[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.
Re: my/Irina's point about avoiding gaming in an online contest... The number of views/votes can help point the way to good videos, but are not the right way to choose a winner in a competition. I think Nokia have set up their competition right, and that you guys at Microsoft should change your rules to follow Nokia's lead. In the Nokia Awards, a few people gamed the system to get hugely disproportionate numbers of votes (as always happens), but the 5 finalists were chosen by the personal judgement of the people running the competition. They looked at the 20 most popular videos and chose 5 finalists. This way they could weed out cheating and weren't obliged to include the video(s) with most (apparently gamed) votes. It doesn't even have to be about unfair manipulation - just about weight of online presence. For example, I'm sure I had a small advantage over most other competitors in the Awards because of my friends in the videoblogging community and on Twitter being ready to vote for me. But in the end, this was levelled out by the human judgement element. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so how are things going tony are you getting many more entries? i agree with rupert views and votes are super easy to game but i suppose another way to determine a winner is really hard :) On 4/21/08, Tony Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey friendly vloggers, We just launched a video contest at Microsoft Home Magazine. The top prize is $25,000 and so far only a handful of people have entered: 68 as of this evening. Did I mention the winner gets $25,000?. I watch your videos, I know what you are capable of. Share your passion! Here's the url to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzQeQIBWfE You can enter here: http://www.microsoft.ca/passion Please pass the word around! Thanks Tony Armstrong -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.
Entertaining. http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/contests/shareyourpassion/viewallsubmissions.aspx?vidId=d038ef22-1ff7-4e66-9c3c-acdb0cbdb750 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hah! :D Thanks, Irina. But it should have been so much better. The deadline was 5am GMT last Monday morning and I remembered at 1am, just as I was finising packing up to emigrate. So I shot it at 2am in my empty house and went back to my mother-in-law's house to cut it on her PC at 4am, then ran out of time and had technical problems uploading. Finally got it in at 4.57am. It's one of the least viewed of all the 170 or so videos there. Draw your own conclusions... :) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina irinaski@ wrote: loving rupert's submission http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/contests/shareyourpassion/viewallsubmissions.aspx?vidId=d038ef22-1ff7-4e66-9c3c-acdb0cbdb750 On 5/4/08, Tony Armstrong cottager@ wrote: here: http://www.microsoft.ca/passion soon! t On May 4, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Irina wrote: where to we vote? :) On 5/4/08, Tony Armstrong cottager@ wrote: Hey Irna. We ended-up with lots of entries which we've narrowed down to 25 for voting. We'll see how the voting goesÂ… thanks for asking! T On May 4, 2008, at 6:31 AM, Irina wrote: so how are things going tony are you getting many more entries? i agree with rupert views and votes are super easy to game but i suppose another way to determine a winner is really hard :) On 4/21/08, Tony Armstrong cottager@ wrote: Hey friendly vloggers, We just launched a video contest at Microsoft Home Magazine. The top prize is $25,000 and so far only a handful of people have entered: 68 as of this evening. Did I mention the winner gets $25,000?. I watch your videos, I know what you are capable of. Share your passion! Here's the url to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzQeQIBWfE You can enter here: http://www.microsoft.ca/passion Please pass the word around! Thanks Tony Armstrong -- http://geekentertainment.tv -- http://geekentertainment.tv -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.
Hah! :D Thanks, Irina. But it should have been so much better. The deadline was 5am GMT last Monday morning and I remembered at 1am, just as I was finising packing up to emigrate. So I shot it at 2am in my empty house and went back to my mother-in-law's house to cut it on her PC at 4am, then ran out of time and had technical problems uploading. Finally got it in at 4.57am. It's one of the least viewed of all the 170 or so videos there. Draw your own conclusions... :) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: loving rupert's submission http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/contests/shareyourpassion/viewallsubmissions.aspx?vidId=d038ef22-1ff7-4e66-9c3c-acdb0cbdb750 On 5/4/08, Tony Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here: http://www.microsoft.ca/passion soon! t On May 4, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Irina wrote: where to we vote? :) On 5/4/08, Tony Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Irna. We ended-up with lots of entries which we've narrowed down to 25 for voting. We'll see how the voting goesÂ… thanks for asking! T On May 4, 2008, at 6:31 AM, Irina wrote: so how are things going tony are you getting many more entries? i agree with rupert views and votes are super easy to game but i suppose another way to determine a winner is really hard :) On 4/21/08, Tony Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey friendly vloggers, We just launched a video contest at Microsoft Home Magazine. The top prize is $25,000 and so far only a handful of people have entered: 68 as of this evening. Did I mention the winner gets $25,000?. I watch your videos, I know what you are capable of. Share your passion! Here's the url to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzQeQIBWfE You can enter here: http://www.microsoft.ca/passion Please pass the word around! Thanks Tony Armstrong -- http://geekentertainment.tv -- http://geekentertainment.tv -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
