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FISM ACM
Contest Rules and Procedures for the

FISM Asian Championships of Magic 2008

1. ABOUT THE PARTICIPATION

a) FISM Asian Championships of Magic (FISM ACM) are organized under the auspices and
    supervision of the FISM by one of the Member Societies or by a Professional Convention
    Organizer with the support of a member Society and are open to
  ● Any magician who has reached the FISM level (see Article 7c) and who is a member
      of a Society affiliated to the FISM, after having received the written authorization
      of the president of FISM Society of which he or she is a member.
  ● Any magician who has reached the FISM Level and who is not a member of a FISM
      Member Society, after having received the written authorization of the Presidents of
      FISM Member Societies from the two different countries.
b) The President of the FISM Member Society who has given this authorization is
     responsible for the quality of the act of the performer.
     Only candidates having attained the FISM ACM Level should receive such
     an authorization
     The names of the Member Society and its President will be mentioned when
     the candidate is announced.
     Member societies, having sponsored more than one competitor performing under
     FISM ACM Level can - by judgment of the Presidium - lose their sponsoring right
     for the next FISM ACM.
c) The number of contestants is limited to 74 applicants, being around 48 for the
     Stage and around 26 for the close-up competition.
d) Excluded from participation in a given FISM ACM are artists who are booked by the
     organizing committee to perform or lecture at that Championship.
e) A performer who has been awarded a Grand Prix in a previous FISM ACM is not
     allowed to compete again with essentially the same act
f) A contestant must be a paid registrant of the FISM ACM during which the contest is held.
     The organizing committee must have received the duly signed registration form for the
     contest, including the appropriate authorization(s), the convention fee and the contest
     fee, at least four weeks before the opening of the Championships.
g) By participating in the contest, a contestant agrees with all the decision of the judges,
     which are not subject to appeal.
h) A prize-winning contestant, when asked by the organizing committee, is obliged to
     perform his or her act again at a show of the Convention, without any fee.

2. ABOUT THE JURY

a) To determine all prizes and other awards, one judging panel is composed.
     The judging panel consists of seven to nine judges.
     A non-judging president presides over the panel.
b) All judges are chosen by the organizer country of FISM ACM initiatively.
     These choices should be based on the qualifications of
     the candidates in both the art of Magic and that of judging magic performances.
     There should be a diversity of age and cultural background and
     all judges should be able to communicate in English. The Presidium of FISM ASIA should
     acknowledge continuity in FISM ACM juries Preferably there will be only one
     judge for any one country.
c) For the second phase of the competition (see Article 7a) the Presidium may decide in
     common accord to add one non-magician, preferably an authority in the theatre or
     entertainment business, to the appropriate judging panel.
d) The president of the jury, although watching as many contest performances as possible,
     does not judge the acts as the other judges do. He or she chairs the jury meetings and
     attends as many of the panel meetings as possible. He or she concludes and
     summarizes the final decisions and is responsible for the observance of the FISM
     ACM contest rules.
     In case of a tie, the jury President will arbitrate, and that decision will be final.
e) Judges will be exempt from paying a convention registration fee, and will get free
     refreshments and meals during their judging time.
f) The President of the jury will send a full report of the contest results, with appropriate
     remarks and observations, to the president of the FISM ACM within three months of the
     closing of theChampionships.

3. ABOUT THE CATEGORIES

a) The contest performances are open in the following categories:
  Stage Magic Performances:
   - Manipulation: A magic stage act wholly or largely based on sleight of hand.
   - General Magic: A magic stage act which is, in most cases, a mix of several of the
      other categories.
      The props used are usually smaller than the ones used in a Stage illusion act.
      Some performances using modern high-tech or video technology can also
      be categorizedunder this denomination.
   - Stage illusions: A magic act in which huge props are used (even when these are
      not visible to the audience). Often several people and/or animals are involved.
   - Comedy Magic: An act of which the main purpose is to make people laugh.
      It can be based on any one of the aforementioned categories, provided the
      emphasis is laid on the magic nature of the performance.
   - Mental magic: Branch of magic comprising demonstrations of apparent extraordinary or
      supernatural mental powers, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis,
      super memory, lightning calculation and simulations of mediumistic phenomena.
  Close-up Magic Performances:
  Acts, intended to be performed for small groups of people in close proximity.
  The performer can be seated or standing behind a table, mostly with some members
  of the audience also seated at this table, but the act can also be presented standing
  up without any use of a table.
  The items used are generally small and most effects directly involve the spectators or
  participants.
  We distinguish three categories:
   - Card Magic: the act is exclusively based on effects using playing cards.
   - Micro Magic: although playing cards are not excluded, the act is of a more
     general nature.
   - Parlour Magic: An act, midway between close-up and stage magic, meant to be
     performed for a group of people in a moderately sized room.
b) If the judges are of the shared opinion that it would be in the best interests of a
     contestant to change his category, they are entitled to make such a change.

4. ABOUT THE CONTESTANTS AND THE CONTEST PERFORMANCE

a) A contestant’s performance during a FISM ACM is at his exclusive charge and
     responsibility.
     He has to make sure to hold all necessary rights and licenses for his performance.
b) Ultimately four weeks before the opening of the championships, a contestant
     shall transmit to the Organizer a list of all the music titles used during
     his performance, as well as all necessary information for it, including the music
     titles name, name of the author, adapter and performer, time of the track and the name
     and label of the soundtrack.
     In the absence of an appropriate copyright license on the performer’s music,
     FISM ACM may make reasonable efforts to obtain it. The related costs will be
     deducted from the revenues to be received by contestant from FIM ACM.
     If FISM ACM cannot get clearance of the music rights, in dialogue with contestant,
     the music in question will be replaced.
c) A contestant must present a complete act (not a single trick) of at least five minutes
     and not more than ten minutes.
d) A contestant can only present one act in one category in Stage magic and one
     act in one category in Close-up magic.
e) A contestant who presents an act that is obviously a copy of the act, or a significant
     or typical part of it, of another performer will be disqualified.
f) A contestant who will make use of a person who will not be surprised, amazed
     or fooled by a magic effect as he already knows what to do before coming to help the
     performer (a so-called ‘stooge’) will be disqualified.
g) A contestant must be ready to perform his act at least ten minutes before the
     scheduled time.
     The jury may disqualify a contestant who is not ready by this ten-minute notice.
h) An act begins when the contestant enters the stage or when the music of the
     act starts, whichever comes first.
i) At the front of the stage will be two electric lamps, one yellow and one red. After nine
     minutes of a performance, the yellow lamp will be switched on. After the tenth minute,
     the red lamp will be switched on, showing the contestant that he or she is over time
     and therefore disqualified.
     A contestant will also be disqualified in case of a flashing red lamp (see Article 7d)
j) When introducing a contestant, the Master of Ceremonies of the competition will refrain
     from any comment on the performer or the act, restricting the announcement to the
     name of the contestant, the category of performance, the country and society and
     the name(s) of the President(s) authorizing this participation in the contest.

5. ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

a) For the purpose of promoting the art of Magic and the FISM Asian Championships
     of Magic, a contestant gives FISM ACM the rights to use, represent, reproduce,
     adapt and more generally exploit the intellectual property rights attached to the
     contestant’s performance during the FISM ACM, for the term of the intellectual property
     protection in the countries of promotion and archiving, including their radio and
     television broadcasting, videogram distribution, publishing exploitation, merchandising,
     internet or any other equivalent telecommunication network exploitation and
     music exploitation.
b) In compensation of the rights granted to FISM ACM, If FISM ACM produces (a)
     (TV)-program(s) of the Championships, in which more than 30 seconds of the
     recording of contestant’s performance during the Championships is included, the
     contestant will be offered a lump sum per second performance time. The amount of
     the lump sum will be fixed at the latest four weeks before the convention starts.
     Furthermore a contestant will receive from FISM ACM a copy on DVD of his performance
     during the Championships
     Payment to a contestant will be made within thirty (30) working days after finishing the
     (TV-) program.

6. ABOUT THE PRIZES AND OTHER AWARDS

a) Prizes
     In each category, three prizes can be awarded by the jury: a first prize, a second
     prize and a third prize.
b) Special Contest Awards
     The jury can issue one or more awards for an invention both in stage and close-up
     competitions. The inventions have to be presented as part of an act in one of the
     categories and the invention has to be claimed by the performer when registering
     for the competition.
     There is no hierarchy for awards for invention. The jury, who will determine the
     invention to be at least a new effect or a new method or technique, will decide on
     these awards.
     The jury is entitled to award a special contest award for “Most Original Act” to the act
     (in any category) that can justify such a decision.
c) Grand Prix
     In the second phase of the judging process (see Article 7), on top of the aforementioned
     prizes and special contest awards, a Grand Prix for Stage Magic and a Grand Prix for
     Close-up Magic will be awarded by the jury.
d) Other awards
     No other prize, award, distinction or gift can be given without the approval of the
     Presidium and the President of the jury. This includes any prize or award given
     on behalf of a private company. Only FISM ACM contestants having received a prize,
     a (special) contestant award, are eligible for an additional prize or award beyond those
     mentioned in the preceding paragraphs of this Article.

7. ABOUT THE JUDGING PROCESS

a) The judging process is two-phased.
     In the first phase the jury will judge all the contestant’s performances during the
     contest in order to determine who’s eligible for the prizes and awards as mentioned in
     Article 6a, and 6b, when appropriate.
     The second phase is meant to elect the two Grand Prix winners, as mentioned in
     Article 6c, and to determine the final order of the best performances in each of the
     categories on Stage and in Close-up (see paragraph j). This second phase will take
     place during the final competitions.
b) A member of the jury shall give a fair judgment on the performance of every
     contestant, without prejudice, with an equal level of critical standards in regard to the
     following six aspects:
     ● Technical Skill/Handling.
     ● Showmanship/Presentation.
     ● Entertainment value
     ● Artistic Impression/Routining
     ● Originality
     ● Magic Atmosphere
c) In the first phase, using the official judging form in conformity with Annex A, each
     judge will give a total score of up to 100 points to each contestant. After each
     contest performance, the part of the judging form below the dotted line will be
     collected by a member of the special staff as mentioned in Article 9a.
     Adding the scores of all judges and dividing the total by the number of judges,
     the final score will then be calculated.
     The maximum final scores for a contestant will thus be 100 points.
d) A contestant with final score lower than 50 points is considered below the FISM
     ACM level and will be disqualified.
e) Judges will each have access to a switch to activate the red lamp on the
     performing platform.
     If, after the first three minutes of an act, a judge is of the opinion that the
     performance is below the FISM ACM level, he can press his button. When at least 70%
     of the number of judges have pressed their button, the system activates the red lamp
     which then starts flashing, meaning the contestant is disqualified. In the stage
     competition the curtain will close within 20 seconds after the red lamp started flashing.
f) At the conclusion of the first phase, having seen the performances of all the
     contestants, the individual Judges may reconsider their judgments and, with
     the approval of the President of the jury, will be given the opportunity to change
     some of their scores.
     These changes will be given to the special staff members who will recalculate
     the final scores.
g) After all necessary calculations are complete, the list of final scores will be handed
     to the President of the jury, who will assemble all the judges in a meeting to
     determine who qualifies for the divers prizes and who will be in the final competition.
h) The prizes will be award to the highest scores in each category.
     To be awarded a first prize, a contestant must have a final score of at least 80 points.
     The final score must be at least 70 points for a second prize and at least 60
     points for a third prize.
i) If no contestant has the required points for a given prize in a given category, that
     prize will not be awarded.
j) The list of prizes and other awards as mentioned in Article 7a to 7c will be kept
     secret until the official proclamation and presentation of the trophies to the winners.
    The declaration of the awards will be made in reverse order, beginning with the special
    contest awards then the lowest prize and ending with the first prize
k) For both performing conditions, Stage and Close-up, a maximum of eight performers
     with the highest scores, are qualified for the second phase of the judging process,
     during which the winners of the Grand Prix will be elected and the final order
     of the winners will be determined.
     In judging the competitors in this second phase, the jury will apply the
     same standards as mentioned in paragraph b of this Article.
     After the last performance, the judges will be asked to list all performers in
     the order of their preference. Their number one gets (n) points, where n is
     the total number of performers, number two on the list gets (n-1)points, number
     three(n-2) and so on.
     The jury staff officer adds all the points of each performer and the performer
     with the highest total points will be awarded the Grand Prix.
     All other finalists will be awarded a prize according to their
     final score in the first phase.

8. ABOUT TITLES

a) Only a first-prize winner is entitled to use the title of “Asian Champion” along with
     the prize category prize, plus the year of its acquisition( e.g “Asian Champion
     Stage illusions 2009” or “Asian Champion Card Magic 2009”).
b) Being first-prize winners, by definition, the holders of the two Grand Prix awards are
     declared “World Grand Prix Winner” in their category. Moreover, they are entitled
     to precede this title by FISM ACM Grand Prix Winner (e.g “ FISM ACM Grand Prix winner
     and Asian Champion Manipulation 2009”or “FISM ACM Grand Prix Winner and
     Asian Champion Card Magic 2009”)

9. ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION

a) The organizing committee, in coordination with the Presidium, will appoint official
     timekeepers for the contests. A special staff, headed by the Jury Staff Officer,
     will assure a smooth-running judging process. Among other responsibilities, the
     jury staff shall collect the forms, do the necessary calculations, and take care of
     the well-being of the judges. The jury staff will keep all the scores strictly secret,
     revealing them to no one except for the jury President.
     These scores will not be shared with the other judges before the list of final scores
     is provided (see Article 7 g).
b) The organizing committee will provide the necessary official judging forms, clipboards
     as well as diplomas for the prizewinners.
c) Trophies for the divers prizes have to be designed according to FISM ACM
     specifications.
d) The Jury Staff Officer will send the contest rules and procedures to the judges no less
     than four weeks before the start of the Championships.
e) At the beginning of the convention, prior to the start of the contest, the judging panel
     (as mentioned in Article 2a) will be briefed by a member of the Presidium or by
     the President of the Jury on the main issues of these FISM ACM contest rules and
     procedures.

10. ABOUT LIABILITY

a) A contestant and FISM ACM will indemnify each other in case of an intellectual property
     infringement claim by a third party. FISM ACM’s maximum aggregate liability shall
     not exceed the total amount paid by FISM ACM to the contestant for the matter
     at the origin of the indemnity, and excludes any indirect damage, even if foreseeable.
b) These rules terminate at the term of the intellectual property of the granted rights
     to FISM ACM.
c) Any dispute arising from these rules, provided that no out of court agreement has been
     reached within thirty (30) days from its occurrence, are governed by the laws of
     the country where the FISM ACM is held.