ELIGIBILITY
Open to current NAIA member institutions eligible during the Year One competition cycle. One official entry per institution, submitted or formally authorized by the institution through an authorized school representative.
PRIMARY COMPETITION VIDEO
The entry video should answer the core question:
What is the story of your school, your people, and your town?
- MP4 preferred; MOV accepted.
- Maximum file size: 5 GB.
- Maximum runtime: 3:00 minutes
- There is no required minimum runtime.
- Landscape / horizontal 16:9 format is preferred.
- 1080p or higher is preferred, but not required. Production equipment and resolution beyond basic viewability are not judging criteria.
- Videos created with smartphones are fully acceptable.
- Professional production is neither required nor favored.
- The video must clearly tell or introduce the story of the school, its people, and its community.
- Schools may use interviews, narration, archival material, campus footage, community footage, photographs, natural sound, music, graphics, or other storytelling techniques for which they have appropriate rights.
- Entries should be understandable to a national audience unfamiliar with the institution or town.
- Captions are strongly encouraged.
It should focus on people, place, community, culture, character, history, tradition, impact, and what makes that institution’s story worth discovering.
SUBMISSION METHOD
Schools will complete an official NAIAmerica online entry form on the NAIAmerica website.
The website will not accept or store large video-file uploads directly. The entry form will require a Video Delivery Link to the school’s completed competition video.
Accepted delivery methods include Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or another comparable file-sharing service that provides direct access to the submitted video.
The submitting institution is responsible for ensuring the link remains active and that 446Sports/NAIAmerica can access and download the file without requesting additional permission.
Submit the original video file through the delivery link, rather than using a YouTube page as the primary submission method.
NAIAmerica judges the story—not the camera.
Storytelling matters more than cinematic polish. Expensive production values and professional equipment are not required.