Competition
Rules
This
document defines the rules and procedures for the Literary, Music
and Dance Competition. All
Competitors/Participants must read this document prior to competing
in any of the categories available for this year’s competition.
The
following terms are used in the context of the Literary, Music and
Dance Competition:
Entrant: The term “Entrant(s)” in the context of the Literary,
Music and Dance Competition refers to an individual, a group or team,
interested in participating in the competition but has not been registered
as qualified to compete. Entrants
must by regulations, be, from a recognized secondary school within
the Niger Delta region and each participating individual must be within
the class range of JSS3 to SSS1. Special
consideration may be made in certain cases.
Entrants must be accompanied by a teacher who is regarded as
a Coordinator.
Participant/Competitor: The term “Participant(s)” in the
context of the Literary, Music and Dance Competition refers to entrants
who have been registered as qualified to participate in any of the
three available categories of the competition.
Team:
The term “Team” in the context of the Literary,
Music and Dance Competition means two or more participants in the
competition as cooperative unit. Some
categories of the competition can only be undertaken by a team.
Captain:
The term “Captain” in the context of the Literary,
Music and Dance competition refers to the Student leader, leading
a delegate of participants. In
cases where a school presents only one participant, the participant
automatically is recognized as the captain.
Coordinator: The term “Coordinator” in the context of the Literary, Music and Dance Competition
refers to a teacher coordinating the participants from a representative
school. The regulation of the
competition requires that the Coordinator be a teacher from the arts
department of the participating school.
To
compete in the Literary, Music and Dance Competition, all entrants
must meet the following standards to be registered as qualified participants:
v
Registration
for the 2008 edition of the Literary, Music and Dance competition
is strictly by invitation. Expect stated otherwise, all participating
school must be within a selected pool of secondary schools drawn from
the Niger Delta region.
v
The organizers
reserve the exclusive right, to select at their own discretion, based
on specific competing standards, schools that would be allowed to
compete in this year’s edition of the Literary Music and Dance Competition
and in future editions of the event.
v
All registered
entrants must be students, still within a secondary school from the
Niger Delta region. Except stated otherwise, all participants must
be within a class range of JSS3 and SSS3.
v
All participating
school must fill out the competition entry form, found inside the invitation
package. This form is to
be filled by the coordinator who is expected to provide all the relevant
information required by the organizers.
v
Competition
entry forms must be filled using the guidelines provided in the package. All participants and coordinators must read
through the entire guidelines before completing the application form. Information provided in the application form
is expected to be accurate in all areas.
v
Competition
entry forms must be submitted for processing no later than 31st
May. There will be no exceptions.
Applications, along with competition entries, must be sent
to the stated address in this document no later than the stipulated
deadline. Applications received after the stipulated deadline
will not be registered for the competition.
v
Participating
schools will be allowed to compete in two
categories only. Schools
are advised to focus on categories in which their students have an
advantage within the period of time given.
Each category for the competition follows a set of guidelines
and rules which are stated in the following section.
