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The 250-Word Microfiction Challenge 2021 (Herein, the “Competition”, the “Contest”, Or the “Contest”) The 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021 (herein, the “Competition”, the “Contest”, or the “Contest”) “http://www.nycmidnight.com” (the “Contest Website”) The names “NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness”, “Midnight Movie Making Madness”, “Movie Making Madness”, “NYC Midnight”; the acronyms “NYCMMMM” and “MMMM”; the tag lines “Inspiring Challenges for Storytellers”; and the Internet website uniform resource locator (URL) www.nycmidnight.com, are all United States and international trademarks solely owned by NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness, LLC. No use of these trademarks, or any of them, is permitted, absent the express prior written permission of a Managing Member of the LLC on a case-by-case basis. All text and other material appearing within and otherwise posted or distributed in connection with the Contest is: ©2020 NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No copying, distribution, or any other use of these materials or the pictures, or accounts of the Competition are permitted, absent the express prior written permission of a Managing Member of the LLC on a case-by-case basis. “Official Rules” (Official 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021 Rules & Participation Agreement) This Agreement, comprised of the Official Rules of the Contest as set forth herein, is made and entered into by and between the individual registering for the Contest (hereinafter, the “Entrant”), on the one hand; and NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness, LLC (hereinafter, the “LLC”), on the other hand. By paying the entry fee and registering for the Contest, the Entrant indicates that the Entrant accepts the terms and conditions in the Official Rules as set forth herein. This Agreement and the Official Rules shall govern Entrant’s participation in “The 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021,” and the intended creation by Entrant of a short story as within-described, as part of that Competition, pursuant to the provisions set forth herein. Entrant and the LLC are hereinafter referred to as the “Parties”. The Parties hereby further agree as follows: 1. All Contestants Bound By These Rules - Entrant hereby agrees to take part in The 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021, which will be conducted by the LLC and is currently scheduled to take place between October 15, 2021 and February 5, 2022. These Official Rules (herein, “Official Rules”) apply to The 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021 and to each and every Entrant who enters the Competition. 2. Rules and Communications - Any Entrant that enters a story in this Contest or otherwise communicates with NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness, LLC (the “LLC”) regarding this Contest, shall be deemed to have carefully read, reviewed, and specifically agreed to all of the text of these Official Rules; and also to any prior, other, and further writings of text; including, without limitation, rules and postings relating to the Contest (collectively, “Communications”) which the LLC may in the past, present, or future issue, distribute, post, or otherwise make available (collectively, “Communicate”) to prospective Contest entrants by e-mail, by mail, by fax, by hand, via Internet posting, and/or otherwise in any other manner. E-mail alone shall suffice to constitute notice to any Entrant, if and in the event that such method is elected for notice purposes by the LLC for any specific Communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the LLC does not and shall not solicit any entered stories (hereinafter, “Entries” or “Entered Stories”) by the mail or by other electronic means; and rather, relies upon word-of-mouth within the creative writing, screenwriting and film communities to foster further recognition of the Contest and a resulting adequacy of the number of quality Entries. 3. Entry Fee & Entry Deadline (Individual) - The Entry Fee is US$25 on or before Thursday, September 9, 2021 (“Early Entry Deadline”) and US$32 after September 9, 2021 until the final entry deadline of Thursday, October 14, 2021 (“Final Entry Deadline”). The entry fee must be received in full by the LLC on or before the Final Entry Deadline to participate in the 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021. Once the registration is completed online and Entry Fee are received in full and in proper order by the LLC, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the Entrant as identified in The 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021 online registration form, to the e-mail address identified in online registration form, confirming the corresponding Entrant’s registration in the Competition. Refunds for the Entry Fee must be requested in writing by email to [email protected]. Any refund request that is received at least 24 hours before the Contest is scheduled to start will be refunded in full within 30 days of the Refund Request date. If there are less than 24 hours before the competition is scheduled to start or if the Contest has already started, the Entry Fee will become non-refundable. 4. Exercise of Skill - This Contest requires an exercise of skill, only, and is NOT a game of chance in any respect whatsoever. Page 1 of 7 (The 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021) 5. Competition Schedule – The Contest has 3 rounds of competition. Every registered writer is guaranteed to compete in 1 round of competition and as many as 3 rounds based on their placement in each round. The schedule of the rounds is below: 1st Round: 11:59PM EDT on October 15, 2021 until 11:59PM EDT on October 16, 2021. 2nd Round: 11:59PM EST on December 17, 2021 until 11:59PM EST on December 18, 2021. 3rd Round: 11:59PM EST on February 4, 2022 until 11:59PM EST on February 5, 2022. 6. 1st Round (October 15, 2021 thru October 16, 2021) : Each properly-registered Entrant will be placed into a “Group” in the 1st Round which will include a maximum of 50 Entrants against whom the so-placed Entrant will initially compete. There will be a maximum of 150 Groups. Each Group is assigned a genre, an action, and a word (“Genre, Action, and Word Assignment”) that must be included in the story. The top 10 writers from each Group in the 1st Round will advance to the 2nd Round. 7. 2nd Round (December 17, 2021 thru December 18, 2021) : Writers are again placed randomly in Groups. There are a maximum of 30 Groups in the 2nd round distributed evenly with the writers advancing out of the 1st Round. Each Group receives a new Genre, Action, and Word assignment that must be included in the story. The top 5 writers in each Group in the 2nd Round will advance to the 3rd round of the competition. 8. 3rd Round (February 4, 2022 thru February 5, 2022) : The top 5 writers from each Group in the 2nd round are placed in the final Group, with a maximum total of 150 writers. The Group receives a new Genre, Action, and Word assignment that must be included in the story. The results of the previous rounds have no effect on the judging in the 3rd Round, and the writers that are chosen as 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, etc… in the 3rd Round will be the overall winners of the 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021. 9. Groups - No Entrant shall gain any advantage based upon the story Genre, Action, and Word to which they are assigned. Each of the Entrants has, at the outset, an equal chance of winning their Group, subject to the requisite exercise of skill cited hereinabove. All other individuals who have entered the 250-word Microfiction Challenge 2021, and who are not selected as “Round Finalists” at the end of the each Round, shall be considered to have lost the 250- word Microfiction Challenge 2021, and shall have no right to seek to recover any Entry Fee or other consideration they may have already paid or otherwise incurred. The maximum cost to each Contest participant (“Participant”) shall be the Entry Fee paid by the Participant (not including any costs of production of any Story which such participant may bear), minus the Participant’s prizes and/or Subsidy as may be applicable. By virtue of the foregoing, each Entrant is therefore in full control of whether or not he/she wins the Prizes. 9a. Adding Additional Writers to Groups – If it is determined that any error(s) may have occurred in the judging process through the feedback and/or scoring which would change the list of advancing writers and our judges were not able to confirm in time for the next round to begin, all writers in question would advance to the next round. Any final determination of judging errors, additional advancing writers, and number of participants in each Group is in the sole discretion of the LLC and any such decisions by the LLC are final, conclusive, and binding upon all Entrants. 10. Genre, Action, and Word Assignment – In each Round, writers are assigned a Genre, Action, and Word assignment for their stories. All stories must be created within the competition periods (listed below in paragraph #16) and must include the Genre, Action, and Word assignment. The story must be written in the assigned genre. The list of potential genres is Action and/or Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fairy Tale and/or Fantasy, Ghost Story, Historical Fiction, Horror, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, Suspense and/or Thriller, and Open Genre. The assigned action must happen within the story. The assigned word must appear in the story. The Genre, Action, and Word assignments will be different for each Group in each Round of competition. All assignments will be e-mailed to the participating writers and posted on www.nycmidnight.com at the beginning of the rounds listed above in paragraph #5.
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