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OPEN DECKS AT THE WAREHOUSE. COMPETITOR AGREEMENT Version 1.4 1. ENTRY IS NOT A SPOT. Signing up enters you into a draw. It does not reserve you a set, guarantee you will perform, or entitle you to any prize. Competitors are selected at random from the entrants on each OPEN DECKS draw night. 2. YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO BE DRAWN. Names are drawn from the people in the room. To be drawn on an OPEN DECKS night you must be present at The Warehouse, at the Tavern on Blake Street, Denver, that night. If you are not there when your name comes out, your place goes to another entrant and you may be returned to the pool or removed from the competition at the organizers' discretion. 3. ONCE YOU ARE ON THE BOARD, SCHEDULED NIGHTS ARE MANDATORY. After you have been drawn and placed on the board you do not need to attend the remaining draw nights: you are already in the competition, and you are welcome but not required. Any night you are scheduled to compete on, including every round of the competition and the final, is different: attendance is required. The organizers will tell you which nights those are with reasonable notice. Failing to appear on a night you are scheduled for forfeits that round and may end your season, at the organizers' discretion. 4. YOUR SET. The length of a set is set by the organizers and announced before the night it applies to. That is the time you have, and sets may be cut short if you overrun. There is no required genre or style: get on and show what you can do. 5. THIS IS A COMPETITION, NOT A BOOKING. You are not paid to compete. There is no fee, no guarantee, and no expectation of payment for any night you play in this series, at any stage, including the final. What you are competing for is the prize described below. Bring your people: who turns up for you is part of how this is scored. 6. ELIGIBILITY. You must be 21 or over. Staff of Tavern and their immediate families may not compete for the prize. 7. HOW THE SEASON RUNS. The season begins with OPEN DECKS draw nights at The Warehouse, where entrants are drawn from the hat and perform. Entries stay open across the draw nights until the organizers close them. The competition stage follows the draw nights and ends with a final. The number of nights, their dates, and how many competitors take part in each round are set by the organizers and published on the competition website before they apply. 8. ADVANCEMENT IS ON SCORE. There are no brackets and no head-to-head matches. In each round of the competition, the highest-scoring competitors go through, in the number published for that round. If competitors are tied across the cut, the organizers decide how the tie is broken. 9. SAVES. Once the competition stage begins, the judges may save a competitor who did not score high enough to go through, and that competitor goes through as well. Whether anyone is saved, and who, is at the organizers' discretion and is final. There are no saves during the draw nights. 10. VOTING. Online voting may run during the season. Votes count toward a competitor's score in the way the organizers publish before voting opens. Voting is once per person per day. The organizers may remove votes they determine to be fraudulent or automated, and the organizers' count is final. 11. POINTS FOR WHO YOU BRING. Guests may be asked at the door which competitor they came to see. Where the organizers award points for guests counted at the door, the points value per guest, and any cap on it, is set by the organizers and published before the round it applies to. Door counts depend on guests giving your name when their ID is checked, and the organizers' count is final. 12. JUDGING. Sets are scored by judges appointed by the organizers. The number of judges, the scoring scale, and the criteria are published before the round they apply to. Judges' decisions are final. 13. RESULTS. Scores and results are published on the competition website. The organizers' decision on scores, rankings and results is final. 14. CONDUCT. The organizers may disqualify any competitor for abusive behavior, harassment, threats, damage to property, or conduct that endangers anyone in the room. This decision is final. 15. EQUIPMENT. You will treat the venue's equipment with care and follow the directions of venue staff at all times. You are responsible for damage you cause through misuse, negligence, or intoxication. Do not modify, unplug, or reconfigure house equipment without a staff member present. 16. THE GRAND PRIZE. The grand prize is $6,000, paid as a six-month residency at The Warehouse: a booked gig of $1,000 per month for six months. It is not paid in advance and no part of it is payable up front. Each monthly payment is earned by performing the booked gig for that month. Dates are scheduled by agreement between you and the venue, and the venue will offer you a reasonable opportunity to perform each month. If you do not perform a scheduled gig, that month's payment is not earned, except where the venue cancels or is unable to provide a date. The grand prize is not transferable. 17. OTHER PRIZES. The organizers may award other prizes during the season. These vary from night to night and may take any form the organizers choose, including but not limited to equipment, merchandise, goods, services, performance opportunities, or cash. They are awarded at the organizers' sole discretion and are subject to availability. No particular prize, category or value is promised to any competitor. 18. TAXES. You are responsible for any taxes arising from any prize or payment you receive. Where required, the organizers may ask for tax information before a payment is made. 19. RECORDING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND YOUR NAME. You agree that the organizers may photograph, film and record the nights, and may use your stage name, likeness, image, and the photograph and links you submit to promote OPEN DECKS and The Warehouse, in any medium, without further payment. You confirm you have the right to submit the photograph you upload. 20. THE PHOTOGRAPHER, AND BUYING YOUR OWN COPIES. A photographer engaged by the organizers may attend competition nights to take photographs and video. If you perform on a night that is covered, you may buy a license to use the material from your own set, at a price and on terms offered at the time. Buying a license lets you use that material to promote yourself on any platform you choose, for as long as you like. It does not transfer copyright, which stays with the photographer or the organizers as their arrangement provides, and it does not cover material of other competitors. You are not required to buy anything, and whether you do has no bearing on the competition, the draw, or the result. The organizers keep their own right to use the material as set out above whether you buy a license or not. 21. YOUR MUSIC. You are responsible for the material you play and for holding any rights or licenses your performance requires. You keep all rights in your own original work. 22. YOUR INFORMATION. Your contact details are used to run the competition and to reach you if you are drawn. Your stage name, photograph, music keywords and links may be shown publicly if you are drawn and placed on the board. Your legal name, email address, phone number and this signature are not published. 23. CHANGES AND CANCELLATION. The organizers may change the schedule, the format, or these terms, or cancel the competition, for reasons including venue availability, safety, or insufficient entries. Material changes to these terms will be issued as a new version and will not alter an agreement you have already signed. 24. ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND RELEASE. You take part at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by Colorado law, you release Tavern, The Warehouse, and the organizers from claims for loss, injury or damage arising from your participation, except where caused by their own gross negligence or willful misconduct. 25. GOVERNING LAW. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Colorado. 26. ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE. By typing your full legal name below and submitting this form you are signing this agreement electronically. You agree that this electronic signature has the same legal effect as a handwritten one, that you have read and understood these terms, and that the information you have given is true. A copy of this exact text is stored with your signature, together with the date, time and network address it was submitted from.