THF Montage Competition Winners [History]

"Best Movie" award voting and seeding:
The judges grade the videos on the category criteria, which adds up to a total average score of the video. On that score we list the videos from best (1) through worst graded which we will use as the source for our seeds. This will insure that the best videos will not eliminate each other early on, and each heat is fairly proportional to each other. After each video is organized into their heats, voting will take place just as it did in the last competitions; the top half will move on to the next round.

How to win a sub category?
Now you may have asked yourself, "How do I win a sub category award?" And that is where the judges come in! Judges will be discussing and doing voting of their own to decide the winner of every sub category. Judges MAY enter videos but they will not be eligible for any sub category awards.

JUDGES

Klima
Titanium
ZoLA
Atiemark
Hyena 
Havey
terv (Lil Payn3)

HOW TO ENTER/RULES/RECOMMENDATIONS

Unlike previous competitions there will be NO ENTRY FEE, it is completely free to enter as many videos as you'd like.
You are allowed to enter any type of Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach and Halo 4 video with the criteria being that the video must be of a compilation/montage fashion (so jumptages: yes, machinema's: no). Each video entry must have the official logo or animation in the intro of the video. 

Logo:
Spoiler! 
You can reshape and modify the logo as you please (as long as it is clearly recognizable and the text is readable).

Animation:
Intro animation by Atiemark:

Spoiler! 

Registering your entry: 
We may not see every entry or remember 100% of them until the end, please register your entry by following the guidelines in THIS THREAD. We'll keep an up to date list on all entries there. This is the ONLY way to enter the competition.

Deadline:
The deadline for this contest is Friday, January 2nd 2014 midnight PST.
We want everyone to have a fair go at this so we're giving a solid time frame which shouldn't give people already involved in a project too big of an advantage.

Download link:
Adding a download link is highly recommended, not only can people appreciate your work in the best quality, it also helps us and others to upload it to their youtube channels and help it reach a wider audience. Every contest contender (who provides a download link)will get their video uploaded to the THF youtube channel. 

DONATIONS

We don't have a sponsor like Z used to, this is all out of pocket. And with this competition having no entry fee, any donations, cash or XBL 1 months etc. are much appreciated to help reward people's hard work. We have a central paypal account THFHMC@hotmail.com, anything else please contact Klima, ohem, slater ohm via PM.

http://www.halo2forum.com/halo-videos/413201-thf-summer-editing-contest-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=BXADxg9jiws&x-yt-cl=8...

I'm glad to finally announce the second THF Editing Contest! 

Last years contest had a huge turn out with a ton of great entries which is why I wanted to start up a second contest. We got a lot of edits that we wouldn't of otherwise seen, and this time there is a twist! You can use your own angles!

Since capping your own angles is allowed I ask you guys to be open to capping for other people that don't have their own capture cards because they are at a disadvantage here. 

Clips and Angles Are Now UP
Spoiler! 


How do you Cap your own angles?
- send a friends request to "THF CLIPS"
- view the profile and then view the fileshare to download all the clips

Prizes:

Will receive $100
Will receive a 1 year gold membership
Will receive a 1 month, Subbox and a THF Channel upload. (1 and 2 receive the subbox and a THF upload.)

*YOU MUST HAVE A VALID PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO RECEIVE THE CASH PRIZE
General Rules:

Must only use clips from the download link with the exception of angles, you can use your own angles.
Have an active subscription to THF's Youtube Channel.
Submit by August 15th, 2013.
Must have THF Summer Editing Contest logo somewhere in the intro.
Entries have to be 30 seconds or longer
SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY AS A VIDEO RESPONSE TO THE PROMO VIDEO
One entry per person.

Extra Information:
The winners voted on by the community via heats at TheHaloForum.com
Once the deadline is over all entries will be added to an official playlist on the THF Channel
 

http://www.halo2forum.com/halo-videos/399035-thf-summer-editing-contest....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85114404&v=k2j6DCLUPWw&x-yt-ts=142...

The THF Channel is proud to announce a Mini Editing Contest. Clips provided by TranQ and prizes sponsored by Havey! Also thanks to Charlii for the idea, let's keep our active community brainstorming for ideas like this in the future.

We want as many people to take part in this contest so please do your best to spread the word!

Download Clips
Spoiler! 
D3volv3r is the man. 



Prizes:

Will receive a 1 month gold membership and a $25 cash prize
Will receive a 1 month gold membership
Subbox and THF Channel upload. (1 and 2 recieve this as well.)

General Rules:

Must only use clips from the download link. However that doesn't mean all clips have to be in your video.
Have an active subscription to THF's Youtube Channel.
Submit by June 25th, 2012.
Must have THF Summer Editing Contest logo somewhere in the intro. There is also an optional 3d intro by skols that you can use instead.
Entries must in a timeline between 45 and 90 seconds, (0:45 - 1:30)
SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY AS A VIDEO RESPONSE TO THE PROMO VIDEO
One entry per person.

If you don't stay within these marks after the deadline, will your video get disqualifed.

Extra Information:

Voting will be hosted at TheHaloforum.com with a tally system
Once the deadline is over all entries will be added to an official playlist on the THF Channel

Contacts:
You can pm anyone that runs the THF channel if you have questions

Wingless
AIM: wingless owns

Thomasxp5
AIM: H2VThomas

Valid/submitted entries can be found in the announcement video as responsed videos.
http://www.youtube.com/video_respons...?v=k2j6DCLUPWw

http://www.halo2forum.com/videos/180831-halo3forum-com-halo-3-montage-co...

Rules: Montage must contain 60%+ Halo 3 footage. Montage must be submitted to me on aim or PM before releasing it to public. It must be hosted/announced on Halo3Forum.com for it to qualify.

Prize: TBA

Deadline: May 1st (Might be changed later on)

Any questions or concerns will be answered in this thread. Try to keep your montage under 250mb. If you pair up and do a DualTage or TriTage or w/ever, make sure you figure out who will get the prize money, 

http://www.halo2forum.com/videos/163842-montage-contest-6-contestants-pr...

Only 20 contestants will be chosen for the contest. I will have a team of 6 people to go through the montages and pick 20 montages. The list of montages will be updated in this thread. They might be changed around until Oct 31st (the deadline to submit the montage).

Prize pool is $1000.

1st place: $500
2nd place: $250
3rd place: $100
4th place: $75
5th place: $75

Don't ask me who the 6 members are.
 

http://www.thehaloforum.com/videos/77826-montage-contest-5-ann-3-1500-pr...

After the great success of Montage Contest 4, we decided to have a quick summer contest for the editors. However, our new sponsors wanted to make sure that the Contest 5 gets enough attention to attract more users and encourage more players to do their best for their montage!

I am proud to announce our new sponsor: SwitchDiscs.com - You might have heard about them as they were reviewed by many major online magazine sites giving them props for their concept.

Taken directly from their site:

Quote:

SwitchDiscs is a new and exciting way for people to switch their old dvds, cds and video games to get the ones they want, for free. Start enjoying more great movies, music and games then ever before. The best part…everything is free!!

Join SwitchDiscs.com here for free....Just don't trade off your Halo disc   

SwitchDiscs.com and I have agreed that the prize poll for H2F Montage Contest 5 is:


$1500

The biggest prize ever given in history of Halo Montages!
I have not decided how the prize will be distributed among how many winners, but the 1st place winner will get AT LEAST $700. More info on that and other info such as the deadline will be available in a few weeks.

http://www.thehaloforum.com/complete-off-topic/34934-montage-contest-4-h...

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After the great success of Contest 3, GameSloth.com (our sponsor) and I had a serious discussion whether or not to have a 4th contest. After talking for hours, we finally came to the conclusion that we will have the contest and we want to take it to the level NO Halo site can ever imagine!

The biggest, baddest & the most exciting montage contest of ALL Time will be the H2F Exclusive Montage Contest 4 with $1000 up for grabs! So think twice before you get your montage hosted on some other site......

More details will be given in the next few weeks

- the contest will be held around April
- it will be H2F Exclusive ONLY!

http://www.halo2forum.com/halo-videos/19493-h2f-montage-contest-3-announ...

This is the first official announcement on the December Montage Contest. This will answer most of the questions that all of you have. Instead of making you read my boring thread, I'll just make this a simple FAQ thread. 

How do I enter my montage?

 

Your montage MUST be hosted/sponsored by Halo2Forum.com. This is a contest for H2F members ONLY, so if you're planning on making montage for this contest & it's hosted elsewhere, forget it.

And NO, you can't have your montage hosted on a different site and give us the same montage with our credits as the H2F version. If it's not hosted by us and US ONLY, sorry, tell that other host to make a montage contest and give a 360

When will you start accepting montages?


 

I will start accepting montages from November 5th to Nov. 30th. You have to submit your montage on AIM:ZEE10101



If the montage is already hosted, then no need to send the montage again on AIM, you just have to give the link to the montage in the video section.

What should I include in my montage? Any recommendation?

These are the types of montages that will get more votes:

Hi-Res > Lo-Res montages
MLG+MM > only MM montages
Music Sync > non synced
Video Effects > Non effects (be careful, don't overedit it)
4-5:30 mins is the best time frame for montages
Try not to have too many single kill clips

What else will increase my chance of winning?


 

Based on previous experiences, normally, people vote because the maker of the montage is part of the forum and is active. Even though your montage might be better than others, the other guy might win just because people like him more. I suggest you try to be mature on the forum and remain a little active, trust me, will make a BIG difference!

When will votings begin and end?

Votings being December 1st and will end around Dec. 20th

Can anyone just sign up and vote?

No, we will have a strict voting so that only active members can vote. And no, I'm not telling you how many posts or when you have to join to be able to vote. All I can say now is, show up on H2F few times a week and post a little.

How many montages will be entered

10, 20, 50, 100, who knows, this all depends on how many GOOD montages are submitted

What do I get if my montage wins?

$400 cash. We have not decided if 2nd and 3rd place winners will get anything.

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If you have any questions, reply here, but remember, no need to go "omg can't wait"

Ok, here's what's going on. Our video section's programming is finished and I have to manually enter each video with description and everything which takes FOREVER!!!!!

But anyways, I expect to finish it up by Monday. Thus, we will have votings for the contest beginning September 1st (I promise, no more extentions, this is the final one)

People who submitted their montages to be in the competition will need to submit again!

If you want to submit your montage, just know that your competition is Dymdez, Vrbas, HaloGod, Titan VIII types of montages. If yours is half as good as theirs, don't submit, it won't make it.

In the next few days, I will let you know how we will do the votings which is an unique concept which I think will work much better. I will explain that in a week or so. I am still accepting montages for another week, but once again, don't submit if they are not on the same level of entertainment as the above four.
Contest FAQs:

1. Does the montage has to be sponsored by Halo2Forum?
Answer: NO, anyone can host the montage and still submit their vid. to me

2. When is the last day to submit?
Answer: August 27th

3. When will the voting begin?
Answer: September 1st

4. Where do I submit my montage?
Answer: To Z on AIM: ZEE10101

5. When will we know which videos were entered in the contest?
Answer: No one will know which videos are entered until voting begins.

6. How many videos will there be for the contest?
Answer: From 5-20 videos

7. What is the prize for the winner?
Answer: 1st place receives $100, no second prize!

8. Who can submit their montage?
Answer: Anyone, including Rippon, Walka, Ogres, ANYONE!!!

Montage Contest Thread: http://www.halo2forum.com/showthread.php?t=3494

First Montage Contest | Halo 2 Forum

Video Contest is on it's way. Click Here to vote.

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1st Prize winner:
$40 cash + you get to play 1v1 against Rippon on Lockout MLG style

2nd Prize winner:
$20 cash

3rd Prize winner:
$10 cash

Good Luck!

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