SETTING THE TORCH for the Lion’s Game: Strengthening Bedan’s Pride, comprising of daily Integration challenges, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Student Council (SC) launched its first daily challenge last March 17, inviting the CAS community to recreate a trending video from the 2000s-2010s era. 

Posted at the council’s official Facebook page, the challenge details how each department from the CAS community must participate by recreating a trending video from the 2000s to 2010s era, lengthed at 30 seconds to one minute, while encouraging a significant number of students per department to participate in the performance to “ensure broad representation.”

Moreover, participants have the discretion to incorporate famous effects from the era, such as vintage filters, VivaVideo logo, Dubsmash-style edits, and other relevant elements—underscoring the recommendation of integrating creative editing in the videos. 

Upon completion, participating departments must submit the final video through its respective Facebook and Instagram pages on or before 4:00P.M. of the same date, provided that it has complied with University policies, while utilizing the hashtags #IntegrationChallenge and #BringOutTheChallenge. With this, the challenge also stipulates that late submissions will not be accepted and may result in noncompliance point deduction that may compromise the participating department’s ranking system. 

Later on the day, following the conclusion of the first challenge for the Lion’s Game, the CAS-SC posted the current standings of each department through their Facebook page, placing The Repvblic, the official professional organization of the Department of Political Science, on top of the standings, garnering current total of 100 points through their recreation of the “Gwiyomi” trend. 

Janelle Bautista, a junior from the Department of Political Science who participated in the challenge, told The Bedan how the challenge brought upon a “nostalgic vibe that takes us back to time, it [brought] back our memories.” The Gwiyomi trend, Bautista explained, was especially a trend that “brought people together,” adding how “nostalgia is a powerful thing to remember and connect us to moments that shaped us.”