The Untz Challenge XI

Published: February 14, 2020

The Untz Challenge XI: Turn Your Dreams into a Reality

The Untz Challenge XI It's the time of year at TheUntz.com when our thoughts turn to the summer festival season and The Untz Challenge. Once again, we are giving two rising stars a life-changing opportunity.

Our prize package includes sets at the best summer music festivals taking place across the United States—and this year, we're partnered with the absolute best. The two winners of The Untz Challenge XI will be playing at FIVE major music festivals across a four month span.

Our two winning acts will hit Summer Camp Music Festival (May 21-25 — Chillicothe, IL), The Untz Festival (May 29-31 — Mariposa, CA), SONIC BLOOM (June 18-21 — Spanish Peaks Country, CO), Electric Forest (June 25-29 — Rothbury, MI), and Imagine Music Festival (September 18-20 — Hampton, GA).

Beginning February 24th and continuing until March 16th, The Untz will accept submissions for the competition via the process outlined below.

A total of 2 slots will be given away to the winners of this contest. Both winners will be chosen by the staff of TheUntz.com, and will have the opportunity to perform at the same dates along the run. Our staff is made up of impartial judges who bring a wide array of tastes to the table, so no genre will be overlooked. Now this competition is purely about the quality of the submission, so it doesn't matter if you have 10 fans or 10,000, if your song is brilliant, you have a real chance of winning.

Important Dates for The Untz Challenge XI
February 24 – Track submission begins
March 16 – Track submission ends 11:59pm PST
March 25 – Winners announced

We're using the same submissions process we have used in the past, so please read these extremely simple instructions carefully (then double check the rules and regs below to make sure you're complying with all our very specific criteria). We're making things as easy as possible for submission, so please, please don't screw it up and hurt your chances!

1. Upload your track to your Soundcloud account. The track can be public or private, and have downloads enabled or disabled—it doesn't matter, as long as the track has not been previously released via a label, media outlet, or self-released prior to the submission's begin date.

2. Fill out this online form. Please fill it out accurately and thoroughly. This will ensure you're in our system properly and your track doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

3. Sit back and relax. You're all done. That was easy, wasn't it? On March 25th we will announce the winners' names.

Now then, here are the rules and regulations of the competition:

ORIGINAL tracks can be submitted beginning February 24^th, and we will continue to accept submissions until March 16^th at 11:59 pm PST. (DO NOT SUBMIT TRACKS BEFORE 2/24/20)
Submitted tracks must be UNRELEASED prior to the contest start date, which covers singles, EPs, LPs, and compilations on major and independent labels, free/paid releases via Bandcamp, and free downloads/streams on SoundCloud.
Please submit only ONE track per DJ/producer. If you submit more than one, only your first entry will be considered—and it will annoy us to no end, which is not a good thing.
This is strictly a contest for PRODUCERS. No live bands, please. There are other contests for that. This is not one of them.
DO NOT submit MIXES, REMIXES, or STOLEN WORK. (Yes, we understand DJs create mixes, but we want ORIGINAL, SINGLE tracks for this particular competition.)
Each track may contain licensed, royalty free samples, but no unauthorized proprietary samples. All submitted tracks MUST NOT infringe US copyright law. Any track removed by SoundCloud for potential copyright infringement will also be disqualified from this contest.
The Untz staff alone will be responsible for selecting the winners.

The contest is restricted to residents of the United States. Winners will be responsible for providing their own transportation to and from the festivals. Additionally, they will be responsible for bringing whatever equipment necessary to perform at the various festivals, within the specifications outlined in the technical riders and contracts of each individual event. Each festival reserves the right to choose when and where to schedule the winners' slots, including but not limited to, pre-parties, after-parties, and silent discos. The winners may not be afforded full artist privileges at each event—certain events will grant the winners access to hospitality, accommodations, and restricted areas beyond that of regular ticketholders, but each individual festival will communicate restrictions/privileges with the winners.