
number of prizes. Some jurisdictions
prohibit the limitations described above, so some or all of them may not apply to
you.
12.
Disputes. Unless you are a resident of a member-state of the European Economic
Area, South Korea, or Switzerland, all disputes, claims or controversies
arising out of or relating to the Contest, including the marketing and
promotion of the Contest ("Disputes"), shall be resolved exclusively
by binding arbitration in the United States under the laws of the United
States. The only Disputes not covered by
this Section are claims (i) regarding the infringement, protection or validity
of your, EA's or EA's licensors' trade secrets or copyright, trademark or
patent rights; and (ii) those brought in small claims court.
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You and EA
shall first attempt to resolve any Dispute informally for at least 30 days
before initiating arbitration. The informal negotiations commence upon receipt
of written notice from one person to the other ("Notice of Dispute").
The Notice of Dispute must: (a) include the full name and contact information
of the complaining party; (b) describe the nature and basis of the claim or
dispute; and (c) set forth the specific relief sought. EA will send its Notice
of Dispute to the contact information in your Entry, or other address you
provide for this purpose. You will send your Notice of Dispute to: Electronic
Arts Inc., 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City CA USA 94065, ATTENTION:
Legal Department.
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If you and EA
cannot resolve a Dispute informally, you or EA may elect to have the Dispute
finally and exclusively resolved by binding arbitration. The arbitration shall
be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under
its Commercial Arbitration Rules and, where appropriate, the AAA's
Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes ("AAA Consumer
Rules"), both of which are available at the AAA website www.adr.org. Your
arbitration fees and your share of arbitrator compensation shall be governed by
the AAA Rules and, where appropriate, limited by the AAA Consumer Rules. The
arbitration may be conducted in person, through the submission of documents, by
phone or online. The arbitrator shall make a decision in writing, and shall provide
a statement of reasons if requested by either party. The arbitrator must follow
applicable law, and any award may be challenged if the arbitrator fails to do
so. You and EA may litigate in court to compel arbitration, to stay proceeding
pending arbitration, or to confirm, modify, vacate or enter judgment on the
award entered by the arbitrator.
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YOU AND EA
AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS
INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED
CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator shall not consolidate
another person's claims with your claims and shall not preside over any type of
representative or class proceeding. The arbitrator may award declaratory or
injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only
to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual
claim.
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If you live
in the United States, arbitration will take place at any reasonable location
convenient for you. For residents outside the United States, arbitration shall
be initiated in the County of San Mateo, State of California, United States of
America, and you and EA agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of that
court, in order to compel arbitration, to stay proceeding pending arbitration,
or to confirm, modify, vacate or enter judgment on the award entered by the
arbitrator.
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If the
arbitrator rules in your favor on the merits of any claim you bring against EA
and issues you an award that is greater in monetary value than EA's last
written settlement offer made before EA makes its final written submissions to
the arbitrator, then EA will: pay you 150% of your arbitration award, up to
$5,000 USD (or equivalent in your national currency) over and above your
arbitration award, and reimburse the arbitration fees that you paid to the AAA.
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For residents of Australia: The
Contest is governed by the laws of the United States, provided that you will
not be deprived of your statutory rights and legal protection as a consumer
granted by the laws of Australia. The
court of jurisdiction shall be your country of residence.
13.
Winner List. EA will post the winner list at https://discord.gg/skateea for two weeks following winner verification.