Machinima Competition Cast Your Votes!
September 4th, 2009
The RuneScape Machinima Competition judges were this week faced with the tough challenge of reviewing all the entries and deciding which of the 1,000+ mini movies should place in the top five. Thirty-four hours of non-stop video, litres of coffee and a few discussions later, the judges came out of their bunker, braved the sunlight and held aloft the six videos (it was too hard to handpick five) that they unanimously agreed to be their favourites.
Now its the turn of the RuneScape community to use this weeks player poll to decide which of the six finalists should win the grand prize. The poll will run for seven days, after which time well announce the winner!
You can view the finalists in one of two ways. You can either find them on our favourites list on our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/runescape ), or you can check them out by cutting and pasting the video links contained in the polls into your browser (we recommend opening the links in a new tab/window to avoid having to log out, and back into, the polls module).
Although weve had to settle on just six finalists, we fought over quite a few others. To see a selection of our favourites, weve created a new playlist on www.youtube.com/runescape called How We Lolled.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition for making it such a great success. We cant wait to launch the next competition!
A Song by bumbum007
My RuneScape Machinima Competition Entry by Mommakitty2
Video Ideas by Excl
Linedancing by Jinsr44
Mithril Sword Fight by Arrow Gun 99
Gnarlie and the Gaming Factory by KKcomics
We hope you enjoyed watching all six finalists! You may be wondering why we chose these six over the others, and we're happy to tell you why:
A song by bumbum007: We received loads of RSMVs, but none featured anyone with such a big mouth. We chose this video for the lyrics, the original songwriting, the energy and bumbum007's ability to cram a song lyric into the smallest gap.
My RuneScape Machinima Competition entry by Mommakitty2: If we had televisions in RuneScape then Momma_Kitty has a pretty good idea of what we'd be watching. This video made the finals thanks to the massive range of parodies thrown into what is a very entertaining two-minute video.
Video Ideas by Excl: What do you do if you've already made hundreds of RS machinima videos? You make a video about trying to come up with an idea for a video, of course! Excl's movie has great vocal talent and gives us a window into how he goes about deciding what to make next.
Line dancing by Jinsr44: We're no fans of line-dancing - or Michael Flatley - but Jinsr may have turned that around with this brilliantly choreographed linedance-a-thon around RuneScape, complete with flashing skillcapes. Double win!
Mithril sword fight by Arrow Gun 99: Never has a fight over a free mithril sword resulted in such venom! Levitating furniture and crates being thrown through portals all feature in Arrow gun 99's exuberant fight sequence that's left us looking forward to the inevitable sequel.
Gnarlie and the Gaming Factory by KKcomics: We can't comment on the accuracy of KKcomics representation of the judging process, but the competition is sure to find that out! We chose this video as it really made us laugh and had great timing. The fact that Mark is depicted sitting on a throne with a trapdoor lever and a green party hat had nothing to do with it.
Mod Paul M
Community Management
Now its the turn of the RuneScape community to use this weeks player poll to decide which of the six finalists should win the grand prize. The poll will run for seven days, after which time well announce the winner!
You can view the finalists in one of two ways. You can either find them on our favourites list on our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/runescape ), or you can check them out by cutting and pasting the video links contained in the polls into your browser (we recommend opening the links in a new tab/window to avoid having to log out, and back into, the polls module).
Although weve had to settle on just six finalists, we fought over quite a few others. To see a selection of our favourites, weve created a new playlist on www.youtube.com/runescape called How We Lolled.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition for making it such a great success. We cant wait to launch the next competition!
A Song by bumbum007
My RuneScape Machinima Competition Entry by Mommakitty2
Video Ideas by Excl
Linedancing by Jinsr44
Mithril Sword Fight by Arrow Gun 99
Gnarlie and the Gaming Factory by KKcomics
We hope you enjoyed watching all six finalists! You may be wondering why we chose these six over the others, and we're happy to tell you why:
A song by bumbum007: We received loads of RSMVs, but none featured anyone with such a big mouth. We chose this video for the lyrics, the original songwriting, the energy and bumbum007's ability to cram a song lyric into the smallest gap.
My RuneScape Machinima Competition entry by Mommakitty2: If we had televisions in RuneScape then Momma_Kitty has a pretty good idea of what we'd be watching. This video made the finals thanks to the massive range of parodies thrown into what is a very entertaining two-minute video.
Video Ideas by Excl: What do you do if you've already made hundreds of RS machinima videos? You make a video about trying to come up with an idea for a video, of course! Excl's movie has great vocal talent and gives us a window into how he goes about deciding what to make next.
Line dancing by Jinsr44: We're no fans of line-dancing - or Michael Flatley - but Jinsr may have turned that around with this brilliantly choreographed linedance-a-thon around RuneScape, complete with flashing skillcapes. Double win!
Mithril sword fight by Arrow Gun 99: Never has a fight over a free mithril sword resulted in such venom! Levitating furniture and crates being thrown through portals all feature in Arrow gun 99's exuberant fight sequence that's left us looking forward to the inevitable sequel.
Gnarlie and the Gaming Factory by KKcomics: We can't comment on the accuracy of KKcomics representation of the judging process, but the competition is sure to find that out! We chose this video as it really made us laugh and had great timing. The fact that Mark is depicted sitting on a throne with a trapdoor lever and a green party hat had nothing to do with it.
Mod Paul M
Community Management