First Freedom Engineering Essay Contest

1st Prize: $5,000

2nd Prize: $2,500

3rd Prize: $1,000

Ten Consolation Prizes: $500 each

Contestants are invited to write essays of 1,000 - 5,000 words on the topic of freedom engineering.

Deadline for entries: June 30, 2000

Prizes Awarded: August 31, 2000

CONTEST RULES

All contestants agree to the following rules:

1. Essays will be on any aspect of freedom engineering and will be submitted in electronic form via email to Frederick Mann, preferably in the body of the message, rather than as an attachment. (If necessary, essays can be split into more than one email message.) For more information on Freedom Engineering, see Introduction to Freedom Engineering.

2. Prizes will be awarded as above, in the form of credits to contestants' accounts with BIG International. All contestants will open BIG accounts (can be done free of charge) and will submit their Player Account Numbers together with their essays. Click here to open a BIG International account. (Anyone with difficulties downloading BIOS and opening their account can get help on the Financial Independence list or on the BIG Forum.)

3. The deadline for submissions is midnight, June 30, 2000, Eastern Standard Time. Entries must beSENTby this time. In case of questions or disputes over an entry's receipt, the time stamp of the email message containing the entry will determine if the entry meets the deadline.

4. The winners will be announced on or before August 31, 2000. All contestants will be informed of the results at the email addresses they used for submitting their entries. The results will also be posted on BuildFreedom.com. Prize amounts will be transferred to the winners' BIG accounts on or before September 7th, 2000.

5. The contest is open to all humans and there is no entry fee.

6. All entries must be written in English.

7. Entries must be between 1,000 and 5,000 words (inclusive). Entries that don't meet this requirement will be disqualified.

8. The submission of an entry signifies an agreement that the essay may be published on the Free World Order website (and on other websites owned and/or operated by the owners of Free World Order), with the name of the author. (Contestants may use pseudonyms.) Contestants may upon request have their email addresses and or website URLs included in the publication. Published entries may be edited, and may be accompanied by comments. This right to publish is non-exclusive, that is, authors are free to publish their contest entries anywhere and in any manner they wish.

9. The contest will be judged by Frederick Mann, and/or any assisting judges he may appoint for this purpose.

10. The decisions of the judge(s) will be final and not subject to appeal. No correspondence will be entered into regarding any aspect of the judging.

11. Each contestant is allowed up to three entries, that is, each contestant may submit, one, two, or three essays.

12. Entries written by more than one author are allowed. In the case of multiple-author essays, the authors are to indicate how any prize they may win is to be shared between them. (Each author needs to have his/her own BIG International account.)