This summary of all the rules and information about the Fanpop's Got Talent competition was last edited on 8 June 2009.

Concept
Fanpop's Got Talent (FGT) is an annual talent competition. In this contest, Fanpop Users compete by submitting some material to the FGT spot that demonstrates some talent during a set submission period. After that period ends, the body of Fanpop Users then vote on their вверх choices, which are relayed to a panel of judges for the final decision. The winner gets kudos and a warm glowy feeling.

Judging
The duties of a judge are essentially to tally Голоса and provide feedback to participants - they do not actually do any judging beyond each casting their own vote. Instead, they are еще like moderators.

In 2009, there are four judges, continuing in the role from last year's pool of judges and judge alternates. They are:

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In 2008, there were three judges for Fanpop's Got Talent. They were picked at Болталка from a pool of nominees, with two alternates who would fill in for the judges if any were unable to fulfill their duties.

For the first Fanpop's Got Talent (2008), there were 9 nominees. The judges picked were:
* Saul_Mikoliunas
* claire-aka-bob
* amazondebs

The first alternate was:
* germany123

The секунда alternate was:
* cowgirlfromhell



Entering
Each Fanpop User can Отправить one (1) entry per FGT competition.
Entries must be Опубликовано to или linked to the FGT spot and titled as "<username>'s entry".
Each entry must have Ключевые слова and a description.
Each entry must also include the following in its keywords, at a minimum:
* your username
* the год of your submission (to sort between future competitions)
* the talent(s) that are to be demonstrated
* "fanpop's got talent"

In addition, the following rules also apply to certain types of submissions:

Videos: any entries Отправлено as Видео must be between one (1) and ten (10) минуты long.

Images: Обои Опубликовано must include proper credits. Image entries may include up to five (5) images, but multiple Обои must all be of the same subject.

Links: Ты may link to other content that demonstrates your talent (either on Fanpop или elsewhere), but Ты are encouraged to post или link to new content, rather than something that is "old" to the users and judges.

Deadline
All submissions must be Опубликовано to the spot during the submission period. For FGT 2009, the submission period started at 00:00 GMT on 8 June 2009 and runs through 23:59 GMT on 4 July 2009.



For FGT 2008, the submission period started at 00:00 PT on 14 June 2008 and ran through 23:59 PT on 4 July 2008.

Voting
As entries are submitted, users may rate and Комментарий on the submissions as usual. This does not in any way relate to the actual voting for the competition.

Voting begins immediately after the submission period ends, and lasts for one (1) week. An Статья listing all of the FGT entries will be Опубликовано shortly after the submission period closes, for easy reference.

When voting, each user may cast two votes: his/her first choice and his/her секунда choice. In voting, users are encouraged to vote solely on the basis of the entry and the talent(s) the participant has specified. When judging the talent(s), users should also consider the five following criteria:

1) Showmanship
2) Effort
3) Difficulty
4) Entertainment value
5) Originality

The Голоса are cast by sending a message with "FGT <year> voting" as the subject to the appropriate judge. For FGT 2009, the full details of voting will be revealed later.

For FGT 2008, the rules stated that which judge Ты send your vote to depended on the first character of YOUR username, as follows:

* If your Имя пользователя started with any number или the letters A - H, then your vote was sent to link
* If your Имя пользователя started with any letter from I to Q, then your vote was sent to link
* If your Имя пользователя started with any letter from R - Z, then your vote was sent to link

If Ты send your Голоса with the wrong subject line или to the wrong judge, it may get Остаться в живых in the shuffle, so vote carefully!

Competition/determining a winner
The judges tally the Голоса of the users and announce first, секунда and third place winners after the week-long period of voting is completed. Those winners get the acclaim of their peers and maybe some graphic embellishments (personalized icons, for instance) as prizes, as well as that warm glowy sensation.



References
This information is available in the spot already, but I, at least, found it baffling trying to find it all and keep it straight in my head. So I've gathered it here. If I've missed anything или got something wrong, please let me know so I can (and will) correct it.

The sources used to compile this Статья are as follows:

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