Rules
Thrill The World 2012 Rules
Thrill the World is not just about getting lots of people or lots of media, both of which are great. The Event is about thousands of people around the world dancing together in the name of making a difference and honoring the greatest artist of all time. Here are the RULES you need to know for Thrill The World 2012.
THE DETAILS ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE REQUIRED OF ALL EVENTS.
In case of conflicts: the rules, requirements or information from this document, the TTW Final Instructions supersede and overrule any rules, requirements or information that may be found or read in other sources, such as the Manual or other documents from TTW.
The rules are subject to change, additions or subtractions as declared by TTW. Don’t worry, we won’t go changing them willy-nilly, but just in case something happens we want to let you know ahead of time that it’s possible, that’s all.
THINGS YOU MUST DO
1. Please register your event before 11 pm GMT Friday, October 22, 2012. (Global Press Release Requirements)
2. Open a Googlemail account with the name: TTW’your city’@gmail.com
3. Set up a website and/or Facebook page. If you presently have a Facebook account, you can use that, as long as your TTW event has a separate page.
4. Dance at EXACTLY the right time zone coordinate in your location, synchronized to World Thrill Time (7pm GMT) .
5. Dance the version taught by Ines Markeljevic in the Thriller Teaching Videos and use the song provided by TTW.
4. Create an excel spreadsheet with a list of your participants to submit for final reporting. (If you want to save paper, try using online registration tools such as EventBrite or Google forms for participant sign up. EventBrite has the option for participants to check in electronically for the event via an Iphone, Smartphone or laptop. Check out this video for more info.)
5. Take photos of your dance and post them online.
6. Take a video of your dance and post it on YouTube
7. Have 1 witness, anyone over age 18, write a short statement that they witnessed the event and the rules were followed. We will send you a form.
8. Have a little, or a lot, of fun along the way!!!
THINGS YOU MUST NOT DO
1. Don’t run your event for personal benefit. This is intended as a promotional and community-building event. Yes, you paid a registration fee to TTW and that is to cover the costs of running TTW. You can do the same to make sure you do not take a personal loss. You are allowed to raise funds, gain sponsorship and charge class fees or participant fees in a reasonable amount in order to cover your direct costs. Extra money should either be donated to your charity and/or a small amount can be set aside (up to 20%) for start-up costs next year. But no money should go to anyone involved in running the event for their personal benefit.
2. All events must use the TTW logo as provided. No words or graphics should appear above or to the left of the logo. Words or graphics to represent your city, group or organization name can be below or to the right of the TTW logo.
3. All events must use the TTW logo just alike a McDonald’s in India wouldn’t make their own logo in the shape of an elephant, same rules apply to all TTW events.
4. Don’t say anything negative about Michael Jackson, Thrill The World, Ines Markeljevic or other TTW events. If you don’t have anything nice to say…find a way to deflect and re-direct the conversation to something else. Michael Jackson continues to have an undeniable positive influence had through his music and humanitarian work. That’s what we are celebrating and honouring at Thrill The World!”
THE DANCE AND MUSIC
1. The countdown to Thrill Time will be on the homepage of www.thrilltheworld.com or you can simply tune in to our official radio station www.dancenow.com to hear Thriller being broadcast at World Thrill Time! DanceNow is available on all smart/ web enabled phones. Or at the precise designated time make sure to hit play on your music or video machine.
2. Have a back-up plan for music/audio! Just in case, have a CD/mp3 on site and a secondary sound system, even if it is not very good! If all else fails, yell out the words.
3. Events without internet connection should sync their on-site clocks to the countdown time on TTW’s homepage and just start dancing.
4. If one person dances, that one person is still counted, as long as they registered as an official event before the deadline. There are no minimum or maximum numbers of participants.
5. All participants must dance the Thrill The World choreography as taught by Ines Markeljevic on the website and YouTube.
6 All participants must do the steps correctly and perform the full dance. Participants who have any sort of physical limitations or pains are permitted to modify the steps for their needs as long as they are identifiable as being TTW’s Thriller.
7. All events must use the 5 minute 58 second version of Thriller and it must be at full speed.
8. Events may use the version of the song that contains the dance script and/or the video of Ines dancing at full speed.
9. Let the song or video clip play from the beginning. Do not fast forward past the 40 second intro of walking, creaking and howling. Let it play!
10. Start the dance like this: 1. All dancers begin lying on the ground and slowly get up during the creepy intro music, or 2. All dancers just stay standing in place until the choreography begins. Dancers should stay in the dance area once counted. If you want them to enter the dance area then make sure the audience members don’t walk into the area or that dancers that were counted leave and don’t end up dancing, otherwise your count will be off.
WITNESS AND COUNTING
1. Everyone who is dancing “Thriller” must be counted and signed-in right before and verified by one witness who supervises the entire counting process. The final count can be done in several ways for more help read the manual.
2. The witness must make sure everyone is doing the same dance at the same time and not doing something else like posing for photographs.
THE WORLD RECORD
1. A TTW certificate will be posted on the website under the Event Managers page and each event manager, should they wish, may send certificates to each qualified participant.
2. If your event wishes to compete for the Guinness World Record for “Largest Thriller Dance” in one location, you will require more than 13.000 people. Contact Guinness for details at www.guinnessworldrecords.com.
3. The world record that TTW is attempting for the “Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance.” The current world record for “Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance” (multiple locations) on October 24/25 2009, when 22,571 people in 264 cities from 33 countries danced “Thriller” at exactly the same time! These records were set with the Record Holders Republic.
