Happy New Year, 2015 is here! First want to extend congrats to the winners of the recent battles. For the 1 Click Prizm battle, the win goes to Collin. For the Fade battle, we have a tie - and since the top 2 entries each received the same amount of comments from other students, they've each won: congrats to Akiko Luv and Collin! You're winning demos will live on to inspire students to learn these skratches far into the future! 

Now for the next announcement: The Battle for 2014 Valedictorian is on! This is your chance to submit a 1 minute video of your craziest best skratching and become the next QSU Valedictorian. The winner joins an elite group of past winners: Zeke (2010), Primo (2011), DJ IQ (2012), Mr Cerdan (2013). 

To win, you gotta pull out all your best combos and cuts - but also be sure to have a clean video that has a good camera angle, good sound, and please limit your video to 1 minute! Here's a hint from Qbert, "The Valedictorian should have some kind of melodic stuff" in their skratching, so keep that in mind when you practice. 

Remember, the challenge is to have the best overall video - just give it your best shot and submit it to the Battle Category with the title "Valedictorian 2014". The deadline to submit is Monday, February 23 - don't sleep!