Cosplay Contest

We decided to do another cosplay competition after seeing all the wonderful costumes you showed us previous time! The theme of PCH 2025 is "Big Birthday Bake-off" , but feel free to show any cosplay you like!

The cosplay contest is held on the Saturday this year. There will be several winners from the following categories: "Most Creative Cosplay", "Best Crafted Cosplay", "Best Performance" and "Overall Winner".

The award ceremony will be held on the Sunday, before the charity auction. So not immediately after the cosplay contest itself! The award will be shipped to the winner when they're not present at the award ceremony, 

What to expect as participant:
- We will send you an e-mail to confirm your participation and to let you know where and when you have to be.
- The deadline for sending in your desired background music is October the 3rd. We will provide a standard background music for participants without one.
- The staff will bring you backstage after gathering at the pre-arranged place. You will be explained what to do on stage and which order the participants are in. You will get a signal when it's almost your turn on stage.
- On stage, you can perform however you want. After that you visit the judges table, which is also on stage, and answer their questions. Do not get of the stage before you are dismissed, otherwise the judges will not have enough time to judge your cosplay.
- After you are dismissed, you may walk of the stage via the side stairs towards the audience.
- The award ceremony will be held on Sunday, before the charity auction.

If you would like to participate, but still have some other burning questions: please contact info@ponyconholland.com

Otherwise, please use the form below to sign up!

Cosplay Contest Signup 2025
The name you use in the Fandom/Online
This won't be shared.
Optional, if you want to be added to our public PCH discord server, we can send you an invite.
Act Type
Catwalk is when you'll just be showing your cosplay. Stage performance can be anything, like an act or a song.
Are you performing alone or as a group? If it's an individual act select 1, otherwise select the amount of people in your group.
Let us know which character(s) you or your group well be performing as.
Things we should know in advance. For instance: background music requirements.