Section 1: Press Access

1.1 Registration Instructions for Media & Press Accreditation

Access will be determined by accreditation card and identification. On the accreditation cards, worn by all participants in the NMPMG2022, there will be lettering and symbols identifying areas to which each individual cardholder has access. The access areas will be explained on the back of each card. To sign up and become properly accredited please go to: https://register.event-works.com/pgc/PMG2022/e/ce/g/111470/

Step 1: Read the instructions carefully

Please read the instructions carefully before you start registration for accreditation in the Event-Works System.

Step 2: Review and prepare the required information and documents

Make sure you have all necessary data and documents available before starting the registration process. If you don’t submit all required data and documents during the registration, the system will not allow you to save or submit your profile, and your registration will be invalid/lost. Once you submit the information you will not be able to go back and edit the data.

Each participant of the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and the latest vaccination certificate must be uploaded in the registration system upon submission of the accreditation application. So please make sure to have your latest COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate scanned on your computer before starting the registration process. Please read the instructions carefully before you start registration for accreditation in the Event-Works System.

Data to be submitted and verified

Everyone is responsible for ensuring that the personal information provided during the registration process is accurate. Mandatory fields must be completed for an application to be accepted for the Pacific Mini Games.

Registration data entered in the Event-Works system must be in English and the following characters are accepted to be used: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, @, +, as well as apostrophes (’) and hyphens (-).

The tables below list the data fields that will need to be completed. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*).

Step 3: Proceed with the registration

By going to this link: https://register.event-works.com/pgc/PMG2022/e/ce/g/111470/ you will be directed to the registration portal for the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022.
First check the “I’m not a robot” checkbox and press ENTER.

Now you can proceed with filling out the required fields in all tabs from PERSONAL DETAILS to ACCOMMODATION. Registration data must be filled out one page at a time, making sure the mandatory information is saved and submitted. When all compulsory data on a page is filled, you can switch to the next page with the NEXT STEP button. You can also switch between pages by clicking on the respective tab on the top of the page.

Once you submitted all necessary information, an accreditation photo, and the proof of vaccination you can proceed to the CONFIRMATION tab where you must press the CONFIRM button to submit your accreditation application.

You will receive a confirmation email of your registration after submission.

Should you have any questions regarding registration and accreditation you may contact protocols.northernmarianas2022@gmail.com

1.2 Usage

Media may take pictures and videos to capture the experience people are having at each sporting event during the duration of NMPMG2022. They must intend to use those pictures and videos in only the following ways:

• As memorabilia
• Give up to date sporting information
• To share on social media both as media albums as well as highlights
• To enhance the messages of communication in social media, print and digital news, websites and other communication
• To promote both a specific and general experience one has at each sporting event

1.3 General Regulations

Please take great care to follow all the best practices and regulations expresse below.

• Credentials must be worn at all times when entering venue facilities and establishments that is part of NMPMG2022
• Upon entering one of the venues/events, please identify yourself with your credentials. – This will allow you access to areas that is allowable for media
• There is a Media Center in Saipan, Rota and Tinian. All media should check-in at media center
• Do not interrupt or follow an athlete during their sporting events
• Be ready for questions from security, ambassadors, coaches, PMG Management, Games Organizing Committee and/or event attendees
• Under no circumstances are tripods, lights and elaborate set ups or flash photography permitted in any venues or events that will hinder and disrupt athletes during their events
• Media personnel are not permitted to take photos or shoot video where it is unsafe or disruptive such as in doorways, fire exits, expo floor aisles, hallways, sidewalks, etc. or public access.
• Not complying with a request to move or stop capturing content could result in your removal.
• Copying, republishing, downloading, transmitting, modifying, renting, leasing, loaning, selling, assigning, distributing, recording, licensing, sublicensing, reverse engineering, or creating any derivative works based on any Sport Event content is prohibited.

1.4 Competition Venue and Training Venue Access

Media will not be permitted at any Pacific Mini Games Non-Competition Training Venues. However, nominated PGA team photographers will be permitted. Media access at all Pacific Mini Games Competition Training Venues is at the discretion of the Sports Competition Manager.

On each competition site, a zone dedicated to exchanges between the Athletes and accredited journalists will be reserved near the exit from the competition area (mixed zone). It will be a brief exchange and athletes and team supervisors are requested to cooperate with the media.

Regulation 12 Section 6. of the Official Pacific Games Charter, updated November 2021, states:

• The OC [Organizing Committee] should provide, in the international zone or in its immediate vicinity, interview rooms for use by Teams on request.
• The meeting and conference rooms in the international zone can also be used by teams for press conferences, either with the press of their own countries & territories or with the international press.

1.4 Competition Venue and Training Venue Access

Media will not be permitted at any Pacific Mini Games Non-Competition Training Venues. However, nominated PGA team photographers will be permitted. Media access at all Pacific Mini Games Competition Training Venues is at the discretion of the Sports Competition Manager.

On each competition site, a zone dedicated to exchanges between the Athletes and accredited journalists will be reserved near the exit from the competition area (mixed zone). It will be a brief exchange and athletes and team supervisors are requested to cooperate with the media.

Regulation 12 Section 6. of the Official Pacific Games Charter, updated November 2021, states:

• The OC [Organizing Committee] should provide, in the international zone or in its immediate vicinity, interview rooms for use by Teams on request.
• The meeting and conference rooms in the international zone can also be used by teams for press conferences, either with the press of their own countries & territories or with the international press.

1.5 Athletes Village

No outside Press and/or Media is allowed to stay inside any hotel that is designated as the Athletes Village. Currently, the Hotels designated as the Athletes Village are: Grandvrio Resort, Pacific Islands Club, Coral Ocean Resort on Saipan, and Coral Garden, Bayview, and Hotel Valentino on Rota. No outside Press and/or Media personnel shall have access to the athletes while they stay in the hotels during NMPMG2022.

Section 18. of the charter states:

• To protect the Games participants from annoyance and disturbance and for security reasons, the village should be separated from the general public.
• Media representatives should be allowed into the International Zone of the Games Village on a strict quota with the official athletes’ restaurants being excluded. Entry to the Residential Zone must require a special invitation from the respective Chef de Mission.*

*For NMPMG2022 entry must also be approved by the Protocols and Accreditation Office.

1.6 Ceremonies

Protocol 23 of Games Charter states: Victory Ceremonies

1. (23.1) Medals shall be presented by such dignitaries as selected by the [G]OC in consultation with the PGA and the Executive Board
2. (23.2) The Ceremony shall take place as soon as possible after each event, preferably at the venue where the competition took place in the following manner:
   • Only the winning athletes (no officials) shall be allowed on to the podium and shall be the only ones presented with medals
   • The victory ceremony is announced. When competitors’ names are called they mount the podium provided, with the winner slightly higher than the second (to the winner’s right) and the third place getter slightly lower than second to the winner’s left.
   • The order for the presentation of medals shall be third, second and first. Facing the podium the person presenting the medals should have the first prize (gold medal) winner on the highest point of the podium, second prize (silver medal) on the Presenter’s left and the third prize (bronze medal) on the Presenter’s right.
   • After presentation of medals, all competitors and presenters shall face the victory flagpoles. The victory anthem of the winner’s country shall be played while the national flags of the three medal winners are raised. The winner’s flag shall be in the center with second on the left and third on the right as viewed from the winner’s podium.

During the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022, there will be designated areas for accredited press and media to film, record, and take pictures of the event. These areas will be clearly marked with signs and on all wayfinders. Media and Press in unauthorized areas will be asked to leave the restricted areas. Failure to comply could result in removal of accreditation and privileges.

Section 2: Ownership & Rights

Broadcasting Plan

The Host Broadcast will be delivered by Northern Marianas College via webcasting from venues and uplinked as multiple streams to the YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TyDfqI0Rh-7_Ei53k0o5g and hopefully the Olympic Channel. This is in accordance with the Games being held in a small location with limited operating budgets. There will be coverage on local Northern Marianas television, which will be broadcast into all hotels via the Northern Marianas Visitors Channel. At this stage it is expected that there will be live coverage of both Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Beach Volleyball, Tennis and Weightlifting, with more limited coverage of Golf, Va’a, and Triathlon.

The individual streams will become visible once the event goes live, and can be found via the Youtube Channel. NMPMG2022 will also add the livestream links to their website and share the streams across their social media accounts.

Foreign broadcast media must pay NMPMG2022 for the rights to broadcast to their local channels from the official feed. If the proper payments and/or agreements are not followed, the Pacific Games Council reserves the right to pursue legal action.

Purchasing Rights to the Broadcasting Stream

The Pacific Mini Games Organizing Committee is currently working on the pricing of three separate package plans to sell to foreign/outside media looking to buy broadcasting rights. Please be patient with us as we are still drafting up proposals and determining pricing. These packages should be available for those interested by Tuesday, June 7th, 2022.

Non-Rights-Holding Broadcasters (“Non-RHB”)

Non-RHBs are not official broadcasters of the Pacific Mini Games, therefore they can use NMPMG2022 properties only for editorial purposes. Any use of the NMPMG2022 properties that implies, creates, or suggests any commercial/institutional association with the Pacific Games Council and/or it’s associated entities is expressly forbidden.

Non-RHBs are entitled to use NMPMG2022 properties on-screen only when specifically reporting on NMPMG2022 (and not in connection with general sports programs, or in connection with other events). On-screen includes studio and program presentation and layout, interviews or related content, as will be explained in the Visual Identity Section.

Photography

Accredited photographers are the official photographers carrying a media specific accreditation identification card, including but not limited to, the those hired specifically by NMPMG2022, as well as those who are accredited from local and foreign news agencies.

Photographs of the Pacific Mini Games may be used for still photographic editorial purposes if:

• Taken by the news agency’s own accredited photographer
• Given full permission for use by the owner of said photo
• The image is placed in the official shared media drive, put in place by the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games, and proper credit is noted (placed in small font underneath image stating: Property of the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games 2022).

Photographs of the Pacific Mini Games 2022 must not be used for commercial purposes or within commercial content.

Domain Names and Social Media Accounts

Media organizations are not allowed to create specific Pacific Mini Games related websites or social media accounts. However, they are allowed to promote the Northern Marianas Pacific Mini Games within their own website or accounts and link to the official website and social media accounts of the NMPMG2022 (as long as promotions and links are done properly with approved designs, agreements, and in conjunction with advertising any third party or service).

• Website: https://northernmarianas2022.com
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/northernmarianas2022
• Instagram: @NorthernMarianas2022
• Twitter: @NMPMG2022