Competition Rules

Self-service virtual challenge showcases

Newly created self-service competitions on Quborly are virtual or hybrid no-prize challenge showcases. Participation is free, and no cash, merchandise, credit, grant, investment, contract, employment, paid booking, or other item or opportunity of monetary value is awarded. Audience tickets purchase admission to the live event only. Tickets are not participant entry fees, charitable donations, tax-deductible contributions, payments for ballots, or chances to win.

Participants and every on-stage team presenter must be at least 18 and reside in one of the 50 U.S. states or Washington, DC. Recognition may be determined by one audience ballot per eligible attendee account, by judges using published criteria, or by a disclosed hybrid weighting. Participants, team presenters, and judges cannot cast audience ballots. Totals remain hidden until selection closes; shared ties remain tied. Aggregate ranks and scores may then be public, but individual judge scores and private notes are not. These showcases are live-only and are not recorded or replayed. The versioned terms on the event page control.

Published screen-time slots

Before a showcase round is scheduled, the Host may publish a sequential run of show stating each accepted entry’s screen-time start, duration, and readiness deadline. Once the round is scheduled, its roster and slot timing are frozen. Contestants and authorized team presenters should enter backstage early and affirm readiness. The live producer may call an entry, place it on stage, complete it, or record a forfeited slot. Going on stage starts the live slot timer; leaving the stage completes the slot.

Missing a readiness deadline or scheduled start does not automatically cause forfeiture. Before recording a forfeiture, the producer must make a reasonable operational check for the presenter and consider reported platform, connectivity, safety, and accommodation issues. A forfeiture requires a human action and recorded reason, applies only to that round slot, and excludes the entry from voting and scoring for that round. The event’s cancellation and refund terms still apply to audience admission.

Charities, nonprofits, and state law

Charitable or nonprofit status does not waive state contest, lottery, raffle, charitable-solicitation, consumer-protection, tax, accessibility, or other requirements. The self-service showcase format does not support raffles, random drawings, donation-linked chances, participant fees, or prizes of value. A Host that adds any such feature outside Quborly must obtain its own jurisdiction-specific legal review. Eligibility across the 50 states and Washington, DC is a product rule, not a representation that every independently modified promotion is lawful in every jurisdiction.

Quborly skill prize competitions

These Official Rules govern skill-based competitions produced by Ajolla Inc (doing business as Quborly) (“Quborly,” the “Sponsor” and “Administrator”). They are part of our Terms of Service. Each competition’s event page states the specific dates, entry fee, prize amounts, categories, and judging panel; where an event page differs from these general rules, the event page controls. Competitions hosted by third parties on Quborly are governed by that organizer’s own official rules, not this document.

1. Sponsor and Administrator

Quborly-produced competitions are sponsored and administered by Ajolla Inc (doing business as Quborly). Quborly provides the event, registration, reservation, payment, and community technology. For competitions produced by third parties, the third-party organizer is the sponsor and administrator and bears legal responsibility for the competition; Quborly provides technology only.

2. Skill-based

These are skill-based competitions. Winners are selected from skill or performance under the method disclosed on the event page, not by chance. Entry may require a ticket or entry fee as shown on the event page.

3. Eligibility

Entrants must meet the minimum age and any category or geographic eligibility stated on the event page, and must comply with our Community Guidelines. Employees and immediate family of the Sponsor involved in administering a competition are not eligible to win that competition. Void where prohibited.

4. How to enter

Enter through the competition’s event page during the entry period shown there, following the contestant instructions. Incomplete or late entries are not accepted.

5. Judging and winner selection

Winners are selected by the method described on the event page: a judging panel using published criteria, an audience vote, or a disclosed hybrid weighting. Where judges are used, their decisions are final. Winners are notified through the contact details on their Quborly account after the competition concludes.

6. Prizes

The prize for each competition is described on its event page. Prizes are not transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash except as stated. The prize status shown on the event page (for example, proposed, subject to confirmation, or guaranteed) reflects the current commitment level and is accurate at the time of display.

7. Taxes

Winners are responsible for all taxes on prizes. Where required by law, the Sponsor will request tax information and issue the applicable forms (for example, a U.S. IRS Form 1099 for prizes at or above the reporting threshold) before a prize is paid.

8. Cancellation and changes

The Sponsor may modify, suspend, or cancel a competition if it cannot be run as planned (for example, insufficient eligible entries, a venue that cannot be confirmed, or events beyond the Sponsor’s control). Any amounts collected are handled under our Refunds & Cancellations policy. Material changes after entrants have paid follow our re-confirmation process.

9. Conduct and disqualification

Entrants who violate these rules, our Community Guidelines, or applicable law, or who submit work that is not their own, may be disqualified.

10. Governing law and disputes

These rules and any competition are governed by the terms, dispute resolution, and governing-law provisions of our Terms of Service.

11. Contact

Questions about a competition or these rules? Contact support@quborly.com.