I will continue the discussion in this new topic, as the OP closed the other one so nobody else could complain (
original topic).
There were 80 entries and there can only be 10 winners unfortunately. The admins chose the winners and the winners are final. Better luck next time
What an unfair contest.
Not only they took 2 more days than planned to announce the winners (which would have been fine, if they at least gave prior notice about that, and they didn't), but most of the winners' entries simply have horrible quality. There were many good videos and images than didn't win anything, and they were way better than the works of the actual winners.
But that's not the worst thing here, the worst thing is that most of the winners didn't meet all the requirements for the contest. If you are going to set rules, you can at least follow them and not give prizes to those that didn't follow the contest's rules.
These are the rules:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53138108They wanted "original" content, and the first place is a video template, great!
The videos had to last between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, and there were winners with less than 30 seconds and more than 5 minutes.
And there were also some required text to put in the title and description of the videos, and some of the winners didn't do that.
Full list:
- 1st place: Made with a video template, it's not original. It doesn't say "Gambling" in the description.
- 3rd place: Made with an image template, it's not original.
- 6th place: More than 5 minutes. It doesn't say "Gambling" in the description.
- 7th place: It doesn't say "Gambling" in the description.
- 8th place: Less than 30 seconds.
- 9th place: Made with a video template, it's not original. It doesn't say "Gambling" in the description.
So, 6 out of 10 entries didn't follow the rules, wow.
Besides all of this, a couple of the winners clearly used multiaccounts to boost their likes and comments, nice.
Next time you make a contest, follow your own rules Bitsler, it's not that hard, I did all the rule checks of the winners in 5 minutes. You took 2 extra days for that, so we can at the very least expect that all the winners followed the rules.
I don't expect to change the results with this post or whatever, I just wanted to say how unfair and poorly ran the contest was.
Many spent several hours editing nice videos or creating great images, and they also followed the rules, so next time don't waste our time with your unfair contests, follow your own rules.