Metaverse Creators of Tomorrow - Competition and Award

The competition will run in two rounds. All teams must participate in the Elimination Round, and the judging panel will shortlist 10 teams for the Final Round. Participants should form teams of three members to compete in the competition. Each team can only submit one entry in each session. The entry must be original and have not been published before.

For the sake of fairness, the theme will be announced before each session. Participating teams will be given the same duration to complete their entries, and submission should be finished before the end of the session. To prevent rules violations and cheating, all sessions will be held face-to-face at PolyU campus with strict monitoring. Participants should also observe the university-wide regulations and rules governing academic integrity.

Time: 9:30 am – 9:30 pm (12 hours)
Venue: 6/F, Core PQ, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Teams should only attend one day of the elimination round.

AM Class: 31 July 2023 (Mon)
PM Class: 1 August 2023 (Tue)

Teams need to design and develop a Metaverse space, and a presentation slide based on the theme announced in each session; The theme of each session will be different, and teams should submit the corresponding entry and presentation slide before the session ends.
Teams are allowed to submit their projects early during the competition. There is no hard and fast rule of requesting students to remain present until the end of the competition.

Judging panel will provide feedback on the design and development respectively in the middle of the sessions.

Two sessions in two days; 12 hours per session.
All participants must attend both sessions in person at PolyU campus.
Shortlisted teams should complete the design and development of the Metaverse space according to the theme; The entry should be submitted before the end of the first session.
In the second session, teams will first prepare for the pitching and presentation, and then pitch their Metaverse ideas to the judging panel.

Design Concept and Innovativeness
Graphic Design and Interaction Design
Virtual Space Development

The competition result will be released in late August on the official website. Winning teams will receive notifications from the organiser. Details of the award presentation ceremony will be provided in due course.

All the awards and prizes will be presented on a team basis.

Entry scholarship sponsored by the Department of Computing might be offered to the eligible awardees who are successfully admitted to the undergraduate programmes offered by Department of Computing of PolyU in the future under specific conditions, including but not limited to excellent performance in the individual assessment of this programme and public examination result. The eligible awardees will be notified of the details of the scholarship offer individually after the competition.

※ Organiser reserves the right to make changes in the award and scholarship arrangement without prior notification.