THE COMPETITION IS CLOSED - WE HAVE A WINNER!

South African soccer fans are known around the world for their lively, colourful and fun costumes and decorations at matches that show their support for their favourite team. We know that soccer fans coming to visit from other countries are going to be decked out in support of their national side for the FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa, and we’re looking for the most inspired, colourful and fun photos of fans at soccer matches from around the world.

photo: South African Tourism
  All you have to do is post your best photo on the Beyond the 90 Minutes Flickr group and stand a chance to win a special makarapa of your very own! These amazing South African fan accessories are traditionally made from miner's helmets, each hand-made and truly one-of-a kind. Other prizes for finalists include famed Vin de Constance wine from Klein Constantia (made by our "local", Adam Mason who will also offer a private cellar tour and tasting when the winner is in Cape Town), and dinner for two at Marco's African Place (run by Marco Radebe, another fabulous "local"). All the finalists are automatically entered into a competition worth more than R50 000, with prizes awarded at the start of the FIFA World Cup™ in June 2010!



photo: The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection 1. Find your best photo of yourself or friends in your wildest, most colourful and most fun soccer-inspired costumes – face paint, clothing, props, lighting, craziness. You can be supporting your national side, club team or any soccer team, but it needs to be soccer, soccer, soccer.
2. Go to www.flickr.com and upload your picture to the Beyond the 90 Minutes group before 31 December 2009. If you want to win you have to join the Flickr group, and be sure to check the Discussions in the group for the announcement of the finalists and the winner in case you win the big prize!
3. Our crack team of football fan and fashion judges will arbitrarily select through a non-scientific process  the best photos
4. The winner will be notified via announcement posted in a discussion on the Beyond the 90 Minutes Flickr group as well as on the campaign website, and (after we’ve notified them) their winning picture will be plastered all over the website, e-mailed around the world and shared with the media. It will be their 15 minutes of global fame. If the winner will be in Cape Town during the FIFA World Cup™ we will invite him or her to help us celebrate the beautiful game in the most beautiful place in the world (good for another 15 minutes of fame, maybe more).
5. We will ship this unique, hand-made authentic South African makarapa to the winner, to help them cheer on their favourite teams in distinctive style. The other prizes will be sent to the second and third-place winners (dinner from Marco's will not be shipped, but rather vouchers for dinner). All finalists will be entered into the BIG competition happening in June 2010, just before the opening match!

• By entering, you are stating that you are the owner of the photograph and that all the persons in the photo have given their consent to your submitting it for the competition, and that they understand and have agreed to all of the terms and conditions associated.
• By submitting the photo, you are granting CTRU exclusive rights for the unlimited use of the photo in all media for a period from its submission until 31 July 2010. Thereafter, CTRU retains non-exclusive rights for unlimited use in any media in perpetuity.
• No lewd, offensive or pornographic material whatsoever please. This would be a violation of the Flickr user agreement in any case, but we will not be happy either and may be obligated to take legal action, so please don’t cross that boundary. If you suspect it’s inappropriate, it probably is, so don’t do it. Thanks.
• We will make every reasonable effort to contact the winner via the Flickr account they used when joining the group, but if unable to reach them within a reasonable time period, we reserve the right to award first place to the next highest vote winner, and so on.
• All reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that the competition is fair and impartial, but CTRU remains the sole and final arbiter of all decisions. The competitions are intended in the spirit of fun and we hope that everyone will participate in the same spirit. We reserve the right to substitute a prize of similar value in the unlikely case that the original prize is unavailable.