Cardistry: Cardistry-Con Championship Announces New Format. Audition Starts May 14

The new format for the Cardistry-Con Championship (CCC) has just been announced this week. The first notable change is the structure of the competition where the single-elimination tournament style will be introduced this year.

We’re changing up a few things for this year’s CCC, and one of them is the structure of the competition itself. This time, we’ll be employing the single-elimination tournament style: cardists will be paired up against another cardist, and the winner of each pairing will then be paired up against another winner from the previous round, until only one remains. We hope that the change this year will make things more exciting, and will provide more variety from the top 16 candidates chosen to compete in the competition itself. #cardistrycon #cardistry #CCC18 #bestcardistalive

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16 cardists will be paired up against each other and the winner of each pairing will move on to the next round until 1 remains ( Champion!). This format is similar to that used in the popular WKC. According to the @cardistrycon's post on Instagram, they hope that the change will make things more exciting and provide more variety from the top 16 candidates chosen to compete in the CCC.

In further CCC news, the second judge for the championship this year is none other than @patch.god of @bestcardistalive! In this video, Patrick divulges a couple other changes we’ve made to the competition this year, which will hopefully give participants more freedom as far as their entries go (although, please note that the “no time limit” rule only applies to the round entries, not the audition videos). We’ll be revealing the third and final judging faction this weekend – in the meantime, please show Patrick plenty of love in the comments below! ⬇️ #cardistrycon #cardistry #CCC18 #bestcardistalive

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Also, there will be no themed rounds AND no time limit during the elimination round, giving contestants more freedom to distinguish themselves. The organizers of CCC will begin accepting audition videos on May 14th of which, 16 contestants will be selected for the elimination format. CCC is expected to take place from June to September, leading up to Cardistry HK on 21-23 September.