Official Koi Show Rules

Rules & Regulations:

• Entry fee is $5/Koi. We also welcome donations.
• Our team will upload your entry for a $10/koi fee.
• This Koi show is open to all Koi lovers including hobbyists and dealers.
• The entrants must be from America (North, Central and South America) to win awards.
• All the Koi must be entered by a personal name, not a business name.
• All the entered Koi must be owned by the entrant at the time of registration and award ceremony.
• All the submitted image and information must be owned by the entrant.
• The images and videos should not show anything but Koi as much as possible.
• The submitted information should not contain any information of breeders and dealers and any information that the organizer judge may affect the judging.
• Every entry must be pre approved by the organizer for the acceptance of registration.
• The organizer has a right to reconfirm the entry information with entrants and/or correct the entry information without contacting entrants.
• Once published, replacements of images and videos are not allowed.
• By participating, entrants agree that the organizer will own rights to use all images or information collected from entries, comments or ratings for marketing purposes.

Entering Koi In Show

Please review and submit the necessary information with the form online:

• Koi Name - Does your koi have a name? Put a title for what we should refer to your koi as.
• Koi Description - Write a description about this koi. Tell a story, it's history, how it's pattern changed. It's your canvas!
• Approximate Size and Size category - It is an honor system. Please provide as accurate or best estimate information as possible.
• Variety & Category - The information will be double checked by the organizer.
• Koi Picture(s) - Vertical photo preferred and larger photos are recommended. Jpg or Png files accepted. Minimum size: width 320px x height 500px. Up to 3 images allowed.
• Koi Video - (up to 60 seconds) upload to youtube/vimeo (Horizontal video is recommended.) For judging, it is the best you upload the video to youtube and insert the link.
• Koi picture and video must be must be recent within the last 5 months.
• Name, Email, Phone Number - Enter the information to contact you about where to send your award if you win.

Koi Show Categories:

Awards:

Awards will be announced during virtual award ceremony!

No Koi can win more than one award, except for special awards.

* Delivery of the prizes - FREE delivery to a winner in the U.S.A. Winners from outside US must pay the shipping. Please note some countries may not allow import of prize items such as koi food. In such cases, no compensation will be provided.

Major winners will be published in RINKO Magazine, the first Japanese Koi magazine!

Special Awards & Prizes

• Mamoru Kodama Prize
• Judge's Award