A. Entry Rules
1. Entries must feature the characters from official Honkai Impact 3rd materials regardless of style, theme, composition, and pose. Entries featuring realistically proportioned characters, official arts, screenshots, or real people are invalid.
2. Entries must also meet the following standards:
2.1. Format: Entries must be JPG, PNG, or GIF files that are no larger than 10 MB.
2.2. Content:
a. Entries must be original and plagiarism or direct theft is strictly forbidden.
b. Entries must comply with the tone and setting of Honkai Impact 3rd.
c. Entries must be newly published. Entries already published publicly before July 12, 2021 on any platform are invalid.
d. Entries shall not contain any illegal, offensive, or inappropriate content (such as politics, religion, race, pornography, carnography, insults, ridicule, or other controversial topics), defame miHoYo or any of its products (such as Honkai Impact 3rd and HoYoLAB) or its related parties, or involve any product other than Honkai Impact 3rd.
3. Participants can submit 10 works at most (posting 1 work in the correct format is regarded as submitting 1 work), and each entry can contain an unlimited number of emotes. A work can only be submitted once, but participants can delete old entries to make room for new entries. Participants can win multiple times with different entries, but each entry can only win once (if an entry wins multiple awards, only the highest award will be given).
4. Without the written consent of the organizer, participants shall not use their entries for commercial purposes or permit third parties to use them. Participants must abide by the rules of the contest, otherwise the organizer reserves the right to disqualify them.
5. Disqualification
The organizer reserves the right to disqualify participants for any of the following reasons:
5.1. Participants provide false or invalid information.
5.2. Participants submit works that infringe upon the trademarks, copyrights, patents, portraits, or other legitimate rights and interests of third parties, or are created by plagiarizing, appropriating, or tracing the works of others.
5.3. Participants engage in the contest by dishonest means such as taking advantage of loopholes or stealing event data.
5.4. Participants disseminate untrue statements related to the contest or statements defaming the contest or the organizer, or entrust any third parties to do so.
5.5. Participants submit works that contain any illegal, offensive, or inappropriate content (such as politics, religion, race, pornography, carnography, insults, ridicule, or other controversial topics), defame miHoYo or any of its products (such as Honkai Impact 3rd and HoYoLAB) or its related parties, or involve any product other than Honkai Impact 3rd.
5.6. Participants use their entries for commercial purposes or permit third parties to use them during the contest.
5.7. Participants take actions that violate any rules imposed by the organizer, disrupt the operation of the contest (such as impacting its fairness), or entail negative consequences.
6. Troubleshooting
If participants encounter any problems during submission or have any questions concerning the contest, please reach out to the organizer through Honkai Impact 3rd's customer service email.
B. Award Selection Rules
1. Entries will be rated by the official judging panel, which consists of members from Honkai Impact 3rd's art and operation departments.
2. The judging panel will rate the entries based on their completeness, utility, viability, presentation, appeal, and faithfulness. Their number of likes will also be taken into account. Participants can win multiple times with different entries, but each entry can only win once (if an entry wins multiple awards, only the highest award will be given).
3. The list of winners will be published on HoYoLAB before August 13, 2021. If winners fail to provide the requested information in time, they will be regarded as having relinquished their prizes, and the openings will not be filled by runners-up.
C. Entry Statements
1. Entries should be original works created independently by their respective authors who are entitled to submit them to the contest.
2. Entries should not infringe upon the trademarks, copyrights, patents, portraits, or other legitimate rights and interests of any third party in any way; otherwise, the organizer reserves the right to disqualify the respective participants and hold them legally responsible (including but not limited to covering the loss of the organizer and its related companies).
3. Entries should be positive, wholesome, and do not contain any content that is illegal or detrimental to the online environment.
4. Participants shall not infringe upon any legitimate rights and interests of the organizer (including but not limited to its related companies and its products), damage the goodwill and image of the organizer and its related parties, or disseminate any untrue information concerning the organizer and its related parties.
5. Without the consent of the organizer, participants shall not use their entries for commercial purposes or permit any third party to do so, or the organizer reserves the right to disqualify them.
6. Participants shall not violate any contest rules announced on HoYoLAB, disrupt the operation of the contest, engage in cheating (including but not limited to hiring click farms), or take any actions that are detrimental to HoYoLAB and its related parties or the contest.
7. Once works are submitted successfully, participants automatically agree to irrevocably and exclusively authorize the organizer and its related parties to publicize their entries online and offline with credit.
8. Once works are submitted successfully, participants automatically agree to follow the rules of the contest. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify participants who violate the rules.
9. Winners shall pay taxes at the request of the individual income tax policies of their region of residence. Thank you for your understanding and support.
D. Organizer's Right of Using Entries
Once works are submitted successfully, participants automatically agree to irrevocably, exclusively, globally, and permanently authorize the organizer and its related companies to publicize their entries online and offline with credit for free. The organizer can transfer or sublicense this right.
E. Sponsor Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the organizer is not liable for the following circumstances:
1. Any delay, loss, misforwarding, mistaking, or damage of transmission or registration;
2. Any faults or failures related to phones, computers, electronic devices, hardware, software, network, or computer and communication in general.
3. Interruption or termination of the contest induced by uncontrollable factors, or any unforeseen harms or damages the contest may incur.
4. Printing or typesetting errors in any contest-related materials.
5. Other circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the organizer.
F. Miscellaneous
1. If you find entries that exhibit plagiarism such as theft or personation, please report them to hi3_event@mihoyo.com. Please state your reasons for reporting and include the entries' titles and links. If reported entries are confirmed to be unoriginal or rule-violating, the organizer reserves the right to reject them and disqualify their authors.
2. If the operation of the contest is impacted by uncontrollable factors such as computer viruses, procedural defects, or unauthorized interference, or the organizer believes it can no longer operate the contest as planned, the organizer reserves the right to modify contest rules, suspend or cancel the contest, or take other reasonable actions at any time.
3. Submitting any work for the contest is regarded as having accepted all contest rules.
