Hey everyone, just wanted to start off my time here to introduce myself. I'm new to the whole chip music scene, just having started LSDj and some simple Game Boy modding last year. Though I'm super psyched to write some chiptunes, I'm primarily a composer for classical instruments and that's where most of my time goes. In that light, is there such thing as a competition that allows you to fuse live acoustic and chip music?

Combining live with chips falls under the wildchip format. This format is usually present BotB's very large Winter and Summer Chip battles.

also, the allgear format allows you to use whatever instrumentation (including vocals) that you want! there are usually a few major compos in that format each year.