iTALENT CONTEST RULES

 

This is the rules post for the iTalent competition, you can see the iTalent announcement post here:
@ivan.atman/italent-contest-or-new-contest-or-100-steem-mo-giveaway-or-all-talents-or-auditory-arts-visual-arts-performing-arts

To prevent spammers and plagiarism on iTalent contest there is a set of rules, read the rules diligently or otherwise your entry will most probably not be eligible for the contest.

• To enter the contest you must make your post specifically for the iTalent contest, and past a URL of your post in the comments of the current iTalent post.

• You cannot enter with a DTube link due to two reasons:

  1. It doesn't provide a thumbnail
  2. The connection breaks too often, making it impossible for all of the contestants to see it

• When you make a post for the contest you must use a proper title of the current contest episode, it's phase and it's category. For example if you were entering a contest Audition with you singing a Quincy Jones Cover the title should be:
  iTalent | Episode 1 | Auditions | Auditory Arts | Quincy Jones Cover

• You must use #italent tagg as the first tagg

This will help iTalent Team and other contestant to find your post, so don't forget to do so

• Support iTalent contest by upvoting and resteeming it's content

• All performances and art must be visually recorded in some way, if your art is static make a video presentation of it explaining to the people how you made it, and what did you use to create your art piece

(this is harder for the painters, sculptors and audio song/albums so in this cases you will have to record a video of yourself live, performing your song from your recording or making a video with you standing next to your painting or a sculpture and explain the details how did you make it and the tools you had used)

• In the beginning of your video you MUST also "SAY" what phase of the contest you are entering (Audition or Finals) and what episode iTalent is currently in. So for example if you are entering the Auditions with your dance video and the contest Episode is "1", the words should be something like this:
  "This is my entry for the iTalent Contest Auditions, Episode 1 - Performing Arts..."

• Never forget to mention in which category does your performance fall in
  (i.e. Visual Arts, Auditory Arts or Performing Arts

• During the Audition phase you can enter a maximum of three times, but you can only enter once per category, so for example, if you are both a Singer and a Dancer, by all means create two video performances and enter both the Auditory Arts and the Performing Arts category

• If you don't vote for others, you cannot pass to the final phase, even if you get enough votes to do so

• Everybody can enter 3 times, but only with 1 entry per category

• If a finalists entered more categories than one, they must decide in which category they want to compete for the finals

• Whilst everybody votes for the winner, finalists can provide another art/performance and not the same they auditioned with to gain extra 10% of the overall points

 

To improve the authenticity of the content that artists provide as an entry to the iTalent competition, I've designed a voting system that will discourage people to beg for points, or team up between each other. Voting is done in the comments section of the current iTalent post, you must vote for 6 performers by providing them points and insights, you must find six performers that deserved (by your opinion) something from below:

Point/Insight Awards:
(5 Points) (3 Points) (1 Point) (Creativity) (Originality) (Technicality)

And decide who deserves what, you cannot give the same award twice or give two awards to the same performer, every award goes to only one performer
THE EXAMPLE BELOW SHOWS YOU HOW THE VOTING SHOULD BE DONE:

(attention all of the accounts in the example are purely symbolic)

As you can see in the example above you cannot give points to whom you already gave insights and vice versa. This is because insights serve as a counteract to the points

(the reason for this rule is to engage a voting balance, you can support your true favorite performers with the most points, but insights will have to come from elsewhere to confirm a truly unanimous public opinion)

POINTS

 
Points are simply added up by the iTalent Team on the last day of the Audition (Voting) or Final (Voting) phase of the contest

• To ensure absolute fairness, the votes are recorded by the screenshot software (video) and posted in the winner announcement post, this is done just to make sure if somebody goes and tries to change/edit their comment/vote in the last minute for some reason to try to disapprove of the votes counted by the iTalent Team.

INSIGHTS

 
There are three insights Creativity - Originality - Technicality
Each insight gives the contestant that had it most attributed to him an additional 20% of the whole points pool.

So for example, let's say that there is 50 people voting in the contest, that would amount to 400 points in total, 20% of that is 80 points, this means that whoever gets most insight votes gets an additional 80 points in that case

So in actuality the contest that has 50 people voting has 400 points + 3 x 80 from insights, amounting to 640 points in total.

Voting System Conclusion:

As you can see it is "almost" impossible to rig the votes with this voting system, and this will ensure that both the reward and the attention goes to the ones that truly deserved it the most.
No contest judges that decide for everybody what is good or not, no upvote count that can be manipulated by misuse of upvote bots and no nominations that get lost so quickly and is hard to keep track of. Just simply a fair contest judged by the people, artist judging artists because artists know art the best themselves. The points/insight counter balance will also entice voters/artists to find more value in not just one but several performers.