RULES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOLLOW UP SIBERIA!
1. General Provisions
1.1. The FOLLOW UP SIBERIA! international program announces the start of the similarly-named international contest.
1.2. The contest is not intended to receive any profits or other income and is conducted in accordance with these rules (hereinafter referred to as the Rules). The contest is not a promotional lottery.
1.3. The contest is a list of actions published in the Rules performance of which entitles the Participant obtain a Prize.
1.4. The Prize is a tour to one of the Siberia cities which includes arranging the international flight and paying for the tickets, transfer, hotel accommodation, meals and cultural programme.
1.5. The contest is organized by the Organization Committee of the FOLLOW UP SIBERIA! international project which includes representatives of the Nornikel company and Euronews channel.
1.6. The Organizer has right to make amendments to these Rules with mandatory publication of the latter on the project's official website www.followupsiberia.com.
1.7. The rules of the contest, provisions of the contest, contact information for provision of contest works and legally important messages of the Organizer including information about the Winners of the contest are published on the project's website www.followupsiberia.com and in its official pages on FB and VK:
English language page https://www.facebook.com/FollowUpSiberia/
Russian language page https://vk.com/followupsiberia
2. Procedure and Provisions of Participation in the Contest
2.1. Only legally capable adult person (depending on legislation of the country of residence) may become the Participant of the Contest via personal social media account.
2.2. To take part in the Contest, the Participant from any country, except Russia, should:
- Shoot a short video or take a series of photographs on the topic of "Part of Siberia in My City" which will reflect the Participant's perception of Siberia.
- Post the materials on one or several of the following social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram with hashtag #FOLLOWUPSIBERIA and geolocation point.
- For Weibo should be used the FOLLOWUPSIB tag.
2.3. To take part in the Russian part of the Contest (titled the Smiling Siberia online flash mob), the Participant from Russia should:
- Take a selfie while smiling.
- Post it on social media with the #SmilingSiberia, #SmilingRussia and/or #FollowUpSiberia hashtags explaining the tradition of Russian friendliness and hospitality (whether your own perception of it or in general terms).
2.4. All the works should comply with the following format:
- Photo story (1 to 5 photos).
- Short video up to 3 minutes long.
2.5. All works (posts) should be available for public access.
2.6. The Participant of the Contest should not delete or limit access to the works (posts) until March 12, 2019.
2.7. Publishing own works (posts) with the #FOLLOWUPSIBERIA hashtag, the author grants the Organizers permission for non-repayable usage of the provided works for purposes related to the Contest.
2.8. In case of using the Participant's works (posts), the Organizer commits to specify the author of the works (posts).
2.9. By submitting the works (posts) to the Contest, the Participant agrees with provisions of these Rules. In case of non-compliance of the works (posts) with any of the Rules’ requirements, the Organizer is entitled either to expulse the submitted works (posts) from the contest program or to deny the Prizeto the Participant.
2.10. Submittal of the works (posts) to the Contest does not imply any commitments or limitations related to the usage of the works (posts) by the Participant.
2.11. The works (posts) taking part in the Contest should not violate the international legislation or legislation of the Russian Federation.
3. Terms of the Contest
3.1. The Contest is being held from April 2018 through February 2019.
3.2. The winners of the Contest are defined in accordance with the following schedule:
- Acceptance of contest works (posts) and defining the Winner before May 1, 2018.
- Acceptance of contest works (posts) and defining the Winner before July 15, 2018.
- Acceptance of contest works (posts) and defining the Winner before September 15, 2018.
- Acceptance of contest works (posts) and defining the Winner before December 15, 2018.
3.3. Dates of tours (Prize) will be announced by the Organizer on the official website of the project www.followupsiberia.com the day after defining the Winners in accordance with Clause 3.2.
4. Defining of Winners of the Contest
4.1. The Organizer is committed to organize the tours (Prize).
4.2. On each stage of the schedule (Clause 3.2), 10 (ten) Participants are selected as the Winne in accordance with the following principle:
- Quantitative indicators: 5 (five) Winners will be selected from the overall number of Participants with the highest number of marks ("likes").
- Qualitative indicators: 5 (five) winners will be selected by the Organizer's decision on the basis of the following criteria:
- Originality of the work (post).
- Depth of content.
4.3. Information of the winner of the Contest (name of the social media account and link to it) who won the Prize is published on the official website of the FOLLOW UP SIBERIA! project (www.followupsiberia.com) and in social media of the program.
4.4. The most active winners of the previous 4 (four) rounds of the Contest will be selected to participate in the final round. The selection criterion is as follows: the most active publication of creative works (posts) about the tour on social media. The Prize of the final round is a tour to Krasnoyarsk during the 29 th Winter Universiade. Number of participants of the final round is from (four) to 8 (eight) persons.
5. Procedure of Prize Distribution
5.1. The Organizer announces the Winner on winning of the Prize and procedure of its receipt via the message message on the social media platforms where the Contest works (posts) have been published as well as by publication on the official website www.followupsiberia.com.
5.2. The Organizer does not bear any responsibility in case any other person responds via the Winner's account on social media instead of the Winner.
5.3. In case the Participant is announced as the Winner by procedure specified in Clause 4 of the Rules, the Participant should submit the data required for receipt of the Prize within 2 (two) days by the request of the Organizer including the following information: full name, passport data and residence data.
5.4. In case the Winner does not reply to the messages of the Organizer or the Organizer’s representatives' within 2 (two) days, or refuses to receive the Prize by sending the relevant notice to the Organizer's e-mail: info@followupsiberia.com, the right of the Winner to receive the Prize is no longer in force.