A Supercars Gold Coast 500 Experience

Monster Energy® Gold Coast Experience Promotion
Terms and Conditions 
Who is running the competition?    The Promoter is Monster Energy® AU Pty Ltd (ABN 84 132 571 638) of Unit 10c, 2 Daydream St, Warriewood NSW 2102 (Promoter). 
Where will the competition run?     The competition will run in participating stores which are displaying the advertising material (Stores) in Australia.  

When will the competition start and end?    The competition starts at 12.01am (AEST) on 01/05/2025 and ends at 11.59pm (AEST) on 19/08/2025 (the Competition Period). 
Who can enter?    Entry is only open to Australian residents who are aged 18 years or over and who can take the Monster Energy® Racing Experience travel prize on  23 – 27 October 2025 (inclusive) at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Entry is not open to the following persons:
(a)    management, employees, directors and contractors of the Promoter, its related bodies corporate, the participating Stores and other agencies, firms or companies associated with the competition (including suppliers of prizes); 
(b)    a spouse, de-facto spouse, parent, guardian, child or sibling of a person referred to in paragraph (a) above; 
(c)    persons who have won a prize or prizes valued either individually or collectively at more than AUD $5,000 (including GST) in any competition or promotion run by or on behalf of the Promoter, within the 12 months prior to the commencement of the Competition Period; 
(d)    persons who have used or attempted to use any more than one name in order to qualify to win a competition or promotion run by or on behalf of the Promoter (except in the case of a legal change of name); and 
(e)    persons who have breached the terms and conditions of any competition or promotion run by or on behalf of the Promoter.
The persons referred to in paragraph (b) above include natural and non-natural relations (in the opinion of the Promoter) and the Promoter is responsible for determining whether a person is an eligible entrant in its reasonable discretion. 
Do I need to buy anything to enter?    Yes. During the Competition Period, you need to buy either: 
•    any 2 x 500ml Monster Energy® cans;
•    any 2 x 355ml Monster Energy® cans; 
•    1 x multipack (4x500ml) of Monster Energy® cans; or 
•    1 x 24 pack (24 x 500ml) of Monster Energy® cans 
(all variants) in 1 transaction (excluding vending machine purchases) (Qualifying Purchase) from a Store.

Entry instructions     After you have made a Qualifying Purchase in accordance with the instructions under “Do I need to buy anything to enter?” section above, you must then, during the Competition Period:
a)    either:
i.    scan the QR code on the in-Store advertising material with your smartphone; or 
ii.    visit www.monsterenergy.com/au-en/promotions (Website), 
and
b)    locate the entry page and fill out and submit the online entry form including by providing all other requested information, including your name and address.
The Promoter is not responsible if your mobile device/desktop is not sufficiently capable for the purpose of submitting an entry.

No entries will be accepted outside the Competition Period.
How many winners will there be and how will they be chosen?     There will be 2 winners determined in respect of this competition.

There will be 1 draw conducted.  The draw will be held at 1pm (AEST) on 21/08/2025 at Level 2, 11 York Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

The first 2 entries drawn randomly from the entries received during the Competition Period will each win a prize.

The Promoter may arrange to draw additional reserve entries in the draw and record them in order, in case a winning entry/entrant is deemed invalid, or a prize is unclaimed (Reserve Entrants).

An independent scrutineer will observe the draw process.
What can I win?    There are 2 prizes available.

Each prize is a Monster Energy® Racing Experience on the Gold Coast, Queensland for the winner and 1 adult companion (aged 18 years or over by the conclusion of the Competition Period), valued at up to AUD $12,000 (depending on the winner's place of residence, which determines departure location), which includes the following for the winner and their companion: 
-    3-day corporate hospitality tickets to the 2025 Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 from 24 – 26 October 2025(inclusive) at Surfers Paradise Beach, Queensland, 
-    4 nights' twin share accommodation in a 4-star hotel in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (as determined by the Promoter) from 23 – 27 October 2025,
-    Round-trip economy flights (including airfare taxes) from the winner’s nearest Australian capital city to Gold Coast, Queensland and return transfers between Gold Coast airport and the accommodation (flights and transfers are not included if the winner resides within 200kms of the Gold Coast, Queensland, and if so, the winner and their companion must make their own way to and from the accommodation at their own cost), and 
-    1x AUD $500 VISA debit card or equivalent (for the winner only) to go towards transfers and incidental spending requirements associated with the trip. 
Any ancillary costs associated with redeeming the Visa debit card are not included. Redemption of the Visa debit card is subject to the terms and conditions associated with the Visa debit card.

For the avoidance of doubt, any travel provided by the Promoter requires that the prize winner and their companion must make their own way to and from the winner’s closest Australian capital city airport at their own expense.

The prize is subject to any applicable law or guidelines, including in relation to a pandemic, any travel/government restrictions/directives, border closures, health advice and the like.

For the avoidance of doubt, the prize must be taken on the dates
specified by the Promoter or the prize will be forfeited. By accepting or participating in the prize, your companion accepts these Terms and Conditions.
Total prize pool    The overall total prize pool is valued at up to AUD $24,000.
How many times can I enter?    The following entry limits apply:
•    There is a limit of 5 entries per person in total.  
•    You can only enter once per day.
•    You can only enter once per Qualifying Purchase.   
Each entry must be submitted separately in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. 
How and when will the winner/s be informed?    If you are a winner, you will be informed in writing (via email) within two business days of determination and your last name, first initial and postcode of residence will be published on the Website on 26/08/2025 for a period of 28 days.
If I win, when must I claim my prize?    You must claim your prize: by 9am (AEST) on 17/09/2025.
To claim any prize, you must provide any requested details such as, but not limited to, age, I.D., name and address to comply with any eligibility requirements by prize claim time and date stipulated above.
Unclaimed prize/s    If a prize has not been accepted or claimed by the relevant prize claim time and date stipulated above, or if, after making all reasonable attempts, the Promoter cannot contact a drawn winner (or a drawn winner does not contact the Promoter) by this time and date, the relevant entry/ies will be discarded and the Promoter will re-award the relevant prize/s to Reserve Entrant/s and/or carry out an unclaimed prize draw at the same location as the original draw to randomly distribute the relevant prize/s, at 1pm (AEST) on 18/09/2025.

Any such winner/s will be informed by phone and in writing (via email) within two business days of determination.  Any prize winner will have their last name, first initial and postcode of residence published on the Website on 25/09/2025 for a period of 28 days.
If any prize remains un-won at the end of this promotion, or if a prize winner cannot be found, that information will be published on the Website on 30/09/2025.
Permit numbers    Authorised under NSW Authority No. TP/04038, ACT Permit No.
TP24/02987 and SA Licence No. T24/2282.

1.    These Terms and Conditions incorporate and must be read together with the details outlined in the table above.  Information about prizes and how to enter forms part of these Terms and Conditions.  By entering, you accept these Terms and Conditions.  
Entry 
2.    Your entry must be received during the Competition Period and will be deemed to be received only when received by the Promoter.  If you return a Qualifying Purchase, your entry may be deemed invalid at the Promoter's discretion (unless the product is defective). The Promoter is not liable for any problems with communications networks outside its reasonable control.  You are responsible for your own costs associated with entering.   If you enter using automatically generated entries or multiple phone numbers/email addresses/addresses/multiple aliases you may be disqualified.  
Prizes
3.    Prizes and all elements of prizes must be taken as and when offered, and on the dates specified or will be forfeited, and if forfeited, the Promoter will not be liable. If you forfeit the prize or any element of the prize for whatever reason, you will not be given cash or any  alternative prize as a substitute. Prizes are subject to any additional terms and conditions imposed by the relevant supplier or the Promoter, including:
(a)    validity period/s;
(b)    booking and availability of flights, accommodation and events;
(c)    conditions of travel and conditions of entry into any venues (including behaviour requirements, health safety requirements and applicable dress codes);
(d)    travel dates and specified travel exclusion periods; 
(e)    any additional fees (payable by you) relating to changes made by you/your companion to a prize after it has been booked;
(f)    the winner and their travel companion must depart from and return to the same departure point and travel together;
and
(g)    a requirement to present your credit card when checking in to accommodation, which may also be used as security against hotel incidentals.
4.    You/your companion (if applicable) are responsible for all other unspecified costs related to a prize, including meals, additional transport, insurance (including excesses), in-room charges, additional taxes, etc.  Event tickets can only be used once and will be deemed invalid if copied.  The Promoter does not control entry to the relevant event location. The winner/s must keep their tickets safe and the Promoter will not replace lost or stolen tickets.
5.    The Promoter is not responsible for any dispute between you and any person with whom you choose to, or choose not to, share a prize.
6.    The Promoter accepts no responsibility if the event or activities awarded as part of the prize are abandoned, called off or postponed for any reason beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control. In that case you and your companion forfeit your entitlement to that event or activity and the Promoter may provide another item of equal or higher value, subject to any necessary approval by the state/territory gaming authorities. Unless otherwise specified by the Promoter, you will not be given cash or any alternative prize as a substitute for this altered prize element. 
General    
7.    If you are a winner, you and (if applicable) your companion must take part in all publicity, photography and other promotional activity as the Promoter reasonably requires, without any compensation.  You/your companion consent to the Promoter using your names and images in any promotional or advertising activity.
8.    Any material failure by you or your companion (if applicable) to comply with the conditions imposed by the prize supplier/s may result in a prize being cancelled or withdrawn without liability for the Promoter or the prize supplier/s.
9.    You/your companion (if applicable) must, if required by the Promoter, sign disclaimer and release forms provided by the Promoter in favour of the Promoter and other parties before taking the prize.  If you or your companion do not sign, your entry will be deemed invalid and you will lose any entitlement to the prize.
10.    For event-based/travel prizes, you and (if applicable) your companion/s accept that some aspects of the prize may be inherently risky and that the prize may involve dangerous activities.
11.    If you or your entry are deemed by the Promoter to breach these Terms and Conditions materially, including if you are unable to take the prize on the relevant dates, your entry (or at the Promoter's discretion, all of your entries) may be discarded.  The Promoter may, at any time, require you to produce documentation to establish to the Promoter's reasonable satisfaction the validity of your entries and/or verifying your identity (including documentation establishing your identity, age, place of residence and place of employment).  Failure by the Promoter to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not waive those rights. 
12.    You must not:
(a)    tamper with the entry process (including but not limited to manipulating the system via bots, script use, or any other means to circumvent the entry process);
(b)    engage in any conduct that may jeopardise the fair and proper conduct of the competition;
(c)    act in a disruptive, annoying, threatening, abusive or harassing manner;
(d)    do anything that may diminish the good name or reputation of the Promoter or any of its related entities or of the agencies or companies associated with this competition;
(e)    breach any law; or
(f)    behave in a way that is otherwise inappropriate.  
13.    If you win the prize, you are responsible for your companion and the Promoter may disqualify all entries from, and prohibit further participation in this competition by, you or your companion if they materially breach these conditions, whether or not legally bound by them.
14.    If you or your companion (if applicable), in the reasonable opinion of the Promoter are intoxicated, under the influence of alcohol or any other drug, behave aggressively or offensively, or behave in a manner which may diminish the good name or reputation of the Promoter or any of its related entities or the agencies or companies associated with this competition, or is contrary to law or is otherwise inappropriate, the Promoter may cancel the prize or restrict you and your companion from participating in any elements of  the prize, at its discretion. 
15.    The Promoter is not liable for entries, prize claims or correspondence that are misplaced, misdirected, delayed, lost, incomplete, illegible or incorrectly submitted for reasons outside the Promoter's reasonable control.
16.    If any dispute arises between you and the Promoter concerning the conduct of this competition or claiming a prize, the Promoter will take reasonable steps to consider your point of view, taking into account any facts or evidence you put forward, and to respond to it fairly within a reasonable time.  In all other respects, the Promoter’s decision in connection with all aspects of this competition is final.
17.    The prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged nor redeemed for cash.  Without limiting any other term of these Terms and Conditions, all prizes (and elements of prizes) must be taken as and when specified, or will be forfeited with no replacement.  The prize values are correct as at the date of preparing these Terms and Conditions and include any applicable GST.  The Promoter is not responsible for any change in prize value.  You agree that if a prize is unavailable for any reason the Promoter may provide another item of equal or higher value, subject to any necessary approval by the state/territory gaming authorities.
18.    By entering, you request that your full address not be published. 
19.    If this competition cannot run as planned for any reason beyond the Promoter's reasonable control (for example due to software, hardware or communications issues, unauthorised intervention, tampering, government directive, a pandemic, public health orders and the like, fraud or technical failure), the Promoter may end, change, suspend or cancel the competition or disqualify affected entries/entrants, subject to any necessary approval by the state/territory gaming authorities. 
20.    The Promoter is not responsible for any tax implications arising from you winning a prize.  You should seek independent financial advice.  If for GST purposes this competition results in any supply being made for non-monetary consideration, you must follow the Australian Taxation Office’s stated view that where the parties are at arm’s length, goods and services exchanged are of equal GST inclusive market values.
Liability
21.    You may have consumer rights under statute including under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), which may be relevant to any issue or problem you encounter in relation to this competition and cannot be excluded or restricted.  Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or restricts those rights.  See www.accc.gov.au for more information about those rights. 
22.    Subject to the previous paragraph, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this competition are not liable (including in negligence) for any loss (including indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), expense, damage, personal injury (including allergies, skin conditions or other reactions, as relevant), illness or death suffered in connection with this competition or any prize, except for any liability which under statute cannot be excluded (in which case that liability is limited to the greatest extent allowed by law).   
23.    Without limiting the previous paragraphs, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this competition are not liable for any loss of or damage to prizes or for any damage that occurs to displayed prizes (where relevant), due to circumstances beyond the Promoter's reasonable control. 
24.    The Promoter may communicate or advertise this competition using social media platforms, including Facebook or Instagram.  However, the competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with any social media platform, including Facebook or Instagram.  You provide your information to the Promoter and not to any social media platform.  You completely release any relevant social media platforms from any and all liability.
Collection and use of your personal information 
25.    The Promoter may collect your/your companion’s personal information (PI) directly or through its agents or contractors in order to conduct the competition, communicate with you/your companion or store data. The Promoter may, for these purposes, disclose such PI to third parties, including but not limited to its agents, contractors, related bodies corporate, service providers, prize suppliers and, as required, to Australian regulatory authorities.  Entry is conditional on providing this PI.  The Promoter will also use and handle PI as set out in its Privacy Policy, which can be viewed at www.monsterenergy.com/au/en/privacy-policy.  In addition to any use that may be outlined in the Promoter’s Privacy Policy, the Promoter may, unless otherwise advised, use the PI for promotional, marketing, publicity, research and profiling purposes, including sending electronic messages or telephoning you.  The Privacy Policy also contains information about how you may opt out, access, update or correct your PI, how you may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or any other applicable law and how those complaints will be dealt with.  All entries become the property of the Promoter.  Entrants' details will be collected by Monster Energy® Corporation based in California, the United States, for the purposes of collating the entries for the draw, however, the Promoter will not disclose your personal information to any other entity outside of Australia. 
26.    By entering this competition, you consent to the Promoter keeping your PI on its database to use for future marketing purposes, including contacting you by electronic messaging provided that where required by the Spam Act 2003 (Cth), the Promoter includes a functional unsubscribe facility in each direct marketing communication it sends you that you may use to opt-out of any further such communications and provided that the functional unsubscribe facility complies with the Spam Regulations 2021 (Cth). By entering, you consent to receive email or SMS messages from the Promoter without any functional unsubscribe facility if they relate primarily to the conduct of this competition.  

Abbreviated T&C’s
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AU residents 18+ only. Must claim prize by 9am (AEST) 17/9/25.
Must be able to take prize 23 - 27/10/25 Oct 2025 in QLD (excl winners of Promoter's prizes valued AUD $5k+ in 12 mths prior).  Between 12.01am (AEST) 1/5/25 & 11.59pm (AEST) 19/8/25, buy any 2 x 500ml, 2 x 355ml, 1 x multipack (4 x 500ml) or 1 x 24pk (24 x 500ml) of Monster Energy® cans (all variants) in 1 transaction (excl. vending machine purchases) (Qualifying Purchase) from a participating AU Store, scan QR code on advertising in-Store w/smartphone or visit www.monsterenergy.com/au/en/promotions & fill out entry form. Max 1 entry p/person/day, p/Qualifying Purchase - max. 5 entries p/person in total. Draw: 1pm (AEST) 21/8/25, L2, 11 York St, Sydney NSW 2000. 2 prizes: Trip for 2 (18+) to ‘25 Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 experience at Gold Coast, QLD (valued at up to AUD $12kea). See website on 26/8/25 for winners. Entrants will get future marketing from Promoter. See website for full conditions inc. entrant exclusions & privacy statement. Promoter: Monster Energy AU Pty Ltd (ABN 84 132 571 638). Authorised under NSW Authority No. TP/04038, ACT Permit No.TP24/02987 and SA Licence No. T24/2282.