Fursuit Dance Competition

Art by Dinger, Honey & Pidge.

Unleash your inner animal and get ready to groove! It's time to don your paws, fluff your tails, and strut your stuff at Furcationland's electrifying dance competition!

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Applications will close on April 6^th

At midnight on the night of April 6^th applications will no longer be able to be submitted.

Signing Up

• Sign-Ups: Please sign up using the online form at the top of this page. Please complete it after reading all of the rules. Signing up in advance is REQUIRED by the competition organizers.
• We must receive all three of the following by the above-stated deadline for you to be in the running for the Dance Competition:
• Your filled out sign-up form
• Your music file emailed to the organizer
• Your tryout video emailed to the organizer
• Group Entries: For those competitors entering for a group performance in the finals, only one group member should submit the application, music, and video.
• If three or more groups enter, the competition will be broken up to include a separate group category for awards.
• Groups will get 30 sec extra per person up to 4 minutes total.
• Music Submission: Music should be appropriate for all audiences. If you are unsure, email the dance competition coordinator with questions. Your song must also be cut to length.
• Costume restrictions & expectations:
• Appropriateness: All competitors are required to wear appropriate clothing and costumes, free from profanity or inappropriate accessories, at the discretion of the competition organizers.
• Completeness: Both full suits and partial suits are allowed to compete, but costumes should be arranged so that no skin is exposed or visible at any point during the performer's showcase.
• Minimum requirements: All competitors are required to wear, at minimum, the following components of a fursuit when auditioning and through the performance:
• Fursuit head: A full-face costume mask that fully covers the dancer's whole head, but can include head designs that use the performer's eyes.
• Fursuit hands: Costume gloves that fully cover the dancer's hands, but cannot include store-bought gloves lacking further modification.
• Fursuit tail: Costume tail attached to costume, pants, or belt, if appropriate for your species.
• Fursuit feet: Costume feet that fully cover the dancer's feet and/or shoes, but can include feet designs that are sockpaws or shoe spats.

Preliminaries - Virtual Submission

• Competition Style: You will be submitting a recorded video of your dance. We are doing this to ensure the most possible people can try out who want to. When you are recording your video, please ensure we can see your entire body. Video must be just one take, you can not edit multiple takes together. You must record yourself dancing to the song you'll be performing at the convention assuming you make it into the finals. Dance just like you would at in-person preliminaries.
• Judging: Your video submissions will be judged the week leading up to the convention and we will be announcing our finalists for the convention that Friday of the convention. The judges for the prelims will not be the judges for the finals, the final judges will be seeing your routine for the first time on Saturday of the convention.

Finals - Saturday Night

• Attendance: Finalists must arrive at the finals venue at least 30 minutes prior. Programming schedules may or may not allow finalists the opportunity to block their routine on the stage. The order of final acts will be shared at the event. Dancers are expected to be in full costume and ready to dance as of the beginning of the performance preceding theirs.
• Runtime: Solo performances are to be no longer than two minutes (2:00). For each additional person in a group performance, an additional 30 seconds is allowed per person, with a maximum time of 4 minutes (4:00). For example, a two-person performance can be max 2:30, and a four-person performance can be max 3:30, but a six-person performance is restricted to max 4:00. Music should be cut and edited for final performance. If the music exceeds the maximum limit, the music will very swiftly fade out at the maximum limit. Additionally, routines (music and choreography) should be censored to a radio edit rating. Not adhering to this rule can result in disqualification.
• Competition Style: Finalists will dance their performance routine on the convention-provided dance floor, facing the audience and judges. It is assumed that the music will begin when competitors are in the middle of the dance floor. However, if the music should begin at an alternative cue, it should be made known to the competition team during the staging time before the event to notify AV.
• Judging: Judges will be asked to rank all acts within the same category in comparison to each other, and are encouraged to rank each act that has competed as the performances go on. Therefore, by the end of the competition, each judge will have independently given each finalist a placement, with no ties. See the example below, where for 1 judge, the first finalist is ranked 1 after the first routine but has dropped to rank 3 by the fourth routine:

  1	Kyle	1	Lina	1	Lina	1	Lina
  		2	Kyle	2	Mach	2	Mach
  				3	Kyle	3	Kyle
  						4	Noni

• Placement: The final marks from each judge will be added together, (1^st place gets 1 point, 2^nd gets 2 points, etc.), with lower overall scores achieving higher ranks. In the event of a tie, individual judges' marks will be considered to break the tie, where the finalist with better ranking placements prevails, after considering judges' marks up to the rank of the placement (or beyond if ties persist).