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1. ENTRY PROCEDURE:
You must complete a CONTEST
ENTRY FORM and return it to the sponsoring radio
station with your registration fee before their deadline
date. The entry form can only come from the Radio
Station at which you wish to compete.
2. REGISTRATION FEE:
A ONETIME REGISTRATION FEE OF $10.00 PER ACT IS REQUIRED
- U.S. CURRENCY ONLY. THE FEE IS TO BE COLLECTED ONLY
ONCE PER STATION, REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF PERFORMANCES
DURING THE COURSE OF COMPETITION. A CONTESTANT MUST
PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE AND COMPLETE AN ENTRY FORM
FOR EACH DIFFERENT RADIO STATION.
3. DISPUTES:
The sponsoring radio station is authorized to resolve
all disputes at the local Showdown. SPI is the sole
authority in resolving all disputes at the state,
regional and national level competitions and to disqualify
any contestant at any level of the contest for failure
to comply with the rules and regulations, including
errors and omissions. SPI's decisions are final.
4. PERFORMANCE: The following applies to any Showdown
contest:
A. Each act entered in the Showdown must perform
only with the personnel listed on Section 1 and 2
of the Entry Form. No personnel changes or substitutions
will be permitted once competition has begun. Once
an individual withdraws from an act at any level of
the Showdown, he/she cannot perform at the next level.
B. Individuals may perform with only one act during
any local Showdown.
C. A Radio Station may, at it's discretion, provide
a backup band for acts requiring instrumental support
or allow contestants' pre-recorded music. No live
"backup band" vocals are allowed.
D. Neither the backup band nor any of its members
is permitted to compete in the Showdown in which they
are the backup band.
E. Each act must perform live, vocally and/or instrumentally.
No special lighting, props or special effects may
be used.
F. Any act with three or more individuals playing
an instrument may not use the backup band or any part
of the backup band, or prerecorded music.
G. The amount or performance time given to each local
Showdown contestant will be determined by the local
radio station.
H. All performances must be done in good taste: no
music or lyrics that the radio station or SPI considers
to be offensive may be performed.
I. Age restrictions will be at the discretion of
the radio station and/or its venue.
J. Contestants may perform their own music and receive
extra bonus points from the judge. Music eligible
for bonus points will be defined as any piece of music
written or co-written by the contestant (either individual
or member of group). Any contestant (either individual
or member of group) who claims to be using his own
music may be disqualified at any level of the contest
at the discretion of SPI, if a musical copyright for
the music exists which does not name the contestant
as author or co-author.
K. Acceptable documentation to prove ownership of
your music shall include either a certificate of copyright,
proof of song registration with BMI, ASCAP, etc.,
or a notarized copy of the application applying for
the copyright with a signed statement by the contestant
as to its status.
L. Performances will be awarded 0-10 points in each
of the following categories: 1) Marketability in country
music; 2) Vocal/instrumental ability; 3) Originality;
4) Stage presence/charisma: 5) Talent. An optional
bonus of up to three points may be awarded for acts
performing their own music.
M. In the event of a tie, the first tie-breaker shall
be the highest number of points given in the Talent
category. The second tiebreaker shall be the highest
number of points awarded in the Stage Presence/Charisma
category. The third tiebreaker shall be by a secret
vote of the judges based on overall performance style
and impact.
5. LOCAL CONTEST PRIZES:
The only official prize offered at the local Showdown
level is the opportunity for the winner to advance
to the state Showdown competition. Local Showdown
contestants must pay their own expenses during the
competition at the local, state and regional levels.
In signing this Entry Form, the Showdown contestant
acknowledges that neither SPI nor Colgate-Palmolive
is responsible for any prizes promised or offered
at the local Showdown contest level (except for the
local Showdown winner's chance to compete in the state
Showdown competition).
6. STATE, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL FINAL:
A.The winner of the local Showdown is eligible to
compete in the State Showdown. Contestants may enter
as many local competitions as they wish until winning.
Local winners may reenter the contest at the local
level only after being eliminated at a State or Regional
Final. They must complete a new entry form and pay
the entry fee when entering at another station. Each
contestant will have seven minutes to perform at the
state Showdown. No prerecorded music is permitted
at State, Regional or National Final. The winner of
each state Showdown will receive $1,000 and the opportunity
to compete at one of the five regional Showdowns.
Prizes won by minors will be awarded to a parent or
legal guardian, if requested.
B.There will be five regional Showdowns where State
winners will compete for seven minutes to win an all
expense paid trip to compete at the National Final.
Contestants under 18 years of age must be accompanied
by a parent or legal guardian who must execute releases
of liability and publicity. National Final expenses
paid by SPI are listed below. All other expenses not
specified shall be the responsibility of the contestants.
1. Hotel accommodations (double occupancy). 2. Round-trip
coach airfare on the airline designated by SPI from
a continental USA airport closest to contestant's
home served by that airline. 3. Reasonable meal expenses.
C.The National Final will be held by January 31,
2008. The winner will receive $100,000. The winner,
or winner's parent or legal guardian (if winner is
a minor), must execute an affidavit of eligibility
within 30 days of the National Final. Failure to comply
may result in forfeiture of the prizes. Prizes are
nontransferable. Winners shall be solely responsible
for all taxes in connection with their prizes.
7. PROMOTIONAL AUTHORIZATION:
By submitting an Entry Form, the act (and each individual
member thereof) grants to SPI and Colgate-Palmolive
the right to utilize the act's (and each individual
member's thereof) name, likeness, image, voice, appearance,
and performance in perpetuity worldwide for advertising,
trade or any other lawful promotional purposes whatsoever,
in any and all media now known or thereafter developed,
without compensation. I/we grant SPI and Colgate-Palmolive
the right to broadcast, market, sell and otherwise
distribute my name, image, likeness, voice, appearance
and performance,either in whole or in parts for commercial,
non-commercial television, close-circuit exhibition,
home video distribution, internet, or any other purpose
SPI and Colgate-Palmolive, in their sole discretion
may determine. I/we hereby give all clearance, copyright
or otherwise, for the use of my name, likeness, image,
voice, appearance embodied in my/our performance/state
presentation. If under 18 years of age, parent or
guardian must sign the entry form.
8. ASSUMPTION OF RISK:
By submitting this entry form, the act (and each
individual member thereof) assumes all risks of property
damage or bodily injury (including death) that might
occur during the local, state, regional and national
Showdown events. The act (and each individual member
thereof) agrees not to bring against Colgate-Palmolive
or other national sponsors any claim for property
damage or bodily injury (including death) that might
occur during local, state, regional, or national Showdown
events.
9. GOOD CHARACTER:
The act agrees that it may be disqualified immediately
from any level of Showdown competition if the act
(or any member thereof) commits any act or becomes
involved in any situation that would adversely reflect
on the Showdown or any party furnishing a prize, or
tend to bring it into public disrepute.
10. ELIGIBILITY:
Submit any questions regarding eligibility to SPI.
A. I am/we are not an act with over seven individuals.
B. I/we have not performed on a record listed in
Billboard, Radio and Records, or the Gavin Report
within eighteen months preceding local competition.
C. I/we have (each) paid the $10.00 registration
fee before performing live at the local Showdown.
D. I am/we are not part of the backup band nor am
I/are we related to any member of the backup band
by birth or marriage nor have I/we performed with
the local backup band or any member of the local backup
band for monetary compensation within the past year.
E. I am/we are not an owner, controlling stockholder
or employee of and I am/we are not related by birth
or marriage, nor do I/we live in the same household
as the local Showdown judge, the radio station sponsoring
the local Showdown contest, Colgate-Palmolive (or
any national sponsor), SPI, or any employee, controlling
stockholder, owner, officer or agent of any of the
foregoing parties.
F. I/we have not already been declared a local winner
of a 2007 Country Showdown and eligible for State
competition.
G. I/we have never been a national winner, either
as an individual or as part of a group of the 2004,
2005 or 2006 Country Showdown.
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