THE AMAZING RACE: CHINA RUSH
APPLICATION PROCEDURE AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
I.
Application Procedure
All applicants MUST understand and speak English.
If you have previously applied for THE AMAZING RACE (the
Program), please DO NOT re-apply. Duplicate entries will not be considered.
Each applicant must have a teammate in order to apply to
participate on the Program. Each
team must complete an online application. Only one application package per team
will be accepted.
Applications must be submitted by
FRIDAY, April 16, 2010.
Applications MUST be completed in English, applicants must also provide a
current picture indentifying both team members no larger than 1 Megabyte in
size, and post an application video online at any public
video hosting website such as youtube.com, youku.com, tudou.com, vimeo.com, etc.
PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO POST A VIDEO CLIP IN TIME, PLEASE FILL IN THE REST OF THE APPLICATION. WE WILL BE HOLDING AUDITIONS IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
VIDEO LENGTH: MAXIMUM
OF FOUR MINUTES PER TEAM.
Anything over four minutes will not be considered. Teammates should appear
together in the clip.
CONTENT: In four (4) minutes you and your partner need to tell us, in
English, everything we need to know about why you would be perfect for this
race. Remember, personality counts! At the beginning of the video, clearly state
your names, relationship, and phone number along with country of residence.
The video clip will be retained by, and will become the
property of the International Channel Shanghai (上海外语频道) and will not be returned to
you, regardless of whether or not you are selected as a participant.
"Producers", as used herein, shall mean both the International Channel Shanghai (上海外语频道
) and FLY FILMS "上海飞娱商务咨询有限公司", and each of
those companies' respective licensees, assigns, parents, subsidiaries, divisions, business units, or affiliated entities.
Complete applications
must consist of the following:
i.
Completed online application
form (including signed releases at the end of the applications).
ii.
One recent photo of the team
members together.
iii.
One weblink to a video clip no longer
than four (4) minutes, posted online at a public video hosting website such as
youtube.com, youku.com, tudou.com, vimeo.com, etc.
II. Eligibility Requirements
Please note that the following eligibility requirements must
be met in order to proceed with the application process. Failure to comply will cause the
application to be void. Please do
not submit more than one (1) application. We will not consider duplicate
applications or submissions.
a.
Each applicant must have a
teammate in order to apply to participate on the Program. Each individual teammate must
complete the online application form with all necessary photographs and
documents, along with a video clip no longer than 4 minutes long (submission
requirements and the nature of this videotape is described in more detail
above), and only one (1) application package per team will be accepted.
b.
If the Producers select your
team as one of the teams that they would like to interview as part of the
semi-finalist/finalist interview process, you and your team-mate will be asked
to participate in a live audition either online via web video, or in person at
an unspecified location in China. The dates and times of the
interview(s) will be set by the Producers sometime in March/April of 2010 and
may be revised by the Producers in their sole discretion.
c.
Applicant interviews may
consist of one or more meetings with one or more members of the production staff
and may be videotaped at the Producers' discretion.
d.
Teams chosen to participate in
the Program (and alternate teams, if any) will be flown from their local
airports to an unknown destination somewhere in China and will be allowed to
bring a limited number of items permitted by the Producers (excluding, among
other things, certain items, to be specified later, the possession of which may
subject participants to disqualification), which each participant must be able
to carry by him or herself. Teams'
bags will be subject to search by the Producers at any time for illegal or
inappropriate items that otherwise violate the Producers' or the International
Channel of Shanghai (ICS) standards and practices. **
If selected as a participant, you and your teammate must be willing to travel to
numerous locations around China lasting approximately 30 to 45 days starting
sometime between April through June of 2010.
Each participant is also responsible for bringing a passport that is
valid until at least July 1, 2011 and has a minimum of ten (10) blank pages and
one (1) other form of photo identification with them.
e.
Both members of each team must
be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
f.
During the
course of the Race, teams may be asked to drive vehicles with manual and/or
automatic transmissions. Each team
is responsible
for ensuring that at least
one member can drive a vehicle with a manual transmission and at least one
member can drive an automatic transmission.
One member of each team must have a valid driver's license with which the
Producers will assist finalists in procuring an International Drivers’ Permit.
Each team is responsible for the
consequences of their inability to drive or operate a given vehicle, and the
Producer is not obligated to provide any instructions or assistance of any kind
to any Team in connection with the operation of any
vehicle. Any Team members who do not have a valid driver's license shall
not drive or operate any motorized vehicles which require a valid driver's
license to operate.
g.
An applicant may not presently
be a legally qualified candidate for any type of political office (Candidate)
and may not become a Candidate from the time his or her application is submitted
until one (1) year after the initial broadcast date of the last episode of the
Program in which the applicant were to appear, if that applicant were to be
selected as part of a participant team.
h.
All applicants must be in good
physical and mental health and must be aware that, and sign releases attesting
that, the activities in the Program may involve risks and hazards, and that
participating in the Program may expose applicant and other participants to,
among other things, the risk of death, serious injury, illness and property
damage caused by the risks associated with their participation in the Program,
including, without limitation, the following: latent or apparent defects or
conditions in any equipment used in the Program; the use or operation by
applicant or others of said equipment; acts of other people including, without
limitation, acts of the Producers or other participants; accommodations; weather
or other natural conditions; the nature of travel including, without limitation,
latent defects and human error; applicant's physical condition; applicant's own
acts or omissions; sleep deprivation; first-aid, medical or emergency treatment
or other services rendered to applicant or others; exposure to illness;
consumption of food or drink; acts of God (e.g., earthquakes and floods); laws
or local ordinances; war or riots; terrorism; strikes; and/or no reason at all. Applicants must understand and
acknowledge that the above list of reasons is not complete or exhaustive.
Applicants must accept and assume all risks of injury, death, illness or
disease, or other damage to themselves, to others, or to their property, which
arise in any way from their participation in this Program, and will not hold the
Producers responsible.
i.
Each applicant must complete,
sign and timely return the Online Application before being eligible to
participate in the interview process.
In addition, all applicants must complete, sign, and timely return any
additional required documents before any semi-finalist interview, and must
complete, sign and timely return the Release and Waiver Agreement and any
additional required documents before being permitted to participate in any
finalist interviews. The additional
required documents may include, but will not necessarily be limited to, a
Medical Report by Patient and Physician, Emergency Medical Release,
Authorization for Release of Medical Records and Information, Disclosure and
Authorization for Background Reports, Immediate Family Member Releases and a
Confidentiality Agreement (all of which will be furnished to the applicants).
As part of the Release and Waiver
Agreement, each applicant must agree (and each applicant's immediate family
members, if any, must agree) to, among other things, assume the risk of any and
all injury, illness, death, damage, loss, or harm to the applicant or
applicant's property, howsoever caused, resulting from or arising out of the
selection of participants, applicant's participating in the Program as a
participant or otherwise, and/or the production and/or exploitation of the
Program. By agreeing to the terms of
the Confidentiality Agreement, each applicant will be required to, among other
things, treat all information and material received or acquired in connection
with applicant's participation in the participant selection process and Program
(if selected as a participant), including, without limitation, the progress,
results and outcome of the Program, as strictly confidential and shall be
strictly required to not disclose any such information to any third party.
Without limiting Producer's right to obtain other relief from the applicant, any
breach of the Confidentiality Agreement will subject the applicant to
substantial liquidated damages in accordance with the terms of the
Confidentiality Agreement. In connection with any disclosure authorizations or
authorizations for release of records or other information, all applicants must
authorize the Producers to conduct such full and complete background checks of
the applicant as the Producers, in their sole discretion, deem necessary or
appropriate. The applicants will be
required to cooperate fully with the Producers in connection with such
background investigations.
j.
Applicants must disclose to
the Producers if they have ever been charged with a felony or misdemeanour,
other than minor traffic or parking violations, and whether they have ever had a
restraining order entered against them.
The Producers reserve the right in their discretion to disqualify any
applicant based on such disclosures.
k.
All applicants must have a
valid passport or be in the process of obtaining a passport (which process will
be completed in time for the applicant to travel internationally should the
applicant be selected as a participant) and deliver a copy of such passport or
proof of such passport application process at the time of submission of The
Amazing Race: China Rush participant application.
All passports must be valid until at least July 1, 2011 and must contain
at least ten (10) blank pages.
l.
All participants must agree to
interact with the other participants and cooperate with Producers during the
taping of the Program on a twenty-four-(24)-hours-a-day, seven-(7)-days-a-week
basis. Participants must be able to
travel for long periods of time, must be adaptable to various living and
travelling situations and must enjoy living and travelling in close proximity
with others of varied age, sex, race, background, and experience.
m.
Participants must be willing to
receive all needed immunizations that the Producers deem to be necessary and
medically appropriate to the race.
Teams must agree to take any medications needed to prevent illness in certain
foreign countries. Teams must be
willing to participate in the Program without any interruption during any time
of the year, regardless of personal or religious practices.
n.
Employees, officers, directors
and agents of any of the Producers and the immediate family (spouse, mother,
father, sister, brother, daughter or son, regardless of where they live) or
members of their same households (whether related or not) of such employees,
officers, directors and agents are not eligible to be participants on the
Program or to participate in this application process.
o.
Upon the Producers' request,
all applicants and/or participants agree to sign and abide by the terms of any
additional releases or authorizations that the Producers, in their sole
discretion, deem necessary.
p.
All applicants must abide by
all applicable laws during the application process and if selected as a
participant, all applicable laws during the period in which the Program is being
taped.
q.
The Producers reserve the
right to make additions to and/or deletions from the application process above,
including, but not limited to, changes to the locations, dates and/or times of
the interviews. The Producers also
reserve the right to contact applicants to ask additional questions and/or
conduct phone interviews to gather additional information about applicants
. Such phone interviews are not
required and at the Producers' sole discretion to assist in gathering
information for participant selection. Without limiting the foregoing, the Producers reserve the right not to
produce the Program, and The International Channel of Shanghai (ICS) has no
obligation to broadcast the Program.
r.
The Producers are not
responsible for lost, stolen, or incorrectly mailed applications.
Due to the high volume of
applications the Producers are anticipating, the Producers will not be able to
answer any questions about the receipt or status of any application or
videotape. All applications
(including any video footage submitted by the applicants) become the sole
property of the Producers. The
Producers shall have the right to use and exploit such video footage in any and
all media, worldwide in perpetuity with no obligation to the applicants.
s.
All decisions regarding the
Program, including but not limited to, rules, eligibility, participant
selection, Program production, game play, tasks, participant elimination and
award of prizes, are at the Producers' sole and exclusive discretion, are final,
and not subject to appeal.
Participants will not be awarded any prize winnings, if and as applicable, until
after the initial broadcast of the final episode of the cycle in which those
Participants appeared (i.e., the episode in which the winning team of that cycle
is announced). Participants will be
personally responsible for any taxes on any prizes.
The applicants must sign statements
acknowledging that they have read and will comply with all of the eligibility
requirements described herein.
t.
The Producers reserve the
right to disqualify any team for any reason, including, without limitation, any
team member's tampering with the application process or the operation of the
application process, threatening or harming another person, colluding with other
participants to share prize winnings, or violating the Official Rules or other
rules then in effect or the standards and practices and policies of the
Producers and/or ICS.
Disqualification may result in, among other things, immediate forfeiture of any
prize otherwise awarded or awardable.
u.
By submitting an application,
each applicant agrees to release, discharge and hold harmless the Producers and
ICS from all claims and damages arising out of his/her participation in the
application process or the Program itself, and to have his or her name, voice
and likeness used at the Producers' discretion as part of the Program, or as
part of promotions for the Program, in any and all media now known or hereafter
devised.