1. Starship – Online Testing Round (15.09 – 10.10)

Format: Online tests on the website www.starawards.vn

The Online Test Round – Starship is simultaneously taking place at 6 clusters nationwide with the format of online testing on computers or mobile devices. When signing up accounts on the website, contestants are required to provide their factual personal information for the Organization Committee to verify and contact if necessary. After finishing the registration, each contestant will be provided with one account to do the test.

Each contestant has 3 attempts to do the test, of which the one with the best result will be used for assessment if the contestant is qualified to enter the next round. The contestant will access the Internet and do the online test with 40 questions in 40 minutes. Weekly, Top 03 contestants with the highest scores in each cluster will win weekly prizes.

2. Starplus – Semi-Final Round (13.10 – 18.10)

Part 1:

50 selected candidates will take an onsite test under the supervision of the Organizing Committee, in the form of 20 multiple choice questions and 1 essay within 60 minutes. The maximum score for part 1 is 40 points.

Part 2: 

After completing the multiple-choice test, candidates will participate in an interview with a panel of judges in which candidates have 1 minute to introduce themselves and 4 minutes to answer questions related to the topic of the test. contest, maximum duration is 5 minutes. The maximum score for part 2 is 60 points.

At the cluster semi-final round, the Organizing Committee will select 18 candidates with the highest scores to participate in the Regional Final Round. 18 contestants will be divided into 6 teams, each team consists of 03 contestants to participate in the final round of the cluster.

3. Starlight – Semi-Final Round (01.11 – 15.11)

Part 1: Warm-up round

• Format: 6 teams take turns answering short questions in English about general English knowledge and general knowledge surrounding cyberspace issues. Each team in turn must answer a set of 10 short questions within a maximum of 3 minutes both asking and answering. MC reads each question to the team, the team has the right to discuss and appoint a representative to answer the question. After the student has finished answering, he or she is immediately allowed to answer the next question, and the team is allowed to skip the question. The question requires finding the correct answer and filling in the blanks. 
  • Choice questions: true or false, choose the answers given.
  • Questions with pictures or music prompts.
• Contestants can continuously change their answers before the host announces the answer and the final answer will be recorded. If not changed, the program will record the first answer. The content of the questions is related to general knowledge about cyberspace issues and cultural behavior in cyberspace. The language of the test is English.
• Scoring method: Each correct answer gets 10 points, no point deducted for wrong answer. The maximum score for this test is 100 points.

Part 2: Accelerated round

• Description: There is a picture containing the program’s key word and covered by 10 puzzle pieces. Each puzzle piece corresponds to a horizontal word consisting of crosswords. Competing teams answer 10 horizontal words in corresponding English to reveal the pieces of the picture and find the final keyword. These 10 horizontal words also have content related to the theme of the picture.
• Format: Teams choose from a horizontal line and answer questions. The form of questions given is questions, data videos, keywords… If you answer correctly from the horizontal row, the corresponding piece of the picture will be opened.
• The time to think and answer each question is 30 seconds. The team that chooses the correct answer will receive 40 points, and the wrong answer will be deducted 10 points. The remaining 5 teams have the right to answer by ringing the bell. Correct answers receive 25 points, points are not deducted for incorrect answers.
• Contestants can press the bell to win the right to answer keywords at any time. Correct answers in the first 2 questions get 80 points, in the next 2 questions get 60 points, from the following questions get 40 points. If they answer the wrong keyword, the team must end the section at that time.
• The maximum score for this section is 440 points. 04 teams with the highest total score of part 1 and part 2 will enter part 3.

Part 3: Final Round

• Content: The contest is held in the form of rhetoric according to a topic proposed by the Organizing Committee.
• Format: Contest teams randomly draw 1 topic out of 6 topics that the Organizing Committee prepared to conduct the debate. All contestants in the team will have to participate in the debate. Each team has a maximum of 02 minutes to prepare and 03 minutes to present. After the presentation time, for every next 10 seconds, the team will be deducted 1 point.
• At the end of each presentation, the contestants in the team will answer questions from the opposing team (how many questions are asked and at what time) and the jury. The jury’s questions will be for each individual in the team.
• The maximum score for this test is 100 points. The team with the highest score in this competition will be the winning team

4. Star Union – National Final Round (01.12)

Conquest Round

• Content: The participating teams answer questions according to a large square matrix of 6×6 consisting of 36 questions with 3 levels of easy, medium difficulty.
• Form: Each team is assigned a corresponding color, the teams draw lots to choose the order of answers. For each question, the time to think and answer is 30 seconds. The question-answering team can discuss internally during the think-and-answer period. The team appoints a representative to answer questions for the whole team. If the time runs out and the team still has not given an answer, the question is considered to be missed. The square corresponding to the question is marked with an X, and no team is allowed to answer again. Other teams must not interfere or suggest answers while one team is thinking and answering a question.
• For each correct answer, 20 points will be awarded, 5 points will be deducted for incorrect answers. The contest will end when a team completes 1 row (horizontal/vertical/diagonal) first, that team will gain an additional 30 points. The total score for this round is 150 points

Bravery Round

6 teams will be drawn and divided into 3 pairs. Each pair competes and debates on a topic given by the Organizing Committee.The groups have time to think, discuss and then debate according to the AP (Asian Parliamentary) debate rules, specifically:

*Asian Parliamentary (AP) Debate Law

The debate will consist of 2 teams:

• Team A (Affirmative Team): The team supporting the petition, consisting of 3 members, respectively A1, A2, A3
• Team N (Negative Team): The opposing team also includes 3 members, N1, N2, N3 respectively.

Turn 1 (up to 7 minutes)

• A1: define, limit and pose problems; state the system of points; develop 1 or 2 points.
• N1: Give feedback on the definition, limit and problem set; state the system of points; counter arguments A1; develop 1 or 2 points.

Turn 2 (up to 7 minutes)

•  A2: Defend your point of view, challenge N1’s point of view, develop 1 or 2 points.
•  N2: Defend your point of view; opposing views A1 and A2; develop 1 or 2 points.

Turn 3 (up to 7 minutes)

•  A3: Criticize arguments N1 and N2, briefly summarize your arguments, summarize and highlight the main issues, analyze the main ideas.
• N3: Can critique argument A3, briefly summarize their arguments, summarize and highlight main issues, analyze main ideas.

Responses (up to 4 minutes)

• Brief summary of the match conflict.
• Brief summary and direction of the party and the opposing party.
• Compare and prove your team performed better.
• The first response by team N is done by N1 or N2.
• Team A’s subsequent response is made by A1 or A2.
• During the A3, N3 and the response part, the speaker is not allowed to add new points in his presentation.

Question and answer section (P.O.I)

The opposing team member is allowed to ask the speaking team member for clarification or to counter the content being presented. The right to ask questions is used from the 2nd to the 6th minute in each speaking session from A1 to N3. Each question should not exceed 15 seconds.

At the end of each team’s presentation, the Jury will ask questions to the competing teams, and the team has 3 minutes to respond to the judges’ questions.

Scoring method: The jury will score based on the presentation and critique of the competition team. The maximum score for this round is 200 points, the judges score based on the criteria given by the organizers.

The language used during the National Finals is English. The team with the highest total score of 2 rounds will be the winner. In case of influence by objective reasons, the decision of the organizers and the Jury is final.