TCO13 - Studio Finals Championship Round

Primary Goals

The goal of this Championship round is to extend the branding you’ve been working on into a landing page for the web that will target potential competitors. This page is a place visitors would “land” if they clicked on an advertisement or other outside marketing piece. The goal of this page is to entice digital creators to register as a community member and begin competing!

The page should be visually engaging and easy to scan.

Page requirements

1.       Your main logo and secondary track brands from Round 1 and Round 2 – refined and finalized.

2.       A  “View Challenges” button/link

3.       Prize money paid out

4.       Member count and tagline

5.       Map with countries represented and tagline

6.       Track names and summaries

Descriptions of each page element is shown below

1.       Feel free to further refine and revise your logo and secondary brands according to any further feedback from Round 2.

2.       Design a “View Challenges” button/link. This is your “call-to-action” that takes a potential member to the competitions page.

3.       Our community has won more than $35 Million

4.       Show the number 600K with the tagline: “Join the world’s largest open innovation platform and competitive community of digital creators”

5.       Use the vector map we have provided as a BASE design. You should modify it to fit your design (colors, size, etc.) and then add data to the map in a graphically pleasing way to represent the TOTAL member count and the member count for each of the following regions:

Region	Total
Asia	202229
North America	120602
Europe	62290
Central America, South America, and Caribbean	13908
Africa	10857
Oceania	5479
Unspecified	122992

 

Also use this tagline with your map: "Our creative artists, software developers, and algorithmists hail from over 200 countries."

6.       Show the following track names and summaries within your design. This text should not be the main focus of the design, but should be easy to find and read. 

DESIGN

TopCoder Design Studio offers a competitive graphic design community with super perks not found anywhere else. Design UI/UX for the mobile, web and desktop space, or show your skills in information architecture or branding and print design. Our clients need everything from start to finish: wireframes to production-ready designs. Design Studio holds unique challenges that push the boundaries of innovation.

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DEVELOPMENT

TopCoder's global community of developers compete in skill-based challenges representing every stage of the software development process. From discovery and specification, through development, testing and deployment, competition is at the core of everything we do. TopCoder is the place developer talents can be truly rewarded.

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DATA/ALGORITHMS

No one knows Big Data and Algorithms like the TopCoder Algorithm community. We leverage the world’s data-science expertise in tackling the toughest academic and real-world analytics and data problems. Solving problems for everyone from Harvard to NASA, algorithmists compete with the best and make dramatic contributions to research, business and humanitarian causes.

Design Considerations and Requirements

• - Must be easy to read/understand
• - Must be engaging and visually interesting
• - Simplicity of design / strong, clear design concept
• - Good use of white space
• - Be creative!

Colors, Size, Fonts

You must use and follow the provided Preview Template. You must provide the logo on both the black and white background. 

• - You are free to choose your colors.
• - Fonts:
  • 1. You may use fonts found on the computer you are using.
  • 2.  You may use free fonts from Font Squirrel. You may download them onto your computer and install them for use.
  • - You should declare your fonts as you normally would in any Studio contest.

Target Audience

• - Existing and prospective clients
• - Existing and prospective community members

Judging Criteria

The judging panel will evaluate many areas of design standards when judging your submission, such as:

• - Creativity
• - Color
• - Imagery
• - Typography
• - Composition
• - Originality/Uniqueness
• - Practicality/Effectiveness

What to Submit

Preview PNG Image File 
Please use the Preview File Template

Submission ZIP File 
Designed screen saved in PNG format.

Source ZIP File 

Landing page: All original source files of the submitted design in a zip file. Files should be saved as an editable, layered PSD or AI file.

Logos: Your logo designs must be entirely in vector format. You must also provide two versions in your source files:

1)      Your design in its original, editable state.

2)      Your design in outlined format (outline your text).

Only a single submission will be considered from each member. Please delete any uploaded submissions that are not final.

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TCO13 Round 1 Eligibility

To be eligible in this round, you must meet the eligibility requirements listed on the Contest Details page, along with the following additional eligibility requirements:

• You must be listed as a finalist for the round you are competing in.
• You must be present at the start of the Round.
• You must be a TCO13 Finalist and you must be competing onsite, in person, in Washington DC, during the TCO13 Championship Finals.
• You must abide by the rules of the onsite championship rounds.
• You must not cheat. All designs submitted must be your original work created solely by you and for the purpose of this competition.
• You must be in good standing with TopCoder and TopCoder Design Studio with no disciplinary actions against your account.

Placement and Winner Selection

All submissions from the Design Studio Competition Rounds automatically pass screening. After each Round, the Judging Panel is presented with all of the submissions and will have sole discretion in determining the placements for each Round. Placements from Round 1 and Round 2 DO NOT factor into the final championship placement and are only presented for informational purposes.

Overall Champion Winner Selection

The winner of the Design Studio Competition will be the Onsite Studio Competitor with the highest placement given by the Judging Panel from the Championship Round. Only the placements from the Championship Round will be used for placement. The champion will be announced on Wednesday, November 13^th during the award ceremony.

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