Hi everybody!

Here we are again. Through the next several weeks, we will be celebrating the amazing videos & prints that the Zooppa community has created during 2010.

It was a crazy year. We have SOOOOOO much incredible content.

And we will be using the Best of Zooppa USA contest to highlight the best of the best.

We will be uploading the contest content the week of December 20, and will push the contest live on December 23.

Between December 23 and Jan 14th, there will be a process by which the Zooppa community can nominate any videos or prints that they think should be considered for the Best of Zooppa USA competition. On Jan 21, Zooppa staff will take these suggestions into consideration, and will post the videos & prints we agree were overlooked in our first assessment.

On Jan 21, the competition will be opened for voting. Please see the brief for the rest of the schedule.

Please use this forum thread to discuss the best of Zooppa competition.

How/Where do we make our nominations? Has the opening date for this contest been moved back?

Curious to know what the scoop is on this contest. It doesn’t seem to be following the schedule outlined at all.

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Curious to know what the scoop is on this contest. It doesn’t seem to be following the schedule outlined at all.

We’re busted.

Yes, this contest has been moved back.

We’re having this stupid problem with video thumbnails. In order to make this contest go, we had to download & reupload all the contestant videos & prints. But with our thumbnail problem, none of the videos has thumbnails.

I think I’ll just launch the contest, and let the original creators know that they can upload thumbnails manually.

It’s lame because who wants to play a video without a thumbnail?

But anyway, I’ll launch it, and we can figure out the thumbnails & nomination process later.

Josh

Hi all-

So, because of the glitch in the thumbnail generation process, we lost a lot of time for the Best of Zooppa competition.

And because of this loss of time, we had to nix the nominations idea.

I really wanted to have this nominations process, to involve the community more.

But you can still vote – we’re going to display Zooppa Staff’s top ten as well as the community favorite top 10, so your participation still counts.

Hope everyone has fun with this one. It’s quite a showcase of work. Zooppa is incredibly proud of the work the community has done.

Thanks,

Josh

hi, anyone knows about the first 10 in the print best of zooppa usa contest what will get? any seniority or special feature? cheers

Hi umbcisk-

Interesting idea!

I just wrote to our development team to see if it might be possible to give the winners a bump in seniority as a prize.

- of course, with the new seniority algorithm, people may still lose seniority if they don’t continue to participate (you can lose seniority if you don’t vote for others’ work).

And of course, this wouldn’t be a benefit to those who are already seniors.

I’ll let you know what happens!

Josh

where are published the best in the contest

Hi All-

So. We’ve been crazy busy here at Zooppa USA HQ. And we haven’t had enough time to come to conclusions for the Best of Zooppa USA contest.

I’m really sorry about this. Promise this will get sorted out next week.

But we do have some awesome new competitions for you, so hopefully that helps.

The Cold Shower Challenge and the Buick Human Highlight Reel competitions launched this week, and I have a feeling people are going to have a great time with those.

However – I know that people are into the Best of Zooppa, because I can see how much interaction the contest has generated. So we will get this sorted out.

Thanks for patience!

Josh

When will the print ad awards be announced?

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When will the print ad awards be announced?

Hey there,

The ability to assign awards on our end is currently acting wonky! We’ve sent in a ticket to get it fixed asap. We want to make this as legit as possible so once we get that fixed we’ll be announcing post haste!

Thanks,
Manny

Hey Everyone!

The awards have been assigned! Check out all 80 winners here!

Thanks to all for participating!

Manny

Resurrecting an old thread but does anybody know what the “Special Prizes” were?

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Resurrecting an old thread but does anybody know what the “Special Prizes” were?

What does it mean Special Prize ?!?