So you want to put on a South-Asian a cappella competition? That’s 🎶music🎶 to our ears!

This packet outlines suggestions and guidelines from ASA on how to effectively organize a SA a cappella competition, starting from the planning process all the way through to the event.

The first (and most valuable) piece of this packet is a detailed timeline describing the tasks needed to organize a competition:

Here are some important points about this timeline:

• The timeline starts at 1 year before the date of your competition. Along with this reference guide, at the top, the document contains an “Example Timeline” to put the timeline in more perspective, with a sample competition date of March 1. Please note that this is just a suggested timeline for a Spring season competition, and does not necessitate a start date of March 1.
• The timeline is divided vertically roughly by task area. This is, once again, a suggested division of labor, and the tasks can be assigned and completed with any configuration of the board as you see fit. This will of course vary and depend on your board size and structure.
• Each cell in the timeline has a few succinct bullet points to describe the task. Some of these (and soon all) have extended descriptions in the form of comments to further detail those points. You can identify cells that have extended descriptions by a little yellow triangle in the top-right corner of the cell.

The second piece of the packet, which is at the bottom of this page, is a detailed overview of the weekend of the competition. Once again, this is a basic outline, and as competition organizers, you have full creativity to make competition weekend unique for the teams attending!

Please note that this packet is a living document, which means that it will continue to be updated and improved over the coming weeks and months. Keep checking in on this document and ASA’s social media platforms for updates!

If you are interested in learning about how to satisfy the requirements to be an official A3 Bid Competition, please refer to ASA’s A3 Bid Competition Guidelines, located at https://desiacappella.org/competitions. When planning your competition, make sure that the bid competition guidelines are for the season you are planning to host the competition.

The Weekend of Competition

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