How The HowCool.com Model Contest Works:
RULES FOR ENTRY:
- All entrants must be at least 18 years of age
- All new entries are subject to approval (All entries will
be reviewed within 48 Hours)
- HowCool.com Model Contest Approval Criteria:
- Professional photographs. (snap-shots can count against
you)
- Diversity of photos. (we like to see a wide range of
styles
presented in multiple photo shoots)
- Sufficient content. (a minimum of 4 photos is required.
We
encourage 9 to 36+ photos)
- All entries begin in our "New Entries Gallery"
- Employees and immediate family memebers of HowCool.com are
not allowed to enter
- All photos submitted become the property of HowCool.com and
may be
used for purposes including, but not limited to, advertising and
promotional purposes
VOTING RULES:
- Viewers must have an account at HowCool.com Model Contest
and be logged in for their votes to be counted
- Viewers may vote every 8 hours starting at 12am Pacific
Time (8am Greenwich Mean Time) (voting time blocks: midnight-8am,
8am-4pm, 4pm-midnight.)
- Viewers may award 1 to 5 stars for any contestant (Please
Note:
voting 1 star does not hurt a competitors chance of winning it simply
increases their Total Stars by 1.)
CHEATING:
- Please limit voting to one account per person.
- A single person voting using multiple accounts in order to
unfairly inflate any contestant's total stars is considered cheating.
- We employ several undisclosed methods to detect cheating.
If
cheating is detected, various actions can and will be taken which
include, but are not limited to, resetting a contestant's votes to 0,
account termination, or any other action HowCool.com, at their sole
discretion, without recourse, choses to implement.
WEEKLY COMPETITION Prize: a $100 HowCool.com Shopping
Spree
- Once reviewed and approved, contestants will be entered in
our Weekly Contest and begin competing for a $100 HowCool.com Shopping
Spree.
- Every Thursday night at 12 midnight, Pacific Time, our
system will
automatically pick our Weekly Winner based an the Total Stars received
from our viewer's ratings. (total number of stars from each vote =
Total Stars) Winners will be announced on Friday of that week
- All contestants will automatically be re-entered into and
begin competing in our next
Weekly Competition starting immediately after the winner is chosen each
Thursday at midnight.
(all total stars will be reset to 0 at this time in preparation for our
next week's contest)
- The winner of our Weekly Competition will receive a $100
HowCool.com Shopping Spree (valid for merchandise AND/OR shipping) and
advance to our Monthly Competition
MONTHLY COMPETITION Prize: a $500 HowCool.com Shopping
Spree
- Weekly Winners advance to the Monthly Contest
- Monthly Contest will be open for voting for the first 10
days of each
calendar month. (for example, voting for the month of May will begin
at midnight on the
31st of May and will continue until the June 10th at midnight.)
- Immediately before the Monthly Competition begins all
competitors votes will be reset to 0.
- The winners will be announced after the first week of
each month
- Monthly Contest winners will be selected from the
competition based
on the total number of stars received at 12 midnight Pacific Time of
the final
voting day
- Monthly Winners will receive a $500 HowCool.com Shopping
Spree
(valid for merchandise AND/OR shipping) and advance to our Grand Prize
Competition
YEARLY GRAND PRIZE COMPETITION: a $5000 HowCool.com
Shopping Spree
- Winners of the Monthly competition will be entered in our
Yearly Competition and compete for our Grand Prize, a $5000 HowCool.com
Shopping Spree.
- Yearly Contest Voting schedule is TBA.
- Immediately before the Yearly Competition begins all
competitors votes will be reset to 0.
- The Grand Prize winner will receive a $5,000 HowCool.com
Shopping Spree valid for any purchase (including shipping)
HowCool.com reserves the right to change any or all of the
above rules and conditions at any time without notice and without
recourse.
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