Official Terms & Conditions

1. Eligibility

The Chicken Fat Name the Mascot Contest is open to individuals who:

• Are 13 years of age or older at the time of entry. Participants under 18 must have parental or guardian consent to enter.
• Are not residents of any jurisdiction where this type of contest is restricted or prohibited.

Employees, contractors, directors, and officers of Chicken Fat Games, and their immediate family members or persons living in the same household, are not eligible to enter.

By entering, participants represent and warrant that they satisfy the eligibility requirements. Participants under the age of 18 represent that they have obtained permission from a parent or legal guardian prior to entering.

Void where prohibited by law.

2. Contest Period

• Submission window opens: Saturday, May 30, 2026
• Submission window closes: Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time

The bracket will be revealed June 9, 2026. Community voting runs June 10 through June 23, 2026. The champion will be announced on or around June 24, 2026.

Limit of one (1) entry per person. Multiple entries from the same person will be disqualified. Entries submitted by any automated means are not permitted.

Submission of an entry constitutes agreement to these Terms and Conditions in full.

3. How to Enter

Submit your entry via the official contest form at chickenfatgames.com/pages/name-the-mascot-contest during the submission period. Entry requires your first name, your mascot name suggestion, an optional explanation, and a valid email address.

4. Entry Requirements

Submitted mascot names must:

• Be original and not infringe on any third-party trademark, copyright, or intellectual property rights
• Be appropriate for a general audience (PG-13 standard — no profanity, hate speech, or sexually explicit content)
• Not reference any real person in a defamatory, misleading, or harmful way
• Not contain any commercial messaging or advertising

Chicken Fat Games reserves the right to disqualify any entry that does not meet these requirements, at its sole discretion.

5. Judging and Voting

Phase 1 — Bracket seeding: Following the close of the submission window, Chicken Fat Games will curate and seed names from all eligible entries into a tournament bracket. Curation is at the sole discretion of Chicken Fat Games. Chicken Fat Games may, at its sole discretion, exclude submissions that are duplicative, confusingly similar to existing intellectual property, inconsistent with the Chicken Fat Games brand, impractical for commercial use, or otherwise unsuitable for inclusion in the bracket. Not every valid submission is guaranteed to appear in the bracket.

Phase 2 — Community voting: The bracket will be posted publicly on the Chicken Fat Games Instagram and Facebook pages. Community members will vote in head-to-head matchups via platform-native polls. Voting is open to the public — entry into the submission phase is not required to vote.

The winning name is the name that wins the final championship matchup. In the event of a tie or technical error, Chicken Fat Games reserves the right to determine the winner at its sole discretion.

If multiple entrants submit the same winning name, Chicken Fat Games will determine the winning entrant based on the earliest eligible submission received, or by another method selected by Chicken Fat Games in its sole discretion.

6. Winner Notification

The winner will be contacted via the email address provided in their submission form within 48 hours of the championship vote closing. The winner must respond within 48 hours of notification. If the winner does not respond within this period, Chicken Fat Games will follow up once. If there is still no response, Chicken Fat Games reserves the right to select an alternate winner from the remaining finalists.

Chicken Fat Games will not announce the winner’s name or handle publicly without the winner’s explicit written consent.

7. Prize

The winner will receive the following (the “Prize”):

The Prize is non-transferable. No cash equivalent or substitution is available. Chicken Fat Games is not responsible for any taxes, customs fees, or incidental expenses related to prize fulfillment.

Chicken Fat Games reserves the right to refuse prize fulfillment where shipment would violate applicable laws, regulations, sanctions programs, export controls, or carrier restrictions.

8. Intellectual Property

By submitting any mascot name, concept, suggestion, idea, artwork, character trait, design proposal, or other creative contribution in connection with the Contest, entrants grant Chicken Fat Games a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, publish, create derivative works from, and otherwise exploit such submissions for any lawful business purpose. The winning entrant retains the right to claim public credit for the submission as described in Prize A and Prize B above. Chicken Fat Games retains full ownership of the mascot and its name upon selection.

The entrant warrants that their submission is original, does not infringe any third-party rights, and that they have full rights to grant the above license.

9. Publicity

Subject to the winner’s consent as described in Section 6, the winner grants Chicken Fat Games permission to use the winner’s approved name, handle, and general location (city/country) for promotional purposes across social media, the Chicken Fat Games website, and other marketing channels, without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

10. Limitation of Liability

Chicken Fat Games is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, or incomplete entries; technical failures of any kind; unauthorized human intervention; or any other errors or problems of any kind relating to or in connection with the Contest.

Chicken Fat Games reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Contest if fraud, technical failures, or any other factor beyond its reasonable control impairs the integrity of the Contest, as determined by Chicken Fat Games in its sole discretion.

11. Release of Claims

By participating, entrants agree to release and hold harmless Chicken Fat Games, its owners, contractors, affiliates, successors, and assigns from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, or expenses arising out of participation in the Contest or acceptance, use, or misuse of any Prize.

12. Social Media Platforms

This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Meta, Facebook, or Instagram. Participants release Facebook and Instagram from any responsibility related to the Contest.

13. Disputes

This Contest and these Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to conflict of law principles. All disputes arising out of or in connection with this Contest shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action.

14. General

These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between the entrant and Chicken Fat Games with respect to the Contest. Chicken Fat Games reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time with reasonable notice. Continued participation in the Contest following any such amendment constitutes acceptance of the amended terms.