About the competition
Show the real side of riding in Metro Manila. Splitex wants honest, everyday photos of motorcycles and scooters, taken by students and recent graduates in the Philippines who are 18 or older.
Take your photos at home, at school, at work or on your daily commute. Phone photos are welcome. Never take photos while you ride. Send 1 to 5 of your own photos before 15 November, 11:59 PM Philippine time.
Splitex picks 3 winners: PHP 10,000 for first place and PHP 5,000 each for second and third place. The winning photos appear on the Splitex website and in its launch, credited where practical, for example "Photograph by Maria S."
Take your photos at home, at school, at work or on your daily commute. Phone photos are welcome. Never take photos while you ride. Send 1 to 5 of your own photos before 15 November, 11:59 PM Philippine time.
Splitex picks 3 winners: PHP 10,000 for first place and PHP 5,000 each for second and third place. The winning photos appear on the Splitex website and in its launch, credited where practical, for example "Photograph by Maria S."
Prize
Cash
PHP 10,000 for first place and PHP 5,000 each for second and third place
Deadline
November 15, 2026
3 weeks from now
Who can enter
Students and recent graduates in the Philippines, 18 or older.
Rules and licence
Rules
1. StudentCompetitions (Fortic AB, org. no. 556852-0042, Sweden) runs this competition together with Splitex (Splitex AB, Sweden). It is free to take part and no purchase is needed.
2. You must be at least 18 years old and enter with your own verified email address. Employees of Splitex and of StudentCompetitions, and their close family, may not take part.
3. You must be enrolled at a university, college or other post-secondary institution in the Philippines, or have completed your studies there in 2025 or 2026.
4. Photograph privately used motorcycles and scooters in Metro Manila: at home, at school, at work or on a daily journey. Do not show unsafe riding, staged advertising or visible third-party advertising.
5. Splitex chooses the winners with these weights: authenticity 40%, usefulness for a website or campaign 30%, composition 20%, original perspective 10%.
6. One active entry per person. You may withdraw your entry and enter again while the competition is open. A withdrawn entry is not judged or published.
7. Entries close at 15 Nov 2026, 15:59 UTC. Late entries are not accepted.
8. Your entry must be your own work and must not break anyone else's rights. Do not include another person without their consent. If people can be recognised in your photos, you confirm that each of them agreed to be in the photos and to their use under these rules.
9. StudentCompetitions checks every entry. We may reject or disqualify an entry that breaks these rules, that is offensive, or that one person sends from more than one account.
10. Splitex chooses 3 winners from the approved entries. Splitex sees the entries without names and judges the work. The decision is final.
11. Splitex pays the prize (PHP 10,000 for first place and PHP 5,000 each for second and third place) directly to the winners. Each winner is responsible for any tax on the prize. StudentCompetitions never pays out prizes.
12. Winners are shown on studentcompetitions.com with their first name, the first letter of their last name and their country. Splitex may also select entries for a public gallery, shown the same way.
13. By entering, you agree that after the winners are chosen, StudentCompetitions gives Splitex your entry and your name, email address, country and university, if you gave one.
14. StudentCompetitions may cancel the competition if it cannot run as planned. Then no winners are chosen, and your name and contact details are not shared with Splitex.
15. StudentCompetitions is not responsible for technical problems outside our control, for example an entry that is lost or late because of your internet connection. Nothing in these rules limits a liability that the law does not allow us to limit.
16. Swedish law applies. Send questions to hello@studentcompetitions.com.
2. You must be at least 18 years old and enter with your own verified email address. Employees of Splitex and of StudentCompetitions, and their close family, may not take part.
3. You must be enrolled at a university, college or other post-secondary institution in the Philippines, or have completed your studies there in 2025 or 2026.
4. Photograph privately used motorcycles and scooters in Metro Manila: at home, at school, at work or on a daily journey. Do not show unsafe riding, staged advertising or visible third-party advertising.
5. Splitex chooses the winners with these weights: authenticity 40%, usefulness for a website or campaign 30%, composition 20%, original perspective 10%.
6. One active entry per person. You may withdraw your entry and enter again while the competition is open. A withdrawn entry is not judged or published.
7. Entries close at 15 Nov 2026, 15:59 UTC. Late entries are not accepted.
8. Your entry must be your own work and must not break anyone else's rights. Do not include another person without their consent. If people can be recognised in your photos, you confirm that each of them agreed to be in the photos and to their use under these rules.
9. StudentCompetitions checks every entry. We may reject or disqualify an entry that breaks these rules, that is offensive, or that one person sends from more than one account.
10. Splitex chooses 3 winners from the approved entries. Splitex sees the entries without names and judges the work. The decision is final.
11. Splitex pays the prize (PHP 10,000 for first place and PHP 5,000 each for second and third place) directly to the winners. Each winner is responsible for any tax on the prize. StudentCompetitions never pays out prizes.
12. Winners are shown on studentcompetitions.com with their first name, the first letter of their last name and their country. Splitex may also select entries for a public gallery, shown the same way.
13. By entering, you agree that after the winners are chosen, StudentCompetitions gives Splitex your entry and your name, email address, country and university, if you gave one.
14. StudentCompetitions may cancel the competition if it cannot run as planned. Then no winners are chosen, and your name and contact details are not shared with Splitex.
15. StudentCompetitions is not responsible for technical problems outside our control, for example an entry that is lost or late because of your internet connection. Nothing in these rules limits a liability that the law does not allow us to limit.
16. Swedish law applies. Send questions to hello@studentcompetitions.com.
Licence
You keep the copyright to your photos. By entering, you give Splitex and StudentCompetitions a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence without time limit to store, edit, crop and publish the photos you enter in print and online, in their apps, websites, social media, press and marketing, with the credit "Photograph by" followed by your first name and the first letter of your last name where practical. Some formats, for example print, may not show a credit. Splitex will not sell your photos as standalone stock images.
