r/DECA

1. There are only 16 teams. 10 of them become finalists and 3 of them wins glass. A VBC competitor has a better chance of winning glass than a roleplay competitor at winning Top 20. More than 60% of them win finalist which does NOT make it very competitive.

2. VBC is literally glorified video games. I swear that you literally do not use any real-world strategies and just trial-and-error until you get a winning sim. If you test entrepreneurial skills between the #1 VBC entrepreneur team and the ENT person, I guarantee you that the ENT person would demonstrate superior knowledge.

1. Roleplay prep has a ceiling. You drill test banks, you lock in your STAR structure, you practice your 30 second intro until it's smooth, and then you're done. VBC has no ceiling. There is no test question bank to memorize, no framework to rehearse, no script to fall back on. You are reverse engineering a living simulation engine from scratch, mapping how dozens of variables interact across years with compounding consequences. The skill gap between a good VBC team and a great one is enormous precisely because there is no shortcut to get there.
2. Speaking is a trainable skill. You can coach someone into a confident presenter in a few weeks, join a club, watch your recordings, fix your filler words. You cannot coach someone into understanding a complex dynamic system in a few weeks. VBC demands the kind of intuition that only comes from hundreds of hours inside the simulation, building and breaking mental models until the whole engine clicks. That is not a grind that fits neatly into a DECA prep schedule, and the glass should reflect that.

Just got my ICDC score report back for Entrepreneurship role play and something feels really off. During the role play my judge looked engaged the whole time, I hit the PIs, communicated my idea clearly, created an incredibly unique idea, and at the end he literally told me I did fantastic. In my eyes it was the best role-play I had ever given. Then I check my score report and he gave me "no value" on most criteria, 51% overall, 4th percentile. Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a formal process to request a score review or flag a discrepancy at the ICDC level? Who should I reach out to (my chapter advisor, state advisor, or DECA directly)? Any guidance would help a lot, or am I just coping (but I REALLY REALLY thought he took it well and that I delivered it excellently

Icdc has been alternating through the SAME locations forever. It’s always Atlanta, Orlando, or Anaheim, and all of them are in the US. It’s about time that icdc be hosted in a different country, so what better a location than port-au-prince? As the capital of Haiti, port-au-prince is a tourist city with a strong economy and great business connections, acting as the perfect venue for icdc 2027. Let’s push this so that deca inc acts accordingly and hopefully, we’ll have icdc in port au prince in 2027 🤞🤞

I mean, presentations and roleplays and all that are fun, but AI and technology are the future. DECA needs to innovate. It's been stuck in its old ways with spoken word and physical presentation for far too long. If DECA becomes just VBC, everybody becomes way cooler, they gain more valuable life skills, and we all become so auraful. This is 100% serious not satire. If you are trying to joke don't comment on this.

So I wasn’t able to do deca my freshmen- junior year bc I had to take care of my grandma and I literally couldn’t afford to be gone for a day and be at competitions while my parents worked. But she is now living with my aunt and I am now open to do DECA my senior year, but will I be out of place of super behind, all my friends who do deca have been doing it since freshmen year. I have taken some Buisness classes, including buisness essentials, personal finance, and honors accounting, but no competition experience at all. I’m mostly nervous about doing roleplay

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i'm writing an article for my school paper

• How is your DECA class structured and what do students typically work on during class?
• Is the class open to all students or only DECA members?
• Has the class made DECA more accessible to students with after-school schedules?
• Do more students participate in DECA now that there is a class period dedicated to it?
• Has your school seen improved DECA performance since implementing the class?
• How do students view the class compared to traditional business electives?
• Would your DECA program be as successful without the class? Why or why not?

Y'all, judging is HARD. We can't give duplicate scores, and that means that yes- some people got points lower than I felt they earned on a standard rubric. Rankings had to be made, and then points were adjusted to meet that. Judging presentations for ICDC was incredibly hard. Out of the 20 groups I judged, I probably spent 30 minutes just weighing the top 10 and their rankings over and over again.

You are totally welcome to be frustrated by your ranking, but a lot of judges (especially in the prepared events side) put significant time and thought into your score. Also, your score is likely deflated from what you've actually earned because we cannot give duplicate scores.

Ngl, judging ICDC was a blast. Highly encourage it for anyone thinking about it in the future! Met some fantastic industry professionals and was networking for internships across the country.✌️

i thought all deca events were around the same level of competitiveness, but i've been hearing this all over the sub recently. what's the reason?

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Go bug your advisor tomorrow to download them!

How do we find our icdc transcripts and are they actually published? I'm seeing people say they got taken down. Is there a website we view the transcripts in, if so can someone reply with? (context: it's my chapter's first time at icdc so we are a bit confused) Thank you!

bro they were literally 7 out of the top 10 😭😭 i was top 20 but i stood no chance in finals… props to them tho they def know what they’re doing 👏👏

Least competitive events? Ik project management ones are but you really have to go all out (ik a girl who did financial literacy project and got top 10 icdc finalist but she literally went to India for it). I’m interested in finance. Any recs? Thanks!

i’m going to be a sophomore next year. this year, i competed in principles of marketing and i made states, but not icdc.

my goal for next year is to make icdc. i’m looking for an event that’s not too competitive but also not too hard. also i want to stick to an individual event.

the less competitive events in my district are:

- accounting applications
- apparel & accessories marketing
- automotive services
- business finance series
- business services marketing series
- professional selling event
- quick service restaurant management
- restaurant & food service management
- retail merchandising

any suggestions for which one i should do? i’m in mn if that makes a difference