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Our ICCA tournament is featured in the hit movie franchise Pitch Perfect — now the highest-grossing musical series of all time. (The movie is based on the non-fiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory, which documents the true story of two rival groups competing against each other in the ICCA.) Our executive director is a judge in one of the scenes, and some of our real-life ICCA competitors appear in the movie!

But it isn’t just a fictionalized version of our tournament that’s hit the pop culture mainstream. The stories of our real ICCA competitors and events in 2015 and 2016 were featured over two seasons in the reality TV docu-series, Sing It On. The show followed five a cappella groups on their journey to the ICCA Finals. Varsity Vocals partnered with POP TV, a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate, and CORE Media Group, makers of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, to create the show. It was executive produced by John Legend, who once made it to ICCA Finals with his college a cappella group, the Penn Counterparts; our executive director, Amanda Newman, served as co-executive producer on the series. Sing It On aired in 80 million homes in the summer of 2015.