Terms and conditions: Supercar of the Future competition
Blue Peter's Supercar of the Future Competition is giving YOU the chance to design a unique futuristic car. The winner will have their design brought to life by model makers at the world famous McLaren Technology Centre. You’ll get a VIP tour of McLaren’s HQ to see where they produce their supercars and, as part of the prize, you will be taken for the ride of your life around a UK racetrack in a McLaren Supercar driven by Top Gear’s most famous racing driver, The Stig. All prizes will be undertaken when it is safe to do so.
Terms and Conditions:
Check the main competition page to print the application form and enter the competition.
Rules for Blue Peter’s Supercar of the Future Competition
1. Blue Peter's Supercar of the Future 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 Wednesday 10th June 2020 (the closing date for entries) except the children or close relatives of BBC Group or McLaren 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 Supercar of the Future
• Give details about how their Supercar is powered and what materials it is made from
• Give details of one outstanding feature on their design explaining why they are proud of it
• Submit an A4 drawing of their 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 Monday 15th June and Friday 26th June 2020.
8. All entrants must enter the Competition by submitting their design and entry form by post to:
Blue Peter's Supercar of the Future Competition
Bridge House
MediaCityUK
M50 2BH
9. Entries must be RECEIVED by no later than 1pm on Wednesday 10th June 2020. 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. Please check on Royal Mail website for delays in postal services caused by COVID-19. If you can’t obtain a ‘Large Letter’ stamp, two First Class stamps are sufficient postage for an A4 sized envelope.
10. By submitting an entry for the Competition, the entrant’s parent/guardian are deemed to have given permission for the entry to be published free of charge by the BBC Group and McLaren in all media, including television, print and internet, for all purposes as it wishes. Blue Peter, the BBC and McLaren may wish to display entries containing an entrant’s forename, 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.
The BBC's conditions on contributions apply to the Terms and Conditions and can be found http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/personal.shtml#5.
11. For editorial reasons, it is necessary for the BBC to acquire ownership of all rights in the winning Supercar design. 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 BBC 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. For the avoidance of doubt, the clay work of the Winning Design produced by McLaren for this competition shall be and remain the property of McLaren.
12. All entries will be judged in the first instance by senior members of the Blue Peter production team. 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
For each age category 3 back-up entries will be ranked in order of merit to act as standbys to replace any entries that in the verification process need to be excluded from the competition.
13. 30 verified 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 Blue Peter (including Richie Driss, Blue Peter presenter and Ellen Evans, Editor of Blue Peter as Head Judge) There will also be representatives from McLaren and an expert in cars from Top Gear Magazine. 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 Supercar design must be original, imaginative and striking – we’re asking you to pick one outstanding feature on your vehicle, so make sure you think carefully about why this feature is important.
Creative/Innovative – Make sure you research and suggest creative materials to make your vehicle super-efficient on the track and think carefully about how your vehicle will be powered and what impact your car will have on the environment.
Unique - The design must be unique and it must not replicate any existing design or feature design elements or logos from any car maker or manufacturer. You may use the Blue Peter ship in your design should you wish, but this will not be a deciding factor in the judging process.
The prizes
16. The prizes consist of (and will be awarded when social distancing measures allow):
1st Prize: 1 Winner
• The winning Supercar design will be made into a half-scale clay model by the design team at McLaren Automotive
• You will be granted an exclusive visit to the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking to see where McLaren’s supercars are produced
• You will be driven in a McLaren Supercar by Top Gear’s The Stig around a racetrack in the UK (location and date is TBC)
• You will attend a recording of Blue Peter where you will be announced as winner of the competition during one of our weekly shows
• You will receive an Orange Blue Peter competition winner's badge
• You will receive your design in a frame
Top runners up (x 2)
• You will receive your design in a frame
• You will receive an Orange Blue Peter competition winner's badge
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 McLaren Technology Centre on Saturday 25th July and the Blue Peter studio at MediaCity UK on Thursday September 3rd 2020 for the announcement of the winning design. The winner must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
18. These dates are non-movable, but we reserve the right to change them due to editorial/production considerations including any restrictions which may be extended due to COVID-19.
19. 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 McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, as well as the Track Day with The Stig. 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.
20. Telephone calls will be made to the 30 short listed entrants and their parent/guardians between Monday 15th June and Friday 19th June 2020 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.
21. Blue Peter and/or McLaren may need to make minor reasonable modifications to the winning design, however, the design which is made into a half-scale clay model shall recognisably be the winning design of the Competition.
22. The prizes will be as stated. The prizes cannot be transferred and there is no cash alternative.
23. The winner and runners-up will be notified from Wednesday 24th June 2020 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 McLaren filming (25th July 2020) or the Blue Peter filming (Thursday 3rd September 2020), 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.
24. The BBC's and the judges' decision as to the winner is final. No correspondence relating to the Competition will be entered into.
25. Entrants will be expected to take part in post-Competition publicity for the BBC.
26. 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 any related element of this Competition outside of the control of the BBC.
27. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering the Competition and in accordance with the BBC's Privacy Notice.
You can read more about the BBC Privacy Notice on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/bp-competition#privacy
28. The parent/guardian of an applicant is deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions when consenting to the application of the relevant entrant.
29. The Competition complies with the BBC Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, which can be found on:https://bbc.com.im/editorialguidelines/guidance/code-of-conduct%3C/a%3E.%3C/p%3E%3Cp class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">30. The BBC, Blue Peter and McLaren, including any other organisation associated with the Competition accepts no liability 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 McLaren for (i) fraud, (ii) for death or personal injury as a result of that party's negligence, or (iii) any other cause of action which cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law. In no event shall the BBC or McLaren 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.