UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition

Taga-UP ka ba?Capture those uniquely UP places, faces and moments with your Smart MMS-enabled camera phone as way of celebrating the UP Centennial celebrations!

UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition urges University of the Philippines (UP) students, alumni, faculty and employees to share their stories about experiences in the university through words but via MMS photos taken using a camera phone and submitted through Smart’s MMS service.

The contest started last June 22, 2008 and you have until September 29, 2008 to submit your entries. Here is a snippet of the contest rules:

2.1 The competition is open to all Smart and Talk N Text subscribers who are affiliated with the University of the Philippines as: (1) student, (2) alumni, (3) faculty member, and (4) employee.

2.2 Participating Smart subscribers must register by sending in UP REG (Name/UP Campus participant is from/Position or title in UP) to 5355. Example: UP REG Bona Sy/UP Diliman/Alumni. Registration is free of charge. Participants can start sending entries on June 22, 2008 until 11:59 pm of September 29, 2008.

2.3 The subscriber or participant will receive an SMS confirmation message if registration attempt is successful. Each MMS photo entry sent will cost P1.00.
Welcome to the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition! To send your photo entries, create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach your photo and send to 5355. P1.00/MMS photo entry. All photo entries must be taken with your camera phone.

2.4 MMS photo entries must be taken with a camera phone. The subscriber/participant is not allowed to send his/her photo entry other than through their mobile phone in MMS. Photos must be taken within the competition period only and should be connected to the theme mentioned above.

2.5 Apart from the registration, the subscriber’s cellular phone number will serve as his/her identification (ID). A participant can opt to register several mobile numbers under the same name and can send as many entries/MMS photos per phone number.

2.6 There can only be one (1) registered name per cellular phone number. Should a subscriber attempt to register twice, he/she will receive an error message and will be charged P1.00 from his/her load.

2.7 To send a photo entry, subscribers must simply create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach their photo entry (taken with their camera phone), and send this to 5355. Example: UP MMS Sunken Garden

More info at http://upiktyuran.smart.com.ph/