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Friday, June 25, 2010
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Competition AC / DC - Iron Man 2 El Mundo
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to publish the story of what happened to a musical contest organized by the newspaper El Mundo, the record company Sony Music and guitar manufacturer Gibson. Today I
The contest, whose bases were published in mid April, was held to celebrate the premiere of the movie Iron Man 2 and the release of greatest hits album of AC / DC entitled AC / DC, Iron Man 2. In short video was to send a version of a song any Australian group and the best would be rewarded with a Gibson SG like Angus Young. Currently the detailed bases of competition can not be found because they were removed from the site of the World where they were published but I put them in a paper with the suspicion that this could happen:
1. Definition: The contest is to send a video interpretation of a version of AC / DC played with real instruments recorded specifically for the promotion, which runs until May 7, 2010, inclusive.
2. Participation: Participation in this promotion any person resident in Spain who is willing to provide your name, email address and telephone number. Personal data requested must be truthful, otherwise proceed to the elimination of the participant. May not participate in the game employees companies related to the promotion, nor are their family members.
3. How to participate: To participate will need to send the form with the required data and video, or link to the video hosted on a YouTube-like site that responds to the proposal described in the first paragraph of the bases.
4. Prize: The prize is a Gibson SG like Angus Young.
5. Election winners: Gibson and Sony Music will choose the winner from the videos received.
6. Award Ceremony: The persons entitled to access the prize will be all those participants whose personal details are true and accurate. Participants who do not meet all the requirements listed in the database have not any right. If unable to contact the winner by mistake in the data it provided, Internet Unidad Editorial, SL Sole-Shareholder Company shall be relieved of the obligation to deliver the prize. The prize winner may refuse for any reason. Participation in this contest implies the authorization to Internet Publishing Unit, SLU to publish any information or photograph of the winner in any media or privately, in particular, the authorization to publish the winner's name on the website www. elmundo.es. The award will be handled by Sony Music.
7. For any questions regarding participation, contact the address participa@navegante.com, with the subject "Contest AC / DC."
8. Privacy: Your personal data supplied through the form will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the provisions of Law 15/1999 of 13 December.
9. Acceptance of the rules: To participate in this competition is essential to know these rules and agree to accept all the terms set out therein. elmundo.es reserves the right to refuse participation to any competitor who does not meet the conditions of entry or contravenes the spirit of this contest.
As some know, I am part of a rock band in which we work just to make versions, making this contest came to us like a glove. So I consulted with my group and decided to participate, choosing for the occasion covered the song If You Want Blood (You've Got It). We wrote a letter to start than the original that was about Iron Man, because as the competition is related, we thought it would be good. And we also think that to qualify for the victory we had to try out, and we thought the idea of \u200b\u200brecording the song in video format, using video editing as extra weapon. So this was the result:
Unfortunately we can not get better sound for reasons of availability because we did not have access to the recording room of the rehearsal rooms we frequent and we were forced to register with a digital camera.
Once edited and mixed, uploaded it to YouTube and send the link to the video by filling out the form and we hope relevant news. We could go on waiting until today if we had not complained.
a week of sending the video sending an email to the address provided on the bases for information (base n º 7) and got no answer but the full mailbox generated by the recipient's Outlook.
Two weeks later we sent another email asking to know on what date would know the jury's verdict, and they replied that there was no fixed date, but had not yet decided on a winner.
A week after the previous mail returned to writing, receiving response had been decided on a winner and had been in contact with him to give you your prize. That response filled us with indignation, and not be no winners, but by the ways in which they were doing. The web page announcing the contest had not undergone any change, ie, the winning video was not published anywhere. But so far we only outraged because in the competition rules do not specify the identity of the winner is to be published. It only says Unidad Editorial (publishing group that owns the newspaper El Mundo) reserves the right to do so (base n º 6). At the moment did not feel cheated ... at the moment.
went back to writing again, appealing to the reputation of the newspaper, passing on our desire to know the winning video and expressing our view that the just and logical to publish, if only for the rest of the contestants who had not contacted them by e know that the contest was over. A few minutes received the reply, which we reported that the winning video was published on the web in which previously published the contest. And that made the above website. For if the link has been deleted, let the winning video here:
We will not come to judge subjectively the video because it comes about. But we have in hand two facts that make us believe that this contest has been a Tongo, organized only to deliver a guitar plugged in, and making waste time a lot of contestants as we strove to participate in what they thought would be a clean process. Done
1: The base n º 1 specifies that version should be recorded on the occasion of the contest . Ie it should be something in the video to prove it. And there is nothing. The video could have been saved X years ago and uploaded to YouTube within the deadline. We can not prove so, but in our view the videos that have not proven that condition should have been out of competition. Also we are not the only ones who think so, the video itself has comments in which he is accused of it.
Fact 2: One day out of curiosity I got to find the name of the winner, Juan Pablo Mejia, in different social networks. On Facebook I found several profiles with that name, but none give me any clues, but in Tuenti: of the two results with that name, 2 No result was to profile picture a Gibson SG like the one used by the winner in the contest. Moreover, the image seems taken on the same stage in which the video was recorded. I can not say, but it is clear that the profile that corresponds to the winner of the contest has lots of possibilities. And now comes what has been done to shock: in the profile is public information that works for "Guitars gibson. And the base No. 2 clearly states that in the contest can not participate in any employee of the companies involved in its organization, or family . And to prove that I am not making any of this, here I show a screenshot Search screen I did in Tuenti:
Well, here's apparently an employee of Gibson participating and winning the contest. You can imagine our outrage and anger upon discovering this.
From here we simply report these facts and adviser to all readers of The World about what happened, to discourage participation in any competition organized by the diary, which despite its reputation of credibility and has shown that when people organize competitions are not reliable.
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