Is a con without cosplay even a con?
Get your cosplay on with the Mask-querade
During these plague-times, we’re rebranding our con’s Masquerade as a Mask-querade! Keep yourself and your loved ones healthy and look fabulous doing it. We have several categories so everyone from casual to super serious cosplayers can join in the fun.
There are amazing prizes!
You want to enter!
You want to win!
The Rules
- All entries should include a face mask that can be worn out and about! That means it needs to be snug around the mouth and nose and constructed of multiple layers of fabric or other materials.
- Entries should be related to space & astronomy in some way.
- Keep it family friendly! No nudity, naughty words, or stuff you wouldn’t find in a Saturday morning cartoon.
- The more the merrier, so please only submit one entry per category per person.
- To enter, complete the Mask-querade entry form.
- All Maskquerade entries must be submitted by 8am Eastern / 6am Central / 4am Pacific on Sunday, July 19, 2020
- All entries will be eligible for both a judged prize and a People’s Choice award based on voting in Discord.
- Check out each category for specific qualifications.
Submit photos for “Just a Mask” and “Cosplay from the Neck Up” to: cosmoquestx@psi.edu with the subject Maskquerade, and please include your name as listed in your application.
Categories
Just a Mask
Show off your mask-making craftsmanship with this mask-only category. Give us a look you could totally wear to get groceries and let’s celebrate those sweet plague-time stylings.
Submission: Entrants will be asked to submit 3 photos: 1) closeup of the mask, 2) the mask on a person (or person substitute), 3) a “live action” photo. This can be a grocery shopping mask selfie, your mask on a mannequin or skeleton, get creative, get weird!
Judging: Masks will be judged based on their ability to function as a protective mask, quality of craftsmanship, originality, and how well they relate to space.
Cosplay From the Neck Up
Work that makeup, style that hair, and frame that mask in the awesomeness that is your beautiful face!
Submission: Entrants will be asked to submit 3 photos: 1) a closeup of the mask, 2) the mask on the contestant, and 3) an action shot from the shoulders up.
Judging: Cosplay will be judged based on the mask’s ability to function as a protective mask, and the cosplay’s quality of craftsmanship, originality, and how well it relates to space.
Zoom-Ready Cosplay
Get that virtual background ready and takeoff at warp 9 to the live-action part of our Mask-querade!
Submission: Entrants must be available to appear on Zoom during the Mask-querade. Each entrant will have one (1) minute during the Mask-querade to showcase their cosplay from a seated position. Entrants may request that a brief narration be read and that a track from Incompetech be played.
Judging: Cosplay will be judged based on the mask’s ability to function as a protective mask, and the cosplay’s quality of craftsmanship, originality, execution of backdrop, and how well it relates to space.
Full-Body Cosplay
Dress for the world we’d rather be in! This category is for all you cosplayers out there ready to wow us from head to toe to tail!
Submission: Entrants must be available to appear on Zoom during the Mask-querade. Each entrant will have one (1) minute during the Mask-querade to showcase their cosplay. Make sure your whole body is on camera to show off how your cosplay moves. Entrants may request that a brief narration be read and that a track from Incompetech be played.
Judging: Cosplay will be judged based on the mask’s ability to function as a protective mask, and the cosplay’s quality of craftsmanship, originality, presentation, and how well it relates to space.