Trib Total Media 2012 Lip Dub Contest

OFFICIAL RULES & GUIDELINES

ELIGIBILITY:

No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. All federal and state regulations apply.

Only public or private high schools located within one of the following Southwestern Pennsylvania counties are eligible to submit: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Indiana, Washington and Westmoreland Counties.

HOW TO ENTER:

Submission period begins Friday, September 14, 2012 at 12:01 am and ends Friday, November 9, 2012 at 11:59 pm

• Find the Lip Dub contest link at www.contests.TribLIVE.com.
• Fill out the online contest entry form and upload your high school's self-created video and group photo.
• Do not drop-off or mail videos or photos. Only videos and photos that are submitted  thru the contest website (TribLIVE/Upickem), have completed entry forms, and meet all submission guidelines (below), will be accepted.
• Limit ONE (1) Lip Dub video entry per high school.
• Pre-Registration is not required, but is encouraged, and is the only way to get your school’s 100 Cheer Cards, see details within.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Video, photos and entry form MUST be submitted by an adult, 21 years or older, employed as a faculty or staff member of the submitting high school or employed or volunteer school authorized booster club representative, sport or activities coach or advisor.  By submitting the entry form, video and group photo, the high school's faculty or staff member agrees to all rules, grants consent for the song selection and grants consent that all high school students appearing in the video and group photo have been approved and cleared by the high school's administration.   Uploaded video and photo MUST meet the following requirements:

• ALL STUDENT PARTICIPANTS MUST BE ENROLLED IN GRADES 9 THROUGH 12.
• Limit ONE (1) unedited song per video. No mash-ups!
• Trib Total Media has secured the rights to ten (10) songs that the students are able to use for purposes of this contest. PARTICIPANTS MUST CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING LICENSED SONGS:

• MAGIC – B. o.B.
• DYNAMITE –Taio Cruz
• FIREWORK – Katy Perry
• LET’S GET IT STARTED – Black Eyed Peas
• SAY HEY, I LOVE YOU – Michael Franti & Spearhead
• PAYPHONE – Maroon 5
• CHASING THE SUN – The Wanted
• CALL ME MAYBE – Carley Ray Jepson
• CLUB CAN’T HANDLE ME – Flo.Rida
• WE FOUND LOVE – Rihanna

• Participants must lip-synch the words of the song used on the sound track.
• Video must be shot in ONE continuous take in the high school and/or on the high school grounds.
• The ONLY editing technique allowed within the one continuous take is adding the final audio soundtrack to the video.
• The ONLY video graphic/text allowed may be in the beginning or ending of the video. No other video graphics or effects allowed within the continuous take.
• Video file size cannot exceed 200 MB.
• Videos must be in one of the following formats:
  • .avi, .dv, .mov, .qt, .mp4, .mpeg, .3gp, .asf, .wmv, .mpg
• Each High School must submit one (1) digital group PHOTO with their submission. Must be a high resolution JPEG.

Non-student adults, including, but not limited to, high school administrators, faculty and/or staff, may guide and advise the production and appear in the video but may NOT operate any video or editing equipment.

Videos may not include profanity, graphic images, obscene images or inappropriate behavior.  Trib Total Media, Inc. reserves the right to disqualify anyone for any said violations, as determined in Trib Total Media, Inc.’s sole discretion.

Pre-Registration: 
Pre-register your school’s song choice via email (LipDubContest@tribweb.com) from 9/14 – 9/28, to receive 100 school-specific Cheer Cards for use in your video**. To Pre-Register, please include the following information: 

1. School Name
2. Adult/Advisor’s name responsible for submission
3. Adult/Advisor’s contact info: email address, school mailing address, and phone number
4. Song Choice
5. Date you expect to begin filming your video.** 

** We will do our best to get Cheer Cards out to you before your date, where our press/production timing allows. 

Employees of Trib Total Media, Inc. and their immediate families are not eligible to participate in any video submitted. Trib Total Media, Inc. reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if the contest rules are not followed. No substitution of prizes or transfer of prizes to a third party is permitted by winner or runners-up.

All materials submitted will become the property of Trib Total Media, Inc. and will not be returned. Any expenses you incur during the application process are solely your responsibility. Eligible entries will be posted and available for viewing on the Lip Dub contest website (link available at www.contests.TribLIVE.com).

APPROVAL:

After a video, photo and entry form have been submitted, Trib Total Media, Inc. will contact the high school representative (listed on the entry form) within two (2) business days to confirm entry information. Video and photo submissions will not be posted to the Lip Dub contest website prior to the school representative confirming all information related to the entry submission to the satisfaction of Trib Total Media, Inc.

Once reviewed and confirmed, eligible videos and photos will be posted to the Lip Dub contest website (link available at www.contests.TribLIVE.com) and be available for public viewing on web and mobile devices.

VOTING:

All approved videos received by November 9, 2012 at 11:59 pm, will be available for voting on the Lip Dub contest website (link available at www.contests.TribLIVE.com).  Voting begins Friday, November 16, 2012 at 12:01 am and ends Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 11:59PM. Visitors to the Lip Dub contest website, will need to become a “Registered User” with Upickem (the contest website) in order to vote.  There is no purchase necessary to become a Registered User. Register Users must be at least 13 years of age. 

Upickem Registered Users may vote up to TEN (10) times per day. Entries generated by a script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified.

There will be one (1) grand prize winning video and one (1) 1^st place runner up video. Winning videos will be determined by online votes and will be announced on the Lip Dub contest website,  www.contests.TribLIVE.com and/or in Trib Total Media newspapers on Sunday, December 9, 2012.

In the event of a tie, the winning video will be drawn at random from among the tied videos.

PRIZES:

• One (1) verified grand prize winning high school will receive a check for $5,000 and 100 Lip Dub T-Shirts.
• One (1) verified 1^st place runner up winning high school will receive a check for $1,500 and 100 Lip Dub T-Shirts.

All checks will be made payable to the high school listed on the entry form and will be delivered either by certified mail or in person to the head administrator at each of the winning school. All prizes will be subject to forfeiture if not claimed within 30 days of notification.

LIABILITY:

Trib Total Media, Inc. is not responsible for problems associated with television transmission, radio transmission, cable transmission, satellite transmission, phone lines, Internet crashes or slowdowns caused by network congestion, viruses, sabotage, satellite failures, phone line failures, or other Internet interruptions or malfunctions or for any technical or other difficulties which may prohibit, prevent, or interfere with the transmission of television or radio signals to all or limited geographic areas during the playing of the Contest or which may interfere with a participant's ability to login or register or submit an entry online, electrical outages, natural disasters or acts of man or God that are beyond the control of Trib Total Media, Inc.  Trib Total Media, Inc. disclaim any warranty of merchantability, warranty of fitness, and any other implied warranty. Trib Total Media, Inc. is not responsible for cancellations, postponements, or delays.

CONTEST MANAGEMENT:

ANY ATTEMPT, AS DETERMINED IN THE SOLE DISCRETION OF TRIB TOTAL MEDIA, INC. TO DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE FAIR AND LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION FROM THE CONTEST.

Any attempt by an entrant or any other individual to damage any online service or web site or undermine the legitimate and fair operation of the Contest will disqualify the contestant responsible and is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Trib Total Media, Inc. reserves the right to seek damages and/or other remedies from any such person to the full extent permitted by law.

All decisions relating to the contest and interpretation of these rules are made by the management of Trib Total Media, Inc. in its sole discretion and are final. Trib Total Media, Inc. reserves the right to change the rules at any time to ensure the fair administration of the contest and compliance with applicable laws.

If for any reason, the contest is not capable of running as planned for any reason, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, and unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Trib Total Media, Inc. which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity of the contest, Trib Total Media, Inc. reserves its right in its discretion to disqualify any individual it believes has tampered with the entry process, and/or cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. Trib Total Media, Inc. and its respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees (i) assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alternation of, entries: (ii) are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or provider, computer equipment, software, failure of any email to be received by Trib Total Media, Inc. on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to the participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this contest.

Copies of the official rules are available at on the Lip Dub contest website (link available at www.contests.TribLIVE.com) and at Trib Total Media, Inc., 503 Martindale Street, DL Clark Building, Suite 250, Pittsburgh, PA.  Official rules supersede all other published editions.