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ARTBAT LIVE Season 15



To all university students in the Asia-Pacific region, are you ready to unleash your creativity and show off your artistry? Get ready for the most thrilling event of the year - the Artbat Season 15 Universities Tournament

Artbat Live invites you to join other talented digital artists and creators in our epic live art battle tournament to win exclusive prizes and glory in the Asia-Pacific! Showcase your talent with this season’s theme of  “Transcendence”, where you will be pushed to your limits and reach new creative heights that have never been seen before!

Artbat Live is also proud to introduce, the ‘256’, our low poly 3D showcase. For the first time, we will be transcending beyond not only 2D illustration but also into 3D art in celebration of all computer-generated art forms that have grown more accessible! Everyone is welcome on our grand stage.

So, What are you waiting for? Sign up today and join a growing community of creative mavericks and become our next Season 15 Champion.

Competition Details

Application Period:

August 22, 2024 - October 4, 2024

(Open to all current university students from APAC region)

Prize:

🏆 Champion: [TBA]

🏆 1st Runner-up: [TBA]

🏆 2nd Runner-up: [TBA]

🏆 3rd Runner-up: [TBA]

Important Dates (HKT):

  • 22 Aug (Thurs) 16:00 - Application Begins
  • 4 Oct (Fri) 23:59 - Application Deadline
  • 11 Oct (Fri) - Release Shortlisted Artists
  • 19 Oct (Sat) to 11 Nov (Sat) -  Preliminary Rounds & '256' 3D Low-Poly Showcase
  • 7 Dec (Sat) 6-10 pm (HKT GMT+8) - Round 1:
    • 16 Artists (R1, R2, R3, R4)
  • 14 Dec (Sat)  6-10 pm (HKT GMT+8) - Quarter Finals to Finals:
    • 8 Artists (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 & S1, S2 & F1)

How to apply? 

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and please make sure you have submitted all requested files.

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What is ARTBAT?

ARTBAT is a live digital drawing competition, which two artists will be battling according to a theme given on the spot. Both digital artists will have 20 mins to express the topic using digital pens and tablets.

Game Rules

ARTBAT Season 15 is opened to all current university students from APAC region.

Random Topics composed by:

✧ One Adjective

✧ One Noun

will be released right before the battle and artists will have to express their given topic in 20 minutes with digital drawing tools. The same rules will be applied to all matches.

Multiple judges will present for the marking and audiences will also get a chance to vote for their favourite artists.  Scores collected from judges and audiences will both contribute to the final results and artists who receive higher scores will proceed to the next round.

Tournament:

Preliminary Round (19 Oct- 11 Nov)

Contestants coming from different countries will engage in regional preliminary rounds competing for the 16 spots to enter the First Round. The 16 shortlisted contestants will be announced on 11 October, and will be held on 4 October, 2024.

Round One (7 Dec)

16 contestants who successfully passed the preliminary rounds will be randomly divided into 4 groups (R1 - R4) to enter the First Round. There are four artists in one group and the two winners (two contestants with higher scores) of each group will advance to the Quarter-finals on 7 Dec, 2024.

Quarter-Finals to Final (14 Nov)
Quarter-Finals

8 contestants who successfully passed the First Round will be randomly divided into 4 groups (Q1 - Q4) to enter the Quarter-finals. There are two artists in one group and one winner (contestant with the highest score) of each group will advance to the next round.  

Semi-Finals

4 contestants who successfully passed the Quarter-finals will be randomly divided into 2 groups (S1 - S2) to enter the Semi-finals.

Final

There are two artists in one group and one winner (contestant with the highest score) of each group will advance to the Finals (F1). The winner will be our Season 15 champion.

Judging Criteria:

  1. Idea and Creativity (25%)
  2. Composition (15%)
  3. Technique and Colour (15%)
  4. Completeness (10%)
  5. Artistic Style (15%)
  6. Storytelling (10%)
  7. Audience Vote (10%)

Details and Regulations

  1. Contestants would need to comply with staff instructions prior and during the competition
  2. Your submissions or any artwork created during the competition must not promote or contain any foul languages, violence, obscenity, racism, discrimination of gender, religious beliefs, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
  3. Your submissions or any of the artworks created during the competition must not contain any material that infringes the copyright of others or any third party intellectual property
  4. Your submitted artworks must not involve in any commercial activities and must not be used for other commercial purposes; or have not been publicly published, printed, broadcast, etc., in any form of commercial promotion
  5. ARTBAT reserves the right to amend any rules and regulations and also reserves the right to the final decision

Terms and Conditions

By submitting your artwork, you hereby declare that you are the sole creator of the submitted artworks; you own 100% of the copyright and your artworks do not infringe any third-party copyright. ARTBAT LIVE reserves the rights to reject or disqualify any entry in case of any dispute.

By entering the competition, you agree to grant ARTBAT LIVE’s organiser the right to display, distribute, store, reproduce, edit, modify, create derivative works of, and otherwise use and reuse the artwork (or any portions or derivative works of the artwork) in any manner, for any promotional and marketing purposes through all our marketing channels including but not limited to our websites and any of our social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Pinterest or any online and offline channels. ARTBAT LIVE can authorise and assign any partner, or subsidiaries the same rights.

The rights that you granted are non-exclusive, that means you are free to grant rights to others. ARTBAT LIVE will not have to pay additional compensation when exercising above rights.

Competition Dispute

ARTBAT LIVE strives to provide a competition platform with transparency and fairness.

All participants could review their own match results within 7 days after the result was published. Please submit your request by email to [email protected] providing your name, date and time of the match, reason for the review request and any supporting documents that may help us to process your review. 

 (ARTBAT LIVE reserves the right to make any final decision for all matches)