Contests

  • Draw Opuntia or Rio in a flashy new outfit! Flex those artistic muscles and make a cool outfit for next year’s mascot! Best design will win!

  • Singing is fun for everyone! Whether you have the voice of an angel or struggle to hold a tune, join the karaoke contest!

  • Bring your best handmade cosplay and show it off for everyone! While store bought costumes are fun, we want to honor those who put in considerable effort into the creation of their costumes! If you would like to show off your store bought costume, you can walk on stage, but you will be disqualified from judging.

Contest Rules

Contest Rules

ARt Contest

Draw new costume designs for Opuntia and Rio!  They will become next year's official outfits!

  • Must use the official color palate

  • No late submissions, if you miss the deadline you will not be considered.

  • have fun with the design, but make sure our mascots are recognizable as themselves!

  • ability is not considered, only the design, this gives everyone equal opportunity.

  • Must be PG! Absolutely nothing suggestive or NSFW.

  • Entries must be traditional art (drawings, painting, digital art, collage, and sculpture); absolutely no photo-manipulated, AI-generated, or photography pieces. Scans, photos of traditional art, and digital works will be accepted online.

  • The person entering the piece must be the person who created the piece. No tracing or recoloring of another person's art.

  • All work should be original.

  • Only completed works are allowed to be entered. Sketches are allowed as long as they are refined.

Deadline for entry: Feb 18, 2027

Entry Form 
Best Performance wins! Give it all you got and be a star!

Karaoke Contest

Deadline for entry: February 15, 2027

  • Contestants may not sing a cappella style—you must have a backing track.

Entry Form

Cosplay Contest

Three Categories: Beginner, Journeymen, and Master's

Deadline for entry: February 13, 2027

  • No glitter, confetti, streamers, fire, smoke, fog, dry ice, fans, laser lights, strobe lights, or pressurized gas or liquids.

  • Walk on presentations will be limited to 30 seconds. Skits are capped at 2 minutes.

  • Any and all sound must be prerecorded and sent to staff before the competition.There will be no live mics available!

  • One foot on the stage at all times! No jumping on or off the stage. No acrobatics on the stage.

  • Your costume must be at least 75% made by the competitor, a competitor in the group, or if the person who made the costume is not the one wearing the costume, they must be present during prejudging for questions.

  • No original characters or original redesigns of characters please.

  • Build books are not required but heavily recommended, please provide at least 3 images of the character/design you are creating.

  • No costumes that have won at other contest.

Entry Form