Opportunity brief
Eligibility:
- The competition is open to college/university students only.
- Students from any college, university, branch, or specialization are eligible.
- This is an individual competition. Team participation is not allowed.
- Participants may choose any form of performance, provided that it is related to technology.
Format:
- Each participant will be given 1 minute and 30 seconds to perform their act on stage.
- Participants are free to choose the format of their performance, as long as it has a clear connection to technology.
- Possible performance formats include:
- Tech poetry
- Tech comedy or stand-up
- Tech roast
- Roasting your own startup/project
- Technology-related storytelling
- Tech parody
- Any other creative technology-related act
- Before their performance, the participant will provide their self-rating to the organising team.
- After the performance, the participant may interact with the host/judges.
Judging:
- Performance: The participant performs their chosen technology-related act within the allotted 1 minute and 30 seconds.
- Self-Rating: Before their performance, the participant gives themselves a score from 1 to 10.
- Judges' Scoring: Each judge independently gives the participant a score from 1 to 10, based on the quality, creativity, execution, and overall impact of the performance.
- Judges' Average: The scores given by all judges are averaged to calculate the final judges' score.
- The Verdict: If the participant's self-rating exactly matches the judges' average score, the participant wins the designated reward for that round.
Rules:
- Participation is strictly individual. No team performances are allowed.
- The performance must have a clear technology-related theme or connection.
- Participants are free to choose the format and style of their act.
- Participants must provide their self-rating from 1 to 10 before their performance.
- The judges' scores will be averaged to determine the final score.
- A participant wins the round's designated reward only if their self-rating exactly matches the judges' average score.
- Participants must not attempt to influence or communicate with the judges regarding their scores.
- Performances must remain appropriate for a college event. Offensive, discriminatory, or excessively inappropriate content may result in disqualification.
- The judges' decision regarding the performance score will be final and binding.
- The organizers reserve the right to intervene or disqualify a participant if their performance violates the event rules or disrupts the event.
Winner & Rewards:
- A participant who achieves an exact match between their self-rating and the judges' average score will be eligible for the designated reward for that round.
- Multiple participants may win rewards if multiple participants achieve an exact match.