How spooky is your city?
Halloween is coming up and City Dictionary wants to help get you in the mood with the "Spooky City" Contest. We’re going to reward one of our Citizens $100 cash for creating the best Halloween-related submission by October 31st. Users are considered for the contest by adding a new entry related to Halloween with an appropriate definition to any city on City Dictionary. Relevant Halloween entries include, but are not limited to, the following examples:
- Halloween events of local cultural value
- Local slang terms involving Halloween
- Noteworthy haunted houses, corn mazes, et al
- Local Halloween traditions
- Famous local Halloween pranks
- Well-known newsworthy stories connected to Halloween
- Local businesses that contribute to the local Halloween culture
- Local landmarks that gets people in the Halloween spirit
- Anything that defines Halloween for your city. Be creative!
The entire entry will be judged on the following criteria:
- Relevance to the city. Good entries must capture the local flavor of the city and will not be an inside joke for you and your friends alone.
- Creativity. Relevance is mandatory, but creativity is truly what defines a good entry on City Dictionary. Sometimes the most obvious topic to write about is the least interesting, as well as the least useful for someone who wants to know the subtleties of a city.
- Good writing. The writing must be clear and succinct. You don’t need to be a professional writer to win our competition, but a competitive entry will be void of grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.
- Completeness. An entry’s definition should include all relevant information to describe the concept to outsiders. Also, if an entry is well served by a particular address, phone number or website, it should have that information to be competitive in the contest. Also, if an entry could be more complete with any number of relevant photos, we encourage users to upload those photos (copyright-free, of course) to provide a richer experience to those who view the entry. With that said, entries that do not require this additional information will still be considered. Many of our best entries do not have a relevant address, photo, etc.
Entries must be submitted by 12:00 midnight CST on October 31st to be considered for the contest. Upon winning the contest, the Citizen will be notified by e-mail to claim the prize.
Note: Citizens may submit multiple entries to the contest to increase their chance of winning. Each individual entry will be judged on its own merit.
Find Your City & Submit Your Entries
Official Contest Rules
- No purchase necessary to enter or win. Void where prohibited by law.
- To enter the contest, a participant must submit a new word with a definition on City Dictionary. All entries must be submitted at www.citydictionary.com.
- This contest runs from 12:00 noon CST on October 26th, 2009 through 12:00 midnight CST on October 31st, 2009.
- To enter the contest, participants must be at least 18 years old and a legal resident of the U.S.
- Prize: $100 in cash will be awarded to the winning entry.
- Entries that are late or incompletely received, for any reason, including by reason of hardware, software, browser, or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility at the Web site or elsewhere, will not be eligible.
- Entries will be judged by a panel of judges (made of City Dictionary employees, representatives or selected community members) and the winner will be notified by e-mail at the address provided with the entry. If the winner’s notification is undeliverable or the winner does not return the request for information within 7 days after notification, the winner will be disqualified and the judges will choose a new winner from among the remaining eligible entries.
- By entering, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these official rules and by the decision of the judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects. City Dictionary, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process or who is otherwise in violation of the rules. Each entrant consents to City Dictionary's use of the submitted entry and the winner's name and state of residence for all lawful purposes. All entries, intellectual property and information contained therein become the sole property of City Dictionary. City Dictionary reserves the right to modify these rules for clarification purposes without materially affecting the terms and conditions of the contest.
- The winners will be posted on www.citydictionary.com no later than November 15th, 2009.
The "Spooky City" Contest is sponsored by City Dictionary, 2830 Progress Road, Madison, WI 53716.
