📌 Vanguard Music Championship — Season 1: Open Signal
Welcome to Vanguard Music Championship — Season 1: Open Signal
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Season 1: Open Signal
Your voice. Your writing. Your signal. Cut through the noise and earn your place in the next stage.
Topics and tasks
| Open Signal Cut through the noise. Make your signal clear. | |
| Vanguard M.C. Represent yourself. Show who you are as an M.C. and why you belong here. |
Additional information
Welcome to Vanguard Music Championship — Season 1: Open Signal.
Round 1 is the qualifying round.
The official submission opening date will be announced this week.
For Round 1, participants must submit 1 original audio track between 60 and 90 seconds through the official Vanguard submission flow.
This does not need to be a full song. It can be a verse, battle-style track, concept piece, structured excerpt, or short original performance.
Your submission should feel created for this Event — not pulled from an old catalogue!
Before joining or submitting, review the official Event pages:
- Round 1 Brief
- Judging & Advancement
- Prizes
- Rights & Licensing
- Rules & Conduct
- Privacy & Public Records
- FAQ
- Contact
Time remaining until stage end
What is this event
Vanguard Music Championship — Season 1: Open Signal is a public professional music competition on the Vanguard Platform.
This season is built around one question:
Can your voice cut through the noise?
Round 1 is a qualifying round. Artists submit one original 60–90 second audio track and choose one of two directions: Open Signal or Vanguard M.C.
This is not about having the biggest studio budget. It is about voice, writing, delivery, presence, control, originality, and impact.
The strongest eligible submissions advance to the 1v1 knockout battle stage, where artists compete head-to-head.
How It Works
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Choose your direction
Study the Round 1 brief and choose your topic: Open Signal or Vanguard M.C.
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Submit your track
Upload one original 60–90 second audio track through the official submission form before the deadline.
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Face the next stage
If your signal is strong enough, you move forward into direct 1v1 knockout battles.
Event news
All news →Assignments
Round 1. Qualifying
- Open Signal — Cut through the noise. Make your signal clear. Read more →
- Vanguard M.C. — Represent yourself. Show who you are as an M.C. and why you belong here. Read more →
Inside Vanguard
About the Event
Understand what Vanguard Music Championship — Season 1: Open Signal is, how the competition works, and what artists gain by participating.
How to Submit Your Work
A quick step-by-step guide for registration, account activation, joining an event, uploading your work, and confirming the required agreements.
Judging & Advancement
See how Round 1 qualifying scores work and how the 1v1 knockout battle judging system is structured.
Rights & Licensing
Your music stays yours. Learn what rights you keep, what Vanguard needs to run the Event, and how promotional use works.
Meet the Organizer
Kirill Kasatsky, founder of Vanguard Network, shares the vision behind Vanguard Music Championship and the culture the platform is building.
FAQ
Round 1
It is a public professional music competition on the Vanguard Platform.
Season 1 is called Open Signal. Artists submit original audio tracks, receive judging, and the strongest eligible participants advance through the competition.
Individual artists aged 14+ may participate.
Participants aged 14–17 need parent or legal guardian authorization.
Yes, this Event is free.
Submit one original audio track between 60 and 90 seconds.
It can be a verse, battle-style track, concept piece, structured excerpt, or short original performance.
You can choose one of two directions:
- Open Signal — create a track that defines your signal and cuts through the noise.
- Vanguard M.C. — represent yourself as an M.C. Show your voice, identity, presence, and intent.
No. Your submission should feel created for this Event and this round.
Do not pull an old track from your catalogue and submit it as if it was made for the brief.
Rules
No.
AI-generated vocals, AI rap delivery, AI singing, AI speech, voice cloning, voice conversion, artificial vocals, and artificial vocal likeness are not allowed.
Only if you have the rights, license, permission, and clearance needed to use it in this Event.
You are responsible for beats, samples, loops, collaborators, credits, vocals, likenesses, and all third-party materials.
Explicit language and mature themes may appear in battle content, but you must flag explicit content if the submission form asks you to do so.
Explicit content does not allow threats, doxxing, harassment, hate-based conduct, or unlawful material.
Rights
Yes.
Your music stays yours. Vanguard does not become your label, publisher, distributor, manager, or owner.
Yes, within the Event context.
Vanguard may use your submission to run, judge, display, document, and archive the Event.
Broader promotional use is handled by the Content Promotion & Media License.
No.
Vanguard cannot sell your track as a standalone product without a separate written agreement with the relevant rights holder or rights holders.
Judging & Prizes
Round 1 uses a Qualifying Score from 0 to 5.
Judges consider topic fit, originality, lyrics and writing, rhyme work, delivery, presence, structure, and overall impact.
The knockout stage uses a classic battle judging structure:
- Lyrics & Writing — 5 points
- Flow & Delivery — 5 points
- Overall Impact — 2 points
The first-place eligible winner may receive a cash prize based on the number of eligible Round 1 submissions.
The maximum cash prize for this Event is CAD $500.
