3. TO ENTER: To enter the Contest, go to
www.DoritosBlazetheBeat.com (the “Contest Site”), during the Contest Period. BEFORE YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO ENTER, YOU MUST EXPRESSLY AGREE AND CONSENT TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE SPONSOR’S POSTED PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT ENTER THE CONTEST. If you wish to submit an entry in this Contest,
download the mp3 file entitled The Blaze Beat (the “Beat”),
follow the onscreen instructions to properly complete the registration form,
attach your entry video,
and submit both the registration form and entry video for the Contest (collectively your “Submission”) to the Contest Site.
Before uploading the Submission, you will be
required to agree that you have read or have had these Official Rules read to you and
you are in agreement with these Official Rules. Submissions that do not include all
required information and adhere to these Official Rules and any Terms of Service on the
Contest Site, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, will be considered void.
Once uploaded, Submissions become the property of Sponsor and will not be
acknowledged or returned. Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, remove, delete and/or
disqualify any Submission and/or Entrant (as defined in “Guidelines and Restrictions”
below) it deems inappropriate or otherwise non-compliant.
Creative Assignment
The creative assignment for the Contest (“Creative Assignment”) is as follows:
Entrant must create an original video that shall be no longer than sixty seconds
60) in
length using only Entrant’s own original lyrics and Entrant’s voice (“Entrant’s Material”).
As part of Entrant’s original submission, You MUST record the Entrant’s Material with
the Beat provided on the Contest Site.
Submission Judging Criteria
Judging criteria for the Submission round (“Submission Round Judging Criteria”) is as
follows:
• Overall Creativity & Originality – 40%
• Performance Quality – 25%;
• Delivery of Lyrics - 25%;
• Authenticity and Brand Alignment – 10%.
Final Competition Judging Criteria
Judging criteria for the final competition round (“Final Competition Judging Criteria”) is
as follows:
• Overall performance and stage presence – 40%;
• Originality of lyrics – 30%
• Audience reaction and participation – 30%
Submission Technical Requirements
• Valid video formats: MPG, MPEG, MPEG-2, MP4, WEbM or FLV.
• Video length must not exceed sixty (60) seconds.
Guidelines and Restrictions
Ø Submissions must be in English, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.
Ø All Submissions must be received during the Contest Period and in no case later
than 11:59:59 pm CT on August 17, 2018.
Ø Entrant shall also be deemed the person uploading the Submission. The Entrant
must meet the eligibility requirements, must be the person who created the
Submission, and must be the one (1) person who is the authorized account
holder of the e-mail address used to enter the Contest. In the event of an identity
dispute between the Entrant and an individual who claims to be the authorized
account holder of the email associated with the Submission, the dispute will be
resolved in favor of the individual whose name is listed on the registration form
as the Entrant, regardless of who the authorized account holder of the email is,
provided that the individual named on the entry form is the individual who
transmitted the Submission and is the author of the Submission. “Authorized
account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned an e-mail
address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other
organization which is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses or the domain
associated with the submitted e-mail address.
Ø Each individual Entrant is allowed a total of ten (10) Submissions. Each
Submission must be substantially different from previously submitted
Submissions. If Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that an Entrant has
submitted two (2) or more Submissions that are not substantially different from
each other, the entrant and/or the duplicative Submissions may be disqualified.
Ø Each Submission:
Ø must be the original work of the Entrant produced for this Contest, and cannot
use or employ any electronic altering/changing of Entrant’s voice;
Ø must not have been entered in or won previous contests or awards;
Ø must not infringe on any party’s intellectual property, including but not limited
to copyright, trademark or right of privacy of publicity or any other rights (this
means that the Submission should not name or identify any third party
individuals, living or dead, or any other brands or products other than that it
may identify DORITOS® brand Tortilla Chips);
Ø must be suitable for display and publication on national television in the
United States (e.g. it may not be obscene or indecent, including but not
limited to nudity or profanity); it must not contain obscene or pornographic
material, it must not contain defamatory statements or messages (including
but not limited to words, images, or symbols that are widely considered
offensive to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, political party,
sexual orientation or socioeconomic or other group), it must not include
threats to any person, place, business, group or world peace, it must not
invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity, and it must not in
any other way violate applicable laws and regulations or network standards;
Ø must not promote terrorist acts such as providing instructions on how to
assemble bombs, grenades and other such weapons or provide instructional
information about illegal activities;
Ø must not defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging or slanderous remarks
about Sponsor, its customers or its products, or other people, products or
companies;
Ø must not feature or refer to any food products other than DORITOS® brand
Tortilla Chips;
Ø must not feature alcohol products, marijuana, tobacco products (including
cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, electronic cigarettes, and
snuff), contraceptives, feminine hygiene products, fireworks, firearms and
ammunitions, prescription drugs, illegal drugs and related drug paraphernalia,
nutritional supplements, lotteries and gambling (including horse or dog racing
and products or services related to gambling);
Ø must not utilize live animals unless the Entrant has obtained the consent of
the animal’s owner and an affidavit from the animal owner or wrangler that the
animal was not harmed in the making of the commercial (nor should animal
be depicted in any way that suggests it is being harmed). Entrants are
encouraged to contact the local Humane Society prior to filming the
Submission to verify appropriate animal safeguards on set;
Ø must not contain any copyrighted works (other than as owned by the Entrant).
You may not include any music in your Submission except for the DORITOS®
beats provided on the Contest Site (“DORITOS® beats”). Use of any other
music in your Submission may result in disqualification of Submission, in
Sponsor's sole discretion. Use of DORITOS® beats is for the exclusive use of
individuals to create Submissions specifically for this Contest per the terms
and conditions of these Official Rules and is only permitted for the duration of
the Contest. All other uses of DORITOS® beats are prohibited and can
constitute copyright infringement. Violations of the rights of the copyright
owners in the DORITOS® beats will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law by the owners of such DORITOS® beats;
Ø must not feature trademarks, logos or trade dress owned by others (except
Sponsor’s trademarks, logos or trade dress), or advertise or promote any
brand or product of any kind (except Sponsor’s products), without permission,
or contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers,
personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses;
Ø must not feature recognizable buildings and other architectural works or
recognizable artwork, as many are protected by copyright;
Ø must not feature materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or
other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, other than the entrant,
without permission;
Ø must not communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive
images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and
Ø must not depict, and must not itself, be in violation of any law.
Ø Sponsor reserves the right but not the obligation, in its sole discretion, to remove
or blur or to ask the applicable Entrant to remove or blur any non-material
elements (e.g. small logos on clothing, artwork hanging in the background, etc.)
rather than disqualify an otherwise compliant Submission.
Ø Each Submission must not have been published previously in any medium; it
must not have been released via any record label, it must not have been used
previously in connection with any other brand and/or product; the Entrant must
not have signed with any record label, music publishing house and/or master
recording studio, now or in the past.
1) GRAND PRIZE: Grand Prize Winner will be eligible to receive a Grand Prize (“Grand Prize”) consisting of $50,000 USD (awarded in the form of a wire transfer or check, payable to Finalist Winner).