Send us a photo of yourself in PNG or JPG format in the TotalEnergies ½ MALAGA MARATHON 2024.
Follow the account @mediademalaga on Instagram.
There will be two categories:
-Female
-Male
Each category will have a maximum of 40 photographs. In the event of receiving more than 40 photographs per category, the 40 that have been received before in each category will be entered into the competition.
By e-mail to prensamediomalaga@slib.es. All photographs that do not arrive by this method will not be entered in the competition.
Deadline for sending the photograph: Wednesday 29 January. In the e-mail you must indicate the following:
SUBJECT: Competition Category
In the body of the message:
Name and surname.
Instagram user name.
Province, nationality.
Example:
SUBJECT: Male Contest
John Smith
@johnsmith
London, UK
All emails that do not arrive with this subject and this information will not be part of the contest.
*Only one photograph per contestant will be accepted. In case of sending more than one, the organization will choose the one it considers appropriate.
**The photographs of the heats will be adapted to the 1080×1080 px format.
***The photographs of the final will be adapted to the format 1080×1350 px.
***Photographs with a watermark will not be entered into the competition.
The first 40 photos in each category will be part of the competition in each category, which will be played in its entirety on the Instagram account of @mediademalaga.
If we receive more than 10 photos, there will be a first elimination phase. We will create random one-on-one heats in stories in which @mediademalaga followers will choose which photo goes through to the next round.
Once the heats are over, we will reach the final with a maximum of 10 photos.
Between the end of January and the beginning of February.
By popular vote on Instagram. There will be a maximum of 20 photos in the final of each category, which will be the winners of the previous heats.
Each photo will be assigned a number. It will be the users who will vote for the best photo in each category on the Instagram account @mediademalaga.
Only one vote per user will be counted.
Using a web application, we export all the comments of the post to a Word document. Once we have all the votes, the counting will be done through CHAT GPT following these steps:
1: Extraction and Initial Filtering:
2: Identification of ‘Invalid Votes’:
We analyse the context of the number within the comment. For example, we check if the number appears within a word or combination such as a username, hashtags, or part of another number (as in ‘21K’).
Only numbers in isolation or accompanied by an explicit statement of voting intent (e.g., ‘I vote for 3’) will be considered valid.
3: Calculation of the Final Result:
With the defined valid votes, the most voted number will be determined.
The winner of the men's category and the winner of the women's category will receive a bib number for the TotalEnergies 1/2 Maratón de Málaga 2025 as a prize. If you are already registered for the event, the prize will be a bib number for the 2026 edition.
The organisation reserves the right to modify or extend these Terms and Conditions, insofar as this does not prejudice or undermine the rights of the Participants in the Competition. The mere fact of participating in the Competition implies that the Participant fully accepts the conditions of these Terms and Conditions. Likewise, participation in a Competition of this nature implies acceptance of the rules of the Instagram social network through which the Competition takes place.
