Their Majesties, King Bjarki Ricardarson and Queen Gabrielle de Winter, are pleased to announce that they will choose their Arts & Sciences Champions at the Kingdom Arts & Sciences Championship to be hosted at Kingdom 12th Night in the Shire of Coppertree this January 11th, 2025. More event and site details will become available on our kingdom event calendar posting.
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 displays! However, we do understand that traveling is tough for many, particularly in winter, so we will accept virtual entries upon request.
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 and to give everybody a chance to enjoy the many other activities at 12th Night, we will limit this year’s competition to two 45-minute judging sessions 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 lot easier!
Candidates who are not able to join us at the event can submit an entry online. Use our online form to 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 used at the event.
The site is dry. Accommodations for alcoholic entries are in the works, so please bear with us. If your entry is alcoholic in nature, please reach out and we’ll see how best to work with you.
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, January 6th and Thursday, January 9th.
With that in mind, the deadline for virtual entries is midnight, Sunday, January 3rd. 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 champion(s) 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!