As the Fall semester continues to be conducted fully online, the KAIST-POSTECH Science War (Kapo-Jeon), the annual school rivalry with POSTECH, was conducted online for the first time in its history. Usually, at Kapo-Jeon, students from KAIST and POSTECH compete in sports events like soccer, baseball, and basketball, as well as e-sports, AI, science quiz, and hacking. However, this 2020 Cyber Science War only offered e-sports, hacking, AI, and science quiz events, which were broadcasted live on YouTube by V.O.K. and PBS, KAIST and POSTECH’s broadcasting stations, respectively.

On September 16 and 17, the two schools held e-sports friendly matches before the official start of Kapo-Jeon. On September 16, there were TFT and League of Legends (LoL). A famous professional gamer, Ambition, was the commentator for LoL and the match was livestreamed on his Twitch channel. The next day held friendly matches for Hearthstone, commentated by Kranichhs and streamed on his Twitch channel, and FIFA Online 4 and StarCraft 1, broadcasted on the V.O.K. YouTube channel.

On September 18, the opening speeches from the presidents of KAIST and of POSTECH and the student president of KAIST, marked the start of the 2020 Cyber Science War. Instead of an opening night event, the opening performance of ELKA was broadcasted live on Youtube. On the same day, the competitions for AI, LoL, and hacking were held. KAIST lost the AI match 5-0, but succeeded in bringing victory in LoL with a score of 30 to 20. The hacking challenge, which lasted for 12 hours, added another victory for KAIST. On September 19, KAIST lost the science quiz match by 140 to 290, as well as CartRider by 1 to 2, so overall, KAIST lost the 2020 Cyber Science War 2-3. This equalizes the total standings for Kapo-Jeon victories at 9 for KAIST and 9 for POSTECH.

Imagination Effect, the organization in charge of planning and hosting Kapo-Jeon, also introduced a new event called “Pomyeonkawang” (Masked Singer). Students from each school submitted recordings of themselves singing a song without showing their faces. Videos of 20 students, 10 students from each school, were released on the Cyber Kapo-Jeon YouTube channel on midnight of September 14. The winning school was chosen by combining the number of likes of the top three videos from each school. KAIST was the winner, and the overall first place that received the most likes was a student from KAIST who sang “My Ear’s Candy”.