THE SOAPIES 2016 VOTE: VOTING INTERACTION INFORMATION

Voting method and cost:

Viewers can vote for their favourite nominee in the following categories: Best Soap Actor, Best Drama Actor, Best Soap Actress, Best Drama Actress, Best Bad Boy, Best Bad Girl, Funniest Male, Funniest Female, Best Young Actor, Best Partnership, Best Newcomer, Best Exit, Best Storyline, Best Shock Twist, Best Episode and Best Group (the “categories”) and for their favourite nominee in the Best Soap and Best Drama categories (the “Best Soap and Best Drama categories”) at The Soapies 2016 (the “awards”). There will be two rounds of public voting for each of these categories. You may register your vote by going to http://thesoapies.wix.com/the-soapies-awards (the “website”) and follow the instructions there. There is no charge when voting via the websites, although internet service providers’ fees may apply when you access the internet and these fees will not be refunded by The Soapies.

 

Voting restrictions:

One online vote per category may be submitted during the first round of voting and one online vote per category may be submitted during the second round of voting. If you exceed these limits your vote will not be counted. For the avoidance of doubt the capping limits apply to each of the two rounds of voting. You do not need to vote for the same nominee in each round.

 

Nominees:

First round voting – the following nine categories will each contain a selection of up to 18 nominees: Best Bad Boy, Best Bad Girl, Funniest Male, Funniest Female, Best Partnership, Best Newcomer, Best Exit, Best Storyline, and Best Group; the Best Young Actor category will contain 15 nominees; the Best Soap Actor, Best Soap Actress, Best Shock Twist and Best Episode categories will contain 12 nominees; the Best Drama Actor and Best Drama Actress categories will contain 6 nominees; the Best Soap category will contain 4 nominees and the Best Drama category will contain 2 nominees. The total number of nominees in the Best Soap and Best Drama categories will remain at the original nominees throughout each round of the competition.

Second round voting – each of the categories will contain a selection of up to 6 nominees. The shortlist for the Best Soap and Best Drama category will contain the same nominees who were listed in the first round of voting.

Opening time – first round voting:

First round voting opens at 00:01 on 1 June 2016.

Closing time - first round voting:

First round voting closes on 19 June 2016 at 17:00.

Opening time – second round voting:

Second round voting via the websites opens at 25 June 2016 on 00:01.

Closing time – second round voting:

Second round voting closes on 16 July 2016 at 17:00.

 

The Soapies is committed to operating the voting fairly, and to preventing abuse of the voting systems. For this reason, The Soapies reserves the right to disqualify and/or discount votes. These circumstances include (without limitation) where there has been excessive manipulation of the outcome of the voting, where votes have been made in breach of the Terms and Conditions, and where there has been any activity which unfairly advantages a voter or unfairly influences the outcome.

 

Voting results:

For the Best Soap and Best Drama categories, the results from the first round voting will be carried over to the votes for the second round voting stage, and the voting results will represent the accumulated votes achieved in both the first round voting and the second round voting stages. For the categories, all valid votes from the first round of voting are used for the purpose of determining the 6 nominees who progress to the second round but are then disregarded for the second round voting.

In the event of a tie in the Best Soap or Best Drama category, each of the nominees which receive the joint highest number of votes will share the award. In the categories, viewer votes determine the overall winner. In the event of a tie in any of the categories, the backstage team will decide on a winner.

 

Winners will be announced online at the website at a time to be announced.