Get ready for Artbat Live Season 16 College Tournament, a groundbreaking digital art competition hosted at Riso Coffee Art Cafe (@risocoffee) in Kuala Lumpur! 🏙️ Open to all Malaysian post-secondary students—university, diploma, or other programs—this electrifying event brings together the nation’s most talented student artists to compete, connect, and create. Embrace the theme “Nomad of Now” 🌍, challenging you to push the boundaries of modern artistry using your preferred digital tools. Battle through online preliminary rounds and join us for the finals on July 25, 2025, to claim your spot on an international stage and win incredible prizes!
June 6, 2025 – July 9, 2025‍
Open to all current Malaysian post-secondary students (university, diploma, or other programs)
Theme: Nomad of Now
🏆 Champion:
RM $200 Cash Prize
Booth and Product showcase in Hong Kong Illustration & Creative Fair
2 x Your Custom Design Fashion Merchandise [by Genesis One]
1 Set of 6 x Deepsico Phygital Toy Figure
🏆 1st Runner-up:
RM $100 Cash Prize
Product showcase in Hong Kong Illustration & Creative Fair
1 x Your Custom Design Fashion Merchandise [by Genesis One]
3 x  Deepsico Phygital Toy Figure
🏆 2nd Runner-up:
Artwork showcase in Hong Kong Illustration & Creative Fair
1 x Your Custom Design Fashion Merchandise [by Genesis One]
2 x  Deepsico Phygital Toy Figure
🏆 3rd Runner-up:
Artwork showcase in Hong Kong Illustration & Creative Fair
2 x  Deepsico Phygital Toy Figure
APPLY NOW by filling in the below form
and please make sure you have submitted all requested files.
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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.
ARTBAT Season 16 Open to all current Malaysian post-secondary students (university, diploma, or other programs)
Random Topics composed by:
✧ One Adjective
✧ One Noun
Prompts 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.
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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.
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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 hello@artabatlive.com 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.Â
 (ARTBAT LIVE reserves the right to make any final decision for all matches)
