48Hours 2025 - Ōtautahi Regional Managers

While we were sad to not compete ourselves in the competition this year, the trade off was a pretty great deal! We've jumped to the other side of the competition and are now the Ōtautahi Regional Managers!

A lot of work goes into the festival behind the scenes and it was an absolute honour to be welcomed in this year.

We got to do a lot of awesome things! Including...

• Promoting the competition around the city and in schools

• Create an advertising video to share across the country (Shoutout to Jem for helping us shoot that)

• Run a schools training workshop for school teams

• Run a Q&A panel for veterans to share their tips and tricks

• Host a live launch of the competition at The Grange

• Watch and review all 90 entries in Christchurch.

• Manage and organise heats

• Support judges and announce the regional finalists over live stream

• Spoke with press and media to promote the competition and finals night

• Organise the Regional Final hosted at Hoyts EntX

• Support the afterparty fake awards with some extra surprises thrown in aswell

• Travel to Wellington for the Grand Finals and hand out certificates to some of the winners

Weaving in and out of all these opportunities was design work, event management, and collaborating with other awesome creative people across the country.

It was by far the highlight of the year, and we can't wait to return in 2026 and do it all again!