Voting is now closed for 2019. The below rules explain the voting procedure for 2020. Anyone can nominate a candidate before voting begins in 2020.
How Voting works:
For the majority of the awards, there are two rounds of public voting with an element of voting by expert judges in the second round. Public voting in the first round ensures nominees have some degree of public support, the judges are introduced in the second round to ensure that popularity does not preside over quality.
VOTING ROUND 1: DURATION 3 WEEKS
The primary round will open on Septmber 1st 2020 at midnight to all those eligible (see nominating a candidate for criteria) and runs for 3 weeks. The public can vote once only for each award during this period. This first round of voting will close on midnight Sep 22th.
A shortlist, of the top five most-voted-for nominees for each award then enter a final round of voting, with their votes carried through. In the instance where the 5th place is drawn, both 5th place cadindates (or more in some cases) go through. The second and final round lasts 1 week, in which the public can vote again.
VOTING ROUND 2: DURATION 2 WEEK
Votes will be frozen at the end of the first round and carried through. The second round of voting will begin on September 29th 2019 and this final round of voting ends two week later on October 13th at midnight. Most winners will be announced online shortly afterwards, with some announced on the evening of the awards ceremony.
How many times can I vote?
The public can vote only twice for the same nominee: once in the primary round and once again in the final round.
In each of the two votes, we reserve the right to accept up to six submissions per IP address (to account for households) to avoid fake or multiple accounts.
How are the winners decided?
The winners and runners up will be decided at the end of the final round, with the public vote counting for 50% and the remaining 50% by votes from a panel of experts selected for each award (exceptions listed below). The two percentages will be added up to decide the winner.
EXCEPTIONS
- Concert by International Artist of the Year is decided 100% by popular vote
- International Breakthrough Artist of the Year is decided 100% by panel of judges
- Lifetime Achievement Awards are decided 100% by panel of judges
- Rising Star Award is decided 100% by panel of judges
- Personality of the Year Award is decided 100% by panel of judges
For criteria specific to each category please click on the following for:
CRITERIA FOR THE ARTS NOMINEES
If you would like help publicising your nomination, 'I am a nominee' and 'we are a nominee' banners are available here
VIEW OUR PANEL OF JUDGES HERE
Terms and Conditions of 50% panel judging and 50% vote
Public votes for the nominees are translated into percentages per category.
The judges rank the nominees in the order of their preference (e.g. No. 1 gets 5 points, No. 2 gets 4, etc.) – these totals are also translated into a percentage per nominee per category.
The two percentages are added up with the highest score being the winner.
Voter Privacy Terms & Conditions
The LUKAS does not share emails of registered voters with ANY third party. We do add the emails to a database to which we announce the LUKAS results, send updates about our events and news. These emails may someteimes come from LatinoLife, our parent company. If you would like not to receive these updates please unsubscribe on the email itself or email us at info@thelukas.co.uk
Other Terms & Conditions
- Use of a false name or other details will result in disqualification.
- We reserve the right to take votes away from or disqualify any nominee who is deemed to be cheating or not complying with the rules and spirit of the competition.
- We reserve the right to disqualify any nominee who does not fulfull the criteria. It is the nominees' responsibility to make sure they comply with the criteria
- We reserve the right to amend or alter the terms of competition at any time and reject entries from entrants not entering into the spirit of the competition.
- The winner(s) agree(s) to the use of their name and photo for promotional and PR purposes and members’ details and will co-operate with any other reasonable requests relating to any post-winning publicity.
- The LUKAS requires atleast 10 nominees for an Award to enter the voting stage. If less that 10 nominees have been entered for an award. We reserve the right to withdraw the award from the competition.
- Any personal data collected will be used solely in connection with current UK data protection legislation.
- The LUKAS is not obliged to reveal any data on votes to any party, including to nominees.
- The LUKAS, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote being lost or not properly registered or recorded.
- These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by English Law.
- Photos will be taken at the Gala ceremony and we reserve the right to use these photos on our website and in promotional material. If you object to us using a photo in which you appear, please email us privately at info@thelukas.co.uk
- The LUKAS’ Voting Terms & Conditions were last updated on 10th September 2019.
