Case Study Competition

The Sport Entertainment and Venues Tomorrow (SEVT) conference is pleased to announce its 8th annual undergraduate student case study competition, which will take place on Thursday, November 18, 2021 in Columbia, SC at the Columbia Convention Center.

The competition will consist of team members compiling a 15-minute oral presentation to a panel of expert academic and industry judges. Competing teams will be randomly assigned to one of two groups at the opening reception on the evening of Wednesday, November 17, 2021. The competition will begin on Thursday morning, November 18th from which the top team from each group (as decided by group’s respective judges) will be announced Thursday, November 18, 2021 at the awards luncheon. The two teams will present their solutions to all of our judges at 8 a.m. on Friday, November 19, 2021. 

Further details and the official undergraduate case study competition rules are listed below.

The winning team will be awarded a trophy on Friday, November 19, 2021 after the two top teams compete and the judges deliberate. In addition, the team’s school will be awarded five (5) registration passes (four students, one advisor) for next year’s SEVT conference.

Teams should be comprised of no more than four (4) currently enrolled undergraduate students. A total of eight (8) teams can be accommodated and are selected on a “first come, first served” basis.

Each team should have an academic advisor to serve solely as a liaison between the team and the SEVT Case Study Coordinator. The advisor should not be involved in the case study analysis or presentation preparation, and must be identified and approved by the organizers of the 2021 SEVT conference.

Each advisor should send a registration e-mail to Dr. Khalid Ballouli, the Case Study Coordinator for the SEVT conference, at ballouli@mailbox.sc.edu by 5:00 p.m. ET on Monday, October.    E-mails should contain the institution name, names of all team members (if available), and an agreement to register for the competition. For details concerning registration fees please visit the registration page.

The case study and guidelines will be sent to each team’s advisor one week prior to the conference. All oral presentations will be given starting at 7:30am ET on Thursday, November 18, 2021 at the Columbia Convention Center, unless otherwise noted.

Each team’s presentation should be no longer than 15 minutes in length and will be followed by approximately five (5) minutes of questions from the judges. The use of PowerPoint or other presentation technology is permitted and encouraged.
 

Additional details about the case study competition will be distributed to all registered teams on November 9, 2021.