How does it work

Passion and creativity required.
Intelligence mandatory.
Glasses and light sabers optional.


There can be only one TopGeek. The finalist with the highest score at the end of the TopGeek Final will be named iiNet's TopGeek, score an awesome trip to an international convention and be the inspiration for geeky voodoo dolls forever more.

Submit your photo or video
Calling all geeks
Take some time out from World of Warcraft and submit your entry, or nominate a fellow geek, for the chance to become iiNet's TopGeek.

How to enter

Simply upload a photo of yourself and tell us what kind of geek you are and why you deserve to be Australia's next TopGeek. You'll need to enter one of five categories:

  • Art geek
  • Gamer geek
  • Tech geek
  • Internet geek
  • Fandom geek

Add more oomph by including videos, drawings or other material to support your entry.

Become a finalist

Ten of the best geeks from each category will make it into the top 50, with two ways to make the cut:

  1. Five geeks will be judged on the creativity, originality and entertainment value of their entry – along with the overall content.

  2. Five geeks will be voted by you, the public. Get your fans together and push yourself into contention!

Our judges set challenges
Let the games begin
The chosen finalists will go through a series of knockout challenges on their way to the next stage of the competition

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Wildcard chances
If talent alone doesn't quite cut it, entrants will have the chance to land a spot in the Top 50 as the 'People's Choice' finalists by securing the highest number of public votes
Win
There can be only one
The top five contestants and the 'People's Choice' wildcard will face off in the iiNet TopGeek 2.0 final showdown.

 

Challenges

Depending on which TopGeek 2.0 category you’ve put yourself into, you’ll have category-specific challenge which will target your skills in your own area of geekery.

  • Art geek: The challenge will be to use your creative skills to describe what the geek of the future will be. A video entry is required, but your concept can be communicated in your art form of choice (eg. food, photography, dance). You’ll also have the opportunity to submit supplementary material to back up your video submission. Entrants will be judged on their artistic merit, the originality of their work and the creativity and entertainment value of their video.
  • Gamer geek: A gaming round robin will require you to prove your skill in a variety of gaming. Entrants will be judged on their skill level and the entertainment value during game play.
  • Internet geek: The challenge will be to produce a piece of content and use your knowledge of the Internet and social mediums to have the piece of content “go viral”. Entrants will be judged on the content's overall reach online and the entertainment value of their video entry.
  • Tech geek: Your mission will be to create a gadget or similar invention and communicate your idea with a video entry and supporting documentation. Entrants will be judged on the originality of their idea and the entertainment value of their video.
  • Fandom geek: The challenge will be to use your knowledge of fandom to create a concept that is capable of having its own fandom following. The concept will be communicated through a video entry and will require supporting documentation (eg. Script, comic, storyboard, costume designs etc). Entrants will be judged on the originality of the concept and entertainment value of the video submission.
We will select one winner from each category to make up the Top 5.

 

Final

The Top 5 finalists will take to the stage in a live quiz-style event that will challenge their geeky knowledge. You’ll have a chance to pick your topic and level of difficulty in order to secure a certain number of points per question. There will be two knock-out rounds before a play-off between the final two.

The entrant with the highest score will become Australia’s Next TopGeek.