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November 2nd 2014
Rulebook
About Horizons:
Horizons is the annual inter-departmental cultural fest of National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli held exclusively for second year students, conducted by the Rotaract Club of
NIT Trichy.This rulebook aims to give a complete picture of the format and rules for all the
events and is intended to create a fair and unbiased arena for the departments to
compete with each other, thereby keeping up the spirit of the event.
Registration dates and venues for events with unlimited entries will be made
available to the class coordinators.
A soft copy of the rule book will be made available with the class coordinator. It is
recommended that you keep a Hard Copy of the same.
For any issues regarding any of the events, please feel free to contact the
respective event managers or any of the Rotaract members.
But please keep all these contacts Civil.
Suggestions, comments and feedback is most welcome.
However, ONLY AFTER HORIZONS 14.
Please do not crowd the event manager if you or your team has any problem with the event.
Please let your Department coordinator know about the problem/complaint and he/she will contact
the appropriate people.
Dumb C
Points:
1st - 5
2nd - 3
3rd - 2
Rules and Regulations:
3 participants per team
2 teams per department
Prelims (Normal Dumb C): 1 movie/TV Show, 1 personality and 1 brand(in
any order) to be enacted by one member and guessed by the other two within a
span of 90secs.
Swapping of the person who is acting is not allowed.
Answers in English only would be accepted.
The following actions are strictly prohibited during enacting and will lead to
immediate disqualification of the team: Making a sound, touching objects not on
your person, Pointing, Word-Splitting, Cross-Referencing, Showing letters and shapes
and Drawing in the air.
Debate
Points:
1st - 5
2nd - 3
3rd - 2
Rules and Regulations:
3 participants/team and 1 team/department
Topic for debate prelims will be announced one day before the event.
For the prelims two members would speak for the topic and the
Other member of the team will speak against the topic.
Top Four teams will face off in the semi-finals and then the best two in the finals.
The losers of the semi-finals will face off and the winner is declared the third position.
Event Managers:
Quiz
Points:
1st - 5
2nd - 3
3rd - 2
Shipwreck
Points:
1st - 5
2nd - 3
3rd - 2
Mod is God
Points:
1st - 5
2nd - 3
3rd - 2
Rules and Regulations:
Any number of participants are allowed per department
Speak for a minute in proper English without any speech defect or grammatical errors.
Easy isnt it?
One rule and one rule alone. The Mod(erator) is God.
For any another doubt refer to the above rule.
Ad Zap
Points:
1st - 6
2nd - 4
3rd - 2
Rules and Regulations:
Literapture
Points:
1st- 5
2nd- 3
3rd- 2
Rules and Regulations:
2 members/team
Any number of teams/department
Whats the good word?
Math and word logic
Crossword
Word Games
Puzzles
There will be inbuilt tie breakers
Use of cellphones, discussing with other teams will invite immediate disqualification
Stage Events
Choreo Nite
Points
1st- 12
2nd- 8
3rd- 5
Rules and Regulations:
Event Managers:
Points:
Battle of Bands
1st- 10
2nd- 6
3rd- 4
Rules and Regulations:
One team per department
A band must consist of a minimum of three members and a maximum of eight
members.
Each band will be allotted 10+2 minutes for both performance and setup.
A standard right-handed 5 piece drum kit, a keyboard stand, microphones and
amplifiers will be provided. All other instruments have to be brought by the bands
themselves.
Bands can play both western and eastern. Covers of songs are allowed.
Substantial weightage will be given for the bands' own compositions.
Similarly, credit will also be given for original medleys
The teams will be judged based on
a.
Tightness of the band
b.
Vocal quality
c.
Instrumental Quality
d.
Versatility
e.
Band Dynamics (Synchronization, etc.)
Please contact the event managers for further details
Event Managers:
Battle of Scraps
Points:
1st -8
2nd - 5
3rd - 3
3 8 members/team
1 team/department
Music out of junk
Musical instruments not allowed.
Laptops, Mobile, Tablet Music Players are also not allowed.
Participants should bring their own junk instruments.
Time-7 minutes (Includes setting, performance and clearing time)
No clapping and whistling.
Use of any liquids in any form during the performance is prohibited.
Teams should clarify issues regarding junk instruments and confirm their property
well in advance with the event managers in case of discrepancy
In case of dubious instruments, the jugdes decision is final.
Event Managers:
Movie Spoof
Points:
1st- 10
2nd- 6
3rd- 4
Event Managers:
Solo Singing
Points:
1st - 7
2nd- 5
3rd - 3
(Western and Eastern separately)
Rules and Regulations:
Western and eastern will be judged separately and each will be awarded points
separately.
Maximum of 2 participants from a department.
Karaoke (digital background music) is allowed and should be brought by the
participant.
Instruments of any kind is not allowed.
Maximum time limit is 5 minutes.
Participants of can sing any song of their choice belonging to any genre of their
choice of style of singing (either Eastern or Western).
Event Managers:
Art &
Design
T Shirt Designing
Points:
1st - 7
2nd - 5
3rd - 3
Rules and Regulations:
1 submission/department
Best three submissions will be awarded first, second and third positions
Base colours- Black, White, Green and Red
Not more than four colours should be used in the design
No gradient, 300 DPI resolution, CMYK Colour Format
Design must represent your department as its central theme
Submission must be in the form a jpeg file.
Deadline for submission: 27th October 2014, 5PM.
The design must sent as a mail with the participants name, Department,
roll number and contact number in its body part, with The jpeg file(s)
attached, and subject as Horizons2014 T-Shirt Design_DEPARTMENT, to
rotanitt@gmail.com.
If you do not receive an acknowledgement for mail within 24 hours, please resend
the mail or contact the event managers.
Event Managers:
Junk Art
Points:
1st- 7
2nd- 5
3rd- 3
Rules and Regulations:
3 participants/team.
2 teams/department.
Theme will be announced 2 hours before the commencement of the event.
The art work must be a model (3D) based on the theme.
1 hour will be given to make the model after the beginning of the event.
Participants must bring their own junk.
Coordinators will scrutinize the junk.
Points will be deducted if junk is not cleared after the event.
Only materials classified as junk can be used, use of other materials will lead to
disqualification.
The junk must be submitted by the participants 1 hour before the event, which
will be scrutinized by the coordinators and the non-junk items will be removed from
the pile.
The junk can consist of stuff not mentioned in the list below, if and only if the
participants think that it can be categorized as a junk, but the coordinators
decision during the junk scrutiny will be final.
Adding extra junk after the first submission/ after the specified time will lead to
immediate disqualification.
No junk can be added during the course of the event.
Making of the model should start only after the start of the event.
Coordinators cannot be blamed if a non-scrutinized item is declared not junk, thereby
leading to disqualification of the team.
Event Managers:
Scavenger Hunt
Points:
1st - 10
2nd - 6
3rd - 4
Rules and Regulations:
Event Managers:
Dominoes
Points:
1st - 7
2nd - 5
3rd 3
Rules and Regulations:
Participants need to make an artistic pattern using matchboxes (units)
covered with coloured papers or painted.
Teams, each comprising five members, can participate.
The pattern must be made within an area of 3ft. x 3ft.
The pattern must be visible upon falling of all the units.
The pattern must not touch the marked boundaries of the area or fall out of it.
One manual intervention allowed.
Participants must bring the units covered totally with coloured papers/
painted.
Any number of colours can be used to paint/cover the matchboxes with.
The units are to be made only with matchboxes.
The units must all be of the same size (any size but same.) Joining of two units,
inserting one into another or using them partially open is NOT allowed.
Violation of rules would invite immediate disqualification.
Event Managers:
Mask Making
Points:
1st- 6
2nd- 4
3rd- 2
Rules and Regulations:
Maximum 3 members/team
1team/department
Materials should be brought by participant
All materials except paper can be used
Theme will be provided 2 days before the event day
Time limit-3 hours
Event Managers:
Gaming
Horizons FIFA Nite
Points:
1st Place: 6
2nd Place: 4
3rd Place: 2
random opponent in the half) in the group and the winners move into the Top5
group, while the losers are eliminated.
f)The teams in Top5 will then be ranked based on the no. of wins and in case of a tie, the
tie will be resolved by using the Goal difference. (Goals scored in penality shootout will not
be considered). Then, teams 4 and 5 will play in an eliminator and the winner joins the top
3 in the semis. Team 1 plays winner of 4 and 5 while 2 plays 3 and then the finals between
the two winners. The losers will play a 3rd spot decider.
If a game stops in between due to unexpected reasons and cannot be
continued, then the most sensible decision possible would be taken.
The decision taken by the coordinators is final.
Although it is difficult, please try to refrain from the use of vulgar language during
the game. :P
Event Managers:
Event Managers :
Note : All participants are requested to bring their own laptops for the games.