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The Valpak^® "Take It Home Challenge" Sweepstakes
OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES

NO PURCHASE, PAYMENT OR SUBMISSION TO SALES PRESENTATIONS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. ALL FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS APPLY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

SPONSOR: The Valpak "Take It Home Challenge" Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") is sponsored by Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. ("Valpak") ("Sponsor").
HOW TO ENTER: The Sweepstakes will begin at 12:01 a.m. (ET) on December 15, 2008 and end at 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on February 13, 2009 (the "Sweepstakes Period"). Participants can enter online or by mail. One (1) Grand Prize drawing and eight (8) weekly First Prize drawings will be held during the Sweepstakes Period as outlined below. Each Wednesday during the Sweepstakes Period, the television show "Man vs. Food" (the "Program") will present the host with a food challenge at a specific restaurant. The challenge consists of the host consuming the food that the restaurant prepares. To enter the Sweepstakes, watch the Program each Wednesday during the Sweepstakes Period (check your local listings for the time and station), note the name of the restaurant where the food challenge took place, and submit your entry, including the name of the restaurant, either online or by mail as instructed below. Participants who are not able to view the Program may obtain the name of the restaurant for entry into the Sweepstakes by visiting www.travelchannel.com/valpak. All participants will be required to submit an entry into the Sweepstakes as outlined below and will be required to include with their entry the name of a restaurant that hosted a food challenge during the Sweepstakes Period. Entries that do not include the correct information will be disqualified. Entry limitations: Maximum of one (1) entry per person per day during the Sweepstakes Period, regardless of method of entry used. (1) To enter online, complete the Official Online Registration form at http://www.valpak.com by entering your first name, last name, street address, city, state, zip code, daytime phone number (where you can be reached during normal business hours), birth date, email address, and the name of a restaurant that hosted a food challenge. If you wish to submit more than one online entry during the Sweepstakes Period, you must also check the "opt-in" box to indicate your consent to receive email updates about special offers and savings available through Valpak.com. Submit your entry by clicking on the "ENTER" button. No more than one (1) online entry per day may be registered from the same computer terminal. You may withdraw your consent to receive emails about special savings and offers from Valpak.com at any time by emailing us at customer_service@valpak.com and entering "Unsubscribe" into the subject line. If you unsubscribe or withdraw your consent to receive these marketing emails during the Sweepstakes Period, you will not be entitled to any further daily online entries for the remainder of the Sweepstakes Period. You may, however, continue to enter up to one (1) time per day using the mail-in entry mechanism described below. (2) To enter by regular mail, cut-out and complete the registration form printed on the inside of your Valpak envelope, or hand-print on a 3"x5" piece of paper your name, address, city, state, zip code, daytime phone number (where you can be reached during normal business hours), birth date, and the name of a restaurant that hosted a food challenge. All mail-in entries must be mailed to The Valpak "Take It Home Challenge" Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 37, Fombell, PA 16123. No photocopies, mechanical reproductions, altered, illegible, garbled, inaudible, incomplete, mutilated, postage-due or forged entries will be accepted. All online entries must be received no later than 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on February 13, 2009 for entry into the Grand Prize drawing and no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on December 22, 2008 for week 1 First Prize drawing; no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on December 29, 2008 for week 2 First Prize drawing; no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 5, 2009 for week 3 First Prize drawing; no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 12, 2009 for week 4 First Prize drawing; no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 19, 2009 for week 5 First Prize drawing; no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 26, 2009 for week 6 First Prize drawing; no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on February 2, 2009 for week 7 First Prize drawing; and no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on February 9, 2009 for week 8 First Prize drawing. All mail-in entries must be postmarked by February 13, 2009 and received by 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on February 20, 2009 for entry into the Grand Prize drawing and must be postmarked by December 18, 2008 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on December 22, 2008 for week 1 First Prize drawing; postmarked by December 25, 2008 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on December 29, 2008 for week 2 First Prize drawing; postmarked by January 1, 2009 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 5, 2009 for week 3 First Prize drawing; postmarked by January 8, 2009 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 12, 2009 for week 4 First Prize drawing; postmarked by January 15, 2009 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 19, 2009 for week 5 First Prize drawing; postmarked by January 22, 2009 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on January 26, 2009 for week 6 First Prize drawing; postmarked by January 29, 2009 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on February 2, 2009 for week 7 First Prize drawing; and postmarked by February 5, 2009 and received no later than 11:59:59 a.m. (ET) on February 9, 2009 for week 8 First Prize drawing. All entries become the property of Sponsor and none will be returned. In the event of a dispute in connection with the identity of the individual who submitted an online entry, the entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holder of the email account identified on the online entry form. The authorized account holder is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, service provider, or other online organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.
ELIGIBILITY: The Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at time of entry. Sweepstakes is not open to employees of Sponsor, The Travel Channel, L.L.C., or of their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising or promotional agencies, or to the immediate family members of, or to any persons domiciled with, any such employees. For purposes of the Sweepstakes, "immediate family members" include a participant's spouse, children, siblings, parents, grandparents and grandchildren.
PRIZE & ODDS: One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive a check for $5,000. Eight (8) First Prize Winners will each receive a check for $250. Odds of winning the Grand Prize or a First Prize depend on the number of eligible entries received for the applicable drawing. Prizes are non-assignable and nontransferable. Where applicable, the winner is solely responsible for payment of all taxes on the Grand Prize. Any costs or expenses incurred by the winner in claiming or using his/her prize will be the responsibility of the winner. The Grand Prize Winner will be required to claim his or her prize by completing, signing and notarizing an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and, except where prohibited by law, publicity release, which must be returned via mail or hand delivery within ten (10) business days of date of sender's postmark. Failure of the Grand Prize Winner to timely sign, notarize and return any required affidavit and release, or to claim his or her prize or comply with any term or condition of these Official Rules, will result in disqualification, the forfeiture of his or her interest in the prize, and the award of the prize to a substitute drawing winner to be randomly selected from all remaining eligible entries. The Grand Prize Winner must sign any other legal documents which Sponsor may require (including W9 tax forms). Non-compliance may result in disqualification and selection of a substitute winner at random from among all remaining entries. First Prize Winners will be announced on www.travelchannel.com/valpak each Wednesday throughout the promotion.
WINNER SELECTION, NOTIFICATION AND ACCEPTANCE: Grand Prize: A random drawing from among all eligible entries received will be conducted during regular business hours on or about February 20, 2009, to select one (1) Grand Prize Winner. The drawing will be conducted as follows: one (1) Grand Prize Provisional Winner will be selected at random and Sponsor's fulfillment center will attempt to contact the selected Grand Prize Provisional Winner in person by telephone during regular business hours (9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.) using the telephone numbers provided on the entry form. If Sponsor's fulfillment center is unable to reach a Grand Prize Provisional Winner in person (Sponsor's fulfillment center will attempt to reach Provisional Winner up to three (3) times during a twenty-four hour period and no messages will be left), that Grand Prize Provisional Winner will be disqualified and a substitute Grand Prize Provisional Winner will be randomly selected from the remaining eligible entries. The first eligible Grand Prize Provisional Winner that Sponsor's fulfillment center successfully contacts in person by telephone and who claims the Grand Prize in accordance with these Official Rules will be declared the final Grand Prize Winner. First Prizes: A random drawing from among all eligible entries received will be conducted during regular business hours on or about December 22, 2008 for week 1 First Prize Winner; on or about December 29, 2008 for week 2 First Prize Winner; on or about on January 5, 2009 for week 3 First Prize Winner; on or about January 12, 2009 for week 4 First Prize Winner; on or about January 19, 2009 for week 5 First Prize Winner; on or about January 26, 2009 for week 6 First Prize Winner; on or about February 2, 2009 for week 7 First Prize Winner; on or about February 9, 2009 for week 8 First Prize Winner. Each First Prize Winner selected will be sent a check for $250. Visit www.travelchannel.com each Wednesday of the promotion for that week's First Prize Winner's name. Each Winner may waive his or her right to receive a prize. The return of any prize, Winner's affidavit/release or prize notification as undeliverable will result in the applicable Winner's disqualification, the forfeiture of all interest in the prize, and selection of a substitute Winner from among all remaining eligible entries. Unless prohibited by law, acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the Sponsor and its agencies to use each Winner's name, address (city and state) and/or likeness for advertising and trade purposes without further compensation, worldwide and in perpetuity, in any and all forms of media, now known and hereafter devised, including without limitation the Internet.
CONDITIONS: By entering, participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor and Sweepstakes judges appointed by Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with this Sweepstakes will be ineligible for prizes and may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
DISCLAIMERS: By entering, participants acknowledge and agree that the Sponsor, The Travel Channel, L.L.C., and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, franchisees and the officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of the foregoing companies (collectively, the "Sweepstakes Entities"), will not be liable for losses or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance/possession/use and/or misuse of prize(s), travel to and from any prize-related activity, participation in the Sweepstakes, printing, mailing or distribution errors, or any malfunctions of the telephone network, computer Internet system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, or any combination thereof, or for any entries that are late (including delayed data transmissions), tampered with, garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, postage-due, forged, illegible, inaudible, mutilated, mechanically duplicated, mass machine printed, or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible or liable for any injury or damage to any participant's or third person's computer and/or its contents, related to or resulting from Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, suspend or modify the Sweepstakes if, at its sole discretion, it determines that for any reason the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as originally planned, or fraud, technical failures, printing, mailing or distribution errors, or any other unanticipated causes or occurrences have compromised the fairness or integrity of the Sweepstakes. In the event the Sweepstakes is terminated prior to the stated end date, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prizes in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received as of the date of termination.
SWEEPSTAKES MAIL OPT-OUT REQUEST/WINNERS' LIST: For the name and hometown of the Prize Winners (available after April 3, 2009), an official mail-in entry form and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed, stamped business-size envelope to The Valpak "Take It Home Challenge" Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 13428, St. Petersburg, Florida 33733, Attn: Promotions Department. Indicate whether you are requesting the name of the Winner, an entry blank or a copy of Official Rules or any combination of the foregoing. Residents of Vermont may omit return postage. To prevent delivery of future sweepstakes and contest mailings sponsored and operated by Valpak, please call the Valpak Sweepstakes Line at 1-888-797-1896 and follow the recorded instructions.