As the DCM is now a few years old, we would like to like to give a brief overview of the development of the competition. You can find more detailed information in the (German) Wikipedia article about the German Cosplay Championship.
2007
The Animexx e.V. and the Frankfurt Book Fair join to hold the first German Cosplay Championship. A female and a male champion are selected.
2008
Expansion of regional preliminaries.
2009
It’s the last time that a female and a male champion are selected. The separation of the sexes in the competition gets canceled.
2010
The DCM is held as a championship for cosplay teams for the first time. From now on the competition rotates annually between the execution of a single and a team championship.
2011
The DCM gets its own youtube channel, where now all skits performed at the preliminaries and the grand finale are shown.
2012
The rating system gets revised.
2013
The number of preliminary decisions gets reduced in order to ensure better utilization of the preliminaries.