This years competition is a Triathlon. Entrants should enter a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 entries spanning at least 3 categories. Entrants will be judged by teams of judges with diverse backgrounds, similar to last year's judging groups.
Rules for the East Kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion Competition:
- Only residents of the East Kingdom wishing to compete to be King's or Queen's Champion will be allowed to enter the Challenge. For those individuals who do not wish to compete in the championship, there will be a Populace Choice display area.
- To be eligible to be Queen's Champion, you must compete in the triathlon, entering items in at least three different categories. You may enter a maximum of five items as long as they cover at least three individual categories. The triathlon entrants' top scores from their best 3 categories will be totaled to determine their placement in the Competition. The top 4 entrants will continue to the second, face-to-face round.
- Entry in the triathlon is not required in order to compete to be King's Champion. Entrants who choose to compete for only King's Champion will not have their work evaluated by the triathlon judges.
- You may enter a single item in all the categories that apply to it.
- All entries must have been created in the past 5 years.
- Two copies of documentation are required for each entry.
- Full ingredient lists must be provided for all Culinary entries and modern sanitary considerations taken in the preparation.
- Performances can be considered as entries, but will be need to be pre-arranged and will be limited to a 5 minute presentation in total. A set time will be scheduled for the performance.
- "Written" categories, (Musical composition, research papers/reports, prose, and written poetry) require extra judging time and must be received by Nest verch Tangwistel by January 1, 2007 - NO EXCEPTIONS. Electronic submissions are preferred but not required - PDF, Word, or plaintext formats only. Entries in these categories will NOT be accepted on site.
- As this is a Champion level competition, there is no limit to the length of the documentation. However, the judges will not have time to read exceptionally long documentation in its entirety and documentation longer than 3 pages (not including images and citations) must be organized with a table of contents and a one (1) page abstract.
- Entries in the competition must arrive and be registered by 11:00 am on the day of the competition (with the exception of the "written" categories) in order to be judged. Entries arriving after 11:00 am will be eligible for Populace or Kings Champion only.
- Items may only be entered in the Miscellaneous category with permission from the triathlon coordinator.
- On the day of the competition, all entries and documentation must be labeled with your entrant and item number in the following format: entrant# - item#. Competitors will be notified of their entrant numbers in advance of the competition when they pre-register, or will be issued an entrant number on the day of the competition.
- Pre-Registration is NOT REQUIRED for the competition. Pre-registration is, however, strongly encouraged, as it speeds up the entry process on the day of the competition and allows the judging staff to more accurately plan a balanced judging schedule.
- Space will be allocated based on the number of entrants.