'Dancing With the Moms Challenge' Rules

ByABC News via GMA logo
March 19, 2007, 1:05 PM

Mach 20, 2007 — -- Are you a fan of ABC-TV's "Dancing with the Stars" and wish you could learn those moves with a professional dance partner?

Now you can, if you are chosen as one of four finalists in "Good Morning America's Dancing With the Moms Challenge." We're looking for mothers with the energy, enthusiasm and willingness to learn a variety of dances and compete for the top title.

Videos of 10 moms will be shown on "Good Morning America" from late April to mid May 2007. Viewers will be asked to vote for their favorites over the course of several weeks. The four moms who receive the most votes will be selected to come to New York City for six days this coming May to learn a variety of dances and perform them on "Good Morning America."

Each day, one couple will be eliminated. The final two dance pairs will compete for the championship before a panel of judges. See the complete rules below.

Click here to enter the "Dancing With the Moms Challenge" online.

Or you can mail your entry to:
GMA's Dancing With the Moms Challenge
Ansonia Station, P.O. Box 234106
New York, NY 10023-943

OFFICIAL RULES
"Good Morning America's Dancing With the Moms Challenge"

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

I. Eligibility: Promotion is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, D.C., who are at least 18 years of age. Entrants must be "moms." Void outside of the United States and where prohibited. Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors and interns) who have, within six months prior to the start date of the promotion and thereafter performed services for American Broadcasting Companies Inc., or any current or future organization responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the promotion or supplying prizes, and/or their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win.

"Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step parents, children, step children, siblings, step siblings or spouses, regardless of where they live. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year, whether related or not.

Entrant cannot have any professional experience as a dancer, dance instructor or currently be working toward or already have a degree in dance. Entrants must not currently be entered in any other related promotion, contest or competition. Sponsors may disqualify such entries and take all other measures Sponsor's may deem appropriate so as to protect their interests.

Entrant must be available to come to New York on or about May 18, 2007, through May 23, 2007 to learn a variety of dances and perform them on "Good Morning America." Good Morning America may, in its sole discretion, provide roundtrip coach class airfare from the airport closest to the home of each finalist, or other transportation as needed, and hotel accommodations in New York City.

II. How and When to Enter: Good Morning America's Dancing with the Moms Challenge (the "Promotion") begins 7 a.m. ET on March 20, 2007 and all entries must be received by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, April 6, 2007. Each entrant must submit a photo of herself taken within the last six months, and an essay of 300 words or less that describes why they should be chosen to compete in this challenge. Entries can be sent to www.abcnews.com or by U.S. Mail to:

GMA's Dancing With the Moms Challenge
Ansonia Station, P.O. Box 234106
New York, NY 10023-943

and must include name, address, phone number and e-mail address of the entrant.

Entries to a post office box should be made using one of the available services of the United States Postal Service; post office boxes can not receive deliveries from an overnight or other courier delivery service other than those delivery services provided by the United States Postal Service. Each entrant may submit only one entry. Multiple entries may result in the disqualification of all of your entries. Entries delivered to any other address than those listed above will NOT be considered. Photos may not be the work of a professional photographer and entrant must have all rights necessary to use and share the submitted photograph.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ("ABC" or "Sponsor") will not be responsible for late, lost, incomplete, illegible, damaged, garbled, technically corrupt, postage-due or misdirected entries. No photos will be returned. Sponsor can provide no technical support and accepts no responsibility for insuring the receipt of your e-mail and photo. If you experience any difficulties trying to submit your entry via e-mail, we recommend that you send your photo via U.S. mail to us at the above address.

Entries that contain any content determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion as indecent, inappropriate, morally objectionable or otherwise unfit for broadcast will be immediately disqualified. Entries not satisfying these Official Rules in any respect will be disqualified. (For ABCNEWS.com's Terms of Use, direct your Internet browser to the Legal Terms page.) In the event of a conflict between these Official Rules and the Terms of Use, the Official Rules shall govern.