[[Attachment:3]]Become a part of "Music of EWC" and get heard by 500 million viewers
What if your track became the sound of the biggest gaming event this summer?
We’re teaming up with the Esports World Cup Foundation to find bold, original producers to shape the event’s official sound.
The Music of Esports World Cup (EWC) will consist of six tracks in total: Four tracks are professional compositions which were recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. The two winning tracks of this Audiotool contest will become the other two tracks of this suite of sound and be played as part of the EWC this summer.
Whether you produce the track from scratch or use one from your existing collection doesn’t matter. You will just need to submit your old track as a remix so that it complies with the guideline requiring a release date after April 26, 2025.
All styles welcome. Whether it’s cinematic, gritty, chill, or completely experimental, your sound could fuel the energy between matches at one of the most streamed events on the planet.
Think Super Bowl halftime-show energy, broadcast across millions of screens.
🏆 Prizes for the Top 2:
*Each winner will receive a USD 10,000 Artist Development & Promotion Budget. We will hire a professional artist management agency to create a personalized strategy with you. You decide how to use the budget—promote your music, record an album or hire a booking agent. If you already have a professional management, the budget goes to them on your behalf.
***25 custom vinyl **of your own tracks
*NEW: DOLBY Atmos Mix of your track mastered at TYX Studios London
*A 1-year LANDR Studio subscription for mastering & distribution
*And, of course, massive global exposure
👆You can publish your track under CC BY-NC-SA or All Rights Reserved – your choice.
👆Existing tracks (old tracks) may be submitted but must be entered as remixes with a release date after April 26, 2025.
🎯 Deadline: June 22, 2025
👉 Enter the EWC Producer Challenge now → https://www.audiotool.com/contest/ewc_2025_producer_contest-uljtxan3y
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dviM0CPT_BU?si=-K5phkuPeFDuZ4q2
Comments (131)
woa
definitely gonna grind extra tracks out in the next month lol
@noah_cheng
wow,thats cool!!!
https://www.audiotool.com/user/baptiste_benezech_yahoo_fr/
https://www.audiotool.com/user/pogtopia179/
i think u submited ur track!
https://www.audiotool.com/user/hkgabi/
yeah submitted
coool!!
i just submitted these for fun, i dont think ill win this contest due to the style and simplicity of my tracks but ill still give it a shot
yeah,the same,there are a more cool tracks than mines,so we do it for fun!
What is the fun with clicking a submit button? 😉
Can we make something outside of audiotool and still enter the contest?
By that, I mean upload stems of course.
https://www.audiotool.com/user/trenz4/
I'm in
Stem upload ist allowed. But please no single audiotracks
I might try even though I won’t win
I submitted 3 of my tracks! I prob won’t win, but I’ll see how this goes ;)
pass
Prob not make it to the judging round because all three are not prublished under CC BY-NC-SA ;)
So no stems this year to Remix?
Just self made Tracks?
the copyright requirement is pretty interesting. non-commercial usage. wouldn't playing all the music at a gaming event be considered commercial usage?
Be careful!! Republish under CC BY-NC-SA before submitting a track, I had to submit the same track twice...
but if i republish my track(for example galena) in CC BY-NC-SA (it was CC BY-SA) i still in???
https://www.audiotool.com/user/baptiste_benezech_yahoo_fr/
https://www.audiotool.com/user/sandburgen/
Only tracks published under r CC BY-NC-SA count. You won’t be disqualified if you published one under the wrong license.
Yes
If you want to take an existing track you have to make a remix, change the license, publish and submit. A simple republish doesn’t work
Making a new track for this could be an idea too 😉
ok thanks,sandburgen!
No problem
How is it that I've been on this site for more than 13 years and I've never figured out how to @ people?
lol
I gotta re-up that LANDR subscription through this contest lol
i'll do it if i can trade in the massive global exposure for $2000 cash USD
Respectfully, the copyright stipulation for this competition reveals a predatory move on EWC's part. If this competition were for a smaller event, I would have a better time understanding said copyright rule and have less of an issue with it.
An event the size of the EWC should definitely have the budget to afford paying for the music they utilize through licensing. A typical payout for an event like this can max out in the tens to even hundreds of thousands. Licensing smaller artists is typically cheaper- even then, the payouts can be upwards of $10-15K. Forcing the winning tracks under a noncommercial license means that the EWC can profit off of the winning artist(s) without giving them a single dime.
This is a massive opportunity for small artists here to commercialize- or profit from- their music should they win. Exposure and physical media are great, don't get me wrong, but those alone as a prize do not equalize with an event of this size. They will not pay the bills nor set up artists for better use of their talents. And a LANDR subscription is just laughable considering how much is truly left off the table due to a noncommercial license.
Never forget, art is labor. Expressional and creative labor, sure, but still labor. Artists deserve proper compensation, /especially/ in use cases like this.
On a broader tangent: is this truly the message that we want to spread to this community? That 'exposure' and little gifts alone are the reward for all of our creative efforts? Hasn't it always been deeper than that? Is it not the goal of making these tools free to put the fruits of creative labor back in the hands of the artists?
I say all of this because I have been lucky to witness the underside of the music industry and the corporate (sometimes even personal) greed that goes on within. Artists by and large have bought into malicious messaging that their art is not worth anything and asking for compensation for their work is inhenrently "unartistic." I am sick of this mindset
not being able to get a single cent off any usage the winning track gets other than if you yourself promote it is a massive turn off
Say it somehow blows up and is used in multiple forms of media
Even for instance a massive advertisment
You don't get anything lol
Like sure the payoff is the ability to profit after due to the prize but that's its own can of worms lol
Just imagine you stop using this site and see a year or multiple years from now
"Look at what can be made on audiotool. Winner of yada yada yada" and it's your track
Only you don't get anything from it if they so desire
They can do as they please in terms of usage to monetize off your work and erase your name
Surely audiotool will never be that greedy but bigger companies have done worse and gotten away with it
i would love to see audiotool fire a-records back up. launch imprints with audiotool users at the creative helm while you guys handle the management and distribution etc. imagine egg dungeon vinyl. imagine an audiotool-produced po9t track on the BILLBOARD charts. i would absolutely produce my next album on audiotool if you used your publishing platform to publish it.
the only thing i see here is a massive organization getting whatever they want in exchange for birdseed thrown to the people who made the thing in the first place, and i see audiotool is happy to be the doormat for them. it would be more ethical for ewc to ai generate their little filler tracks
and since ewc is using the music at an event which is generating money. the artist could easily sue ewc for using their music at a commercial event. at least how i understand it anyways. it's all kinda ass backwards and makes no sense why they'd do this unless I'm literally mistaken and this copyright stuff is just confusing as hell. i swear the non commercial clause is there to protect creators from other people making profit from their work? that's the most obvious thing to me
That’s the classic play-for-exposure deal: artists are asked to trade full licensing rights for the hope that a gigantic audience will somehow turn into income, history shows it rarely does. Audiotool already proved, via A-Records, that it can press vinyl, distribute music and share real revenue with its creators. Another sellout of the audiotool community.
For those complaining about the license, what did you expect? These professionals (Audiotool team) were already established in the music business long before you were even born. Meaning - when they teamed up with the other company to organize this contest for AT users, they knew exactly what they were getting into—and what they were signing you up for. Do you really think they didn't anticipate that the licensing requirements would raise concerns? And do you think they're going to fix it just for you now? This is a “deal with it or fuck off” contest.
It should be renamed to - Become famous but die poor broski contest. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
On the other hand I think it’s still a good deal anyway. Just make sure people who listen to the track at the streaming event know who made it. Look at Mimo. Broski made tracks and said - take it, use it IDGAF. His music was so fresh and good ppl started putting it in tiktoks, youtube shorts n shit and Mimo blew up. Everyone and their mother started googling him. 🫡
alr well time for me to cook
the fact that audiotool knew what they were signing their users up for is exactly the problem. too many music BUSINESSES think they can get quality product FOR FREE in this day and age. it's just the culture of it. that deeply saddens me. producers used to be respected, now they get paid in google searches. which bank will let me exchange my google searches for USD?
yeah i'm def gonna "fuck off" and not "deal with it"
audiotool is far from the first place to put you in the limelight man don't gaslight yourself too much, always question everything lmao
to those still scrolling for answers i suppose. make sure you read the fine print before entering a competition hehe https://audiotool.notion.site/EWC-25-Contest-Terms-b77961d282874ed482302eef6b01d0d9
honestly. what a scummy piece of shit contest this is
@xyyreau-music Real talk!
Hey, thank you all for sharing your feedback. We will share them with the EWC team and keep you updated on their response.
Thank you for taking this seriously
im glad it's being taken seriously
ooh me likely
Dear Audiotool Community,
First off, thank you,
Your feedback on the EWC contest announcement was absolutely necessary. You’ve helped us see where the original terms needed to be fairer and clearer to truly respect the rights of every artist in our community.
We’re making the following important changes based on your input:
-You retain full control over your music rights. You can publish your track under Creative Commons or All Rights Reserved – your choice.
-You can freely distribute your music elsewhere (Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, social platforms, etc.)
-Exclusive marketing use. By submitting to the contest, you agree your track can’t be given to other brands for marketing purposes.
-If you don't win, your track stays 100% yours. EWC will not use, publish, or license non-winning tracks.
-If you win, your track will be used by EWC and their partners in broadcasts, on-site events and digital content.
We’re upgrading the prize:
-Each of the two winners will receive an Artist Development & Promotion Budget of USD 10,000.
-EWC will hire a professional artist management agency to work directly with you on a personalized strategy. You decide how to use the budget – whether it’s promoting your music, recording an album, hiring a booking agent, or purchasing new equipment. If you already have a professional management, the budget is provided to them on your behalf.
Additionally:
Thanks Audiotool Community for your support to speak up in the interest of artists.
— The Audiotool Team
Thank you moderator and thank you sim, you spoke on behalf of the community, thank you for that. With this, it actually gives a lot more substance to the competition.
Thank you guys so much for listening and standing up for what is right. This absolutely changes the game
sim, you gon win it for us?
This can make audiotool more relevant
Thats what i been thinking, it could give us a wave of new users who want to join
Prime AT coming back soon?
His win rate speaks for itself.
Thank you guys
this sounds fun, i'm probably not winning but it'll be fun to participate!
aight im joining
added a new track :)
Honestly, I did good being one of the winners from the last EWC event LOL. We had to remix on that event. This will be tough, even for the judges. Not sure if I'm gonna be in this one though. I guess we shall see. Only time will tell I guess...This was always just kind of a hobby for me really.
I didn't even expect to get as far as I have as a producer. I wish luck to everyone, and God bless!!!
adddddd meeeeeeeeee in the contest
Alr fam i need your help what genre fits gaming the most so i can spend a month no life on AT
electronic music and like cyberpunk stuff
kinda figured so i went with a more electronic FB song
WOW! Thank goodness, i just decided to use AT more regularly like a few days ago
just saw a lot of earlier comments expressing dissatisfaction with the winning track being used "royalty-free"
i saw that and was a bit disappointed at first, but then i realized they're literally GIVING AWAY A 10,000 PROMO BUDGET so i think that's enough compensation for me personally. i mean, to at least try.
y'all do AT-day every year for no money. i thought making music was never only about the money. i think anyone can afford to give one track away for free, who gives af. why tf money gotta ruin everything
and this is coming from a guy who sells his music on bandcamp for 10c a track.
the $10k prize budget was added after the fact, in light of all the previous feedback.
the original prizes did not include any form of monetary compensation. in fact, the original rules for the competition required a non-commercial license for all entries and the old fine print revealed that both AT and EWC can use the track for profit whilst legally barring the winning artist from any sort of monetary compensation for their work.
you're absolutely right though. normally, it's not about the money. but the EWC is a massive and well-funded event. it just felt super cheap and predatory for them to require us to enter with a non-commercial license and accept 'exposure' as the main prize.
a side note: the prize pools for the gaming events going on at EWC max out in the millions ( https://esportsworldcup.com/en/competitions ). with that in mind, it's even more egregious what was going on before the rules for this particular competition were changed
I’m glad the mods are actually taking feedback seriously.
Ohk! That's an extremely important piece of info i was missing LOL. i was like "why tf are niggas so ungrateful"
for example I saw your message said "little gifts" and I was like WHAT
I'm glad the community is taking the event seriously.
Good morning,
I can't submit a third track, can you unblock the situation?
THANKS
We will remove it in the next hours.
hi, how many track is it allowed to submit?
Thanks a lot
You are allowed to submit 3 tracks. Please note the specifics regarding the release date and license.
Hi
Always the same problem, can t submit another track
Sorry, took a bit longer. Should be removed now.
Is there an explicit language rule?
i have a specific question about remixes not being allowed:
if i wanted to submit my song https://www.audiotool.com/track/40uedaowm6no/ but i got po9t to replace kmoe's verses and submited the song as a 3 way collab with me po9t and noah would that be allowed? (because the song was a remix of noah and po9t's songs)
Are collaborations allowed?
"Collaborations are allowed, but please note, only one member of the collaboration team will receive the prize. It will be their sole responsibility to share it among the team as they deem appropriate"
When you submit it as a collab, it doesn’t count as a remix of someone else’s work. However, be aware that only one collab member will receive the prize if it wins
Our Terms and Conditions apply – you might want to read them beforehand, before things get too intense.
Many of the tracks already in place do not have the correct license, is it possible to modify this point if the tracks have already been deposited?
Ok thanks
Two of the tracks I submitted are not in the track list?? Is it possible to consider them (or resubmit them)
what if i made a completed draft before april 26 but didnt publish it as a track until afterwards, or remastered it before posting it, would that be allowed?
The track just has to be published after April 26. It doesn’t matter when it’s made
I'm wishing everyone in the competition good luck and do your best because I am going to make the hits, thank you all for trying good luck
Ou. What happens when you click on submit track?
Please post the track IDs of the tracks here
I can't believe how good this video is and how audiotool is getting a shout-out right from the start. I'll have my submission out shortly!
Hey Audiotool
Sorry it's me again
I would like to annoy you because I cannot submit the next track when I only have one smooth track. Could you add it please?
Many thanks
Batoune
https://www.audiotool.com/track/ltgmvpam/
No worries! Your track has been successfully submitted.
THANKS!
If I use a sample but get direct consent from the copyright holder can I use it
Samples are generally allowed. However, when it comes to streaming on this scale, I would be even more cautious than usual, as the tracks typically need to pass digital copyright detection.
I actually got something done in time. Now to make some super rushed last second entries ;)
IS THAT NEW AUDIOTOOL IN THE VIDEO? look at 3:12 👀
I'd like to be inclined that everything that was on the screens was the new audiotool studio, even the thumbnail.
yea i noticed that too
@officialawenix I want to know what that gold knob is on the white box so bad. That's why I've started skimming through this video looking for all of the screens!
Looking at the wires, it seems to be an effect box. Imagine if it's a frequency shifter.
After analyzing further, I found out some new stuff:
0:50 - It seems we'll be able to group tracks(?). There are also some tabs below (Library, Studio, Timeline, Piano, Master). Looking at the "piano" makes me wanna believe it's either a sampler or entirely a new instrument.
Seeing a new mixer tab could indicate that the entire concept of the Centroid could be removed, being replaced with this new view.
0:54 - New timeline view looks so gorgeous. Now we'll be able to see audio waveforms more clearly;
1:09 (window reflection) - you can see a clock-shaped thingy (could be a Tuner?);
2:54 - New silver effect-box (next to Space synth);
3:15 - In the piano roll, we see some parameters at the left (MIDI parameters?)
After seeing this video, I can surely say I have some hope left for the future of audiotool.
there should be a fart preset on the sampler when it comes out. title it "naswalt" pls, audiotool
2:52 the space looks different
hopefully the frequency spectrum and the envelope can be seen at the same time instead of switching over
also it is hard to tell but the envelope graph looks better and easier to understand (assuming that is actually the envelope)
I don’t think we need to mention that it’s from you for people to know that :)
time to do something brazy for this contest
I really needed that extension 😩
I see nothing wrong with the information that I received from the contest.
You need to go to your tracks and hit the plus sign and it was Savage it on your album
absolute miracle lol
DID IT ALREADY HAPPEN? did i miss it?
who won?
It just closed 3 days ago
when are they gon post who won?
when will the winners be announced?
soon
Looking at this now, they didn't take it seriously.