Stella Blue Coffee Mug Design Contest Official Rules | 2025
The 2025 Stella Blue Mug Design Contest
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.
1. PROMOTION DESCRIPTION: The 2025 Stella Blue Mug Design Contest (\"Contest\") begins at the time of Contest launch on February 28, 2025, at 12:00 AM ET and ends on March 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET (the \"Promotion Period\").
The sponsors of this Contest is BARSTOOL SPORTS, INC. (“Barstool” or “Sponsor”). By participating in the Contest, each Entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects, and made in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Barstool is responsible for the collection, submission or processing of Entries and the overall administration of the Contest. Entrants should look solely to Barstool with any questions, comments or problems related to the Contest.
2. ELIGIBILITY: Open only to legal residents of the United States who are at least 18 years old at the time of entry (the \"Entrant\"). Sponsor and its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, retailers, sales representatives, advertising and promotion agencies and each of their respective officers, directors and employees (the \"Promotion Entities\"), are ineligible to enter the Contest or win a prize. Household Members and Immediate Family Members of such individuals are also not eligible to enter or win. "Household Members" shall mean those people who share the same residence at least three months a year. "Immediate Family Members" shall mean parents, step-parents, legal guardians, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses. This Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
3. PRIZES:
There will be up to four prize(s) awarded in connection with the Contest. The prizes are as follows: up to one winner will be entitled to receive a cash prize in the amount of a one-time payment of $2,500.00 USD and one (1) Stella Blue Coffee cold brew gift box including a signed Stella Blue mug by Barstool personality, Dan Katz (“Big Cat”) (the “Grand Prize”) and up to three winner(s) will each be entitled to receive one of the following, a Stella Blue Coffee cold brew gift box including a signed Stella Blue mug by Barstool personality, Big Cat (the “Stella Blue Prize”). The Grand Prize has an approximate retail value (ARV) of USD $2,590.00 USD. The Stella Blue Prize has an approximate ARV of $90.00 USD per prize and an aggregate ARV of USD $270.00. The approximate ARV for all combined prizes is $2,860.00 USD.
The prizes do not include any personal charges in connection with the prize(s). Winners are responsible for all costs or expenses including, without limitation, any travel, lodging, food/beverage, and any other costs or expenses. Prizes may not be transferred or redeemed for cash, in whole or in part. Each winner must provide a valid mailing address in the United States for prize delivery. Prizes and their components are subject to availability and certain other restrictions.
Only one prize will be awarded. Prizes cannot be transferred, redeemed for cash or substituted by winner. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole and absolute discretion to award a substitute prize of equal or greater value if a prize described in these Official Rules is unavailable or cannot be awarded, in whole or in part, for any reason. In no event will Sponsor be obligated to award more than the number of prizes stated in these Official Rules. The ARV of the prize as noted above represents Sponsor’s good faith determination. That determination is final and binding and cannot be appealed. If the actual value of the prize turns out to be less than the stated ARV, the difference will not be awarded in cash. Sponsor makes no representation or warranty concerning the appearance, safety or performance of any prize awarded. Restrictions, conditions, and limitations may apply. Sponsor will not replace any lost, damaged, or stolen items.
This Contest is open to legal residents of the United States who satisfy the eligibility requirements set forth above. Prizes will only be awarded and/or delivered to addresses within said locations, subject to all other terms and conditions of these Official Rules. All federal, state and/or local taxes, fees, and surcharges are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. Failure to comply with the Official Rules will result in forfeiture of the prize.
4. HOW TO ENTER; ENTRIES; ENTRY LIMIT: To enter the Contest, during the Promotion Period, complete and submit the Contest entry form (including all required fields) located at the following URL (if no URL is provided, then at the URL designated in any prompt or promotion for this Contest): https://web.witcontests.com/stellabluecoffee/contest/mug-mania-2025-250309. (each, an “Entry”). No more than 1 entry per entrant, regardless of the method of entry (the “Entry Cap”). All submissions and Entries entered into the Contest will be subject to the Barstool Content License and Submission Policy, available here: https://www.barstoolsports.com/content-policy. In addition to the foregoing, entrant agrees and acknowledges that it shall not include any third party intellectual property rights (e.g., any and all rights owned by the NCAA or collegiate institutions) in its Entry to the Contest.
Automated or robotic Entries submitted by individuals or organizations will be disqualified. Internet entry must be made by the Entrant. Any attempt by Entrant to obtain more than the stated number of Entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations, logins or any other methods, including, but not limited to, commercial contest/sweepstakes subscription notification and/or entering services, will void Entrant's Entries and that Entrant may be disqualified. Final eligibility for the award of any prize is subject to eligibility verification as set forth below. All Entries must be posted by the end of the Promotion Period in order to participate. Submissions from entrants below 18 years of age will not be counted. Participants must verify 18+ age with Sponsor prior to receiving prize.
5. WINNER SELECTION: The Winner(s) of the Contest will be selected by Sponsor, in Sponsor’s sole discretion from all Entrants submitted during the Promotion Period based on the following, equally rated criteria: (i) Entrant submission to receive the highest number of sales for such entrant’s submitted Stella Blue mug design on stellabluecoffee.com during the Sales Period (defined below) will be deemed the Winner of the Grand Prize and (ii) Entrant submission(s) to receive the second, third, and fourth highest number of sales for such Entrant’s submitted Stella Blue mug design on stellabluecoffee.com during the Sales Period will each be deemed a winner(s) of the Stella Blue Prize. “Sales Period” shall mean the period beginning on March 31, 2025, and concluding on April 7, 2025 during which each of the Entrant’s Stella Blue Mug design(s) may be featured and offered for sale on Barstool’s stellabluecoffee.com. Winner(s) will be selected by Barstool upon the conclusion of the Sales Period. Entrant shall not take any direct or indirect actions in any form to alter or manipulate and/or influence in any way the outcome of the Sales Period including, without limitation, the fraudulent purchase and return of any product(s).
6. POTENTIAL WINNER NOTIFICATION: The potential winner (“Potential Winner”) will be notified by email at the email address provided to verify eligibility. Potential Winner must accept a prize as directed by Sponsor within one week of notification and must be in business at the time of prize award and fulfillment. Any winner notification not responded to or returned as undeliverable may result in prize forfeiture. If a Potential Winner does not accept the prize, then Barstool will select a replacement winner in the same manner as described in Section 5 above). Sponsor is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification for any reason, including inactive email account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or Winner’s failure to adequately monitor any email account. The potential prize winner may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability, and a Publicity Release (collectively \"the Prize Claim Documents\"). No substitution or transfer of a prize is permitted except by Sponsor.
7. PRIVACY: Any personal information supplied by you will be subject to the privacy policy of the Sponsor, available here: https://www.barstoolsports.com/privacy-policy. By entering the Contest, you are submitting your information to Sponsor, who may use your email address and any other personal information in your submission for the purpose of administration and prize fulfillment, including use in a publicly available Winners list.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY; DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Sponsor assumes no responsibility or liability for (a) any incorrect or inaccurate entry information, or for any faulty or failed electronic data transmissions; (b) any unauthorized access to, or theft, destruction or alteration of entries at any point in the operation of this Contest; (c) any technical malfunction, failure, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or communications line failure, regardless of cause, with regard to any equipment, systems, networks, lines, satellites, servers, camera, computers or providers utilized in any aspect of the operation of the Contest; (d) inaccessibility or unavailability of any network or wireless service, the Internet or website or any combination thereof; (e) suspended or discontinued Internet, wireless or landline phone service; or (f) any injury or damage to participant's or to any other person’s computer or mobile device which may be related to or resulting from any attempt to participate in the Contest or download of any materials in the Contest.
If, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as planned for reasons which may include without limitation, infection by computer virus, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which may corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest in whole or in part. In such event, Sponsor shall immediately suspend all submissions and prize awards, and Sponsor reserves the right to award any remaining prizes (up to the total ARV as set forth in these Official Rules) in a manner deemed fair and equitable by Sponsor. Sponsor and Released Parties shall not have any further liability to any participant in connection with the Contest.
THE CONTEST IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in the Contest, participant agrees that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Contest, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in New York having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorneys' fees, other than participants' actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e. costs associated with entering the Contest), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
9. SOCIAL NETWORK DISCLAIMER; PRIVACY
This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with any social media platform on which the Contest may be promoted including, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You understand that you are providing your information to the Sponsor and/or Advertiser and not to any social media platform.
10. APPEARANCE AND LOCATION RELEASE
If you are selected as a winner, you are aware of and consent to the creation by or on behalf of Barstool of photographs and audio/audiovisual recordings of and in connection with the prize administration, which may include the Likeness and Indicia and you and your guest(s) (the “Work”). You hereby irrevocably grant to Barstool and all affiliates and related entities, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is acknowledged, the absolute and royalty-free right and license (but not obligation) to utilize your name, image, and likeness, and any associated materials provided by you (collectively, “Likeness and Indicia”), throughout the world in perpetuity, in any medium, without compensation, in connection with or arising from this Contest, the results and proceeds thereof, or otherwise. Barstool is under no obligation to use the Work.
11. SPONSOR:
Barstool Sports, Inc., 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001.