Community Night

Community Night is an exuberant celebration of the BlizzCon® community. It’s also your opportunity to take center stage and showcase your skill and creativity, whether you’re a crafty cosplayer, a maverick movie maker, or an underappreciated artist. Community Night also happens to be one of our favorite nights of the year, and we can’t wait to see what you create!

This year’s Community Showcase will feature Cosplay, Digital Storytelling, and Art Contests. Please be sure to read the official rules (available on the entry forms for each respective contest) before you enter.

Cosplay Contest and Cosplay Exhibition

The Cosplay Contest is defined by five distinct categories, with each category winner earning a cash prize. One winner in each cosplay category will be crowned. The category winners will then be entered into an overall, best-in-show competition, with the overall winner earning an additional cash prize.

The five Cosplay Contest categories are:

Cosplay

Description

Master Crafter

Mastery of one or more traditional or cutting-edge crafting techniques, such as sewing, embroidery, blacksmithing, woodworking, leatherworking, working with foam, 3D printing, and more.

Colossal Creation

Demonstrates excellence in using large-scale fabrication to create a legendary, larger-than-life character. Costumes must be able to fit within a 39”x39” area, be safely maneuverable up and down a 1:12 ratio ADA compliant ramp to reach stage level and must be able to become shorter than 77” to maneuver thru a standard doorway.

Epic FX

Demonstrates excellence in incorporating special effects such as lighting, complex mechanical or robotic elements, and more.

Dynamic Duo

Awards an outstanding pair of contestants whose cosplay represents a legendary set of two Blizzard characters: ancient rivals, best friends, heroes and sidekicks, and other prime pairings.

Best In Show

Each category winner is entered into an overall, best-in-show prize.

September 30, 2023 is the final day you can enter the Cosplay Contest.

As part of the Cosplay Contest process, each entrant will be asked to submit detailed information about their proposed costume; including a 25% completion check at time of entry and a 80% completion check-in (with photos and videos) on October 1, 2023. These steps help our judges manage the large pool of entries and to get a feel for which costumes fit best in the contest categories.

Read the rules here

The BlizzCon Cosplay Exhibition is an opportunity for you to display Blizzard-themed cosplay (that was modeled by you) on Community Night. September 30, 2023 is the final day you can enter the Cosplay Exhibition. Please be sure to read through the official rules (available on the entry form) if you’d like to participate!

Art Contest

This year’s Art Contest asks community artists to submit original artwork based around Blizzard’s universes. This can include sketches, paintings, sculptures, 3D images, and more—physical or digital. The final day you can enter the Art Contest is September 30, 2023.

Read the rules here

Digital Storytelling Contest

The Digital Storytelling Contest asks entrants to create a previously unreleased digital short (3-minutes or under) that uses or finds its basis in characters, animations, scenes, or themes from Blizzard® universes. The final day you can enter the Digital Storytelling Contest is September 30, 2023.

Read the rules here

BlizzCon Charity Auction

The BlizzCon® Charity Auction is back for 2023, a virtual auction for members of the global community everywhere to bid on an array of unique Blizzard® artwork and collectibles to benefit a charitable organization. This year’s charity auction will benefit Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid organization active in more than 80 countries. Their mission is to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay. Learn more about Direct Relief here, and we’ll have more details to come!

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