2016 ★LuckyBit★ Video Contest! - 5 limited edition prizes - [CLOSED]

[Motivational]

This Is My Video :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-VbQu8AC0

Followed Suspense theme
I am Grateful for LuckyBit journey
 

[MRKLYE]

Ok, here is my video... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3N2oM6qLlE

PIECE OF ART 

Give that man 1st place.

I'll take 2nd.

That video is truly art.

[erikalui]

My entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2hMOcR5VA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[BoXXoB]

My entry: https://youtu.be/6gN3lrjPEVk

[Fraxinus]

My entry here https://youtu.be/aPIqWEhv-Mo

[stingleword]

Alright, time's up! I'll start watching your creations right away.

[stingleword]

Whew... all done!

Before I announce the winners, I'd like to make a few comments.

Many of the submissions were very good. Some would make excellent promotional materials. All of you showed skills in one form or another, and even if you aren't mentioned here, congratulations on your submission because honestly, none of them were bad and it was really hard to decide.

However, some people didn't accurately follow the instructions. Specifically, I wrote:

Your video must:

Contain "LuckyBit" or "luckyb.it", and "Bitcoin" and "Gambling" somewhere in the title and/or description

About half of you interpreted this to mean "all of these things in the title and description" which was acceptable. About half of you interpreted this as "one of the first things and one of the second things in the title and/or description" which was much closer to what I wrote. A few of you did not do this at all. Additionally, one video was four seconds too long. Therefore, I had to make some considerations as to how to qualify each video.

At first, I was going to strictly enforce the rule as originally stated but this eliminated some quality submissions on a technicality. This seems inappropriate, but as I continued to widen this net I found that many of the entries infracted a rule in one technical way or another, and therefore decided to instead grade all the videos on a points system, with penalties for infractions. This worked well and enabled me to determine a clear winner and set of runners-up. No video ended up being disqualified, but the penalties did shake up the leader boards. The winner was, essentially, the best video that followed all the rules.

I rated each video according to the criteria I said I would: Creativity, Entertainment value, and Suspense. I recognize that 2 minutes is not a lot of time to build suspense, and some of you managed to score fairly well even with a zero on one of these categories. Each score got a 1-10, then the scores were averaged to determine final score, then adjusted with penalties.

Enough with the chit-chat, you guys want to know who won! Well, okay, but first a couple honorable mentions. Three submissions were not prize-worthy, but stood out on their own regard, and are worth note here.

BoXXoB - For slapping it together in 45 minutes, you did a bang-up job. Damn near won a prize.
- C3 E7 S6 = 5.3
seoincorporation - Who says originality counts? This was nothing but vines, but still fun to watch.
- C0 E9 S6 = 5.0
MRKLYE - It was like evil HypnoToad, but for LuckyBit.
- C5 E5 S5 = 5.0

And now, the winners!

5th Place

Creativity: 5 Entertainment: 8 Suspense: 6
Average 6.3 - Penalties -0.3 = 6.0
beber456 - https://youtu.be/PsIqboTsB_Y

This was a fun submission to watch that really didn't deserve to be disqualified. However, I had to do it, and you were bumped to 5th place as a result.
You've won a silver wallet preloaded with 0.1BTC!

4th Place

Creativity: 7 Entertainment: 6 Suspense: 6
Average 6.3
erikalui - https://youtu.be/7L2hMOcR5VA

This was an all-around solid and creative entry that followed all the rules. On first watch, this was my early pick for the winner; but, you were just edged out by the competition. With a little more focus, you could have taken first.
You've won a silver wallet preloaded with 0.15BTC!

3rd Place

Creativity: 7 Entertainment: 9 Suspense: 3
Average 6.3
Avirunes - https://youtu.be/4Vq4G34qn7k

While this submission wasn't exactly suspense-filled, it was still a great watch and a very inspired idea that earns its prize.
You've won a silver wallet preloaded with 0.15BTC!

2nd Place

Creativity: 10 Entertainment: 8 Suspense: 6
Average 8.0 - Penalties 4x0.4 = -1.6 = 6.4
Joel_Jantsen - https://youtu.be/Ya2U809b_Xg

I'm impressed you managed to squeeze this video into two minutes. Still, your final product was four seconds over, and those four seconds mattered. If you could have found a way to trim it just a bit more, you would have handily won. Don't feel bad - I have no idea where those four seconds would have come from, either.
You've won a silver wallet preloaded with 0.25BTC!

1st place

Creativity: 7 Entertainment: 6 Suspense: 7
Average: 6.7
fugit00 - https://youtu.be/v7dnW8Usc3M

This submission was by no means spectacular in any category. In fact, it is remarkable in how unremarkable it is next to the others - it is a good submission, but it doesn't excel in any particular category. Ironically, this was the winning formula! The result was a video that was unique, fun to watch, and suspenseful enough to convey the experience without sacrificing anything along the way.
You've won a silver wallet preloaded with 0.5BTC! Congratulations!

Winners will receive a PM from TheNewAnon135246 within 48 hours. We have to co-ordinate, since he has the wallets but I have the bitcoins - be patient, please!

[NeilLostBitCoin]

Sad life.  Congrats to the winners!

[MRKLYE]

MRKLYE - It was like evil HypnoToad, but for LuckyBit.
- C5 E5 S5 = 5.0

lol. Well, I appreciate the mention!

[Joel_Jantsen]

Damn haha I actually won this! About the video time frame ,I could have easily cut off the 4 seconds but thought it would not matter as it has only the outro but rules are rules anyway ,hard luck! I still have the silver wallet which I always dreamt of! Thanks a lot for hosting this competitions and for all the participants for their wonderful entries.

[erikalui]

I did not imagine that I could win this competition. I knew about it since May but was not confident on making a video on Suspense as the genre. I submitted my video the last minute and made it the last day. Thanks a lot for choosing me as a winner. It's an honor for me.

[freshm4ker]

ohh my gosh .. bad quality for the winner of 1
video contest which is ridiculous, even visitors can judge the contestants apart from the quality of their video ..
I feel or even their judging this contest only sabotage lol
yes this is a contest luckybit with sabotage

[Vongola]

Yes, for me actually the second winner should won in first place. But you can see if he got penalties because his video didnt match with some criteria, so the final result hes on second place.

[Motivational]

ohh my gosh .. bad quality for the winner of 1
video contest which is ridiculous, even visitors can judge the contestants apart from the quality of their video ..
I feel or even their judging this contest only sabotage lol
yes this is a contest luckybit with sabotage

I Agree, sort of.


what u think about this one ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-VbQu8AC0

[ndnh]

ohh my gosh .. bad quality for the winner of 1
video contest which is ridiculous, even visitors can judge the contestants apart from the quality of their video ..
I feel or even their judging this contest only sabotage lol
yes this is a contest luckybit with sabotage

Why write so small.. I can barely read
/saracasm


FYI this is a contest, and those who are running a contest have the right to select its winners.

You can even read the score:
Creativity: 7 Entertainment: 6 Suspense: 7
Average: 6.7
It didn't get 10 or 9, so I think the decision is fair, even if your comment is taken into consideration.

[KenR]

ohh my gosh .. bad quality for the winner of 1
video contest which is ridiculous, even visitors can judge the contestants apart from the quality of their video ..
I feel or even their judging this contest only sabotage lol
yes this is a contest luckybit with sabotage[/color]

If you read the rules carefully,quality of the video did not matter but creativity,entertainment,sticking to the theme did.You're just jealous and butthurt because you did not win.You're ignorant ,I found that out from your previous posts and
the logo making contests you take part in.If you did not win you start abusing the contest system,shows what a big sort of loser your're.

I'd make an attempt to post in all the new contests in the forum to avoid your entries as you can't play by the rules.

[stingleword]

I'm glad I didn't lock this thread. Reading everyone's complaints was highly entertaining. The amount that I care about how people feel about my judging criteria and method is precisely equal to the amount of alt accounts I operate here on Bitcoin Talk:

None at all.

It was a 150 minute process, watching and re-watching, disqualifying then re-qualifying videos, then going back and determining what would be the fairest way to judge them, applying it as fairly as possible, going back over my results to ensure they were coherent and actually representative of the videos. I adjusted nearly every videos' scores along the path. The whole time there were people in LuckyBit chat begging me to hurry up with the results. I did not evaluate video quality. I did not judge videos based on who submitted them. I went over each video based on its content alone, and the results I got are the results I got. It was hard work, and I feel that the results I arrived at were as fair as possible.

So if you don't like the decisions I made, too bad. Don't enter next time. This contest cost you precisely zero bitcoins to participate in, so if you didn't win you didn't lose anything and therefore you have nothing to complain about. No entry was ever entitled to a prize, so I don't know why people came in here (and elsewhere!) to act like they were cheated.

That said, I'm now locking this thread because I am fairly sure that is the end of the complaints and there is no more purpose to leaving it open. If you're looking for more ways to win from LuckyBit, start at the LuckyBit Community Hub.