Terms and Conditions

Entering

• Live Stories is open to individuals("individuals" or "individual" hereafter) and all UK and international internet forums ("forums" or "forum" hereafter).
• Live Stories consists of four competitions, running from: 3rd to 9th August; 10th to 16th August; 17th to 23rd August; and 24th to 30th August.
• Forum entries have to be made up of four live stories, one per competition. You’ll be able to match your stories to events on the entry form. Individual entries must consist of one live story; you'll be able to pick which event to pick on the entry form.
• Entry submission opens at 4.30pm (GMT) on Monday 13th July 2009.
• Forum entries must be submitted on behalf of the forum, not you as an individual. this does not apply for individual entries
• Only one entry is permitted from each forum and must be submitted by a forum administrator or moderator. (As part of the entry process, you’ll have to include the forum thread/s showing the discussion your forum had).
• Only one entry is permitted per individual.
• Your entry must be submitted via the appropriate page on the Absolute Radio site by 11.59pm (GMT) on Sunday 2nd August 2009.
• Absolute Radio reserves the right to remove an entry or link to any forum for any reason, including but not limited to where such entry or forum is defamatory, offensive or infringes third party intellectual property rights.
• By entering the competition, you warrant that your submission is original and does not infringe the third party intellectual property rights of any third party (and you shall indemnity Absolute Radio for any breach of this warranty).
• All valid entries that are submitted will be featured on the Absolute Radio website, along with web link to the relevant forum (if applicable).

Selection

• We’re looking for great stories from live events. These could be about seeing a band play, or the exploits you got up to at a festival.
• For forum entries, we need to see that your live stories are a true community effort, so make sure plenty of your forum users contribute to a lively discussion in the forum thread you submit with your entry.
• Each competition week (see dates above), we’ll look at all the stories for that week. Taking the above factors into consideration, we’ll then select those that will make it through to the on-air stage.
• Absolute Radio’s decision on which stories will make it through to the on-air stage shall be entirely within the subjective discretion of the judges and no further correspondence shall be entered into.

Voting

• The four competitions will take place between the following dates: 3rd to 9th August; 10th to 16th August; 17th to 23rd August; and 24th to 30th August.
• The live stories we’ve chosen for each competition will be discussed on-air, and the public will be invited to vote for their favourite.
• Winners in each competition will be chosen by the public by way of an online vote at absoluteradio.co.uk/music/live/stories. Each competition vote will be open for five days, between 8.00am (GMT) on the Monday and 11.59pm (GMT) on the Friday.
• Only one vote per person per competition is permitted.
• The winner of each match will be announced on-air at 2.00pm (GMT) on the Saturday.

Prize

• For each competition, the person whose story wins (as voted for by the Absolute Radio listeners and users) will get a pair of tickets to a live event the following weekend.
• The prize events for each competition are as follows: 3rd to 9th August, U2 at Wembley; 10th to 16th August, V Festival; 17th to 23rd August, Reading Festival; and 24th to 30th August, Coldplay at Wembley.
• The winner will be asked to create a live story with their experiences from the events they won tickets to. This will then go on to represent the winner’s forum.
• Each winner will go into a final where their new story is discussed on air. The public will be invited to vote for their favourite.
• The winning story will get a radio show where the winner creates a virtual music festival. The winner will select live tracks from Absolute Radio’s library to be played during a special on-air show.

These Live Stories competition rules are to be used in conjunction with Absolute Radio's standard competition rules. Where there is any conflict, Live Stories rules take precedence.