MAVRIC Independent Music Awards

Rules and Regulations

Eligibility

All entries to The MAVRIC Awards must either live within Ventura County, California or perform within Ventura County, California 4 times a year, or both. If you live in Ventura County, California, it is not a requirement that you perform within Ventura County, California.

You must have the rights or authorization of use for all recorded submissions.

All Submissions due no later than 11/1/2008

This contest is open to all ages and does not discriminate against gender, race, or religious affiliations.

By submitting to The MAVRIC Awards, you agree to hold harmless The MAVRIC Awards, its sponsors and its ownership from any circumstance whereas financial, physical and mental harm may occur.

If your song is chosen to be placed on the MAVRIC Awards compilation CD, no compensation can be provided. You will have the choice to allow or not allow your song to be apart of the compilation if you are approached. You are under no obligation to have your song placed on the compilation CD until you have agreed in writing.

Judging Explanation

So how are the MAVRIC Award recipients decided?

The first step is to listen to every single song submitted. In 2007, we listened to nearly 400 songs. In 2008, that number increased to over 1,500 songs! From this, our staff chooses the nominees and sends out the announcements.

Here’s where the fun begins. In order to make this a fair consideration of the submissions and give true merit to the awards, we have come up with a three tiered judging system. Sort of the ‘judging trinity’ if you will…

Three separate groups will judge most of the categories: An expert in the field of music being considered, a person who is in the music industry, and fans.

Expert: This is a person with extensive knowledge of the category which he or she will be judging. For example, for a person judging Jazz Song of the Year, we will look to have a person who is a professional Jazz musician, a Jazz club owner, a record company with Jazz as its focus, etc…

Music Industry Person: This is a person who works in the music industry. A booker at a nightclub, a studio engineer or producer, a radio representative, a music store owner, a musician, etc…

Fans: This is anyone who likes music and has access to vote in our online voting process. Only one vote will be counted per person.

Each of the three groups are given a weighted importance to the final accumulation of votes. The Expert will have 45% of the weight, the Music Industry Person will have 35%, and the Fans will receive 20%.

Sound like fun? Confused yet? Trust us, it all works out and it gives everyone a voice in a blending of the most honest and merited way we know.