The Christmas champions league: Rules and regulations

Hello inter8ers!
The inter8ing Christmas champions league starts tomorrow! We start with 15 chosen champions, every day we will eliminate 2 of them, and the last and only winner wins a HUGE 1000$ prize!
Before you start the quest for votes, read are rules and regulations. They will be forced throughout the whole champions league, and you can get higher points not only by getting votes, but also by completing our cool challenges!

votes and points
During the champions league, we accept votes from identified user, only!
☻Web votes will be worth 10 points
☻SMS votes will be worth 5 points
☻Each vote from the USA gives you 5 extra points, which means – USA web vote = 15 pts, USA SMS vote=10 pts.

special champions' votes
☻At the beginning of the champions league, each champion will receive one GOLDEN vote.
- The golden vote is worth 100 points
- It can only be given once to an opponent
- All Golden votes must be used by Thursday
- Any one eliminated loses his Golden vote
☻On some challenges, you will be awarded SILVER votes.
- Silver votes are worth 25 points
- It can be given only to an opponent
- it must be used on the same day as the challenge was given.
- when you send us a mail with the challenge, send us the opponent you'd like to give the silver vote to.
☻Golden and Silver votes must be sent in by 23:00 UK time, after that they will not be accepted. No bonus points can be awarded between 23:00 – 24:00.

Special daily challenges
☻Each day of the competition there will be a challenge that can give you bonus points or silver votes.
☻Each day we'll declare tomorrow's challenge at 10 pm, UK time.
☻Most of the challenges will be video challenges.
☻When you make a video, upload it using the new Yme uploader on our site (explanation: http://www.bebo.com/BlogView.jsp?MemberId=7614723638&BlogId=8337654593)
☻All videos must include the word inter8ing in the title and in the video itself.

NEW! "First Ever" challenges!
We've made a long list of fun and interesting challenges. Some of them are easy, and some of them are practically impossible. The first champion who completes a "first ever" challenge, will win bonus points.
☻all of the "first ever" challenges must be shot in a video, and uploaded using the Yme uploader in our site.
☻The first one to send us the task to the service e-mail address wins the task.
☻The video must have a short introduction. Introduce yourself and the challenge before we see the challenge itself.
☻Every day we will reveal new "first ever" tasks in the challenges-post, So stay tuned.
☻All "first ever" challenges can be completed during the whole champions league. They are not daily.

deadline
The deadline of all the challenges and vote-swapping is 23:00 (UK). Any mail we get later than 23:00 won't be accepted.


The last and most important rule: Cheaters will not be tolerated and eliminated at once.
Play fun, play fair, and enjoy!

Good luck!
The inter8ing team