Zarxrax
12-11-2013, 04:51 PM
Update: The contest is now complete
1st place winner: adzman
2nd place winner: N.P.C.C.
3rd place winner: milleniummaster18

The original post remains below
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Now that the "Secret Santa" challenge is wrapped up, I want to announce a special contest that will begin once the video is released!

To recap, the Secret Santa (http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?27591) challenge involved editors placing a Santa Claus somewhere in their video. But will you be able to find all of the secret Santas? Many of them are incredibly easy, but a few may be fiendishly difficult!
The first 7 people who can spot all of the secret Santas and send me a private message with your answers will be entered into a drawing for some cool prizes!

Prizes
The grand prize is your choice of either: 3 Humble Bundles (https://www.humblebundle.com/) of your choice over the next 3 months / Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/) gifts of your choice valued up to $20 / A $20 Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/)gift certificate.
2nd and 3rd prize are both a Humble Bundle of your choice within the next 3 months.
And the remaining 4 people will have the option of receiving a complimentary $1 donation to the Humble Bundle, which will get you some (but not all) games in that bundle. (must be redeemed within 1 month)

How to enter:
After the video is released (see below for the release date), locate the Santa in each of the 18 clips. You will need to create a list consisting of 3 pieces of information: The video number, The timestamp you saw santa at (within +/- 1 second), and the area of the screen its on (for instance, "top left", "middle right", "center", etc.)
Your list might look something like this:

Video 1: 0:46 top right
Video 2: 1:02 bottom center
Video 3: 1:27 top left
and so on
Once you have found it in EVERY video, send your answers to me in a private message (http://www.amvhell.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=1).
After I have verified your answers to be correct, you will be entered into the drawing.

The first person to submit their answers will receive 3 entries in the contest!
The second person will receive 2 entries.
And the remaining 5 people will get 1 entry each, which will give us a pool of 10 entries altogether.
I will use a random number generator to select the winners.

Release date
Out now! http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?27651-AMV-Minis-Challenge-12-WATCH-amp-VOTE!

Sir Fluffykins
12-11-2013, 04:54 PM
Wow, I'm so in! Though I kinda own the Humble Bundles, so forfeit that prize straight away :D

N.P.C.C.
12-11-2013, 04:55 PM
Sounds outrageous! I'm down for this.

adzman
12-11-2013, 05:11 PM
http://i.imgur.com/F1NpoIP.png

Kaiju
12-11-2013, 05:43 PM
Challenge Accepted.

urahara1001
12-11-2013, 05:50 PM
Well now I wish I made mine harder to find. Oh well, what's done is done. At least I got one in.

Distict5-9
12-11-2013, 05:52 PM
Aaaw yeah! Sounds awesome, Zarx!

PrinnyCat
12-11-2013, 05:55 PM
Well looks like I'll be watching that video very closely

Guthix
12-11-2013, 08:36 PM
why

Moon Spirit
12-11-2013, 09:17 PM
Well, I may not be able to get the Humble Bundle due to my computer being a piece of obsolete tech, and me not having any tech know-how. But count me in if I can get that Amazon gift certificate!

SirLoinofBeef
12-12-2013, 05:47 AM
Well now I just feel silly for my entry. If I'd known we'd be turning it into a contest I would have made mine more of a challenge to spot.

We'll see how the final product turns out, though I really shouldn't be trying to add more games to my backlog. Already got that problem after the GOG.com sale.

Haar
12-12-2013, 09:42 AM
why

There are two ways for you to look at it.

1. It's Christmas and he wants to do something nice.

2. He wants to pay you to watch the new episode of AMV Minis.

I'm not seeing a downside here.

Gleeman
12-12-2013, 01:40 PM
http://i.imgur.com/F1NpoIP.png

This.

Random number generator? So, a 1d10 in other words...:D

Sir Fluffykins
12-12-2013, 02:56 PM
Now to work out EST to GMT

Zarxrax
12-12-2013, 03:15 PM
Well now I just feel silly for my entry. If I'd known we'd be turning it into a contest I would have made mine more of a challenge to spot.

Yea, I thought of this idea after the fact though, or else I might have made that more clear in the original challenge description.

SirLoinofBeef
12-12-2013, 05:20 PM
Yea, I thought of this idea after the fact though, or else I might have made that more clear in the original challenge description.

Eh, no harm done I guess. Should still be entertaining to watch.

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 12:57 AM
Just a heads up that the contest will be starting shortly.

SuperLoliSentai
12-18-2013, 12:59 AM
Someone is getting antsy

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 01:35 AM
Video is now live: http://www.amvhell.com/showthread.php?27651-AMV-Minis-Challenge-12-WATCH-amp-VOTE!

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 05:09 AM
We now have 7 entries in the contest.
I've not yet verified the answers, so it's possible (but unlikely) some of the entries might get disqualified, so feel free to keep sending in entries, but be aware that anything submitted after this point probably won't end up getting counted.

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 03:44 PM
Ok, here are the 7 successful entrants, in the order they submitted their answers!
Remember, the first person receives 3 entries, and 2nd person receives 2 entries.

1 milleniummaster18
2 milleniummaster18
3 milleniummaster18
4 Haar
5 Haar
6 N.P.C.C
7 Sir Fluffykins
8 adzman
9 zemoo
10 PrinnyCat


Good effort from LawReiLiet and Yojimbo23, who were both unfortunately not able to find the Santa in clip 15.
Also, just for the curious, clip 18 had TWO hidden Santas (but pointing out 1 of them was good enough)

I'll now be choosing the winners from the list above at random. Stay tuned below!

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 03:57 PM
I am using www.randomresult.com to generate a fair and impartial random choice for the winners.
The choices are being scheduled a few minutes in the future so its verifiable that I did not manipulate the result.

The first place winner is scheduled to be selected at 11:00am EST
http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=4482DRWWT

Update: The first place winner is adzman!
Please message me to select from the 3 available prizes.

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 04:04 PM
2nd place will be selected at 11:10am EST
http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=4483VXAMB

Update: 2nd place winner is N.P.C.C.

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 04:13 PM
And the 3rd place winner will be chosen at 11:20am EST
http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=4484RZ595

Update: 3rd place winner is milleniummaster18!

Zarxrax
12-18-2013, 04:26 PM
Alright, this concludes the contest, thank you everyone who participated!

Those who won a humble bundle can choose from either the Humble Bundle or Humble weekly sale that is available at https://www.humblebundle.com/
The games available change periodically, so if you don't like the options now you may just choose to wait.

N.P.C.C. & milleniummaster18 will have 3 months to make a selection. Then send me a private message with either your email, or the email of someone you would like to gift it to, and specify which currently available bundle you want.

Haar, Sir Fluffykins, zemoo, and PrinnyCat can make a selection within 1 month if you would like me to buy you a humble bundle for $1, which will get you some of the games in that bundle.

adzman
12-18-2013, 04:32 PM
http://i.imgur.com/bEsKOEI.gif

Sir Fluffykins
12-18-2013, 04:32 PM
Adzman!! Nuuuuuuuuuu!!

LawRayLiet
12-18-2013, 04:50 PM
Good effort from LawReiLiet and Yojimbo23, who were both unfortunately not able to find the Santa in clip 15.
Dammit Zark, every time.
Can anyone tell me where 15 was? You know, for closure.

N.P.C.C.
12-18-2013, 04:53 PM
Dammit Zark, every time.
Can anyone tell me where 15 was? You know, for closure.

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z372/NintendoPorn/vlcsnap-2013-12-18-10h52m04s174.png

Sir Fluffykins
12-18-2013, 04:58 PM
top left for a split second (then vanishes in the screen pan) when showing the pool

LawRayLiet
12-18-2013, 05:05 PM
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z372/NintendoPorn/vlcsnap-2013-12-18-10h52m04s174.png
Was using my phone for this episode, but still can't believe I missed that one. All that panning definitely upped the difficulty though.

PrinnyCat
12-18-2013, 05:34 PM
Congratulations :D

Distict5-9
12-18-2013, 06:21 PM
*Groan* Curse my different time zone...

Still, great job, everyone!

milleniummaster18
12-18-2013, 07:13 PM
Yay! :bzz:

Congratulations, everyone!

Stevie
12-20-2013, 07:02 AM
Grats to adzman, N.P.C.C., milleniummaster18, and other winners! :party: