Prizes and submissions in championships

How a video enters a championship

It depends on the platform:

• TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest — automatic. With the account connected, CutPro detects your new videos and submits them on its own to the championships you're signed up for, matching on the required hashtags. Pasting a link from those networks doesn't work, and that isn't a bug: the route is the connected account.
• YouTube and Kwai — manual. You paste the published video's link.

What gets validated

Every submitted video goes through automatic checks. The most common reasons for rejection:

Rejection	What it means
Private video	It has to be public — and stay public until the results are settled.
Published before the start	A video from before the championship began doesn't count.
Missing hashtags or mentions	The ones the organizer requires have to be in the post.
Too long, or it's a live stream	Clips count, not entire broadcasts. There's a length ceiling.
Duplicate video	The same video can't enter twice.
Account already claimed	Someone else already linked that social account in the same championship.
Platform not allowed	The organizer chooses which networks count.

Once it passes the checks, the video comes in as pending — it only starts scoring after the organizer approves it.

How the prize is calculated

The organizer picks one of the formats when creating it:

• Fixed places — set amounts for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on, paid at the end.
• Recurring (daily, weekly or monthly) — a fixed amount for whoever leads the leaderboard in each period.
• Per thousand views — each video earns an amount per 1,000 views, with a possible cap per video.
• Combined — recurring payouts during the championship plus a podium at the end.

An absolute limit applies to all of them: the pool is what the organizer deposited. The system never distributes beyond that — and in a per-thousand-views championship, when the pool runs out, it ends.

One important detail of the views format: a video deleted from the network stops accruing prize money. Take the post down and it stops earning.

When you get paid

There's no "withdraw" button. The payout is triggered automatically by the system, at the time the organizer configured, or manually by them.

Prizes in credits land straight in your CutPro balance.

Cash prizes are transferred by PIX, to the key you registered at sign-up. Three things to know:

1. There's a minimum for the transfer to go out in the per-thousand-views format — below it, the amount keeps accruing for the next round. The screen shows how much is missing.
2. When the championship closes, the minimum is waived: whatever has accrued is released.
3. PIX isn't instant here. The transfer is created, goes through processing and only then confirms. The screen tells you it's on the way.

If the PIX key is rejected

This happens when the key is wrong or was deactivated at the bank. In that case the amount goes back into your accrued balance and you need to register a new key. Outside that situation, the key can't be swapped freely — a change depends on support review.

Under normal conditions the prize isn't lost because of this: it stays in custody for a period and is resent once the key is corrected.

Disqualification

The organizer is who disqualifies (or a manager they appointed), and CutPro can also act in cases of fraud.

Typical reasons: duplicate video, inappropriate or unrelated content, suspicious metrics, outside the period, breaking the rules.

The effect on the money depends on the stage:

• Video still pending — nothing is affected, it just doesn't start scoring.
• Prize in credits already granted — it's reversed.
• PIX not yet settled — canceled before it goes out.
• PIX already paid — it doesn't come back.

Zero-tolerance practices, per the policy: bots and automation, multiple accounts, buying engagement, collusion, and using the hashtags on videos unrelated to the championship. Beyond disqualification, these can lead to a ban and forfeiture of pending prizes.

If you were disqualified and disagree, there's a window to appeal — the channel and the deadline are in the championships policy.

Taxes and responsibilities

A cash prize is income: the tax responsibility is the recipient's. High-value prizes may require additional identity verification, as required by law.

It's worth reading the whole championships policy before entering a championship with a meaningful prize — that's the rulebook that governs.