2017

TIPTONS GOT TALENT

Mid-South Fair
Youth Talent Qualifier
Official
Entry Form
BE SURE TO READ
ALL INFORMATION
CASH PRIZE FOR THE WINNER!
REGISTRATION CHECKLIST
PLEASE INCLUDE:
o REGISTRATION FORM
o RELEASE FORM
o CONTESTANT BIOGRAPHY
o ENTRY FEE $20 solo/$30 group
o Audition submission(email/youtube/text)
o Headshot (email/text)
DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8th.
Questions?
Megan Allen 901-409-3271 or
TIPTONSGOTTALENT@GMAIL.COM
Drop off OR Mail registration forms, video submissions/entries and fees to:
Covington High School
Attn: Megan Allen
803 South College ST
Covington TN 38019
www.tiptonsgottalent.weebly.com
tiptonsgottalent@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/tiptonsgottalent
Drop off OR Mail registration forms, video submissions/entries and fees to:
Covington High School
Attn: Megan Allen
803 South College ST
Covington TN 38019
www.tiptonsgottalent.weebly.com
tiptonsgottalent@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/tiptonsgottalent
2017
TIPTONS GOT TALENT
(MidSouth Fair Youth Talent Qualifier)
Official Entry Form
Name of Act:______________________________________# of People in Act:_________________________________
Contestant(s) Name:______________________________Age:_____________ Birth Date:________________________
Address:_________________________________________________________ Phone #__________________________
Parent(s)/Legal Guardians Name:______________________________________________

Division (choose one: groups members MUST be in the same age division in order to compete)
Mini Junior (AGES 6-8)_________________
Junior Division (AGES 9-12):_____________ (MID-SOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER)
YOUNG Senior Division (AGES 13-15):____ (MID-SOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER)
OLDER Senior Division B (AGES 16-21)___ (MID-SOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER)
Senior Adult Division (AGES 22-UP)_______

Description of Act: PLEASE SEE NEXT PAGE FOR DESCRIPTIONS

Vocal Solo:___ Vocal Group:____ Band:____
If Solo: Male:____ Female:____ Type of Instrument (If Applicable)___________________
(If entering group, please enter ALL group members names/ages:___________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please list below the contact name and complete mailing address where all correspondence should be mailed:
Email Address :________________________________
Contact Name:_________________________________
Day Phone:______________________ Night Phone:_________________ Cell Phone:______________________
HOW ARE YOU SUBMITTING YOUR AUDITION RECORDING?_________________________________________________
Contact Address:________________________________ City:______________________ State:_____ Zip:_______________
Private Teacher Name:_______________________________
Private Teacher Email and Phone (if applicable):____________________________________
Studio Name (If Applicable):_________________________________
Studio Address:______________________________________________
Has any member of this act ever been a professional entertainer? Yes___ No___
Is any member of this act competing in another act? Yes:__ No:__ If yes, give name and category of the act:________________________________

Information on each member MUST be included below. All members MUST meet the age qualifications of the age division it is entering in as of the day of the
show. Attach a second Sheet if necessary. ***ALL ACTS MUST NOT RUN OVER 3 MINS. Any Act running over 3mins/15 secs will be disqualified.
Contestants may compete only ONCE in each category.
Email Megan Allen at tiptonsgottalent@gmail.com or call 901-840-9233 with any questions.

Audition Fees: Solo-$20 Group-$30 (check/cash/or money order to Covington High School Choir Dept.(Memo=Contestant: Name)
*A non-refundable check or money order must accompany the entry form. Registration/audition deadline is Wednesday, March 8th
@ 12:00midnight.
*Auditions MUST be submitted by text/email/youtube video/audio OR video copy sent along with the registration form.
*Contestants MUST audition the SONG FOR AUDITIONS THAT THEY INTEND ON PERFORMING IN THE TALENT SHOW.
*Please submit all audio/video auditions to: tiptonsgottalent@gmail.com.
(You may also upload video to youtube/Tiptons Got Talent Facebook and send link to email address listed above.
*You will be notified by email if you made the show by Friday, March 10th. Prizes will be awarded to the winners of each age division,
and each contestant will receive a gift for participating in the event. This contest will be a qualifier for the Mid-South Fair youth talent
contest.
I (we) have read the rules governing the Tiptons Got Talent Contest and agree to abide by them. (read rules/category pages before signing)
Signature(s) of ALL Contestants in act AND Legal guardians:
___________________________________ ________________________________________ (required for all contestants under the age of 18)
Contestant(s) signature Date Parent/Legal Guardian signature Date
 2017
TIPTONS GOT TALENT
CONTESTANT BIOGRAPHY
TO BE USED BY EMCEE TO INTRODUCE CONTESTANT
BEFORE PERFORMANCE
(Be SURE to include a headshot via text or email)

ACT NAME(S):________________________________________________________
AGE(S):_______________________________________________________________

Age group: (choose one)

Mini Junior (AGES 6-8)_________________
Junior Division (AGES 9-12):_____________ (MID-SOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER)
YOUNG Senior Division (AGES 13-15):____ (MID-SOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER)
OLDER Senior Division B (AGES 16-21)___ (MID-SOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER)
Senior Adult Division (AGES 22-UP)_______

Category: (choose one)

Vocal Solo:___ Vocal Group:____ Variety Solo_______ Variety Group:_____________
If Solo: Male:____ Female:____ Type of Instrument (If Applicable)___________________

SONG SELECTION:___________________________________________________

HOBBIES/INTERESTS:________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

(YOUTH)
SCHOOL:____________________________________GRADE:_________________

(ADULT)
WORKPLACE:______________________________POSITION:_______________

ANSWER ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS BELOW:

(JUNIOR/JUNIOR MINI)
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO
________________________________________________________________________

(SENIOR)
AFTER HIGH SCHOOL I WANT TO
________________________________________________________________________

(SENIOR ADULT)
I AM MOST KNOWN FOR OR SOMETHING NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT ME
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
TIPTONS GOT TALENT RELEASE FORM (picture/video)

By signing this release form, I authorize Tiptons Got Talent, to use the following personal
information:

(1) My picture including photographic, motion picture, and electronic (video) images.

(2) My voice including sound and video recordings.

I hereby grant to Tiptons Got Talent, its subsidiaries, successors and assigns, the right to
use, publish, and reproduce, for all purposes, my name, pictures of me in film or electronic
(video) form, sound and video recordings of my voice, and printed and electronic copy of the
information described in sections (1) and (2) above in any and all media including, without
limitation, cable and broadcast television and the Internet, and for exhibition, distribution,
promotion, advertising, press conferences, meetings, educational conferences and in
brochures and other print media. This permission extends to all languages, media, formats
and markets now known or hereafter devised. This permission shall continue forever unless I
revoke the permission in writing.

I further grant Tiptons Got Talent all right, title, and interest that I may have in all finished
pictures, negatives, reproductions, and copies of the original print, and further grant Tiptons
Got Talent the right to give, sell, transfer, and exhibit the print in copies or facsimiles
thereof, for marketing, communications, or advertising purposes, as it deems fit.

I also waive any right to inspect or approve finished photographs, audio, video, multimedia,
or advertising recordings and copy or printed matter or computer generated scanned image
and other electronic media that may be used in conjunction therewith or to approve the
eventual use that it might be applied.

I acknowledge that I have read the foregoing and I fully understand the contents.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this release on this ____ day of __________, 2017.

Print Name: _______________________________

Telephone Number:_________________________

Address:__________________________________

City/State/Zip: _____________________________

_________________________________________
(CONTESTANT SIGNATURE)

_________________________________________
(PARENT/LEGAL GUARDIAN OF CONTESTANT SIGNATURE-IF UNDER AGE 18)
 TIPTONS GOT TALENT/MIDSOUTH FAIR CONTESTANT RULES 2017
- Age limits FOR MIDSOUTH FAIR QUALIFIER are 13 through 21, inclusive. All contestants must be at least 13 years of age,
and not more than 21 years of age at opening date of the Mid-South Fair. (which is Sept. 2016) JR. DIVISION IS 9-12
INCLUSIVE. (JUNIOR AND ADULT DIVISIONS WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN MID-SOUTH FAIR JUDGING--ONLY
TIPTON'S GOT TALENT JUDGING).

2- DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS-Any act running over 3 minutes for TGT will be disqualified (contestants invited to Mid-South
Fair may have an act that can be up to 4 mins). An act is timed from the first vocal utterance in a vocal act, the first body
movement in a dance act, and the entirety of any other act. JR. DIVISON IS 3 MINUTES.

3- Acts using machetes, knives, etc. will not be accepted.

4- No fire, smoke, or smoke effect will be allowed on stage during the Mid-South Fair OR during Tiptons Got Talent.

5- A contestant may compete only once in each different Act category.

6- No member of a Grand Award winning act may compete again in the same Act Category.

7- The description of the act must remain the same as invited at the preliminary. Members of an act may drop out without
penalty, unless it changes the act from a group to a solo but no members may be added without re-qualifying.

8- All props must be inanimate, with the exception of those used by a magician (NO MAGICIANS IN TGT).

9- For contestants entered in any vocal act, accompaniment tracks with vocal utterances are strictly prohibited. This includes
recorded live voices and voices that are produced and recorded synthetically (i.e. synthesizers or digitally sampled).

10-OMITTED (DANCE)

11- In Instrumental Solo, the only accompaniment allowed is a live or taped acoustical piano. In piano solo, no accompaniment
is allowed. In the use of any electronic keyboard, all sounds must be created live on stage. No pre- programmed music is
allowed.

12- Bands or Instrumental groups may have no accompaniment. All sounds must be created live on stage. They will be
confined to a specific area at the rear of the stage.

13- Accompanists are permitted on stage, but must not assume visual importance in the performance. All accompanists will
be confined to a specific area at the rear of the stage.

14- All persons assuming visual importance in the act must meet the age qualification of the Youth Talent Contest.

15- An individual cannot be a part of an act at the Fair, if that individual does not appear in the act invited at the preliminary
contest.

16- Judges will be instructed to consider the appropriateness of material used in competition. The Youth Talent Committee
recommends that all presentations be tasteful and appropriate for the contestants age and for a Family Entertainment Venue.

17- The first place overall winner of a sanctioned preliminary contest will be guaranteed an invitation to compete in the Mid-
South Fair Youth Talent Contest (providing eligibility).

18- If the first place winner of a preliminary contest is ineligible to enter the Mid-South Fair Youth Talent Contest, or has already
received an invitation to the Fair, it is up to the Fair Representative as to which act will receive the official invitation.

19- All contestants may only enter and exit from stage left and right. No act may exit or enter from the front or the back of the
stage before, during or after the act.

20- Anything thrown off the stage at any time will be cause for immediate disqualification.

21.- Any act invited as a vocal act will be subject to disqualification if the act adds self-accompaniment as it changes the
nature of the act to a variety act and therefore would have required the act to have re-qualified at the preliminary level. Likewise
a variety act cannot change category to a vocal act by dropping the accompaniment without re-qualifying at a preliminary.
22.-All Variety acts that are a combination of two or more talents ( ie: song and dance or vocal and instrument) will be judged in
equal parts for each individual act. If there is a singer and a dancer, then the scores will be split equally between each talent.
1-20 points for the vocal and 1-20 points for the dance for the maximum total of 40 points) This will insure that each portion of
the variety act will carry its equal importance in the judges scoring. AS IN THE 2015 FAIRTHERE WILL BE A CATEGORY
FOR VARIETY SOLO AND FOR VARIETY GROUP.

The following are policies in place for the Youth Talent Contest and will be strictly adhered to:

_Judges are not allowed to discuss contestants and/or acts with anyone other than those on the Judges panel. Please do
not approach judges for explanations regarding their decisions. Anyone attempting to discuss an act with a judge before, during
or after a contest will be disqualified.

_Any protest concerning rule violations must be made prior to the announcement of the winners. Once the winners are
announced, the decisions of the judges at the Mid-South Fair Youth Talent Contests are final. This includes all MSF Preliminary,
Semi-Final, and Grand Final competitions. Studio Teachers should be responsible for control of parents and/or contestants.
Violation of this rule may jeopardize the contestants eligibility.

_Individual scores will be posted for SR. age contestants for one (1) hour after the announcement of results for each contest.
There will be a parent/teacher observer for each show to ensure the integrity of the results of each contest as to which acts will
advance to SR Semi-Finals, SR Finals and of the 4 top Placement awards on SR. Finals. NO scores will be mailed after the
2016 Mid-South Fair Contest. NO SCORES ARE POSTED OR RELEASED IN THE JUNIOR DIVISION.

_The Youth Talent Policy Committee will not tolerate offensive conduct by participants, teachers, parents, or associates.
Such conduct can result in future expulsion from the Mid-South Fair Youth Talent Contest.

OTHER IMPORTANT CONTESTANT RULES

Acts must consist of the same members and must be within the specified age limits. Additionally, act members may drop out
of the act without disqualification, unless it changes the act from a group to solo.

It is recommended that an act run no more than three (3) minutes, and under no circumstances. Any act running over THREE
(3) minutes will be disqualified. An official time-keeper will be present during the Tiptons Got Talent Contest.

No fire, smoke, or smoke effect will be allowed on stage during the talent show.

A contestant may compete only once in each of the above descriptions.

Props are allowed in all categories. The use of props will not change the category. All props must inanimate.

Judges will be instructed to consider the appropriateness of competition material for both the age of the contestant and for
presentation in a family oriented entertainment atmosphere.

All contestants may only enter and exit from stage left and stage right. No act may enter or exit from backstage before, during
or after the act.

NO profanity or vulgar lyrics in any vocal performance. This is a family show!!!

Keep attire at a respectable and tasteful level NO NUDITY!!!! No alcohol, tobacco, or drug advertisements are to be shown on
any clothes.