How to Win the Photo Contest

This is a photo contest. To win, you need to submit a nice, skillfully taken photo, and win the hearts of our "moms". They will then give you their vote! You need as many votes as possible!

Your friends can also vote for you - so do tell all of them to support you!

Remember to give your friends the URL (web address) of the page where your kid's photograph can be found.

The best way to do this?

1. After you've uploaded your kid's photo, use the "Email to Friend" link found below the photo.

2. Once you've emailed your photo page to your friends, they can see your photo but will not be able to vote unless they register first (to ensure 1 vote per person).

3. They must then return to the photo page and click on the VOTE button below the photo.

IMPORTANT:
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For audit purposes, all winners must submit:
- full personal details
- copy of mothers IC
- copy of child's birth certificate
- a clear picture of the mother & child (to be published in the Hall of Fame).

This must be done before you can receive your prizes. If you don't, your prize will be awarded to other contestants.

Our voting system will keep count and you can check at any time, how many votes you have earned. On the closing date of each month, Qualifying votes for each entry will be tallied & audited, and the judges will decide on the winners for each category, based on many factors including quality of photos, and votes earned. Judges decisions are final.

*Qualifying Votes: Please read below.

Winning photographs will be featured on our frontpage, and winners will be notified by email. Prizes will be mailed to you by registered post.

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RULES & REGULATIONS
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We constantly endeavour to keep Malaysiamums a fun and fair competition! All in the spirit of good cheer! To keep the competition exciting, meaningful and fair for everyone, we have refined our photo contest rules.

Fathers are not eligible to win prizes

Effective 10 July 2006, fathers are free to submit entries for our contests, but please know that your entry will not be awarded any of the prizes. Malaysiamums will only award prizes to mothers.

Participating in more than 1 category

You can submit photographs and collect votes in more than 1 category. However, if you win a top-3 spot in both categories, only the picture with the highest number of votes will be counted. The other picture will be disregarded.

Submitting more than 1 picture

You are free to submit as many pictures as you wish. However, if more than 1 picture wins a top 3-spot, only the picture with the highest votes will be counted.

Entering again

No.1 & No.2 winners for all categories of a particular month cannot enter any of these categories again for the next 12 months. No.3 winners may enter again.

No.1 & No. 2 winners may submit photos for NEW categories that we launch from time to time. We will notify all members of new category launches by email. Winners of any of these new categories, will also not be allowed to participate in those categories again for the next 12 months.

Voting Rules - Qualifying votes

Every member is allowed to vote once for a particular picture. You can however vote for any number of pictures that you feel deserve your vote.

To ensure that our contest is always fun and fair for all members, if any contestants are found to be using inappropriate methods to win, we reserve the right to disqualify the entry, revoke the contestant's membership account, forfeit any prizes etc... Malaysiamums is a community of Malaysian mothers, established to help moms encourage each other and have lots of fun participating in discussions, contests and other events. Let's keep it this way!

Judges veto rights**

As this is a photo contest which depends substantially on the skill of the photographer and the quality/composition of the photograph, our judges reserve the right to veto any votes. Gathering the most number of votes will help you convince our judges that your photo deserves to win. However, our judges have the right to award prizes to more deserving pictures, of better quality/skill. Eg. If you submit a simplistic photograph without putting in much effort to compose it, and caption it nicely, even if you have the most number votes, our judges may exercise their discretion to promote a better quality entry above yours. Having said that, the greatest factor in determining winners, is the number of votes that you collect!

What's the best way to win then?

This is a photo contest. The best way to win, is to take a nice, cute picture of your precious little ones. You want the world to see them at their best!

Then, get as MANY genuine, qualifying votes as possible. Once you submit your photo, if you have a nice picture, our other members will vote for you. In addition, you can gather support and visibility for your picture by telling your friends, colleagues, family etc... They'll vote for you if your picture is a nice one!

#Remember, our judges will not hesitate to take the necessary action to keep our contest clean, fair and fun for everyone!#

Additional regulations

Our monthly contest is open to all residents of Malaysia.

Duplicate photos are not allowed.

Malaysiamums reserves the right to remove photographs which we deem unappropriate.

Vouchers are not exchangeable for cash.

Malaysiamums reserves the right to update these rules at any time.

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