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Official Talent Contest Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:04 pm
by bitWISE
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 13th at 11:59 EST

Submission Guidelines: To submit a file send me a PM for FTP access to my web server.

Before uploading, please be sure to utilize a decent amount of compression on your videos and jpegs. Also, try to use a standard video format such as WMV or Divx. If you're uploading a program, please zip the entire folder or build a single-file installer. When you upload, make sure to label the file with your username and just add numbers to each additional file (bitwise.mp3, bitwise2.mp3).

Contest Guidelines: This contest is about being creative, having fun, and sharing your talent with the community. Feel free to write a song, write a story, sing, play an instrument, create some artwork, juggle, dance, create a fun little computer game, or anything else that requires a bit of talent or creativity. Before making the submissions public I will be disabling the FTP login and screening each file so please don't waste my time with gay porn or a video of you taking a shit...

Categories: These will depend on what is submitted but there are several starting categories you can win already. Currently no rewards are planned but perhaps we could bring back the "Co-Driving Champion" style avatars.
1) Best overall submission
2) Most comedic submission
3) Best serious submission
4) Worst submission

Judging: The contest will be judged by all members of Q3W. Judging will take place the week following the 13th and no votes will be accepted after April 20th at 11:59 EST. Voting will take place in separate thread that will be created on April 14th, containing a link and description for each submission.

Sign Ups: Sign up by replying to this thread with an general description of what you plan to do. Please keep this thread clean and make any unnecassary posts in here.

I will probably be refining these rules as the contest progresses or things need to be clarified.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:05 pm
by bitWISE
I will be attempting to play a popular song on my guitar. Which song I choose will depend on how much my skill level improves over the next few weeks.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:11 pm
by CaseDogg
imma try to do something but im not sure what yet seeing as how my "gay porn" option has been shot down.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:25 pm
by seremtan
there goes my "real man lays monster pipe" movie too :(

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:14 pm
by R00k
I'm in. I'll Probably play a song on the guitar.

Or maybe I'll build something.....

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:01 am
by tnf
I'll do my Tiger Woods impression where I juggle the golf ball with my lob wedge and then hit it.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:32 am
by diego
I'll post a guitar solo I played several years ago.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:42 pm
by bitWISE
Doombrain wrote:what about my missus fucking me?
Is she hot? :drool:
diego wrote:I'll post a guitar solo I played several years ago.
I was going to say new material only but fuck it, go ahead and post it. Perhaps you could replay it and see how much better you've gotten?

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:56 pm
by diego
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:*out of contest*
;)
bitWISE wrote:I was going to say new material only but fuck it, go ahead and post it. Perhaps you could replay it and see how much better you've gotten?
I'm not sure if I want to setup another recording, but hell, I might :D

era era

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:36 pm
by Grandpa Stu
count me in. i'll either do some artwork or live mix or something. mebe i'll do some q3 trickjumping :p

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:42 pm
by Captain
Maybe I'll post some clips of my hockey. Or art. Or maybe a new video.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:41 pm
by feedback
I'm in if we can submit something we've done recently.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:19 pm
by andyman
hmm... what am i good at.

when i think of something i'll do it

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:24 pm
by Silicone_Milk
If I get it done in time I'll be submitting my conversion of the Q3A engine from C to C++

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:32 pm
by bitWISE
Silicone_Milk wrote:If I get it done in time I'll be submitting my conversion of the Q3A engine from C to C++
Excellent

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:07 am
by ScooterG
I will attempt to finish the cashmere shrug I've been working on for the past year.... I'll post a pic when done....

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:38 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
andyman wrote:hmm... what am i good at.

when i think of something i'll do it
make a dashboard video of you driving through residential streets at 120 mph

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:20 pm
by andyman
ooo i know... any flip trick in a car that is done in crackdown should be done with the rc car! lemme see if it still starts

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:30 pm
by andyman
andyman wrote:ooo i know... any flip trick in a car that is done in crackdown should be done with the rc car! lemme see if it still starts
ok. The car has no gas, and I think it has an old glow plug so I'll get some new stuff for it. The glow plug igniter and radio batteries are being charged right now. I need to clean up all the dirt on it, but it should still work.

I better go to work right now and solder the antenna back together. it is twisted to itself right now :D

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:57 pm
by Tsakali_
if I knew about this around 3 weeks ago I would have taken a video of a 6inch clay person I made of a 70 year old cupid all weatherd out and abandoned crouching over with a suspicious look at something behind him...his wings are all chopped up and his limbs are mangled. It was my first attempt at making a sculpture...pretty cool too as I first made the muscles and then dressed it with skin.

my fucking dog got to it and raped it pretty good, now it looks more like a ancient discovery put together from 30 diff. pieces.

I would attempt to make another but I'm thinking this clay I chose is not the best for this, it's very difficult to put fine detail on a substance so britle

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:17 am
by mrd
I'm in. My submission will be an improvised song.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:48 pm
by plained
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
diego wrote:I'll post a guitar solo I played several years ago.
*out of contest*
HAha

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:47 pm
by mrd
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
mrd wrote:I'm in. My submission will be an improvised song.
ha.
:olo:
Whassa matta?

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:31 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
a whole SONG improvised? or a solo? i mean, that's some serious talent if you can compose a a whole song spontaneously.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:30 pm
by mrd
A song, yeah. It's not a very complex song, but I think it's a pretty neat little ditty. I just laid down a repeating drum track, improvised some rhythm tracks, then solo'd over top of it.