Green Street Has Enough Bars. It Needs a Dating Show.

UIUC has one of the largest Indian and South Asian student bodies in the country. Walk through the engineering quad on any given Tuesday and you'll hear more Hindi and Telugu than you will in most American cities. The desi community here is enormous. The dating options? Not so much.

The show format from New York works perfectly in college towns: real contestants go on live dates on stage while a packed room watches and reacts. Afterward, the whole crowd mingles. It's chaotic, it's fun, and it works better than whatever you're currently doing on Hinge at the same three bars on Green Street.

Champaign is a college town, which means the dating pool refreshes every year but also means everyone ends up in the same three bars on Green Street. This is different. A full room of people who showed up specifically because they want to meet someone. No ambiguity about why anyone is there.

We're gauging interest for a Champaign show. Get on the waitlist and you'll hear about it before anyone else. If you want to be a contestant and go on a live date in front of your classmates, apply below. We dare you.