2020 Virtual Fur Ball T-Shirt Contest Rules and Guidelines

Show us why home is where your cat is!

Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society’s (MRFRS) T-shirt Design Contest is open to all and is intended to bring awareness to the importance of keeping cats healthy and safe indoors. There are many reasons cats are safer indoors - vehicles, predators, poisons, cruelty, untreated disease - and more. In addition, the mammals, amphibians, and reptiles of North America did not co-evolve with cats and are vulnerable to predation by free-roaming cats at many stages in their life-cycles. Keeping cats safe indoors is good for everyone - especially our cats - and we want to make sure that message is delivered near and far. That’s where you come in!

The winning designs will be on MRFRS t-shirts (and other merchandise going forward) and all proceeds from contest entries and t-shirt sales will benefit MRFRS operations.

MRFRS is accepting submissions for the 2020 MRFRS T-Shirt Design Contest between September 12 and October 11, 2020. The winning design will be printed on the official 2021 MRFRS t-shirt which can be pre-ordered starting on October 24 when the winning designs are announced at the Fur Ball!

Official T-Shirt Design Contest Rules

T-Shirt Design Contest Prizes
1st Place – The winning design will be featured on MRFRS 2021 official t-shirt, will be displayed at mrfrs.org, announced on all MRFRS social media channels, and will get two t-shirts!
Eligibility
The contest is open to everyone including MRFRS staff and volunteers and all our supporters and friends.
Design Contest Rules and Guidelines
  1. Your design submission must be wholly original. By submitting a design, you are guaranteeing that you hold original rights to everything in it, that it does not contain any copyrighted material, that it may be printed on t-shirts and sold by Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society, and that it does not contain images and/or copy found on the internet unless clearly marked as published under a creative commons (cc) license.
  2. By submitting a design, the artist(s) grant non-exclusive rights to MRFRS to publish, display, or otherwise use this design. These rights will not expire but will exist for as long as MRFRS continues to use this design.
  3. Contest entry should address one or both of these questions: 
    • Why do you think it is important to keep cats indoors? 
    • Why do you love having a cat inside of your home?
  1. Design will appear on the front of a solid-color shirt.
  2. Design will be printed in up to two solid colors. Gradients and transparencies cannot be incorporated.
  3. MRFRS reserves the right to make adjustments to all entries, including colors of the design and the shirt.
  4. Submit your design here. By submitting your design, you are agreeing to all the rules and regulations of the contest as outlined above.
Submission Rules and Guidelines
  1. Design submissions will be accepted between 5 p.m. Saturday, September 12, 2020 and 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 11, 2020.
  2. The entry fee is $5 per design.
  3. Electronic entries are preferred. Electronic entries may be any of the following art file formats: .EPS, .JPG, .PDF, .PNG. (Dimensions: 12″ x 12″)
  4. Your file must be named “2020 T-shirt Design Contest + Designer(s) Name + Design Title.”
  5. You may also submit original artwork via snail mail with a check for $5 to MRFRS, 15 Main Street, Suite 207, Salisbury, MA 01952. If you mail original artwork to us, please be aware it will not be returned to you. Include your name, mailing address and telephone number. 
  6. Collaborative entries should include a list of participating people noting the main contact for the group submission for communication from MRFRS.
  7. All entries become the property of MRFRS. The winning designer may display their own design in a portfolio or personal collection but may not sell or reproduce the design for any other purpose once submitted to the contest. 
  8. This contest is subject to all federal, state, and local laws.
How Winners Are Selected
A panel of judges selected by MRFRS’s Executive Director and the Development & Communications Manager will choose the winning submission. Designs will be judged on the following criteria:
  • Concept, beauty, and originality
  • Captures spirit of the MRFRS message
  • Completeness of design and readiness for printing
  • Feasibility of reproduction
  • Adherence to design and submission rules and guidelines
How Winners Will Be Notified
The winner(s) will be notified by email or telephone by October 20, 2020. At the sole discretion of MRFRS, disqualification, forfeiture and the selection of an alternate winner may result from any of the following:
  1. Winner's failure to respond to notification within three (3) business days
  2. The return of an email notification as undeliverable after three (3) attempts.
  3. Winner's failure to provide appropriate design files.
Upon contacting a winner and determining that all eligibility requirements have been met, that person will be declared the "winner" on October 24, 2020 at the Fur Ball event. After that, the winning design will be revealed on social media, the MRFRS website, and The Mews e-newsletter.
Submission Agreement
  1. To release the rights to your design to MRFRS for the use of the 2020 MRFRS T-shirt and other promotional items, including, but not limited to: the MRFRS website, social media and marketing materials.
  2. That MRFRS reserves the right to make adjustments to the winning designs.
  3. To abide by all contest rules, agreements and guidelines.
2020 Deadlines and Important Dates
September 11, 2020 - Contest begins
October 11, 2020 - SUBMISSION DEADLINE
October 20, 2020 - Winner Notified
October 24, 2020 - Winner announced at Fur Ball and pre-orders begin
October 25, 2020 - Pre-orders end @ 11:59 p.m.
November 3, 2002 -T-shirts shipped
 
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