ConBravo! Masquerade Info Guide!

Think you’ve got what it takes to rock the ConBravo! Masquerade? Well bring it on! This gives you the chance to enter a costume or small skit in a competition against the best! It’s like Pokemon, but for costumes! And instead of moves, we have skits and walk-ons! Which don’t use up any PP at all!

This competition is meant to recognize and reward the hard work and efforts that costumers put into their work. Think of it as winning a gym badge for all your hard work and dedication!

Opening Act!

Please help me in welcoming back one of our award winners from last year to be the opening act for this year’s Con Bravo! Masquerade! They tried to do it in 3 minutes last year, but now, they’re going to include more games, more puns, and more ridiculous-osity in order to do…

Kingdom Hearts in 10 Minutes

Registration

You can register online when you pre reg for the con! Just fill out the application form and send it in to masquerade@conbravo.com along with any audio you need for your performance!

Masquerade Pre Registration will be open until July 15th at midnight!

Rules of the Road

Time Limit: 3 minutes max!

Workmanship Judging:  We will be doing workmanship judging for entries that would like to be judged on the technical aspects and quality of their costume. Remember the beauty contests in the later versions of Pokemon? It’s like that. You need to wow the workmanship judges on the pretty itty bitty details of your costume! So whip out your wicked technical skills, and dress to impress! Please specify on your entry form in the designated area if you would like to do workmanship judging!

Intros, Sound and Music- Oh my!

Please clearly specify the intro you would like to be read by the MC on your entry form for the masquerade. You will be given an opportunity in the green room to let the MC know what you want from them, and if they are to have any involvement. If you do not provide any information about an introduction, the MC will only read your entry number and the title of the skit. Please be clear as to how your entry number is to be pronounced on your registration sheet! We don’t want to mess it up!

Our stage is just a little dude, so keep in mind you are not working with a massive space. As well, although you may not require pre-recorded dialogue, if hearing the dialogue for your skit is very important we strongly suggest you pre-record it as there are no microphones for the participants, and we cannot guarantee the audience being able to hear you. You may submit it either as a CD in .mp3 format, email it to masquerade@conbravo.com with your pre registration for the masquerade, or bring it on a USB key in the correct format to the Masquerade table if registering at the con. We will also accept CDs at the con. If you choose to arrive with your USB key, then you are required to wait until we have confirmed your audio onto the computer. In regards to submitting CDs, please make sure it’s properly labeled (so it can be return to you), other playing instructions and what track you wish us to play. Again, there will be no microphones for you on stage.

General Masquerade Rules

1-  No messy, sticky, or gross substances on stage (liquids, confetti, goo, jello, snow, bubbles, etc)

2-  Just because Pikachu wanders around naked doesn’t mean you can! No nudity or inappropriate material or references. Keep it PG-13 kiddies!

3-  Follow the weapons policies of the convention! That being said, also don’t do anything ridiculously dangerous on stage. This includes sword fighting, shooting any projectiles at the audience, no firearms, no fire (or anything related to fire), rough housing, throwing anything into the audience, throwing around massive props, etc. Going against this rule can disqualify you from the competition!

4-  No purchased or rented costumes in competition! They may be presented as out of competition entries! See guidelines for more details.

5-  No live animals on stage! This only applies to real animals. Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Ranchers and the like are encouraged.

6-  Good idea: Surprise the audience! Bad idea: Surprising the Masquerade Director. Please do not have any surprises happen; we need to know your full plan for risk management purposes!

7-  If you are entering in for workmanship judging, please provide a reference photo of the costume. Not everyone knows what a Cyndaquil looks like!

8-  The Judges may choose not to give out any awards in a division if they do not feel any costumes entered in that division are deserving of an award. What the judges decide, goes! They will be deciding in a fair and considerate manner, following the ICG guidelines (as is mentioned later).

9-  The Masquerade Director reserves the right to eliminate anyone from the competition at her discretion. This will obviously only happen if the rules are broken or if someone goes against convention rules.

10-  Got Questions? Email the masquerade director at masquerade@conbravo.com and she will be positively delighted to answer any question you have!

Divisions and Guidelines

These are the divisions by which you enter in the competition. This place works on the honour system, so you best be honourable! We’ve got ears in places you wouldn’t imagine! Once you’ve won an award at a level, you cannot enter at the level before it (eg. If you won an award at Artisan, you can’t enter at Journeyman anymore).

Out of Competition - This includes purchased costumes, or those who just want to enter for the heck of it! They are not eligible for awards, but will be treated like every other entry.

Junior – For those entering who are 12 years old and under!

Novice - For those just starting out on theirpokemon journey masquerade adventure! Those who have yet to win an award.

Journeyman – Those who have won an award, but have won less than three. Still working through Viridian forest and beating down the Gym leaders! <

Artisan - Those who have won 3 or more awards! We’ve got our badges and working our way done Victory Road!

Master - Those who have won 3 awards at the Artisan level can compete at Masters (well, anyone can, but it’s typically suggested). This is like the Elite Four of the costume world.

Con Bravo will be following the guidelines for fair competition in accordance to the International Costumer’s Guild guidelines. Please refer to the link for more details.

If at any point there are questions regarding the masquerade you would like cleared up, please do not hesitate to email the Masquerade Director (masquerade[at]conbravo[dot]com)