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Contest
Rules
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Article 1 - This contest is
opened to any user of Melody or Harmony, registered or not, without
age limit.
Article 2 - It applies to
any music piece sent to tunes@myriad-online.com from the closing
date of the previous contest.
Article 3 - Provided
sample pieces, prize-winning or not, will be published on the
Myriad Website as well as on the Myriad CD-ROM.
Article 4 - Provided
pieces have to be original, free of right, signed by their author;
the piece category, Title and Composer fields must also be set.
Article 5 - The only
accepted file formats are MUS, MYR or MU3 (standard/packed formats
for Melody or Harmony Assistant).
Article 6 - Piece length
or style is not limited. Using digital effects, user sounds and
Virtual Singer is allowed.
Article 7 - Reference
sound base for listening the pieces is the extended soundbase
(GMSEBASE) or GOLD base if the music piece was created with it.
Article 8 -In a same
session, a same author can submit only one piece. The size of the
piece cannot exceed 500 KB. If more than one piece is submitted,
only the last one will be considered.
Article 9 - File name for
each piece must not exceed 20 characters, and must only include
letters, digits and space (accented characters, punctuation mark
and characters like #, @, %, parenthesis ... must be avoided)
Article 10 - Myriad can
eliminate any piece too close from an existing one.
Article 11 - Myriad can
reject any piece whose lyrics can be discriminatory, insulting,
promotional or infringing the current international laws.
Article 12 - Panel of
judges will be composed of selected users, as well as winners of
previous contests.
Article 13 - Myriad staff
members as well as judges won't be authorized to participate to the
contest.
Article 14 - 1st prize
winner will be included in the panel of judges from the next
contest and therefore won't be able to participate more than
once.
Article 15 - A private
link will be provided to judges, in order to let them download the
whole pieces of a contest session in a single packed file.
Article 16 - Each judge
will have to select at least five pieces in a decreasing order of
preference, one music by author.
Article 17 - The first
chosen piece will gain five points, the second one four points,
etc. The author with the greatest number of points will be declared
as prize-winning. The piece of music with the greatest number of
point will be selected for this author .
Article 18 - Score
appearance and paging will be taken into account.
Article 19 - Only one
prize will be delivered to a same family (same name or same postal
address)
Article 20 - Prizes will
be delivered via registered post mail.
Article 21 - In case of
equality, the shorter file (packed version) will be chosen.
Article 22 - Prizes,
closing date and ranking will be displayed on the Myriad Web
site.
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