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Feeling batty? Its time to get this fall season startled— I mean, started... Staff Assembly invites you to partake in our Halloween Contest Spook-tacular! Starting Monday, October 20 through Friday, Friday 31, 2025, Staff Assembly is searching for submissions of uniquely fa-boo-lous decorated office spaces and bewitching costumes! Winners will receive bragging rights, recognition in Staff Voice! Please review the categories and rules below to participate.
CATEGORIES
Costume (individual or team)
- Staff Choice (Individual Costume)
- Staff Choice (Group/Team Costume)
Office Decoration (department, individual cubicle, or home office)
- Staff Choice (overall best)
CONTEST RULES
- Maximum 3 photo or video submissions per category by individual, office/team(group photos). Pick your best 3 photos.
- No photoshop • No photo-illustration • No extensive retouching • No graphic filters.
- Acceptable adjustments: Levels, brightness, contrast, curves, exposure, desaturate, Instagram filters, VSCO filters etc.
- Unacceptable extensive retouching -Example: Recoloring skin, photoshopping additional elements into photos, distorting, skewing, rotating, scaling, warping, perspective changing, or applying filters with graphic/animated elements (e.g. Snapshot / Instagram / Facebook / TikTok / etc.).
Remember: avoid cultural appropriation in your costumes. Read a message from the UC Davis Cross Cultural Center on Halloween & Cultural Sensitivity to learn more.
Submissions are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, October 31.
Upon the closing of the submission deadline voting will be open from November 3-10 with the winners being announced in the November 13 Staff Voice Issue.