Emeril's Best Burger Ever Challenge Rules

June 1, 2007 — -- Think you've got the cooking chops to be part of Emeril's "Best Burger Ever Challenge"?

Here's your chance to find out whether your burger can pass muster with one master chef and a tough crowd -- "Good Morning America" viewers and online voters.

Here's how it works:

Emeril's 'Best Burger Ever Challenge Rules'

I. NAME OF SPONSOR(S)

Good Morning America and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (Hereinafter collectively referred to as "Sponsor").

II. ELIGIBILITY

Entrants must be legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia. Minors must have permission of parent or legal guardian to enter.

Only original recipes are eligible. Entries must include standard U.S. measurements, a complete list of ingredients in order of use, complete preparation directions, and any other relevant information. The recipe may not have been previously published or won any contest or be currently entered in a competition. Professional chefs and/or cooks are disqualified from participation in this Challenge. Any submission not meeting these requirements will be disqualified.

Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within the past six months, performed services for Good Morning America ("GMA"), American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ("ABC"), any organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Challenge or supplying the prize, and their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or play. "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year.

III. HOW AND WHEN TO ENTER

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

One entry per person. Send your original recipe for a burger (it can be beef, turkey, soy, veggie, etc.) along with an essay of no more than 100 words stating why it is the best burger recipe. If possible, include a photograph of the finished burger. Also, be sure to include your name, address, all phone numbers and an e-mail address (if available). Recipe and personal information will not count toward the 100 word essay limit.

Mail entries to:
Emeril's Best Burger Ever Challenge
Ansonia Station
P.O. Box 231706
New York, New York 10023-9480

or

Enter online by clicking here .

There you will find instructions on the appropriate and acceptable file formats and sizes for submitting your entry electronically.

All entries must be received by 11:59 pm, Monday, July 9, 2007 whether submitted by U.S. mail or online; same rules apply if you enter online or via U.S. mail.

Entries remain the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged.

Good Morning America can provide no technical support and accepts no responsibility for insuring the receipt of your electronic entry. If you experience any difficulties trying to submit your entry online, it is recommended that you send your entry via U.S. mail to the above address.

Sponsor is not responsible for mail that is lost, stolen, late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, mutilated, misdirected, altered, tampered with, or postage-due.

Sponsor is not responsible for failed, partial or garbled computer transmissions, or for technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to electronic malfunction or damage of any network, hardware or software. If for any reason the Challenge is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or other causes that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Challenge, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Challenge. No responsibility is assumed for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; or any problems or technical malfunctions of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or electronic entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web-site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials from this Challenge.