House Competition

Everyone participates in the house competition! The house competition is a combination of fun, VIX, motivating nonsense, and community-building good times.

Throughout the summer, points will be awarded to wholesome gangs or their members for:

  • winning competitive activities organized by the House Competition Planning Committee

  • completing VIX activities during ThinkTank

  • stepping up in SyBBURE by helping setup/teardown for events

  • leading activities, hosting trainings or fun events

  • making outstanding progress in research or VIX

  • and much, much more!

Current House XP Rankings and Distributions

What is the theme? Dungeons & Dragons!

Welcome to: SyBBERIA! A beautiful land of diverse cultures, perspectives, and beliefs, SyBBERIA thrives. Magic and whimsy are ever-present, appreciated, and cherished by its denizens, and the source of this magic is derived from the power of doing cool stuff. The intersection of creativity and diversity allows for people, places, and things to become something far greater than what could be produced alone. Our magics led our realm to live in long-standing harmony until recently.

Unfortunately, such a harmonious existence and potent magical essence attracted attention from those who craved our power for selfish reasons. From a land beyond the Westward Wastes, a great evil caught the scent of this magic and emerged: the warrior-mage Kylegor. Commanding a horde of fiends, goblins, and other terrifying creatures, it traversed the Westward Wastes and subjugated the city of Zhoujan, placing our citizens under its cruel control. It craves nothing more than bringing order to this seemingly unruly land and to consume our innate magic, our ability to do cool stuff, to gain enough power to conquer our whole world. 

The threat of Kylegor has become too much for us to handle diplomatically. You all, the best and brightest doers of cool stuff, have been chosen by our great dragons Azureim and Emergol to be the champions of their will and to put a stop to Kylegor’s plans. You now bear the burden of our realm’s hope on your very shoulders. 

House Competition Gameplay

House Points
This summer, you have been chosen by dragons as their champions, and each of the houses excels in two of four attributes:

House Chaos | House Valor

‍ ‍ Dexterity ‍ Intelligence‍ ‍

‍ ‍Ingenuity‍ Charisma‍

Take advantage of the various activities we have planned to get to know everyone in the program, earn experience points (XP), and level yourselves up!

Participation in programming, workshops, optional events, and house competitions will grant you individual XP and your house “unallocated” XP. There will be time at ThinkTank each week for your house to decide how to allocate any ‘unallocated’ XP across your house members and to upgrade yourselves with your XP pool, if able.

As you gain XP, you will hit milestones that unlock prizes, events, or even give you an advantage at various challenges throughout the summer.


Character Creation
Another major mechanic for this summer will be Character Creation. Starting at the beginning of the summer, you will create a character that lives in this fantastical world of SyBBERIA by deciding their house, class, race/species, background/demographics, skills/weaknesses, and appearance.

Over the course of the summer, you will use your XP to level up your character’s attribute bonuses, which will help you and your house qualify for certain advantages that could lead to your victory.

It is essential to continue leveling up your character in this manner because qualifying for advantages will become increasingly difficult as the summer progresses.

House Members