Showdown SCOPE New York
Welcome to Showdown, an online tournament where Saatchi Online artists can showcase their work and go head-to-head with other artists on the site. Saatchi Online members vote for their favorite works of art and 4 winners will be invited to display their art at the SCOPE Art Fair in New York City from March 2nd – March 6th 2011.
The Rules
All registered Saatchi Online artists are eligible to enter their works for visitors to vote on. The final four winners will receive a US$500 cash prize. The 4 winning works will go on to display at the SCOPE Art Fair in New York City from March 2nd – March 6th 2011.
To vote, you must sign up for Saatchi Online. You can sign up as a new member through Saatchi Online or connect through your Facebook account at
http://www.saatchionline.com/sign-in.
How It Works
To submit your artwork in SHOWDOWN, you need to be a registered Saatchi Online artist. If you are not registered yet, please go to http://www.saatchionline.com/sign-in.
Artists are able to submit one of their works, during the submission period only, from their Portfolio to enter into SHOWDOWN. To submit, go to http://www.saatchionline/showdown and follow the instructions for entering your work.
Preliminary Rounds
All entries will be displayed two at a time, where visitors can come and vote by clicking on the one they like most. Your artwork will go up against multiple entries and will be given an equal number of chances to be voted on during the course of the preliminary rounds. As the preliminary rounds progress and entries are whittled down to the highest ranked, Saatchi Online will announce the top 128. At this point, the Showdown Tournament begins and will become a basic single elimination bracket of the top 128 artworks. If you lose, you're out.
Artists can view how many votes they are receiving compared to their opponent by checking the message box beneath their avatar on their profile page.
The Showdown Tournament
The Top 128 will compete in a bracket-style tournament - win or go home. Each round will last 2 days. Once the Top 16 is reached, brackets will be visible at http://www.saatchionline/showdown. The eight artworks that advance from the Round of Sixteen will compete in the Semifinal cutting the number to 8. The Final Showdown round will give us our top 4 winners.
Artists can view how many votes they are receiving compared to their opponent by checking the message box beneath their avatar on their profile page. If the artist makes it to the Top 16, the bracket will be made visible on the Showdown homepage.
Voting
Any visitor to the site can rate and vote for artworks in SHOWDOWN once they register on Saatchi Online. All visitors are free to vote on all artworks once per round. Although visitors can vote for as many artworks that have been entered as they like, to prevent multiple voting by one person for one work, only one vote per individual artwork will be accepted from each visitor per round. To vote, one must either go to http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown or, in the case of voting for a specific artist's entry, go directly to the artist's profile page.
The artworks are displayed randomly and constantly rotate. Each time an artwork is voted on a new artwork is automatically displayed.