Notice of Rule Changes: Hi everyone! We want the whole world to see who you are and what you're about, so we changed the RBC p2p Blogger Search Competition Rules (the "Rules") so that we can post your application video on our sponsored Facebook group, RBC Campus Connection. It's an even better way to get your name and face out there, and let people know that they should vote for your video at www.rbcp2p.com.

We also thought it would be fun to change the Rules so that our host, Michel, could visit one or more campuses to videotape students who want to enter the competition on the spot. So watch out! If you see a guy wearing glasses and a colourful shirt cruising around campus in his Jeep with a video camera in hand, flag him down so that you can apply to be the one of six RBC bloggers (and get all of the $$ and free loaded Mac Pro laptop and video camera that comes along with the job, and is yours to keep)!

The Rules were changed effective October 12, 2007. For complete details, please go to the RBC p2p Blogger Search Competition Rules.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. THIS SEARCH COMPETITION IS VOID IN WHOLE OR IN PART WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. TO COMPLETE YOUR ENTRY YOU MUST READ AND AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. PARTICIPATION IN THIS SEARCH COMPETITION CONSTITUTES FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL AGREEMENT AND ACCEPTATNCE OF THESE RULES. ALL DOLLAR AMOUNTS ARE IN CANADIAN FUNDS. THE SEARCH COMPETITION IS SPONSORED BY ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (the "Sponsor").

The RBC P2P Blogger Search Competition (the "Search Competition") runs from 9:00 a.m. EST on August 27, 2007 to 11:59 p.m. EST on January 15, 2008.

Phase One: The Search

Do you use money? Do you wish you knew how to use it better? Would you like access to financial experts to ask any question, no matter how small, about how to handle your money and make it work for you? Want to get some great resume-padding experience at Canada's most respected company and get paid for it too? Show us (and your peers) that you have what it takes to ask the tough questions and get the answers - in a way that makes people want to listen to you! Complete a P2P Blogger Search Competition application form and upload a short video audition (in the format required below) during the Video Submission Period and let the voting begin!

NOTICE: You must comply with these Rules when you submit an application and upload a video. DO NOT DO ANYTHING IN CONNECTION WITH CREATING YOUR VIDEO WHICH MIGHT ENDANGER ANYONE, INCLUDING YOURSELF, OR WHICH COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. IF WE THINK THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN RISKS DURING THE MAKING OF YOUR VIDEO YOUR APPLICATION AND VIDEO WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.

1. Video Submission Period:

The video submission period begins at 9:00 a.m. EST on August 27, 2007 and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on October 31, 2007 (the "Video Submission Period"). Submissions received after that time will not be eligible for Phase Two: RBC Selection Period or Phase Three: Peer Voting Period.

2. Eligibility Criteria:

This Search Competition is open only to full time students who are registered throughout all phases of the Search Competition at a Canadian University or College and who are legal residents of Canada, excluding Quebec, and who have reached the age of majority within their province of residence by the Video Submission Period start date of August 27, 2007. Directors, officers, employees and agents of Royal Bank of Canada, or any of its affiliates, divisions or subsidiaries are not eligible to participate in this Search Competition.

3. How to Enter

  • Only one entry per person will be accepted. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Chances of winning depend on where you live when attending school and the number and skill level of Applicants.
  • To enter go to www.rbcp2p.com (the "P2P Website") during the Video Submission Period and fully complete an online application form and upload your audition video following the instructions there or, if the Sponsor visits your school, you may enter by completing a paper application and participating in an on-the-spot video shoot
  • All videos must
    •  be submitted in AVI, MOV or MPG format
    •  be no more than 1 minute in length
    •  be less than 20 mb in file size
    •  be intended for a family audience with content, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor, suitable for audiences over the age of 13
    •  not contain any nudity, sexually explicit, discriminatory, disparaging, libellous or other inappropriate content.
    •  not contain any copyrighted works, including music, pictures, posters etc., unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission of the rightful owner to post the material
    •  not contain images of identifiable children, unless they are your own, and if your video contains images of adults, such adults must have consented to the submission of your video and be willing to sign a publication release if necessary.
    •  contain entirely original material
    •  not contain material that infringes another's rights, including but not limited to privacy or intellectual property rights
  • Submissions must be in English
  • In the event of a dispute, submissions shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the entry (the "Applicant").
  • Subject entirely to the discretion of the Sponsor, whose decisions are final, each entry which meets the criteria above and that is submitted in accordance with these Rules, will become eligible for Phase Two: RBC Selection Period.

4. Conditions of Participation:

By entering this Search Competition, the Applicant certifies and acknowledges that:

  • the video submitted is original work and that he/she is the creator (unless your video was filmed using the Sponsor's equipment in which case you are not the creator)
  • does not include any trademarks or copyrighted material
  • he/she has agreed that the video, all images and ideas submitted with this application are being submitted on a non-confidential basis and may be edited or used by the Sponsor and posted to a website, including the P2P Website and the Sponsor's sponsored group on Facebook (the "Facebook Site"), for public viewing and comment, without further compensation. The Applicant hereby grants the Sponsor a fully paid-up, irrevocable and transferable license to publish, reproduce, communicate, broadcast, publicly perform and generally to use the video uploaded without any limitation whatsoever of time, place, language and media.
  • The Applicant hereby waives in favour of the Sponsor any moral rights he may hold in the video
  • the Applicant is permitted to disclose the video and all images contained therein to the Sponsor for its use.
  • submission of the video and any images and content may impact the Applicant's legal rights to protect them
The Applicant acknowledges that the Sponsor or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries may already be in the process of independent development and innovation for various products and services and therefore any disclosure of information or ideas submitted by the Applicant may not be new to the Sponsor or its affiliates or subsidiaries and would not affect or impair its proprietary rights to its own innovation.

5. Assignment of Rights to Submission

By entering this Search Competition, you irrevocably and exclusively assign all copyright, without limitation of time, place, medium, support or language, in the video to the Sponsor and waive all moral rights to the video in favour of the Sponsor. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the Sponsor will have the unrestricted and exclusive right to use the video for any purpose, including but not limited to, publishing it in an electronic form on the P2P Website and the Facebook Site for promotional purposes without further compensation. The Sponsor also has the right to (but is not required to) use your name, image, likeness, age, biographical information and school name in credit along with the video. You confirm that you are the sole author of the video and that you own all right to it and are able to fully assign all rights to the Sponsor as contemplated above. You agree to compensate the Sponsor should any claims arise out of the use of the video by the Sponsor.

As a condition of accepting a Prize in this Search Competition, the winner agrees to sign a Declaration of Compliance with Rules and an Assignment, Release and Indemnity Form, assigning all rights to the video submission to the Sponsor, including all copyrights and moral rights and releasing Royal Bank of Canada, its affiliates and respective advertising and promotions agencies from any liability in connection with this Search Competition or the Prizes awarded.

Phase Two: RBC Selection Period

The Phase Two: RBC Selection Period will begin on November 1, 2007 and end on November 30, 2007.

6. Evaluation Criteria:

All application forms and video submissions will be evaluated by a team of Sponsor employees from a range of business backgrounds including marketing and human resources, based on the evaluation criteria set out below, and whose decisions are final.

The criteria for judging the video will be:

Creativity/Originality 25%
Content 25%
Humour 25%
Style 25%

It is anticipated that the Sponsor will select three (3) Applicants from the West (including Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C., Yukon, N.W.T and Nunavut), six (6) Applicants from Ontario, and three (3) Applicants from the East (including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland) to proceed to Phase Three provided there are sufficient qualified Applicants from any particular region to do so. Applicants with high scoring submissions will be contacted by a representative of the Sponsor by telephone or email for a personal or telephone job interview on or about November 12, 2007. If an Applicant cannot be reached within 7 days, the submission may be disqualified and another submission selected. Each Applicant who is contacted by the Sponsor must be eligible to work in Canada throughout 2008 and consent to the Sponsor's usual employment background checks to move to Phase Three.

Phase Three: Peer Voting Period

At the end of Phase Two, the top twelve (12) Applicants will be identified as finalists on the P2P Website and on the Facebook Site and their submissions will be posted for peer review and voting on the P2P Website and the Facebook Site until the close of Phase Three: Peer Voting Period on January 15, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

There is a limit of 4 votes per computer per day.

At the end of Phase Three, potential winners will be contacted by the Sponsor by telephone between January 16, 2008 and January 25, 2008. Potential winners who cannot be contacted during this time will be disqualified and the finalist with the next highest number of peer votes will be contacted. Similarly, if potential winners do not qualify to become employees of the Sponsor, the competitor with the next highest peer votes will be contacted until all of the positions are filled or all top twelve (12) competitors have been contacted.

8. Prize - The Job

The six (6) competitors that receive the most votes will be eligible for the prize of becoming a part time contract employee with the Sponsor as an RBC P2P Blogger (the "Prize"). Before being awarded a Prize, each potential winner must correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question during a pre-arranged telephone interview. Each potential winner must be eligible to work in Canada throughout 2008 and may be required to complete and submit a job application, complete all usual employment background checks and, once qualified, must sign an employment contract. If necessary, potential winners must be available to fly to Toronto, Canada for an interview. RBC will arrange for travel and accommodation expenses if necessary.

Each of the six (6) winners of the Search Competition will be given a one-year part time contract position with the Sponsor as RBC P2P Bloggers to report on and discuss financial issues relevant to students in Canada. The precise job description, as well as the hours, terms and conditions of the Prize will be provided to the winners once they are selected. It is anticipated that winners will work 10-15 hours per week and the salary range will be $15.00 to $20.00 per hour. There are six (6) Prizes each with an approximate value of between $7,800 - $15,600. The precise salary and number of hours of work for the winners will be determined at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. The Prize contract will be subject to termination as set out in the employment contract.

The Prize must be accepted as awarded and is not transferable. The Prize is not redeemable for cash and no substitute for any part of the Prize is offered. If a potential winner cannot accept the Prize as awarded, his or her entry will be forfeited and another eligible contestant selected. Any costs associated with accepting the Prize shall be the sole responsibility of the winner.

Other Matters

9. No responsibility is assumed by the Sponsor, its respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, its respective directors, officers, employees and assigns, for any disruption to telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software or failure of any entry to be received because of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, as well as lost, incomplete, destroyed, misdirected, illegible or late entries which for any reason are not received.

10. Submissions shall not be returned to participants.

11. No Prize substitutions will be made, except for the right of the Sponsor to make a Prize substitution of equivalent or greater value in the event the Prize, or any portion thereof, is unavailable for any reason.

12. The Sponsor reserves the right to modify or cancel this Search Competition at any time including, without limitation, in the event of technical corruption, virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or any other technical problems, which may arise from time-to-time beyond the control of the Sponsor, destroying the integrity of this Search Competition. No liability or responsibility is assumed by the Sponsor, resulting from user attempts to participate in this Search Competition or if required, download any information necessary to participate in this Search Competition. In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an on-line entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry.

13. By entering this Search Competition, participants agree to hold the Sponsor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, their respective directors, officers, employees and assigns, harmless from and against any and all claims and liability arising out of or in any way connected with the operation of this Search Competition and use of a Prize. Participants of this Search Competition assume all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, by participation in this Search Competition or use or redemption of a Prize. By participating in this Search Competition, entrants agree to be bound by the Rules and the decisions of the Search Competition judges which are final.

14. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any individual whom it finds to be in violation of these official Rules or tampering with the entry process. The Sponsor reserves the right to refuse an entry from a person whose eligibility is in question or who has been disqualified or is otherwise ineligible to enter.

15. This Search Competition and these Rules, shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein.

16. This Search Competition is void in Quebec. Any litigation must be initiated in the City of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

17. Privacy Statement: By entering this Search Competition, each entrant also consents to Royal Bank of Canada, its agents and/or representatives, storing, using and disclosing the information submitted or provided with each entry for the purpose of administering this Search Competition and the prize in accordance with Royal Bank of Canada's privacy policy located at www.rbcroyalbank.com/privacy.

18. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SEARCH COMPETITION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND THE SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND/OR OTHER RELIEF FROM ALL RESPONSIBLE PERSONS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.