COMPETITION ARENA SYNOPSES
ARENA 1: THE SHOWTIME CHALLENGE
Your Time or Mine?
Your team's challenge prior to the competition is to create a four to five-minute skit about a town that straddles two time zones. You must include:
- A town that is divided by two time zones
- Mayor Albert with his town solution “The Incredible Theory of Relativity”
- A very difficult city board member
- A pizza delivery person
- A confused visitor
- A major town event
- Entertaining Humor
ARENA 2: THE ENGINEERING FEATS CHALLENGE
Accidental Timing
Your team's challenge prior to the competition is to create a four to five-minute skit about a clock maker who accidently invents a time machine. You must include:
- An accidental time machine with at least one working part
- A clock maker, Dr. Procrastinator, who lives up to his name
- A bumbling perfectionist
- An “embarrassing” problem to be solved
- An unusual “butterfly effect”
- Entertaining Humor
ARENA 3: THE FINE TUNING CHALLENGE
Tangled Time
Your team's challenge prior to the competition is to create a four to five-minute skit based on a portal to parallel universes to find the perfect art and music for a school production. Your presentation must include:
- An unusual portal to parallel universes
- Historical figures from three different centuries
- A disembodied “voice”
- Tangled historical storylines
- Unexpected coming and going
- An original song presented as music from the future or past
- An original work of art presented as art from the future or past
- Entertaining Humor
ARENA 4: THE PERSPECTIVE CHALLENGE
The Hands of Time
Your team's challenge prior to the competition is to create a four to five-minute skit from the perspective of a town’s Cuckoo Clock. The skit must include:
- The perspective of a town’s Cuckoo Clock
- Gullible townspeople who always believe the Cuckoo’s time
- An oblivious know-it-all mayor
- A visiting reporter investigating strange “untimely” happenings
- A town gossip
- An unexpected ending
- Wacky humor