EPIC POEM
How many people should recite the poem?
One or more, but it has to be recited during the performance
Every quest must include these two specific characters who travel together.
Who are the Hero and the Sidekick?
The minimum number of visually different settings required in the performance.
What is two?
Total maximum cost for all materials used in the presentation.
What is $145?
One of the style items is the artistic quality of this protective object.
What is a shield?
What type of narrator knows every character’s thoughts and feelings and refers to them in third person?
What is an omniscient narrator?
This creature must be team-created and cannot be a known mythological or fictional monster.
What is the original beast?
To show settings are different, teams must use different ones of these visual elements.
What are colors?
Total time allowed for the full performance, including setup.
What is 8 minutes?
Teams must use the same material creatively in these two characters’ costumes.
Who are the Hero and the Sidekick?
This is the minimum number of lines an OM epic poem must have.
What is 20 lines?
This event must be different from the epic challenge and involves saving another character.
What is the rescue?
Backdrops, props, and costumes all count toward portraying this aspect of the performance.
What are the settings?
This penalty is charged if the team goes more than 8 minutes, at a rate of 1 point per 2 seconds.
What is the overtime penalty?
Maximum total points possible for the entire problem.
What is 200 points?
What would you call the statement "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"?
What is a hyperbole
This required moment must be portrayed clearly to judges and must be overcome during the quest.
What is the epic challenge?
Judges award up to 10 points each for how effectively color is used to depict each of these.
What are the first and second settings?
What does the Timekeeper say to start the clock?
What is "Team, begin"?
These two categories allow teams to add any extra creative elements they choose.
What are Free Choice of Team style elements?
What is the Latin phrase that describes a story that starts “in the middle of the action.”
What is in media res?
According to the booklet, the quest must include encountering the beast, rescuing someone, and doing this.
What is overcoming the epic challenge?
A team violating this principle by not clearly differentiating color usage could lose up to 30 points.
What is the Spirit of the Problem?
Missing this required item automatically results in a 5-point deduction.
What is the membership sign?
This section of scoring can give between 7 and 40 points and includes creativity, delivery, and integration.
What is the Epic Poem scoring section?