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Your username is your email address.

If you no longer have access to the email account you used when you first registered, please contact web@canadiancomedy.ca.

No, that would be considered fraud. We regularly check our voting roll to ensure that there are no duplicate accounts and, if we find any, we delete them. If a voter is found to have voted twice from two separate accounts, both accounts are deleted and the voter is banned. We also check for fake accounts used to affect public voting. With all the hidden information we collect from all user interactions with the website, they are remarkably easy to spot. Please do not waste your time or ours by trying to rig the voting.

We wouldn't on Earth ask you for your email password. That password form field is for you to create a password for your CCA voting account. We recommend using a unique password, NOT your email address password.

There are 3 tiers to our voter system - Pubic Voter, Industry Member and Voting Member.

Public Voters pay no fee to submit to or vote in public voting categories. They are not eligible to become Voting Members.

Industry Members also pay no fee to submit to or vote in public voting categories. But they are eligible to become Voting Members.

To register as an Industry Member, you need to be a member of the one of the listed unions or receive the endorsement of 3 currently registered Industry Members.

Industry Members become Voting Members by paying the annual membership fee.

Only Voting Members may submit to or vote in industry-only voting categories.

No. Every voting account is required to have its own unique email address.

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No. You have already received those endorsements, from the Voting Member who submitted you and the jurors whose selections led to your nomination.

Please contact web@canadiancomedy.ca to upgrade your account to Industry Member status.

You will still need to become a Voting Member if you wish to vote in any industry-only voting categories.

We are not permitted to publish or give away such information. We suggest you ask those people you know within the community. For example, if you take or have taken any courses at Second City or the comedy program at Humber College, it's a good bet any of your instructors have industry member status with the CCAs. If there's a TheatreSports league or comedy club in your city, there are likely some CCA industry members there. All previous CCA nominees are industry members.

Union association is only used in a voter's first year of voting. For any consecutive years as a voter, their account is labeled "CCA" so that we do not have to continually send their info to their union for validation.

A working budget is required long before our submission process or awards event take place and, in order to apply for several sources of funding, it is required that we show community interest through community investment.

Much in the same way that a movie requires a budget before it can be developed, pre-produced, produced, post-produced and marketed. If movie studios only relied on box office to generate their production budgets, no movie would ever be made.

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Anyone found to be committing voter fraud can be prevented from submitting or voting for 1-5 years.

Because you are registered as a public voter. Public voters may only vote in public voting categories.

It does not invalidate your ballot. You can vote in any one or more categories.

Only registered Voting Members are permitted to make submissions to industry-only voting categories. Voting Member, Industry Members (who are not Voting Members) and Public Voters may submit to public voting categories. Please check the criteria for registering as an Industry Member. Industry Members may then become Voting Members by paying the annual membership fee.

You need to first sign in to your registered voter account.

Once you do, a second navigation menu will appear on the right side of the page .

Click on "Your Submissions".

From the Your Submissions page, you can add a new submission or update submissions you've already made.

Submissions can only be made when our submissions process is open.

Yes. You can submit any number of nominations you wish but each is considered a separate submission with a separate form and fee.

Yes. A Voting Member can submit a non-Voting Member artist to an industry-only voting category. It is then confirmed with the artist that they wish to be submitted.

If the artist rejects the submission, the submission is deactivated.

If the artist agrees to the submission, the submission remains active and both the submitter and the artist are informed what their responsibilities are in the delivery of submission materials (i.e. photo, bio, submission videos).

However, only Voting Members may vote in industry-only voting categories. So if the artist wanted to vote, they would be required to pay the membership fee to become a Voting Member.

Becoming a Voting Member gets you 2 things: the ability to submit to and the ability to vote in industry-only voting categories.

You do not need to be a Voting Member to be submitted. You only need to be a Voting Member to be the person who is doing the submitting.

Yes. However, you are not permitted to duplicate qualifying performances. So if your troupe had the requisite number of performances to meet the criteria for the troupe category AND IN ADDITION TO THOSE PERFORMANCES your play/revue/series had the requisite number of performance to meet the criteria for Comedic Play/Revue/Series, then yes you could submit to both.

When there are errors made in the delivery of submission materials, those tracking numbers allow us to quickly isolate your submission amidst the thousands of emails we receive every year. The quicker we can do that, the sooner any problems your submission might have can be resolved.

Not including your tracking number(s) can sometimes cause errors to occur. So, include your tracking number(s) on everything.

Anyone found to be committing submission fraud can be prevented from submitting or voting for 1-5 years.

The CCAs has strict vetting procedures for criteria adherance. If you have information that a submitter does not meet the criteria, you may contact the chair of our Awards & Nominations Committee. Their contact info is on our Committees page.

Jury videos are what our juries watches to determine who will be nominated. They can be any length of time. However, only the first 15 minutes of the submission will be considered by the jury.

Should your submission be nominated, voting videos are what voters watch to determine who they will vote for. They can be up to 3 minutes in length, with the exception of Best Short, Best Podcast and Best Radio Clip/Program which can be any length up to 60 minutes.

No. What is being judged is your performance from the qualifying year. You are not permitted to submit content from a previous year or the current calendar year.

No. All submission videos to live performance categories must only contain live performance content of the submitted artist(s). Any non-live performance content disqualifies the use of that video. You would then need to recut the video without the disqualifying content and resubmit it.

No. If any titles or voice-overs or any other such content which directly addresses jury members or voters has been added to a video, that video cannot be accepted. And you would then need to provide a video without any such disqualifying content.

An edited highlight reel that exemplifies the submission is acceptable. You must provide the edited highlight reel; we do not edit your submission videos.

Or you may submit your full product. However, only the first 15 minutes of the submission will be considered by the jury. The majority of submitted jury videos are 10-15 minutes long.

Submission videos of any live performances cannot have any edits shorter than 30 seconds. If a submission video does have an edit shorter than 30 seconds, the video will be rejected and the submitter will be instructed to submit a video conforming to this standard.

Do not send your original copy as it will not be returned to you.

Until your submission video(s) are processed and ready for jurying, your submission is technically incomplete. Some DVDs have been scratched or have been unable to be converted for Internet viewing by our jurors. Some submission videos require additional processing if the supplied media exceeds the maximum allowable length for a jury or voting video.

You can if you want. But it will eat into the 3-minute time limit* for voting videos. The popup window in which jury members and voters will view your video will contain both the title of your submission and the category to which it has been submitted.

* This does not apply to Best Comedy Short, Best Podcast and Best Radio Program/Clip which have longer time limits.

In some cases, yes. For instance, if the same content is being used in submission videos for multiple submissions to the same category, bringing titles up over the respective artist being submitted can be helpful. For instance, if you are submitting the same live improv clip for 3 submissions to Best Male Improviser, having titles over the 3 male improvisers helps jury members keep track of who they are jurying.

Yes. We prefer online delivery of materials but we will still accept submission videos on DVD. Our mailing address appears in the Videos tab of your submission(s).

No. If you are a writer, actor or director and you want to submit an episode of something you worked on, you need to supply us with non-DRMC submission videos. The majority of the videos you download via iTunes are locked - we can't even open them, let alone process them.