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There are several ways to show off your arts and sciences: Crafter Spacers, the Tournament of Arts, the Queen’s Prize Tournament, or Kingdom and Regional Arts & Sciences Fairs. The Arts & Sciences Fairs are rubric based competitions for Artisans to demonstrate application of their research. There are three rubrics: Made Objects, Performance, and Research, or Research. Only one rubric will be applied to your entry.

This is the local starting entry point to the A&S competition system. In the past, only works in the Regional A&S that place 2nd place or better were entitled entry into the Kingdom A&S. Currently, you do not have to compete in regionals to go to Kingdom.

Despite the name, entrants do not compete against each other but only against the rubric for the highest score they can achieve through work quality and documentation. The highest score possible is 30.

The same stringent Middle Kingdom A&S criteria is used at regional as kingdom level to help carefully chosen judges decide a fair score based on authenticity, scope, complexity and over all impression. The more authentic the item, the better it will score.

A&S Champions

There are five divisions of the criteria and the entrant with the highest score in that section may be named Champion of that Division for that region. There are not always Champions named; usually there is a minimum number of entries required to compete for the Champion.