What is It?

The Cosplay Showdown is a knock-out contest. Three judges will host the contest and pass judgment on each act and decide whether each group proceeds through or not.

There will be a prize of £50 for the winning team!

The Rounds

Round 1 - Freeform Skits. The standard skit. Entertain us. There is a time-limit of 2 minutes for each skit. Only four teams will progress to Round 2!
Round 2 - Maimed Karaoke. Not based on how well you can sing, but on how hilariously you can maim a song. Choose your song, make up your words and lyrics and entertain us! Only two teams will go through to the final!
Round 3 - The Final Showdown. Just the final two teams now, as they get up on stage for the final showdown! Each team takes a turn to perform a Final Fantasy/Pokemon (or from any generally well known RPG) style attack on their opponent. For every attack the judge decides if it was a critical hit (lose 25HP), super-effective (lose 15HP), hit (lose 5HP), miss (lose zero), or fail (the attacking team loses HP!). Expect for unexpected twists and turns as the final showdown heats up! Surviving team wins the showdown!

For your skit and maimed karaoke song, please make sure to bring along a usb stick or burned CD with your music on it.

Your Team and Signing Up

- You can enter as a team of between 2 and 6 people.
- You can choose to signup before-hand (in this topic), or you can opt to signup on the day (at anytime up to 6pm).
- Obviously if you form your team beforehand then you will be able to prepare for the Freeform Skit and Maimed Karaoke.
- Another good reason to signup beforehand is that we will cap the contest at 12 teams. It's first come, first-served.

i totally would do this .... but im a shy guy

I feel more anonymous need to turn up for this lol

Sorry, Im confused. Is this event meant to have casual cosplay like at the expos or is cosplay suppose to be just for the masquerade and showdown?

We have two cosplay-related events - the Masquerade and the Showdown. The masquerade has everyone showing off their cosplay, whereas the showdown is more game-orientated involving teams which perform skits and improv for the audience.

So if you're not signed for either event then you shouldn't cosplay?

You can cosplay all day casually, sure. You don't need to be signed up for either event to cosplay. Wear whatever you like. ^^ (As long as any potential weapon doesn't break weapon rules).

lols sillyjoe ^^
id join but i dunno

Iam up for this I do skit at the expo (hitmanx2 and pal) 2 pople so I done a few thing like this one thing do we sinning to the Karaoke or do we change the lyics befor and mine

Why don't you :O

i dont have a group to do a skit with
and no music to do karaoke lol

Well.... Find a group then and yes karaoke is win lol

i love kareoke XD

hmmm if no-one else enters i migth enter with some just so i win ^^

ill do it with you then us too will win