Description:
The Nordic Cosplay Championship (NCC) is a yearly cosplay competition held at the Närcon convention in Linköping Sweden.
The contest offers a great opportunity for Icelandic cosplayers to participate in Scandinavia‘s ever growing cosplay community.
The Iceland preliminaries for the NCC were first held at the University of Iceland‘s Japan festival but are now a part of the Midgard convention in Reykjavík.
The grand prize of the NCC preliminaries is an all-expense paid trip to Närcon Sommar to participate in the NCC finals.
Applications:
- Name
- Age
- Email address
- Character name and origin
- An A4 PDF document including reference pictures of the character
- Please apply to compete through this application form.
- No age limit is set for the contest but the competing costume must be handmade by the contestant
- Contestant must at least be a resident in the country they are representing
- Contestants may use assistants on or offstage
- Assistants can wear a costume but not required to
- Costumes must be based on pre-existing fictional characters from a published source. Original characters are not permitted.
- The competing costume is to be made by the contestant themselves. Contestants are expected to be able to describe the crafting of their costume in detail.
- The costume must be fully handmade, fully or modified store bought costumes or items are prohibited with the following exceptions:
- Wigs
- Shoes
- Tights
- Costumes that have been used to compete in other cosplay contests are permitted.
- Costumes must be finished by the day of judging. Repairs after arrival are permitted.
Judging
- Contestants will be judged based on costume and stage performance
Pre-judging
- Pre-judging is held prior to the final show
- Contestants must attend the pre-judging in full costume with any handheld props used in the performance.
- Judges must ask before touching the costume
- Judges may photograph certain details on the costume with the contestants permission
Performance
- Contestants have 90-150 seconds to perform their skit
- Performances are judged during the final show
- Contestants are not allowed to leave the stage during the performance (for example to interact with the crowd)
- Assistants can be utilised on or offstage to enhance the performance.