February 15th (lazy bastard webmaster) March 5th, 2006
MONSTER-LAND (Reuters) - Sun Mar 5, 2:56 AM ET
To celebrate its 9th anniversary, SMS Power annonces new edition of its worldwide Sega 8-bit music competition, tied with first-time made-official Sega 8-bit coding competition. Musician all around the world gather to compose amazing tunes, coders dwelves in machine code to produces outstanding games and demos, webmasters post fake news agencies' bulletin to avoid writing something proper, and community funded prize pool is growing to offer winners superb undecided prizes. Stop reading this and work on your entry!
1.1 Competition timeline
2006/02/15
Community announcement
2006/03/05
Official announcement, news spread by worldwide media
2006/03/20
Entries submissions
2006/03/27
Entries made public for judging
2006/04/03
Results posted
1.2 Competition rules
Entries are to be related to the Sega 8-bit gaming consoles and their games, namely the Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, SC-3000 and varieties.
Two types of entries will be competing in the same category : entries related to specific Sega 8-bit games (remixes, medleys) and original compositions playing on Sega 8-bit systems (submitted thru a VGM dump).
Entries are to be submitted through the form in the entries section.
The deadline for submissions is March 27th, 2006, included. Entries submitted after midnight, GMT (night from 27 to 28) will not be accepted unless you bribe judges.
Files submitted must be formatted as either MPEG layer 3 (.MP3), Ogg Vorbis (.OGG), or VGM. If your source format is another (eg: a module), you are encouraged to submit the original format along with a MP3/OGG/VGM rendition.
Judging is open for the public. Voting forms will be made available starting March 27th and for a duration of one week.
Acceptance of entries is up to the competition administrators, who may choose to disqualify any entry at their own discretion. Entries containing expressions racism, religious beliefs, etc will naturally not be accepted. The administrators may also choose to disqualify entries judged as not being serious or being too similar to existing material. So use common sense!
Each composer may compete with any number of entries.
1.3 Collective prize fund
Winners will be awarded prizes, as paid by an ever-growing collective prize fund. The fund is shared between two competitions happening during the same period: Music Competition 2006 and Coding Competition 2006. Actual prizes and details on how they will be awarded will be discussed in our forums. Prizes are likely to include: SMS/GG flash card kits, Sega 8-bit themed t-shirt and other goodies. The bigger the fund is, the more prizeful will be the competition.
