Competitive Teams Only (3rd-12th)

TVNC Instant Challenge Blitz

Educational Services Division Complex (ESDC)

1820 Pearl St, Carrollton, TX 75006

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Registration Deadline January 10 @ 11:59 pm

Fee: $25/Team (NOT per team member)

 

 

Instant Challenge Blitz = IC Skillz + IC Scrimmage

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This event is your team’s best chance to get great IC practice and pointers from experts before the tournament. You do not want to miss this!

 

Format

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Your team will choose one 2 hour+ Saturday session. On Saturday, the team will rotate through 3 IC rooms, each with a different type of challenge: Performance, Task and Hybrid. In each rotation, the team will have the full attention of 1 experienced challenge expert. They will receive a skills tutorial relating to that challenge type, followed by an opportunity to use those skills to solve a challenge.  Afterwards, the team will receive critical feedback from the challenge expert. Each rotation is 40 minutes with a 5 minute passing period.

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Skills taught will include:

• General IC Information including Parts of a Challenge, roles, team member strengths and weaknesses, scoring, teamwork, risk-reward, what creativity really means.

• Task IC Skills – types of task ICs, use of materials, risks and choices, gotcha tips and roles.

• Performance IC Skills – characterization, storylines, what to avoid and acting pointers.

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Each team must be accompanied by 1 adult, 2 adults max per team. Since the rotations are private, we will allow video recording.

 

Registration Information

 

Teams will register for 1 session. When a session fills up, registration will close for that session. Payment is incorporated in the registration process. If payment is not processed in 3-4 hours, the registration will automatically be deleted and the space opened up for another team.

 

The fee is $25/Team (not per team member.)

 

Time Slots: (check-in for each session begins ½ hour prior to the beginning of the session.)

• Session 1: 8:30-10:40

• Session 2: 10:55-1:05

• An afternoon session may be added after morning sessions are full

 

Please plan carefully and be aware of the following:

 

• A minimum of 2 team members is required for your team to attend.

• Team members who arrive after a rotation has started, will be required to wait until the beginning of the next rotation to join their team.

• After you have signed up, it is not possible to transfer your team to another session.

• No refunds will be given unless there is a waiting list for your session and your slot can be filled. Refunds in this case will be the original payment minus a $2 processing fee.

• We will not hold slots open while you check with your team.

• You are registering once for your entire team. Do not register individual team members.