Their Royal Majesties, Arnthor Inn Sterki and Ceirech Na Hinnsi, are pleased to let it be known to all that they are looking forward to choose their Arts & Sciences Champions at the Kingdom Arts & Sciences Championship to be hosted by the the Barony of Rhydderich Hael this October 22nd. More site info will become available on our kingdom event calendar.
We encourage entrants to join us in-person at a wonderful site for a day of sharing and celebrating of all the wonderful things that our Arts & Sciences community has to offer. There will also be room for Arts & Sciences display! However, we do understand that going to events is still a difficult choice for many of us and we have therefore decided on a hybrid in-person/virtual format for this year’s competition.
The in-person competition will be held along the same lines as in the past. Candidates with their entries will be judged face-to-face and the scoring will be based on the kingdom A&S rubrics. In order to reduce the indoor face-to-face time for candidates and judges, we will limit this year’s competition to one 45-minute judging session with a panel of 2 or 3 judges. Although not a requirement, we ask that candidates register their entry online ahead of time, to make planning for us a little easier!
Candidates who are not able to join us at the event can submit their entry online. We have a basic webform where you can securely upload some photos, your documentation and some basic info. The virtual part of the competition will be held much along the lines of last year’s competition. Each candidate will meet face-to-face with a panel of judges over zoom for one 45-minute judging session during the week leading up to the event and their presentation and entry will be judged with the same rubric as used at the event.
For this year, please note that the site is discretely damp and we are excited and happy to accept alcoholic beverage entries at the event!
As mentioned above, judging will be performed with the help of the kingdom A&S rubrics that will be shared with entrants and judges ahead of time. Judges can sign up online; please provide us with the area(s) you’re comfortable with judging so that we can match entrants and judges ahead of time. Right now, we are planning to spread out the virtual judging between Monday, October 17th and Thursday October 20th. With that in mind, the deadline for virtual entries is midnight, Friday, October 14th. Although we really appreciate pre-registration for the in-person event, candidates can sign up until 9:30am on the morning of the event.
We want to emphasize that we totally love to see partial projects! It doesn’t have to be a completely finished entry to be eligible. As usual, you may also enter up to three related objects as a single entry. Prior entry in another competition or display does not disqualify you from entering, we love to see continued progress on existing projects.
The scores will be tallied once all judging is completed (the combined online and in-person entries) and relayed to Their Majesties who will choose their champions and announce them at the event during court.
Their Majesties and the Kingdom Office of Arts & Sciences are very much looking forward to seeing what our kingdom has to offer!
Yours in service,
Hrólfr and Elska á Fjárfelli (KMoAS)
Robert of Ferness (A&S Webminister)