Fursuit Dance Competition applications
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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!
Apply now!
Applications closed on April 5th
At midnight on the night of April 5th applications will no longer
be able to be submitted.
Signing Up
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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.
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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
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Group Entries: For those competitors entering for a group
performance in the finals, only one group member should submit the
application, music, and video.
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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.
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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:
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Appropriateness: All competitors are required to wear
appropriate clothing and costumes, free from profanity or inappropriate
accessories, at the discretion of the competition organizers.
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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.
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Minimum requirements: All competitors are required to
wear, at minimum, the following components of a fursuit when auditioning
and through the performance:
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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.
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Fursuit hands: Costume gloves that fully cover the
dancer's hands, but cannot include store-bought gloves lacking further
modification.
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Fursuit tail: Costume tail attached to costume, pants,
or belt, if appropriate for your species.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
|
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|
|
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4 |
Noni |
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Placement: The final marks from each judge will be added together, (1st
place gets 1 point, 2nd 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).