Battle of the Bands: Rules & Regulations
THE FOURTH ANNUAL School of the Rock, Battle of the Bands
Official Contest Rules
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. How to Register:
a. Registration for the “FOURTH Annual School of the Rock Battle of the Bands” contest (the “Contest”) will begin at approximately 6AM Pacific Time (“PT”) on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 and end at approximately 11:59 PM PT on Thursday, September 30, 2010.
b. To secure your participation in the Contest you may register via the following method. In order to register you must be the band leader of an official school-sanctioned high school band and 18 years of age of older.
i. Online: Beginning at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 go to www.therockwfp.com, click on the contest entry link, and complete an official entry form including your school name, band student count, band director name, Email, contact phone, song name your band will be playing, artist of song, status of competition in last year’s competition (2008-2009) and any additional comments. Internet entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. For purposes of these official rules, receipt of an online registration will be solely determined when the www.therockwfp.com web server records the registration information. Any automated computer receipt (such as one confirming delivery of email) does not constitute actual receipt of a registration form for purposes of these official rules. The Rock Wood Fire Pizza computer is the official time keeping device for this Contest.
c. All registration entries must be received by 11:59 PM PT on Thursday, September 30th, 2010.
d. All schools that have been registered by the deadline of Thursday, September 30th, 2010 at 12:00am (midnight) have until12:00am (midnight) on Sunday, October 31st, 2010 to submit their video entry of their school sanctioned band’s chosen song performance.
2. How to Submit an Entry:
a. Content entry for the “Fourth Annual School of the Rock Battle of the Bands” contest (the “Contest”) will begin at 6:00AM Pacific Time (“PT”) on Friday, October 1, 2010 and end at 12:00 AM PT on Sunday, October 31st, 2010. All mailed entries must be postmarked by October 31st to be valid. All hard copies of entries should be mailed to:
KZOK FM
Attn: Holly Ableidinger
1000 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98109
b. In order to enter you must be the band leader of an official school-sanctioned high school band and 18 years of age of older. Mailed entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of registration. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address.
c. To participate in the contest you must enter two (2) copies of your video performance of one (1) song in each of the following two (2) formats.
i. Two Playable DVDs for Comcast On Demand: These DVDs must be in playable format. Playable DVDs will play automatically when placed in a standard DVD player. Each DVD must have fifteen (15) whole seconds of black before and fifteen (15) whole seconds of black after the recorded content. If there are multiple programs on the DVD, ensure that are chapter breaks and at least 15 seconds of black before and after each program. Ensure that DVD is burned as a “finalized DVD”, and not as a data disc with mpeg or mov files. The DVD should include a form with the following information.
a) The name of the School, the name of the one (1) song being performed, original artist of that song, band leader, number of students in band, contact phone number and e-mail address submitted at the time of initial registration.
b) The exact run time of the video, including the total fifteen (15) seconds before and fifteen (15) seconds after of black buffer.
c) A title that is under twenty (20) characters. Characters include any symbols and/or punctuation marks. This is the title that will appear with your video/audio entry on Comcast On Demand. The Rock Wood Fired Pizza, Comcast and KZOK-FM (the “Station,”) hold the right to approve or deny the content of any title submissions and may alter or change the title submitted where deemed appropriate.
d) A description that is under 250 characters. Characters include any symbols and/or punctuation marks. This is the description that will appear with your video/audio entry on Comcast On Demand. The Rock Wood Fired Pizza, Comcast and KZOK FM hold the right to approve or deny the content of any description submissions and may alter or change the description submitted where deemed appropriate.
ii. Upload for use online: Each band should upload their video at www.visualmediagroup.net/KZOK_BTOB/. Included in the title should be the name of the school and song being played. Included in the video description should be “School of the Rock Battle of the Bands 4.”
d. All video entries submitted by the deadline of Sunday, October 31st at 12:00am (midnight) will be posted online by the end of the day on Friday, November 5, 2010 and on Comcast On Demand television by November 22nd. Online posting locations may include live streaming video locations on therockwfp.com and kzok.com. On Demand entries can be viewed by Get Local/Northwest TV & Radio/KZOK/Schools of the Rock within the Comcast On Demand menus.
e. Limit one (1) entry per high school regardless of means of entry.
f. All submissions become the sole property of KZOK and The Rock Wood Fired Restaurants (the “Contest Entities”) and will not be returned.
g. The Contest Entities are not responsible for lost, stolen, damaged, mis-delivered, mangled, incomplete or late entries or for entries not received due to difficulty accessing the
internet, service outages or delays, computer difficulties or other technological glitches.
h. Each video/audio submission and each audition performed must be the original performance of the Entrant(s) and must not contain copyrighted materials or any other materials that may be restricted, prohibited or outlawed by federal, state or local laws.
i. The Contest Entities in their sole discretion, reserve the right to disqualify any audio submission or audition if such audio submission or audition contains illegal, indecent or otherwise offensive material, or if such act contains material whose content is deemed, at the sole discretion of the Contest Entities to be unsuitable for public performance or broadcast on KZOK (i.e. audition and audio submission must be radio clean.)
j. Any entries whose submission does not comply with these rules will be disqualified
3. Eligibility Restrictions:
a. The contest is open to official High School-sanctioned bands in the state of Washington. The official contestant must be a band leader who is at least 18 years of age or older as of September 1, 2010 and who resides in the state of Washington. Employees of the Rock Restaurants, Comcast, KZOK, its licensee, its corporate parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, its advertising agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, other radio stations in the Seattle, WA metropolitan area, and the members of their immediate families and/or households are ineligible to participate or win. Subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
b. Listeners are eligible to win a contest conducted by the Station only once every thirty (30) days and a prize valued at $600.00 or more only once every six (6) months.
c. Only one winner per household is permitted in any contest conducted by the Station.
d. Winners will be required to provide valid government-issued photo identification and sign and return a winner release form in order to claim a prize.
e. Contestants are required to provide truthful information and the Station will reject and delete any entry it discovers to be false or fraudulent. The Station will disqualify any entry from individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements, and the Station will also delete any entry knowingly received from persons under the age of 13 in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
f. All participants must be unsigned (no label affiliation, either local or national and auditions must be original). No entrant may be signed to a fully executed record label contract. Any entrant found to be signed to a record label contract will be disqualified from the contest. All participants must be amateur, not professional singers (those whose primary means of support is singing).
3. Prizes:
a. Seven (7) prizes will be awarded as follows:
i. Third through Sixth Place Prize: A Pizza Party (Approximate Retail Value: $750), date, location and other specifics to be determined between The Rock Wood Fired Pizza and winning band directors.
ii. KZOK will provide a $2,500 “No Band Left Behind” check written to the school of the Station’s choice.
iii. Second Place Prize: The Rock Wood Fired Pizza will provide a $5,000 Check written to the Runner Up School Sanctioned Band Program
iv. Grand Prize: The Rock Wood Fired Pizza will provide a $10,000 Check written to the Grand Prize School Sanctioned Band Program
c. Prizes do not represent any expectation of future employment at The Rock Restaurants and/or KZOK. All prizes must be picked up at the office of The Rock Restaurants The School of The Rock, 14209 29th St E#102 Sumner, WA 98390
c. Any prize or prize certificate not claimed within thirty (30) days of winning will be forfeited by the winner. In the event that a prize or prize certificate is mailed to the winner, it will be with the prior written consent of the winner and therefore, winner assumes the risk of its loss. The Contest Entities are not responsible for the safe arrival of a prize or prize certificate.
d. There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that Contest Entities may, at their sole discretion, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. Prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Other restrictions may apply.
4. Selection of Winners:
a. Decisions of the Contest Entities with respect to the contest are final.
b. Each song entry meeting all eligibility and registration requirements of these official rules will be posted on www.therockwfp.com and Comcast On Demand where listeners can watch the entries and listen to the songs. Between Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6:00am PT and Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 11:59pm PT any listener can text to vote for their favorite school by sending their school’s message (for example: Auburn Riverside High School could be “rock 1” and Ballard High School could be “rock 2”) to short code 24300. Specific text voting instructions will be available on www.kzok.com. Standard text messaging fees may apply and the Contest Entities are not responsible for any fees incurred by this method of voting.
c. The Contest Entities are not responsible for telephone service outages, delays, busy signals, equipment malfunctions and any other technological difficulties that may prevent an individual from completing his/her text message.
d. Listeners may only vote ten times per day per cell phone number.
e. The ten (10) bands that receive the most votes during the voting period specified in Section 4.a of these rules will qualify for the final round of selection. In the event that there is a tie for the 10th position, then all bands that are tied with the 10th highest vote total will qualify for the final round of selection.
f. On Thursday, December 16, 2010, a panel of judges will review the bands that qualified for the final round of selection. Those bands will be reviewed based on the following criteria: (i) Quality of Musicianship; (ii) Originality of Arrangement/Song Choice; (iii) Technical Abililty; (iv) Overall Performance. Each category is equally weighted and worth 10 points. The points from all the judges will be tabulated, and the winners will be selected based on the total points awarded to each band. The band with the most points will win the grand prize. The band with the second most points will win the second prize. The band with the third most points will win the third place prize. Ties will be broken by a straight vote by the judges.
g. The second place and grand prize winners will be announced on-air on KZOK on Friday December 17, 2010 beginning at approximately 8:00 am PT. The winners will also be contacted by the Contest Entities by telephone.
h. The Station staff will select one (1) consolation prize (No Band Left Behind Act) winner from among all entries that did not finish in the top 10 in voting who they feel deserves to be recognized as determined in the sole discretion of the Station
i. Winners need not listen nor be present to win.
j. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received by the entry deadline.
j. Winners must execute and return any required Affidavit of Eligibility and/or Release of Liability Prize Acceptance Form within thirty (30) days of notification attempt or prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will not be chosen.
5. Conditions:
a. Payments of all federal, state and local taxes are solely the responsibility of the winners. Winners will be required to complete and submit an IRS Form W-9 with the winner’s full Social Security Number or the equivalent for receipt of any prize valued at $600 or more or for any prizes awarded by the Station (or any other CBS Radio station in Station’s market) in a calendar year with an aggregate value of $600 or more. Failure to submit a complete W-9 or equivalent will result in forfeiture of the prize.
b. By participating in the contest, the winner or winners agree to have their name, voice, or likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to this contest without additional financial or other compensation, and, where legal, to sign a publicity release confirming such consent prior to acceptance of the prize.
c. Prior to awarding any prize or prize certificate the Station in its sole discretion may require contest winners (and their travel companions, if any) to sign a liability release, agreeing to hold The Rock Restaurants, Comcast and the Station, its corporate licensee, the licensee’s parent, subsidiary and affiliated entities, their respective officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and representatives, its advertising agencies, participating sponsors and promotional partners and all of their successors and assigns from and against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or participation in the contest.
d. If for any reason this Promotion cannot be executed as planned, including, but not limited to, as a result of infection by computer virus, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Station that corrupt or affect the security, administration, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Promotion, or if the Promotion is compromised or becomes technically corrupted in any way, electronically or otherwise, the Station reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Promotion. If the Promotion is terminated before the original end date, the Station will select the winners by random drawing from among all eligible non-suspect entries received as of the termination time/date.
e. The Station, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process; the operation of the Station’s Web Site or is otherwise in violation of the rules. Failure to comply with the rules of the Promotion may result in a contestant’s disqualification and/or forfeiture of any prize or prizes. If the Station makes a good faith determination that an entrant has cheated or committed fraudulent activity in connection with a Promotion, the Station reserves the right to disqualify that entrant from entering and/or winning future Promotions and to prosecute and seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.It further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Contest if it is not capable of completion as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort.
f. The Contest Entities reserve the right to make changes in the rules of the contest, including the substitution of a prize or prizes of equivalent value, which will become effective upon announcement. If due to circumstances beyond the control of the Station, any competition or prize-related event is delayed, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled, the Station reserves the right, but not the obligation, to cancel or modify the Contest and shall not be required to award a substitute prize.
g. Failure to comply with the contest rules may result in a contestant’s disqualification, at the sole discretion of Contest Entities.
h. The Contest Entities are not responsible for typographical or other errors in the printing, the offering or the administration of the contest or in the announcement of a prize.
i. For a copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope for receipt by September 30, 2010 to KZOK/Battle of the Bands Contest – Official Rules,” Attn: Promotions, KZOK 1000 Dexter Ave N. Suite 100 Seattle WA 98109. For the names of the prize winners send a self-addressed stamped envelope for receipt by November 30, 2010 to the above address marked KZOK/Battle of the Bands Contest – Winner List.” The Official Rules and the Winner List (when completed) shall also be available during regular business hours at the main offices of the Station and may be posted online at www.kzok.com.
Sponsor: The Rock Wood Fired Pizza 14209 29th St E #102, Sumner, WA 98390
6. Internet Contest Privacy Policy
a. By use of the Station’s website or by entering the Promotion through the Station’s website, you agree to the website’s Terms of Use Agreement located at www.kzok .com and to the use of your personal information as described in the Privacy Policy located at: www.kzok.com.