Rules for the first edition

Nominees must be at least 21 on April 22, 2027.

Every identifiable participant must have been at least 18 when the work was made, and must have consented to the making of the work and to its submission.

Self-nomination and third-party nomination are both free. A third-party nomination becomes active only after the creator opts in and completes the submission.

Attendance has no effect on eligibility or judging.

Follower total, revenue, citizenship, gender, body size, race, and representation status have no role in eligibility.

The inaugural eligibility period is January 1 through December 31, 2026. Eligible work must have first appeared during 2026.

Breakthrough Creator is for a creator whose first public sensual or adult cosplay work appeared between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2026.

AI-generated imagery is ineligible in the inaugural edition. Checking authorship and performer consent on generated images would add substantial adjudication work, so the first edition leaves that work out.

A purchased costume qualifies when the maker is credited. Design scoring covers the entrant’s documented contribution.

Public and judge-facing assets have to meet the venue coverage rules and cannot show sexual acts. The coverage rules are below.

Sensual portrayals of minor or child-coded characters are excluded.

Each competitive category needs four eligible, unrelated entries. The standards committee may combine or withhold an undersubscribed award under a published rule. That rule, and the committee’s names, will be announced.

Nominations are not open. The open and close dates will be announced. When they open, the planned package is:

The same weights apply across juried categories. Category-specific definitions of execution will be published with the nomination rules. This page will add them when they are ready.

The awards do not rank bodies, attractiveness, follower counts, earnings, or subscription sales. Juror packets omit legal names, income, follower totals, ticket sales, sponsor purchases, and public-vote totals.

Five paid jurors and one alternate: three sensual or adult cosplay creators, one costume construction and styling specialist, and one photography or video director.

Names, biographies, assignments, the compensation policy, and conflicts will be published before nominations close. The names will be announced.

Each entry receives at least four independent scores.

Jurors and committee members disclose current or recent romantic, family, management, employment, investment, dispute, and paid-collaboration relationships. A conflicted juror recuses from the affected entry or category. The alternate is used when fewer than four independent scores would remain.

A Nevada accountant, attorney, or independent awards administrator checks scoring completeness, recusals, ties, and custody of the final result.

Sponsors receive no nomination, eligibility, jury, scoring, voting, appeal, or result-custody authority. Competitive award names stay independent of sponsors. Buying a ticket, a table, or an activation does not help an entry.

A separate three-person ethics panel hears procedural appeals. Artistic scoring decisions receive no appeal.

Removal is limited to published violations:

Audience Choice is the only public-vote category. The controls are:

These are production rules for the stage and for images and video that judges or the public see. Clark County or the applicable city still has to give classification guidance in writing. The venue is not contracted, so a venue may add its own written conditions. The standard in the production plan is: