Competition Details – Contestant Information (for 2007/2008 competition - 2008/2009 competition will be published later.)

To enter the 2007/2008 competition you must be over 18 years of age on the 1st September 2007, you must be female and you must be attending one of the Universities listed in our University list. Students are only allowed to enter for themselves and cannot enter for, or be entered by, family or friends.

If you are over 18 and meet the other criteria, all you have to do is complete your profile online and submit it along with a photo or photos or video. The Organiser reserves the right to edit all information supplied. Obscene text and/or photographs will not be allowed. Any entrant who uses obscene or abusive language or submits unsuitable photographs will be deleted instantly. All photographs supplied with the application must be within copyright guidelines as detailed in our terms and conditions.

After approval your profile will be displayed under the University you are attending along with your unique four digit MissStudent number. This is the number you will use throughout the competition and the number people need to vote for you.

Once you have your number and your profile is live, the rest is up to your powers of persuasion!!

All you have to do is to get as many people to vote for you as you can. The more votes you get the higher up the table you go.

University Heats The first round of the competition is the University heats - all voting will be done by text. People can vote for you by texting STUDENT and your unique four digit number to 63333. (Texts cost 50p plus your normal text charge). Votes will be collected from the start of the competition until the last day of the first round of the competition December 31st 2007. The students with the most votes will be displayed in descending order and the top ten students have the opportunity to go through to the next round – The Regional Finals.

The “winning” students, from each University, will be notified by the 9th January 2008 by email. They will be the two STUDENTS with the most votes (the winner and runner up) plus one of the STUDENTS in the top ten who is judged* to be “a popular choice” by having received a combination of the most unique views/or hits and the highest number of unique texts.

If for any reason one of the “winning students” cannot attend the Regional Final the student in next position in the league will be invited to take their place.

*(All judging and verification of votes received will be done by an independent adjudicator – the judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into).

Regional Finals The 3 ‘winning’ Students from each University will be entered into their Regional Final. The Regional Finals will be held in a local venue throughout January, February and March where all the competitors will compete for text votes on the night to win a place in the Grand Final.

Details of dates and venues for the Regional Final will be published on the website as soon as they are confirmed. (The Town where the Regional Final will take place is already published on the website). Finalists will be given first option to purchase tickets for the evening before they go on general sale so they can invite as many supporters as they want.

The evening of the Regional Final will be split into two parts. Part One will see all competitors competing in a semi final to find the 12 most popular students for Part Two. All semi finalists will be invited on stage in their favourite outfit and introduced to the audience. They will have the opportunity to try to entice the audience to vote for them by text. Later in the evening, the 12 semi finalists with the most votes will be selected for the Final Part (Part Two). In Part Two the Finalists will be invited back on stage but this time they will be allowed to say a few words about themselves to try and capture as many votes as they can. Voting will continue to be by text and members of the audience prompted throughout the evening to cast their vote/votes for their favourite STUDENT.

Votes will be collected and results verified constantly to let everyone know who is leading. At the allotted time the voting will be stopped and verified and the winner and runner up will be announced shortly afterwards. The winner and runner up (the two students with the most votes on the night) will qualify to compete in the Grand Final - to be held in April 2008 (with the exception of Edinburgh, Bristol and Central London where, because the region is bigger, the top 4/5 girls will go through to the grand final. Prize monies will be adjusted accordingly.)

Each Regional Final Winner will receive a cash prize of £500 and each Runner up will receive a cash prize of £200 presented at the Grand Final.

If for any reason one of the “Winners or Runners up” cannot attend the Grand Final the student in next position will be invited to take their place, until we have two students from each region attending the Grand Final. Cash prizes will only be awarded once to the Winner and Runner up.

*(All judging and verification of votes received will be done by an independent adjudicator – the judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into).

The GRAND FINAL The Winner and Runner up from each Regional Final will be entered into the Grand Final, which will be held at a venue to be confirmed in June 2008. The  location for the Grand Final will be Derby.

The evening of the GRAND Final will be split into two parts. Part One will see all competitors competing in a semi final to find the 24 most popular students for Part Two. All semi finalists will be invited on stage in their favourite outfit and an Evening outfit and introduced to the audience. They will have the opportunity to try to entice the audience to vote for them by text. Later in the evening, the 24 semi finalists with the most text votes will be selected for the Final Part (Part Two). In Part Two the Finalists will be invited back on stage and will be given the opportunity to impress the judges with a talent. The Judges will decide which student should be crowned Miss Student UK 2008. 

THE PRIZES The Winner will be crowned MissStudentUK.com 2008 and will receive a cheque for £10,000.00 plus a European Holiday for 2 and a photo shoot, plus a goody bag kindly donated by our Sponsors.

The Runner-Up will receive a cheque for £3,000 and a UK Holiday for 2 or £500 of holiday vouchers, plus a goody bag kindly donated by our Sponsors.

All losing finalists will receive a goody bag with prizes kindly donated by our Sponsors.

Rules are correct at the time of publishing. The Organisers reserve the right to make changes without notification.