Tenerife Entertainment Awards

The Tenerife Entertainment Awards would like to point out some of the guidelines and processes that lead to the categories, nominations and voting for the awards:

1. Categories:
The awards are open to acts that fit into any of the following categories with the following classification:
BEST MALE SINGER: male solo singer, can be resident in a venue. Billed as themselves.
BEST FEMALE SINGER: female solo singer, can be resident in a venue. Billed as themselves.
BEST TRIBUTE ACT: act of one or more members, billed as the tribute or them as the tribute.
BEST BAND: more than two members with instruments. Can be resident in a venue.
BEST GROUP/DUO: two members with or without instruments can be resident in a venue.
BEST COMPERE: one person who is resident in a bar, karaoke bar, cabaret bar or hotel, that hosts the evening with or without instruments.
BEST VARIETY ACT: a variety show act such as dancers, drag artists, mime artists, hypnotist, magic show, comedian, etc.
BEST RADIO DJ: any Tenerife based presenter on-air on a British station with studios based in Tenerife.
BEST CLUB DJ: any Tenerife based DJ in a club or fun pub.
BEST NEWCOMER: any new act for any category within the last 12 months.

The names of as many acts/artists as possible were collected and collated into these categories, by asking the public via our facebook page, asking the local entertainments agencies for their rostas, and adjusting our own database from previous awards, to ensure its as comprehensive and accurate as possible.
To qualify for the nominations, an act/artist must have been based in Tenerife and performed during the 12 month period from 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010.

2. Nominations:
Since 2007, the Tenerife Entertainment Awards has had a nominations panel that decide who is nominated for each category.
The nominations panel is made up of members of the local press, entertainments writers, agents, and people based here that have been a part of the scene in various different ways, but no longer perform.
In total there are over 30 members of the panel, who having received the database of categories, choose their top five for each category accordingly.
When these top five are submitted from each member, the total number of nominations is collated to finalise the ones with the most, to get the final nominees for each category, which then leads to the voting.
Each member of the panel is asked to see as many of the acts/artists in the database, and to advise us if any act has been missed so they can be added, and the other members can be informed.

The only exception to this for 2010, is the new category for best Dj in a club or fun pub, which was decided by posts on our facebook page.

3. Voting:
Every year the awards are run, the voting system is changed slightly following feedback from the previous event.
It was decided this year NOT to use a premium SMS number for text voting, as at the last awards, it was deemed as getting to expensive if people wanted to vote for several categories.
Also, there was only the facility for Spanish and Uk network mobiles not Irish network mobiles, making it unfair to any Irish nominees.
This years text number 656872279, is a standard movistar mobile number, accessible from any network in the world, at 15 cents for Spanish network texts, and international text rates from other countries. It is also a non-income earning number to keep costs to voters as low as possible.

Other cost saving exercises for the public have been implemented in the following ways:
With the popularity of facebook as a social networking media, it was decided to try it as the form of voting for one category. Best Variety Act was drawn out of the hat, so that voting for this category is solely via facebook and not by sms.
The new category for Best Dj in a club or fun pub, has also been allocated to one sector, tour operator reps as they are in the clubs and fun pubs every week and see the Dj's on a regular basis.
Best Newcomer is being decided by the nominations panel for the second awards running.

Each year there is a live category at the event, in 2008 it was Best Tribute Act, won by Paul Stone, this year there are two - Best Male and Best Female singers. Voting will be carried out in two ways on the day, via sms from people listening to the event live on Oasis Fm and on-line, and by a paper vote in the venue.

All nomination and voting stats will be available after the event for anyone to see, as they have been every year.

4 Other:
Any act/artist may request to be removed from nomination or voting for the awards, for whatever reason they deem necessary, and the Tenerife Entertainment Awards will remove them as requested.

Any act/artist nominated in the live performance categories, will still eligible for voting, if for any reason they are unable to perform.