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General conditions

• Participation in BassAwards is international and the whole process will be carried out online through www.bassawards.org.
• All entries must have been ‘on air’ for the first time between 1st January 2012 and 31st December 2012.
• All enrolled parts should have a link to Vimeo.
• Submitters declare that they are the owners of their designs or have the right to use them and no rights of third parties will be infringed by the acceptation of these bases.
• Submitters also agree to relieve BassAwards of all responsibility with respect to any claims whatsoever, including but not limited to copyright claims, that may be made against BassAwards by reason of any such presentation.
• All the pieces must have been made within the context of a normal paying contract with a client, except Best Social categories and Best Young Talent. The client must have paid for all, or half of the majority of the costs.

Competition eligibility

• Each piece is an entry. An entry may only be individually registered once in the same subcategory by the same company.
• Each entry must contain an explanation in English up to 300 characters describing the piece.
• It is the submitter’s responsibility to check and enter all the correct credits for each entry.
• The organization may refuse to accept entries offending national or religious features.
• It can not appear any message or content part which has been declared illegal by the courts or advertising self-regulatory bodies. If in the course of the competition any judgment which is the participant’s responsibility is issued, this situation should be notified to the BassAwards organization.
• BassAwards could disqualify pieces if it transpires that the information provided in the registration process is false or not met the requirements of these rules.
• Pieces not registered should include watermarks of any kind, and references of the author or the agency or school / college.
• It is not eligible to enrol pieces off registration deadlines set for each category.
• In the event that several companies participate with the same piece, if awarded, the prize will be granted to the entry that was made first.

Judging & Awards

BassAwards winners will be decided by a Jury composed of top international professionals.

• All the pieces will be visualized and valued by a pre-selector that will shortlist the best 15 pieces in each of the subcategories and in accordance to the established criteria for the valuation of each one of them. The criteria will be the same as those taken into account by the jury.
• Of the 15 finalists* shortlisted by the pre-juror, only the 7 best valued by the jury will be awarded: 1 GOLD, 1 SILVER and 5 BRONZE awards.
• Participants in the contest must not have a direct family or professional relationship with the jury.
• BassAwards can declare that none of the categories is awarded if the pieces do not have the required quality or if the number of entered pieces is less than 15.
• BassAwards may contact the client related to any entry on the jury’s request at any time during the voting process to answer any questions about the implementationor presentation of the work arise.
• The decision of the Pre-Juror and the Jury in all matters relating to the awarding of prizes will be final and binding.
• The contest results are final.

Other rules

• BassAwards requests clients’ full details and reserves the right to contact the client directly to clarify or confirm any information relating the entry.
• By submitting work and paying the corresponding entry fees, submitters authorises BassAwards to use and exhibit the submitted entries, in whole or in part, in any way, time or place that BassAwards considers adequate, without limitation.
• BassAwards undertakes mentioning the author and his/her agency or school.
• The organizers reserve the right to request the issuance of certificate of a submitted piece. Supporting documents must be issued by the corresponding means or by the advertiser.
• The organizers reserve the right to withdraw any faulty piece from the competition which has not been made available under the conditions specified for each category.
• No Registration will be valid if not paid for before the closing date for registration of pieces.
• Having eleven submitted entries, the paid fees are non-refundable for any reason.
• No extra fees will be requested when an award is won.
• Winners agree to grant the right to download the BassAwards piece.
• Deadlines may sustain changes. If it were the case, BassAwards will announce the new deadlines through www.bassawards.org.
• In case of deadline extensions, no late fee will be requested.
• The organization reserves the right to modify the rules during the course of the awards in favour of the awards.
• Any entry may be compiled by the Organisers into a collection of entries. Such a collection may not, nor may any extracts of it, be copied, marketed or sold by any organization other than BassAwards. Each contestant agrees to assist the organization in supporting any legal action that may be taken to prevent a breach of this condition and in that case, to supply information to the organisers immediately so that they are aware.  It can by no means become an unauthorised collection or compilation that is available for sale or distribution elsewhere.
• Participation in BassAwards implies full acceptance of these rules. Non-compliance with any competition rules results in an entry’s automatic disqualification.
• No extra bank charges will be requested by BassAwards during the payment process.
• Entrants may be required to supply additional material of any shortlisted or winning work for promotional publication exhibitions or other materials held after the awards.

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