PDKU COMPETITION JULY 14–31 LIGHTHAVEN, BERKELEY

Most points wins.

Every point you earn between now and midnight, July 31 counts toward the final tally. First place takes $8,000. Seven fellows walk away with money.

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High scores

Top 10 by total points. Judge points land after the July 29 deadline — until then this is all challenge hustle.

RANK / FELLOWPTS
LIVE STANDINGS · UPDATES AS BOXES GET MARKED
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How to score

Challenge pointsANY TIME · JULY 14–31 · 1 PT EACH

There's one big list of challenges — it's below. No schedule, no daily assignments. Any video, any challenge, any point in the month.

  • Your video meets a challenge's requirements? Mark the relevant boxes when you upload it to the portal. That's the whole claim process.
  • Each box you mark is worth 1 point.
  • One video can hit several challenges at once — one point for each.
  • Challenges are optional. But points don't earn themselves.

Staff will be spot-checking videos to make sure they do meet the qualifications. If you falsely mark a video as having completed a challenge when it does not, we will be very mad at you and likely deduct points.

Judge pointsONE SUBMISSION · DUE MIDNIGHT JULY 29

Submit your top 3 videos for judging:

  • Your 2 most-viewed videos made during PDKU
  • Plus 1 video of your personal preference
1st 20 / 2nd 15 / 3rd 10  PTS PER CATEGORY

The categories · click one / / / / / /

We might add more categories over the month! This is flexible! We don't know what we're doing!

CHALLENGE PTS+JUDGE PTS=FINAL SCORE
tallied at midnight, july 31 · total decides the money · nothing else does
03 — THE MONEY

Top seven
get paid

Final standings, night of July 31.

1ST$8,000
2ND$5,000
3RD$3,000
4TH$1,000
5TH$1,000
6TH$1,000
7TH$1,000

Total pool $20,000 · ties settled by organizers

04

The challenges

The whole list, live all month. At any point, if your video meets any of these, mark the box when you upload it — each one it meets is worth 1 point. The list is final unless it isn't.

Fine print, such as it is: challenges only count for videos uploaded to the portal with the challenge boxes marked. Judges' decisions are final. Categories may be added mid-month. If you prank someone, you are responsible for cleanup. Questions → message keltan.