Why is everyone trying to start a contest? We've got Septemberfest and The Festival of Souls running officially, which is enough. I think there's some sort of mercenary one going on and maybe one more. What's wrong with waiting a month or two to start your own?

This doesn't sound too bad, but yeah - we already have enough going on right now. Maybe in November/December? Or maybe Spring?

-MRB

I'm entering Festival of Souls, sorry.

Do you know what's good about the 3 contests all at once?

1) Easier to win a prize.

2) You can enter the contest with the theme which suits you.

De fragmenting your computer will not fix it, it only organizes computer files to make the computer work faster. As for the contest, it has a bad timing, though at least it has prizes, not like EddieHasscle's contest. I will not be entering this though, I am entering (hopefully) the Mercenary contest.

Brickfilmer a decade ago, now looking to relive the glory days

Stay on topic about the contest, please...

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LSP please put this off till November. It will be in everybody's best interest too since with a ton of competitions going. Don't get me wrong because I would like to enter too.

-Tejas VIM

This "lesser-known member starting a contest even though there were already four or five going on" trend needs to stop. Now.

You'll be lucky to get three entries, as people say they'll enter things all the time and then never do. And with BiM's top tier of directors already entering one of the other contests, I doubt your winning film will become the next internet phenomenon. The lack of traffic this contest will generate for your sponsor, coupled with the likely less-than-stellar quality of the winning film, will make it unlikely that they'll associate with BiM again (at least, not $95 worth of association).

Forgive my annoyance, but at this point I find it hard to believe that all these contests (there have to be 10 or more by now) were all in the works at the same time. People are seeing other members start contests and being inspired to start their own, which in turn inspires more members, and so on. The result is a catch-22 that ends up doing nothing but alienate potential sponsors and water down the achievement of winning a BiM contest to the point where it's practically meaningless.

That said... good luck. I hope this contest generates a string of brilliant entries. I just know better than to expect that.

- Noodle

I'm entering this for sure now.  This thread just got pinned as next to illegal!  I'm living on the edge baby!