SHOWDOWN : Saatchi gallery

In a new initiative to generate more exposure for the artists in Saatchi Online and Stuart, and to spotlight their work to as wide an audience as possible, we have created SHOWDOWN.
SHOWDOWN is for all registered Saatchi Online and Stuart artists to enter their works for visitors to score. The winner of the final head-to-head vote will receive £1000 and the runner up will receive £750. The winning work will go on display at the new Saatchi gallery.

HOW IT WORKS
To submit your artwork in SHOWDOWN, you need to be a registered Saatchi Online or Stuart artist. If you are not registered yet, please to register with Saatchi Online, where all artists can showcase their work on their own network page and with Stuart, where all art students to show their work and create their own network page. To submit artworks for SHOWDOWN, registered Saatchi Online or Stuart artists please log in with your Stuart or Saatchi Online username and password to view your art and submit an artwork for this week’s SHOWDOWN.

The process is as follows:on Monday mornings from 9 am (UK time) registered artists on Saatchi Online and Stuart have until 6 pm Sunday night (UK time) to load an image for Showdown. All visitors are free to vote on all artworks, scoring them from one to ten (one being the lowest score and ten the highest)
Voting takes place for the next seven days (Monday 9 am until the following Monday 9 am UK time). The two artworks with the highest overall scores go head-to-head. Visitors then vote on the two head-to-head works for a further seven days.
After twelve rounds all the head-to-head victors enter a knockout phase, until the final showdown, to choose an overall winner.
Throughout the seven day head-to-head vote, artists are able to enter one of their works for the next round of the contest, so that the process is continuous. Artists are able to enter every round of the contest that they wish to.

NOTE
You can submit one artwork for each round of SHOWDOWN, which runs for two weeks so that a round winner is chosen every fortnight. Artwork submitted today will enter the SHOWDOWN that runs between 17-12-2007 to 24-12-2007. Once an artwork has been submitted you can log in during the competition and see your current rating, on the log in page.
After a SHOWDOWN round ends, you can re-enter the same artwork for another round, or submit a different artwork for the next round. A new artwork can be submitted during the head-to-head round. Head-to-head winners that proceed into the final stages of SHOWDOWN cannot re-enter into any further rounds until the final SHOWDOWN winner is selected. Once the artwork has been submitted you cannot replace your artwork.

VOTING
Any visitor to the site can rate and vote for artworks in SHOWDOWN. All visitors are free to vote on all artworks, scoring them from one to ten (one being the lowest score and ten the highest).
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.
The artworks are displayed randomly and constantly rotate. Each time an artwork is rated by clicking on a star to register a vote a new random artwork is displayed. To see more images please click on the ‘Click here to see more images’ displayed on the SHOWDOWN homepage.
If you have already rated an artwork, your rating will be displayed, and this rating cannot be changed.

info: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/rules.php