HOUSE OF COMEDY 2024

Call for entries – 1st edition

The House of Comedy 2024 Rules of Contest

Please read these Rules of Contest (“Rules”) carefully. Participation in this Contest will constitute your agreement to comply with these Rules. If you do not agree with these Rules, please do not participate in this Contest.  All participants during the term of this Contest agree to be bound by the following Rules:

PLEASE NOTE THAT AYOBA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING THIS CONTEST, CHOOSING A WINNER(S) OR PROVIDING ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS WITH THE PRIZE(S)/REWARD(S) DETAILED BELOW. FOR YOUR REFERENCE, THIS PROMOTION IS CONDUCTED BY ADAMANT MEDIA.

Article 1 : Presentation

The House of Comedy 2024 – House of Comedy is a  competition aimed at discovering young English-

speaking web comedians, organized in France by the digital media company Adamant Media (SIREN 840 255 392 – 12 rue du Caire, 75002 Paris), based in Paris, in collaboration with the instant messaging application Ayoba (Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo). Its objective is to promote and highlight the talents of Francophone manga artists.

Article 2 : Participants

The Adamanga manga drawing contest is open to anyone in Francophone Africa from Ayoba territories (Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana)), of any nationality and age group (as long as they are of legal age at the date of participation), whether or not they have already worked as a manga artist.

Each participant must:

Have, at the start date of the contest, internet access, a personal email address, and a valid phone number at which they can be contacted if necessary for the contest's management.

Commit to submitting only one unique comedy video to House of Comedy 2024; participation is therefore limited to one (1) entry per participant.

Article 3 : Conditions of Participation

The submitted drawings must meet the following selection criteria:

       ●     Video Genre: Comedy

       ●     Length: Max 1:30 minutes

       ●     Size: 50MB

● Publication status: Original content unpublished

Only entries that comply with all the above stipulations will be accepted.

In this regard, the organizing company reserves the right to carry out all necessary verifications concerning the identity, age, and contact details of each participant; any incomplete, incorrect, falsified information, or information that does not allow the participant to be identified or located will result in the cancellation of their participation.

It is also specified that the video created by the winners may be distributed for free on various distribution channels.

Article 4: Submission of Applications

Applications must be submitted between September 25 and October 5, 2024 (the final submission deadline is October 5 before midnight GMT).

Each comedy video must be submitted for the Adamanga contest via the Ayoba messaging app to the following phone number: +225 07 13 98 45 14

It is imperative to:

Include with the videos submission: name, first name, nationality, country, city, and phone number.

All applications are subject to verification by the Adamant editorial teams.

Article 5: Accessibility and Moderation of Comedy Videos

Comedy videos that meet the participation requirements, selection criteria, and submission steps will be showcased throughout the duration of the House of Comedy 2024 contest.

If any comedy video conflict with third-party rights (such as trademark rights, copyright, image rights, etc.), are defamatory, insulting, obscene, offensive, violent or inciting violence, political, racist, or xenophobic, contrary to good morals, contrary to the contest conditions as described in these rules, contrary to the prohibition of advertising in favor of alcoholic beverages (law of January 10, 1991), or more generally, contrary to the legislation in force, they will not be taken into account and will not validate the participant's eligibility for the contest.

Article 6: Voting

Voting is open to all users with access to the Ayoba app and subscribers of the House of Comedy, Adamant Dosé, and Adamant Frais channels on Ayoba. The subscriber community is involved in selecting the audience award winner. How to vote: Simply download the Ayoba app, search for the House of Comedy channel, and vote for your favorite comedy video. Only one vote per person and per story is counted, and Adamant reserves the right to disqualify any comedy video that has resorted to cheating. The comedy video  that receives the most "votes" will be designated as the audience award winner.

The audience award will be chosen by the jury, and the sponsor's award will be chosen by the sponsor.The voting period for the community of readers runs concurrently with the submission period: from October 18 to October 23, 2024.

Article 7: Deliberation

● The announcement of the 10 finalists will take place from October 14 to October 18, 2024.

● The draw for the winner among voters on Ayoba will be held on October 23, 2024.

● The announcement of the winners (Web Comedy and Voter) will take place on October 25,

2024, on the House of Comedy and Ayoba Facebook pages.

Article 8: Prizes

The web comedian winner and the voter winner will each receive the following at the end of House of Comedy 2024:

● Web Comedian Winner: €400

● Voter Winner: €100

The prizes cannot be contested in any way by the winners. Each prize awarded is strictly personal and nominative, so it cannot be transferred or sold to any third party; it cannot under any circumstances be subject to any refund in cash, exchange, or partial or total reimbursement, in kind or in cash, by the organizing company. It is non-transferable, non-transmissible, and cannot be sold. However, in the event of force majeure, the organizing company reserves the right to replace all or part of the announced prizes with a prize of equivalent value.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

The amounts of €400 and €100 will be transferred by Adamant via the Orange Money Europe service from Europe to Africa or another money transfer service. For the countries concerned (Cameroon and Ghana), the winners must have an Orange Money/Moov/MTN account in their respective countries and provide Adamant with their account-linked phone number, name, surname, and date of birth as registered when opening their account. For Nigeria, winners must provide their name, surname, date of birth, place of residence, bank details, bank address, and phone number.

Article 9: Guarantees

By participating in this contest, the participant guarantees:

That they are the author of their comedy video content and that no borrowing or infringement

of existing protected works has been made, and in general, that they have not uploaded any

elements that infringe on intellectual property rights or the rights of third parties, including

copyright, trademark rights, or image rights;

● Not to impersonate someone else when entering the contest;

● That the comedy video does not contain any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or any other

destructive and harmful content;

● That the comedy video is not obscene or defamatory and does not infringe on the privacy rights

or publicity rights of third parties;

● That the comedy video and its use as described above do not violate any applicable laws or

regulations;

● That the comedy video is a new creation that has not yet been disclosed to the public in any way

and has not been presented in any other contest, and that no rights have been transferred to a

third party regarding this creation;

● That the comedy video and its elements comply with the moderation conditions described

above.

● That the voter winner and the participant winner are not the same person.

The organizing company reserves the right to request proof for each of the participant’s statements.

Article 10: Liability

It is expressly noted that the Internet is not a secure network. In this regard, participation in the contest implies knowledge and acceptance, by each participant, of the characteristics and limitations of the Internet, particularly regarding technical performance, response times for consulting, querying, or transferring information, the risks of interruption, and more generally, the inherent risks of any connection and transmission over the internet, the absence of protection of certain data against possible diversion, and the risks of contamination by potential viruses on the Internet network.

Furthermore, the liability of the organizing company cannot be held in any case in the event of malfunction of the Internet network, problems with routing or loss of postal or electronic mail, as well as any damage resulting from postal services.

In general, the organizing company may cancel all or part of the contest if it appears that fraud has occurred in any form whatsoever, particularly in computer form in the context of participation in the contest or the determination of the winners.

In this case, it reserves the right not to award the prize to a fraudster and/or to prosecute before the competent courts the authors of these frauds. However, it shall not incur any liability of any kind vis-à-vis the participants due to any fraud possibly committed. 

Article 11: Authorizations - Intellectual Property

By the mere fact of participating in the contest, each winner authorizes, free of charge, the organizing company to use their name, first name(s), image, and, where applicable, any other attributes of their personality, for the purposes of communication relating to the contest exclusively, by any digital and/or analog process, on all media, worldwide and for a period of one (1) year from their designation as finalists and subsequently as "contest winners."

Each participant warrants that they are the holder or have unrestricted access to any authorization required under intellectual property rights (copyrights, trademarks, etc.) for their text and the elements that compose it.

Each participant indemnifies the organizing company against any claim, action, or claim that may arise from any person, natural or legal, who directly or indirectly participated in the production of the text.

Finally, each participant grants the organizing company (including its possible service providers, assignees, and right holders) the right to reproduce and represent their text in any territory (worldwide), on any media (including the entire Internet support, on all websites, in all formats and by any means), for the purpose of communicating about the contest and promoting it, for a period of 10 (ten) years from its publication within the framework of the contest.

Article 12: Data Protection & Privacy

The information provided by the participants may be subject to computer processing by the organizing company.

Personal data collected in the context of this contest are intended to be processed in order to manage participation in the contest and contact the winners exclusively. The organizing company (possibly with its service providers) is the only entity authorized to access the recorded data, which are not intended to be transmitted outside the European Union.

Participants have the right to object to the processing of their data. However, in the event that a participant exercises their right to object, their participation will be automatically canceled, as their personal data are necessary for participation management.

Participants also have the right of access, rectification, withdrawal, limitation, and communication of their personal data by writing to the following address: contact@adamant-media.com.