Any university teams interested in pursing an invitation to a future Toronto Metropolitan University Thrill Design Competition should express their interest in receiving notices of the next edition. We post on Instagram and LinkedIn but you might miss that. If we have your university club’s email address, we will make sure you get the information directly by email. See the Contact page.
Faculty and staff contact people are not acceptable. It must be a club or team or student led group. Participation in the competition may NOT be used as a course assignment under the direction of a faculty member.
Teams are advised to be interdisciplinary, not all engineers, not all theatre designers, not all hospitality and tourism management students. Involve a mix so that the person doing the thing is actually training in the thing, and not doing on an amateur / fan basis. This is the best way to show you respect the tremendous professional expertise in the industry.
If and only if your university does not have all of the disciplines you would like to involve, and a nearby university has those disciplines but lacks some of the programs your university offers, the two neighbour universities may enter a joint team.
No university may enter more than one team, including a joint team with a neighbour university. The team is the sole decision maker who will be selected to participate on their team.
We will almost certainly have an Open Qualifying (OQ) round again in 2023. That will likely be released in late Winter term (i.e., April – May) of 2023, to be completed in the “summer” with invitations issued in August. Teams returning to campus for Fall term will then accept and begin the process of submitting their rosters and registration payments.
While the OQ round allows an unlimited number of eligible participants, it is highly likely that Invitational teams will be limited to as few as five people.
Important to know:
If any of your club members are already an IAAPA member, make sure that membership number is handy. Competition registration includes IAAPA student membership or renewal and it is much easier when they can renew the existing membership.
ALL participants must be eligible when they participate. Members can join the Invitational team who were ineligible for the OQ, but must be eligible for the Invitational.
Eligibility includes (brief recap – full information will be in the OQ information package):
- being a full time student at the university (we accept whatever your university accepts as “full time student”)
- not working in an attractions industry position other than specific limited roles at the time of participation
- being able to execute a participant agreement which transfers intellectual property rights to another entity (anyone who has an employer should be clear what their employment relationship says about this)
- being at least 18 years of age
- (for the invitational) being legally eligible to attend the competition in the United States of America