The mascot design competition has been finished successfully, below is the result:

Winners will be notified by letter and invited to attend the prize presentation. 

1. Organizer: Drainage Services Department (DSD)
    
2. Purpose
   • To encourage citizens to unleash the creativity by designing a mascot to represent DSD, and introduce the work of flood prevention and sewage treatment
   • To enhance citizens' understanding to the work of DSD
      
3. Target
   All citizens in Hong Kong (All staff of the organizer, contractor, members of the judging panel and their immediate family members are not allowed to participate in this Competition.)
    
4. Schedule
   • Application and entry submission: 2 – 30 Sept 2019 (23:59)
     (Late submission will not be accepted)
   • Entry Assessment: 2 – 10 Oct 2019
   • Result Announcement: Late Oct 2019
   • Prize Presentation: Date to be announced later
5. Rules and Eligibility
   • All entries must conform to the theme of the Competition, and all entries must be original, have neither been openly shown no publicized in any other media platforms, nor have been submitted for other competitions.
   • A participant can only submit one entry. Only the latest entry will be accepted if more than one has been received.
   • An entry should not contain any material that is obscene, violent, pornographic, defamatory, indecent, disparaging or content that is controversial and inappropriate.
   • Participants are to abide by the Organizer's decision on all matters relating to the Competition, including the right to adopt the winning entries for the mascot of Organizer without prior notice.
   • Decisions of the judges are final. The participants are not allowed to object and the Competition does not have an appeal mechanism.
   • All staff of the Organizer, contractor, members of the judging panel and their immediate family members are not allowed to participate in this Competition.
      
6. Format of Entries
   • There is no limitation for presentation of the design concept, while no physical model is accepted.
   • In order to encourage creativity and innovation, the design of mascot can be presented as but not limited to human character, animal, robot, super hero, character whom can communicate with people and humanized object.
   • The mascot must be a single character.
   • The entries must include four sides (front, back, left and right); hand drawing format must be drawn on A4 size blank paper and scanned in jpg or pdf format, the resolution should be at least 300dpi while the file size should not be less than 1M and not be larger than 5M.
   • Other entry formats (for example, photo taking of model or figure) and their submissions must be in jpg or pdf format. Resolution should be at least 300dpi while the file size should not be less than 1M and not be larger than 5M. Using Clipart is not allowed.
   • Naming and measurement of the mascot is required. A summary of the content should be provided either in Chinese or English (within 50-100 words).
      
7. Application and Entry Submission:
   Email the application form and entries to: event@mgp.com.hk
    
8. Prize
   1st winning entry: HK$5,000 award and certificate
   2nd winning entry: HK$3,000 award and certificate
   3rd Winning entry: HK$2,000 award and certificate
   Merit (5 places): HK$1,000 award and certificate
    
9. Judging Criteria

   (1) Overall Composition: design and techniques	40%
   (2) Expression of theme: mascot design for DSD	30%
   (3) Creativity: innovative ideas	30%

10. Judging panel
    DSD will establish a professional judging panel to select the winning entries. 
     
11. Results Announced
    The results of the competition will be announced on the DSD's website in Late October, 2019. Winners will be notified by letter and invited to attend the prize presentation to introduce their winning entries and share their design experience.
     
12. Copyright
    • Participants are required to comply with the relevant copyright laws. If the participants infringe the copyright or other related crimes, including but not limited to the submission, reprinting, copying and counterfeiting of the competition, their qualifications will be cancelled. Participants should be responsible for their own legal responsibility, and any legal disputes are irrelevant to the organizer.
    • The organizer may copy, use, modify, display, publish and distribute the submitted entries, or distribute them for any media, for publicity or education, without any remuneration or other notice.
    • The organizer has the intellectual property rights of the submitted entries, which can be put into production and distributed, displayed or published in any venue as (but not limited to) the promotion of the DSD activities.
    • After submitting the application, the participants will agree to all the terms and conditions on behalf of the participants, and will not remove any loss of the organizer from any of the principals who have filed their work for the legal liability and agree to the compensation.
       
13. Personal information collection statement
    Personal information is provided by the participants and the relevant materials will only be used for participation in the Drainage Services Department. The information will only be provided by the person handling the application as a review, contact and related use.
     
14. Reference website
    
    DSD Sustainability Report 2017-18: River Revitalisation for the Good of Water
    
    Kai Tak River improvement Works
    
    Harbour Area Treatment Scheme
    
    Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme
    
    Relocation of Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works to Caverns