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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Will there be a BIM 2013?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[^ He's right.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=FlyingMinifig]Just out of curiosity, who organized the previous TOY and Festival of Souls contests?

A horror-themed contest sounds interesting; perhaps one could get around having loads of comedy-themed entries by stipulating that the entry must be reasonably serious or must in some way deal with "serious" horror themes.[/quote]
Festival of Souls was run by Onion, who does not plan on running the contest again. TOY was an official BiM contest, so Smeagol was in charge of that]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Fun Sucker]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T16:35:16Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Just out of curiosity, who organized the previous TOY and Festival of Souls contests?

A horror-themed contest sounds interesting; perhaps one could get around having loads of comedy-themed entries by stipulating that the entry must be reasonably serious or must in some way deal with "serious" horror themes.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mr Vertigo]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T15:24:18Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote]I think the reason why it was so successful was...[/quote]

Because your popular...
and you have talent as a brickfilmer, I'm not very good, so when I put up a contest, nobody even payed attention to me.
(I don't have anything against you. I mean I'm a fan.)]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Legocloniac477]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T01:31:56Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Yeah.

My FoS 2 entry wasn't even scary, looking back upon it. Set in 1981, it's about a little boy who finds a beautiful bicycle in an alley. But, little does he know, it belongs to a mysterious psycho who's...looking for him. :o 

I should have delved deeper into the "horror" of the contest theme. Something more scary. But, like you said, Smeag, it's hard to make a chilling, horror brickfilm.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T00:44:19Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Running a good contest isn't that hard at all in my opinion. It just takes time, effort, and dedication. The first and only contest I've ever run was quite successful, gathering 30+ entries. Sure, there were some prizes, but they weren't super great (the most expensive prize cost me like $15 I think). I think the reason why it was so successful was it's theme and time constraints. Holiday contests seem to do especially well, as many people want to make holiday themed films already.

Most of the contests here on BiM appeal to me only for the fun of the game, not for any prizes that could be won. If you have an original and interesting concept for a contest... plan it well... and then manage it well... I'm sure it'll turn out good. Just don't rush into anything and make sure to invest time into it. I'm sure I'll run Christmas in a Minute again this year so long as my studies don't take up too much of my time.

[b]On a side note...[/b] will there be the Bricks in Motion awards for last year?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Repelling Spider]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T00:41:42Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[My beef with the horror contests we've had lately (and legogod's problem too if I recall) is that all the entries tend to be comedies, instead of attempting to seriously fit in the horror genre. It's a challenge in the LEGO medium for sure, but I don't think it's one unworthy of being attempted.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T00:39:05Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Sméagol]...though I hadn't liked the results of previous recent horror contests at the time.[/quote]

Like FoS. :/  Those were weird.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T00:34:27Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Squid]I wasn't interested in entering Kitchen sink because I don't like interactive videos.  They don't work very well, though, I guess they're a little bit interesting.
If I want an interactive adventure, I'll go play a video game.[/quote]

UHHH don't listen to me I'm just being stupid. I wrote my last post without looking back at the Kitchen Sink announcement, and I had honestly forgotten that it stipulated the entries be interactive in some capacity (I didn't run the contest, just sort of oversaw it), though the "try new things!" element was absolutely the intention behind it. I think your critiques are all pretty fair, and I do feel badly about talking legogod out of having BiM 2013 be a horror themed contest, though I hadn't liked the results of previous recent horror contests at the time.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T00:31:47Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Having joined a day after Topit, I agree. Avant-Garde seemed fun, and a lot of good videos came out of that contest. Squash's new contest--while hard to understand what he means exactly--will hopefully get some good entries. I hope lots of people enter that.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-26T00:26:32Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[^^ OH YEAH FINALLY A GOOD CONTEST HAPPENS but I will only have 10 days to animate if I enter that because I'm on a grand odyssey for most of the summer

Also I see what you are saying smeags but I have to agree with mr squid. But if I may say something, I (think I) joined BiM shortly after the avant garde competition, or maybe it was a video from that which convinced me to join. Anyway, I was extremely impressed with what came out of that contest and a bit dissapointed that I hadn't joined the site earlier to do that one. I don't remember how many people entered that but I feel like that was a pretty cool way to challenge people to try new things. Maybe, if more contest were like that one but the theme was more specific... Like that one contest where you couldn't use any sound. Themes like that make stuff interesting and challenging.
Also just off topic wondering, how many entrants on average would you say are needed to consider something successful?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[topit]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-25T18:59:38Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[If any of you didn't know, Squash recently put up a fun-looking contest. [url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/303749/#p303749]You should check it out.[/url]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-25T18:17:40Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[It was the same for me; as I really enjoy the technical side of animation, I want to see all the animation that someone has done when they release a film, so I end up frustrated trying to see all of the different videos involved in an interactive video. I was really excited for the official BiM contest, and was then disappointed when I saw it was an interactive adventure theme, because I just have no interest in making one; and I think a lot of other people were coming from the same place, just not interested in interactive videos.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[backyardlegos]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-25T17:27:32Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I wasn't interested in entering Kitchen sink because I don't like interactive videos.  They don't work very well, though, I guess they're a little bit interesting.
If I want an interactive adventure, I'll go play a video game.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Squid]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/3704/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-06-25T12:05:05Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=topitmunkeydog]Well honestly with that kitchen sink thing... I'm not quite sure what y'all were thinking. The theme for that contest seemed so obscure and niche that its no wonder only 8 people submitted. I don't know how many entrants there usually are, but TOY really seemed to have a good turn out.
Is festival of souls a BiM official thing or is it run by someone else?[/quote]

Festival of souls is not an official BiM thing.

The premise of Kitchen sink, I'd argue, was not obscure or niche, it essentially was a plea: "Try new things!" I've become tired of how same-ish almost all films posted on this site are, so whenever I can encourage people to try to think outside the box, I do -- we did this with the Avant-Garde theme and Kitchen Sink was essentially another twist on the same idea. I'll certainly accept the blame for both themes; neither of them were very popular, and I did intentionally put TOY in between them because it was a more straightforward theme.

That said, Kitchen Sink did seem to alienate people. I don't know if that's because we communicated our intent with that contest poorly, or simply because many brickfilmers don't like to think outside the box and are intimidated by the challenge of a contest that asks for innovation. Hoping it was just my mismanagement of it. I fear it is the latter.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-06-25T06:31:38Z</updated>
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