E: 20/03 Design an FA cup mascot (Kids, Postal)

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Have you always wondered who designs football team mascots? In our new competition we are giving YOU the chance to design the mascot for the 2015 FA Cup Final.

We want you to design a brand new mascot which celebrates football and the FA Cup! The winning design will be made into a suit to be worn by a Blue Peter presenter at the FA Cup Final.

Not only will the winner see their mascot design brought to life in this once in a lifetime competition, they will also receive TWO tickets to the FA Cup Final, get to walk onto the pitch with their mascot and go behind the scenes at BBC Sport plus a framed design/photo of their winning mascot!

Who can apply?

Anyone aged between 6 and 15 years old on Friday 20th March 2015.

How to apply?

Print out the application form - Please don't print on both sides, the first page should be separate from your mascot design.
Fill out your details on the first page and draw your design and write no more than 4 lines on how you came up with your idea on the second page.
Remember to give your character a name.
Things to remember

Design - The mascot must celebrate football and the FA Cup;
Original - The design must be unique and it must not replicate an existing design or graphic design or feature the Blue Peter name/logo/presenters or images connected to Blue Peter.
Creative - The design must be innovative, imaginative and striking;
Eye-catching - The design must be fun, eye-catching and bold so that it stands out on the pitch;
Character - The mascot must be a character and have a name;
Neutral - Your design must not support or favour a particular football team in the design or in the colours you use. It must be neutral and celebrate football in general;
Submit your entry by posting it to us at: Blue Peter's FA Cup Mascot Competition, 1st Floor Bridge House, MediaCity UK, Salford, M50 2BH.

Please note we are only able to accept entries submitted to us by post and we can not accept any hand delivered entries, also please ensure you affix the correct postage to avoid your entry being delayed.

Your entry must reach us by 12 noon on Friday 20th March 2015.

Please remember to read through the competition terms and conditions first.

Good luck!

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• https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/findoutmor...and-conditions
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  Blue Peter - FA Cup Mascot Competition Terms and Conditions
  Please ensure you and your parent / guardian read through these terms and conditions before you enter the Blue Peter Design an FA Cup Mascot competition.
  1. Blue Peter's FA Cup Mascot Competition (the "Competition") is open to all UK residents (including residents of the Channel Islands and the Isle Of Man) aged between 6 and 15 years of age on Friday 20th March 2015 (the closing date for entries) except the children or close relatives of BBC or FA employees or any persons closely connected with the Competition. The BBC reserves the right to request proof of age for entrants as well as parent's or guardian's consent and necessary state of health. Only one entry per person may be submitted. No joint entries will be allowed.
  2. To enter the Competition entrants must:
  • design a brand new FA Cup mascot for the 2015 FA Cup Final which will be made into a suit worn by a Blue Peter presenter on the pitch at the 2015 FA Cup Final;
  • submit an A4 drawing of their design for the FA Cup mascot and a written paragraph no more than 4 lines long explaining how they came up with the design.
  3. Entry is via the entry form only which can be downloaded from the Blue Peter website (www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter).
  4. If using a computer programme to design an entry, the design must still be all the entrant's own work. Materials such as clip art or photographs/internet images will disqualify the entry.
  5. If entrants submit more than one entry, we will judge the first entry received and disregard the others.
  6. The entry must be the entrant's own original work and not defame nor breach any copyright or contain anything that could be deemed offensive.
  7. All submissions must include the entrant's: name, age, date of birth, address including postcode, parent/guardian's name and a contact telephone number which can be filled in on the appropriate sections of the website entry form. Entrants should ask their parent/guardian's permission to enter the Competition and ensure that they have read the terms and conditions. This must be confirmed by completing the tick box on the entry form. The telephone number provided must allow you to be contacted between Wednesday 25th and Friday 27th March 2015 and between Tuesday 31st March and Thursday 16th April 2015.
  8. All entrants must enter the Competition by submitting their design and entry form by post to:
  Blue Peter's FA Cup Mascot Competition,
  Bridge House
  MediaCityUK
  M50 2BH
  9. Entries must be RECEIVED by no later than 12 noon on Friday 20th March 2015. Late, incomplete or illegible entries will be disqualified. The BBC cannot take any responsibility for any technical failure or malfunction, including but not limited to any affecting postal services, which may result in any entry being delayed, lost or not properly registered or recorded. The BBC will not be able to return entries.
  10. By submitting an entry for the Competition, the entrant's parent/guardian are deemed to have given consent for the entry to be published free of charge by the BBC/BBC Worldwide and The FA in all media, including television, print and internet, for all purposes as it wishes. Blue Peter, BBC Sport/Get Inspired and The FA may wish to display entries containing an entrant's name, age and town or county, in all of the above instances working in line with the BBC's Child Protection Policy, to prevent jigsaw identification of any entrant. Blue Peter may wish to display entries containing an entrant's name, age and town or county in the studio and in a website gallery as they come in throughout the Competition entry window. BBC's conditions on contributions apply to the terms and conditions and can be found https://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/personal.shtml#5.
  11. For editorial reasons, it is necessary for The FA to acquire ownership of all rights in the winning design and it is a condition of entry that the winner's parent/guardian will sign any additional documentation in order to assign all rights to The FA and to waive all moral rights the winner may have in the winning design. If you have any concerns about this requirement, we would advise you not to enter.
  12. All entries will be judged in the first instance by members of the Blue Peter production team and representatives from BBC Sport and/or The FA. This first judging panel will decide which entries should be put forward to the second stage of judging. The first judging round will select the 10 best entries for each of the following age categories:
  • Category 1: Entrants aged 6-8
  • Category 2: Entrants aged 9-11
  • Category 3: Entrants aged 12-15
  13. 30 entries in total will go through from the first round of judging to the second round of judging.
  14. The second judging stage will look at the 10 best entries for each age category (30 entries in total) and be carried out by a judging panel of representatives from The FA and BBC Sport, Ewan Vinnicombe (Editor - Blue Peter) and a Blue Peter presenter (panel may change subject to availability). From the 30 entries, the panel will choose the top entry in each age category (three entries in total). From the top three entries the winner will be chosen and the runners up will be ranked in order of merit.
  Criteria
  15. All entries will be judged against the following criteria:
  • Design - The mascot must celebrate football and the FA Cup;
  • Creative - The design must be innovative, imaginative and striking;
  • Eye-catching - The design must be fun, eye-catching and bold so that it stands out on the pitch;
  • Character - The mascot must be a character and have a name;
  • Neutral - Your design must not support or favour a particular football team in the design or in the colours you use. It must be neutral and celebrate football in general; and
  • Original - The design must be unique and it must not replicate an existing design or graphic design or feature the Blue Peter name/logo/presenters or images connected to Blue Peter.
  16. The prizes consist of:
  1st Prize: 1 Winner
  • 2 x tickets to the 2015 FA Cup Final. One for the winner and one for a parent/guardian to attend;
  • Opportunity to walk on to the pitch with the mascot when it is revealed at the 2015 FA Cup Final;
  • Winner receives a behind the scenes/VIP tour of Wembley and the BBC Sport studio/commentary box at the final with the intention that they would meet some of the key presenting/pundit talent; and
  • Design framed with photo of the finished mascot.
  2 Runners-Up
  • 2 x tickets per runner up for the 2015 FA Cup semi-finals for each child and a parent or guardian to attend;
  • A behind the scenes/VIP tour of Wembley; and
  • Framed designs with 2nd and 3rd place plaque.
  Top 30
  • The top 30 designs that go through to the second round of judging are to receive an orange Blue Peter competition winner's badge.
  17. The winner must be available to attend the Blue Peter studio at MediaCity UK on Thursday 16th April for the announcement of the winning design and Saturday 30th May for the 2015 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. The winner must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The winner or parent/guardian must not be subject to a football banning order or any other court-issued order which restricts their ability to attend matches and/or makes them unsuitable to attend the 2015 FA Cup Final.
  18. The runners-up must be available to attend an FA Cup semi-final match at Wembley Stadium on either the 18th or 19th April with a parent or guardian. The runners-up or their parent/guardians must not be subject to a football banning order or any other court-issued order which restricts their ability to attend matches and/or makes them unsuitable to attend the 2015 FA Cup semi-finals.
  19. These dates are non-movable, but we reserve the right to change them due to editorial/production considerations.
  20. Both the winners and runners-up and their parent/guardians must comply with all of The FA or Wembley Stadium's conditions for entry, any applicable ground or health and safety regulations (including those available on the Wembley Stadium website) and the reasonable directions of the stadium ground staff when attending the 2015 FA Cup semi-finals and final. In particular, the winner is only permitted to wear flat shoes or trainers in order to be able to walk on the pitch with the mascot.
  21. The BBC will obtain an appropriate child licence for the winner if needed. Reasonable travel, food, accommodation costs will be provided by the BBC for the winning child and a parent or guardian to appear on Blue Peter for the announcement of the winner and to attend the 2015 FA Cup Final and for the runners up and a parent or guardian to attend the 2015 FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley Stadium. The winner will be deemed to have agreed to be filmed during their day in studio and on location by the Blue Peter Production team. The parent/guardian of the winner will be required to sign contributor consent forms on behalf of their child/ward and themselves to allow the BBC to use the contributions in all media for all purposes.
  22. Telephone calls will be made to the 30 short listed entrants and their parent/guardians on Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March 2015 in order to check eligibility. If an entrant is unable to be contacted after reasonable attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right to offer their place to the next best entrant. Unsuccessful entrants will not be contacted. Entries cannot be returned to entrants.
  23. The FA may need to make minor reasonable modifications to the winning design, however the design which features as the official mascot of the FA Cup Final 2015 shall recognisably be the winning design of the Competition.
  24. The prizes will be as stated. The prizes cannot be transferred and there is no cash alternative.
  25. The winner and runners-up will be notified from Tuesday 31st March 2015 by telephone, as per the contact details provided in their entry. In the event of the winner being unable to be contacted, after reasonable attempts have been made, or being unable to attend the Blue Peter filming (in studio or on location) on Thursday 16th April 2015 and Saturday 30th May 2015 or if the winner is found to be in breach of the rules or fails to take up their prize for any reason, including illness, unavailability, problems in having consent for absence from school, licensing difficulties OR problems with obtaining a sign off from their doctor regarding state of health to participate, the BBC reserves the right to offer the prize to a runner-up who will be ranked in order of merit but it is not obliged to do so.
  26. The BBC's and the judges' decision as to the winner is final. No correspondence relating to the Competition will be entered into.
  27. Entrants will be expected to take part in post-Competition publicity for the BBC.
  28. The BBC reserves the right to cancel the Competition or change any of these rules at any stage if deemed necessary in its opinion or if circumstances arise outside of its control. Any such changes will be duly communicated. The BBC cannot be held responsible for any unforeseen events relating to, or the cancellation of, the FA Cup 2015.
  29. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering the Competition, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without permission. You can read more about the BBC Privacy Policy on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/
  30. The parent/guardian of an applicant is deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions when consenting to the application of the relevant entrant.
  31. To the extent relevant, the Competition complies with the BBC Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, which can be found on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/edit...-competitions/.
  32. The BBC, The FA and/or any other organisation associated with the Competition accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities (including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damage) injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you as a result of entering the Competition, not being able to enter into the Competition or accepting any of the prizes. Nothing shall exclude the liability of the BBC or The FA for fraud or for death or personal injury as a result of that party's negligence. In no event shall the BBC or The FA's and/or any other organisation associated with the Competition's total liability to you for all damages, losses, or causes of action exceed the price of the relevant prize.
  33. If any of these clauses should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable then it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and conditions and the remaining clauses shall survive, remain in full force and effect.
  34. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim, dispute or matter arising under or in connection with these Terms and Conditions.
  To enter the competition, go the Design an FA Cup Mascot page here.