Registering reserves your place and creates an empty entry for you. It does not submit anything. You still have to build your work and connect it to that entry from your competitions page before the submission deadline.
Registering is not submitting
This is the step almost everyone misses. Registering is also where you pay, when the competition charges a fee. After registering you will see the competition in your list with a Submit button on it, and that button is the sign that nothing has been sent yet.
What to do after you register
- Open your competitions page at uni.xyz/profile/edit/<your-username>/competitions. The Submit Entry button on the competition page goes to exactly this page, so either route works.
2. Find the competition in that list and use Submit on it.
3. Build the entry in the format that competition asks for. Most competitions take a project, while portfolio awards such as UPA and UnIADA take a publication. You cannot get this wrong by accident: the submit box only offers the format that competition accepts, and its title says which, for example "Select Project to Submit".
4. Follow the brief. The brief lives on the competition page itself. The print icon in the quick actions on that page opens a print preview of the whole brief, with a Print / Save PDF button if you want it as a document. The brief tells you the boards, sizes and content required.
5. Submit before the submission deadline. Registration and Submission are separate deadlines, and registration almost always closes first, usually a day earlier. Missing the registration deadline means you cannot enter at all, because there is no way to create an entry after it.
6. Keep working until submissions close. You can detach and reconnect your work as often as you like while the submission window is open, so submitting early costs nothing.
Checking your own status
Your competitions page is also where you confirm what actually happened: whether an entry exists, whether anything is attached to it, and later whether it was received, approved or shortlisted. A submitted entry shows the attached work on its card. If you are not sure whether you have submitted, check there.