What is this?
The CinemaGeddon Uploader's Cup (CGUC) is a tournament style competition, first in a group phase followed by a KO phase, in which uploaders battle against each other in torrent vs torrent matches. Targeted start date is 1st June.

Who can enter?
This competition is open to any user class. The entry fee is 2000 credits. Depending on the number of participants one will need 6-8 uploads.

What are the prizes?
1st Place 500GB Upload Credit
2nd Place 250GB Upload Credit
3rd Place 150GB Upload Credit
The user who gets the most single snatches on a torrent (XXX/softcore excluded) without finishing top 3 will get 100GB of upload credit.
The entry fee will be spread among the rest of the users who made it into the KO phase.

Special bet: Anyone who guesses correctly which country will win the upcoming soccer world cup will get his prize doubled.

Content Rules
1) Less than 1000 IMDb votes or no IMDb entry
2) Feature Length (Over 50 mins)
3) No upgrades: new to the site only.
4) Allowed categories: Action|Adventure|Comedy|Drama|Family|Gore|Horror|M artial Arts|Sci-Fi|Thriller|Western #During the group phase one is allowed to use each category only once (which and when is up to you), during the KO phase one can use any category as often as desired.
5) Project fills/fansubs WILL have their bonuses applied. While this may be a slight advantage to competitors, anything that improves the selection of the site is a good thing.
6) Torrents have to be a minimum of 690MB
7) No XXX/softcore/sexploitation allowed. Nudity allowed, but it shouldn't be the main selling point of the movie (if a movie has a dozen sex scenes it probably belongs into softcore/sexploitation) nor of the description (if a movie has 1-2 scenes with nudity but 8 of 10 of your screenshots show nudity, then you're trying too hard).

Special XXX/softcore/sexploitation rule: Just once during the course of the compo each user can upload a XXX/softcore/sexploitation entry but that entry can't compete with an entry from the regular allowed categories but has to go against another XXX/softcore/sexploitation movie. It's up to you to PM your competitors and ask if they want to do such a XXX/softcore/sexploitation match (if they haven't done one already against someone else). Both users than have to PM me their agreement to this match together with their entries at least 1 day in advance. (remember that XXX has to be safed by staff)

Match Rules
1) Officially designated entries must be reported to me via PM at least 1 day prior to the official start time of the match (the sooner the better).
2) Each match goes for 3 days.
3) The upload with the most snatches wins.
4) During the group phase the winner has to have 10% more snatches else its a draw (win = 3 points, draw = 1 point)
5) Top two uploaders of each group will advance to the KO phase.
5) During the KO phase the one with the most snatches advances to the next round.
6) Start time for each match is 00:01 AM GMT, end time is 21:00 GMT. Please look up the starting times of your matches in the post below.
7) You don't have to upload at exactly 00:01, you can upload minutes/hours later but the end time will stay the same.

How to join?
Registration is now open. Send me the cigar and post in this thread. Your post should also contain the name of the country you predict as the soccer world cup winner and whether or not you have a XXX/softcore entry you could upload during the competition (that info you could also tell me at a later date should you not know yet).