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I've been watching frags videos for a while, and I've watched a lot of amazing videos. From UT, to Quake, to CS. Sure, the games can be questionable, but I've seen some amazing videos that I can re-watch over and over again.
I really wanted to give back to the people making the frag videos. Some of these artists are amazing, the way they sync the video with the audio, the way the audio is used, the cinematics, everything. After watching Trixo, I definitely felt that something needed to be done.
I had an idea. I had an idea for a side event at Quakecon. People would submit videos for recommendation, and voting would start. Votes would be tallied online, and the day before Quakecon, be counted. Two categories; defrag and frag. After votes are tallied, and on the 2nd last day of Quakecon (before the finals) all 3 would be shown in the finals room on projectors. Each would be 10 minutes, so about an hour. After, winners would be announced, and there would be cash prizes.
Both casuals and competitive could watch, and enjoy the top frag and defrag movies.
I presented the idea to someone at ID, which he took and presented to people higher up.
No go.
So, I'm here to ask some suggestions. I still want to give back to the movie makers, so it looks like I'll need to do it on my own.
I have some questions. Since this is community driven, it needs to satisfy the communities. I come here with a set of questions that I hope you guys can answer honestly.
- Should we allow previously released frag videos, or require the movie makers to make new videos for this contest?
- If they're new ones, do we do a time limit?
- Do you want the categories split? Defrag and Frag? Or just have one or the other?
- How much would be appropriate for cash prizes? $1000/1st, $500/2nd, $250/3rd? Is that an acceptable prize purse? Hardware?
- What about voting? Is online voting good enough? Better method to prevent cheating?
- What about the voting process? (eg: Videos are recommended, then top get put into a voting pool)
- Do we do an online premiere? Maybe something on uStream to announce the winners?
Any extra idea or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I hope to run it this summer, maybe into the fall.
Thanks! =D
I really wanted to give back to the people making the frag videos. Some of these artists are amazing, the way they sync the video with the audio, the way the audio is used, the cinematics, everything. After watching Trixo, I definitely felt that something needed to be done.
I had an idea. I had an idea for a side event at Quakecon. People would submit videos for recommendation, and voting would start. Votes would be tallied online, and the day before Quakecon, be counted. Two categories; defrag and frag. After votes are tallied, and on the 2nd last day of Quakecon (before the finals) all 3 would be shown in the finals room on projectors. Each would be 10 minutes, so about an hour. After, winners would be announced, and there would be cash prizes.
Both casuals and competitive could watch, and enjoy the top frag and defrag movies.
I presented the idea to someone at ID, which he took and presented to people higher up.
No go.
So, I'm here to ask some suggestions. I still want to give back to the movie makers, so it looks like I'll need to do it on my own.
I have some questions. Since this is community driven, it needs to satisfy the communities. I come here with a set of questions that I hope you guys can answer honestly.
- Should we allow previously released frag videos, or require the movie makers to make new videos for this contest?
- If they're new ones, do we do a time limit?
- Do you want the categories split? Defrag and Frag? Or just have one or the other?
- How much would be appropriate for cash prizes? $1000/1st, $500/2nd, $250/3rd? Is that an acceptable prize purse? Hardware?
- What about voting? Is online voting good enough? Better method to prevent cheating?
- What about the voting process? (eg: Videos are recommended, then top get put into a voting pool)
- Do we do an online premiere? Maybe something on uStream to announce the winners?
Any extra idea or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I hope to run it this summer, maybe into the fall.
Thanks! =D
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