2007 Highlight Reel Contest - The Winners

A sincere thank you to everyone who submitted a video and everyone who voted. For those who won a huge congratulations, for those who didnt, I assure you everyone in the ultimate community appreciates your contributions. Aside from that I promise you will cherish the videos for years to come as you remember your high school years.

Unfortunately we couldnt give prizes to everyone, what with there being 11 submissions so without further ado the winners...

In the category of people's choice, with more than 600 votes cast in total the winners are...

3rd place - Video #2 by Montour's Allen Peng
Prize: A University of Pittsburgh Men's Ultimate "En Sabah Nur" Disc

2nd place - Video #3 by Needham's Branden Steinberg
Prize: A copy of the Wildwood 13 DVD from Discfilms.com

1st place - Video #1 by Watchung Hills' Brian Li and Jacob Katzen
Prize: A copy of the 2006 WJUC DVD from UltiVillage


In the category of editor's choice, selected by the contributors to PlayUltimate..

3rd place - Video #9 by Churchill's Christine Wilson
Prize: A University of Pittsburgh Women's Ultimate "Danger" Disc

2nd place - Video #4 by Churchill's Dylan Freechild
Prize: Any 8x10 or 8x12 print from UltimateFris.be

1st place - Video #3 by Needham's Branden Steinberg
Prize: A subscription to the 2007 College UVtv Season from UltiVillage

Special note: The votes from Luke Johnson, who coaches Churchill team(s) in addition to contributing for PlayUltimate, were not counted towards the Churchill Videos. That is, there was no conflict of interest involved in the selection - the votes clearly indicated the above three winners.

So congratulations to all, next year we will try to announce the contest and the prizes a little earlier so you have more time to work on them and then we will announce the winners right after Easterns or Westerns.

Thank you to all who participated and voted, we consider the contest a great success and look forward to holding it again in 2008!!

Highlight reel contest - Winners TBA on Wednesday night

All the winners for the 2007 PlayUltimate Highlight Reel Extravaganza will be announced on Wednesday evening before 10pm.

In the mean time you can take a look at the videos, the prizes, and how the contest evolved.

PlayUltimate highlight reel contest - winners announcement next week

The votes have tabulated and the winners have been elected and selected.

The winners will be announced next week (probably Thursday, but you should check back sooner because we are unpredictable like that)

The sponsors will be contacted shortly and the prizes will be in the mail (if applicable) by the time the winners are announced.

Thanks to all who participated.

Highlight Reel Extravaganza - update and voting deadline!

Voting will close tomorrow night - (Tuesday, May 15th) - at Midnight.

After that point the editor's choice selections will take place and then the winning videos will be announced in the next week after Easterns.

So start emailing your friends, put it in your profiles, link on your myspaces and facebook accounts, if you want your video to win. (You can click links below each post on PlayUltimate to automatically post things from the site to Facebook, del.icio.us and others!)

You can still vote by clicking the big graphic at the right, or by scrolling down on this page. We want as many people as possible to see ultimate, and high school ultimate at its finest, so even encourage all of your non-ultimate playing brethren to stop by and vote.

So hurry up and vote already!! There are some sweet prizes at stake!

Highlight Reel Extravaganza - The Videos

UPDATE - VOTING NOW OPEN, CLICK THE "VOTE NOW" BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST TO VOTE.

We had an amazing response to the contest (which has some awesome prizes mind you) With 11 submissions from around the country. All of the entrants did amazing work and put a ton of time and energy into the contest and i want to thank everyone that submitted a video.

So, After much procrastination and with much anticipation, I present to you in order of acceptance, the 2007 entries into the PlayUltimate Highlight Reel Extravaganza....


Video #1 -


Video #2


Video #3


Video #4


Video #5


Video #6


Video #7


Video #8


Video #9


Video #10


Video #11



A reminder of the prizes for the contest, and the original entry specifications.

The voting booth will be added shortly. Each person will be allowed to vote once with the top three receiving prizes in the People's choice category. Then the editors will select 3 for the editor's choice award.

UPDATE - there appear to be some glitches with the voting program used, so the poll wont display in the page for some reason. However you can still vote just by clicking on the button below! (And hopefully sometime soon the actual poll will begin to show up on the page as well)

VOTING CLOSED!
(winners will be announced sometime next week)

The grand unveiling....

Will come tonight at midnight or tomorrow at 3:00pm....


.... Whichever receives more votes




hopefully that shows up (this is also my attempt at testing the polling stuff)

Highlight reel contest - the DEADLINE has passed!! or has it....

After two months in the making, some awesome prizes by some sweet sponsors and some spectacular submissions the deadline for entries has passed....

Or has it....

The submitted videos will be shown on the site in a grand unveiling on next Tuesday, May 8th (time TBA - but you best be here!). If submissions are sent to the PlayUltimateBlog@gmail.com address before then (May 8th) they will still be accepted. A few people emailed me saying that uploading to YouTube or Google Video takes a while, so i am more than happy to be understanding in this situation.

BUT that is the absolute last deadline, as we will show the videos on the site the following day and open up the polls for voting. Voting will go on for two days (until the 10th) and then winners will be announced on the Friday (right before Westerns, PA States etc).

For your submission to be valid you MUST send the information necessary to PlayUltimateBlog@gmail.com.

If you have made a highlight reel since the fall season, you might as well submit it to the contest, you could win some very sweet prizes, as well as have your video featured on the site.


Thank you to all who already submitted entries they will be posted to the site in the order in which they were received, so if you got your stuff in early though shalt be rewarded.

(These wonderful prizes, and support for this contest, have been brought to you through the generous donations of UltiVillage, DiscFilms, UltimateFris.be and the University of Pittsburgh's Open and Women's teams.)

Highlight Contest - the deadline draws near!

The eleventh hour approaches....

The stakes have been set, the prizes announced, and a number of submissions have already been sent.

Entries are due tomorrow night at midnight!!!

So sending those last minute submissions in!!

For your submission to be valid you MUST send the information necessary to PlayUltimateBlog@gmail.com.

If you have made a highlight reel since the fall season, you might as well submit it to the contest, you could win some very sweet prizes, as well as have your video featured on the site.

(These wonderful prizes, and support for this contest, have been brought to you through the generous donations of UltiVillage, DiscFilms, UltimateFris.be and the University of Pittsburgh's Open and Women's teams.)

PlayUltimate Highlight Reel Extravaganza - PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Maestro, a drum roll please....

after much anticipation, much warranted anticipation, PlayUltimate is proud to announce the prizes for the 1st EVER Highlight Reel Extravaganza.


In the category of Editor's Choice...

3rd place - a "Danger" disc from the University of Pittsburgh's Women's team - Danger

2nd place - A 8x12 print of a photo from UltimateFris.be (Sponsored by UltimateFris.be)

1st place - A subscription to the college season on UltiVillage's UVtv (Sponsored by UltiVillage)


In the category of People's Choice...

3rd place - an En Sabah Nur disc from the University of Pittsburgh's men's ultimate team.

2nd place - a copy of the Wildwood 13 DVD from DiscFilms (Sponsored by DiscFilms.com)

1st place - a copy of the 2006 WJUC DVD from UltiVillage (Sponsored by UltiVillage)

a reminder that all entries are due by May 1st (5 DAYS FROM NOW!!!!!). All of the amazing prizes above will be mailed directly to your home address, for that reason if you would like to submit an entry you must follow the submission guidelines that are detailed here.

So start sending those highlight reels in!! For your submission to be valid you must send the information necessary to PlayUltimateBlog@gmail.com.

(These wonderful prizes, and support for this contest, have been brought to you through the generous donations of the companies and teams mentioned above.)

prize announcement coming tomorrow... [shh!]

Don't tell anyone, but the prizes for the highlight reel contest are going to be announced tomorrow before 5pm.

If you haven't sent in your (or your team's) submission yet you are going to want to do it asap. Check back tomorrow to see why.

All submissions are due by May 1st (6 Days from now!!)

Highlight Reel Contest 2007 - Let's see those submissions!!

Submissions are due in less than ONE MONTH!!

Final deadline is May1st for videos, remember the specs...

video of your team

compiled into a highlight reel

no less than 30 seconds long

no more than 2 minutes

upload to youtube, google video, break.com, metacafe or your choice of hosted video sites


send us a link (playultimateblog@gmail.com)

• include your name

• address to send award/prize

• teams featured in the film

• tournaments etc

• and any other relevant information
  

1st, 2nd and 3rd place in two categories - Editors' Selection and People's Choice

• Editors' Selection will be a vote of the contributors to the site
  
• people's choice will be decided by a public vote on the website

• prizes will be sent to the creator's home address

send an email to PlayUltimateBlog@gmail.com with a link to your submission (must be hosted by a third party - youtube etc) and your name.

Prizes will be announced within the next two weeks

So send in your videos now! Looking forward to seeing the submissions

(Reminder: all videos must be submitted via email, links in the comments will not be accepted - this is so that we can make sure we can send the prizes to the right people/places)

Dump swing video tutorial

C/o fellow contributor Jason Becker, a video to help explain and demonstrate the finer aspect of the dump swing...



enjoy, and remember submissions for the highlight reel contest must be received by may 1, 2007.

Announcement: High School Ultimate Highlight Reel Contest

Announcing the first annual High School ultimate Highlight Reel Contest.

The basics -

1. video of your team
2. compiled into a highlight reel
3. no less than 30 seconds long
4. no more than 3ish minutes (Changed from 2 mintues)
   
5. upload to youtube, google video, break.com, metacafe or your choice of hosted video
6. send us a link (playultimateblog@gmail.com)
1. include your name
2. address to send award/prize
3. teams featured in the film
4. tournaments etc
5. and any other relevant information
   
7. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in two categories - Editor's Selection and People's Choice
1. people's choice will be decided by a vote on the website

Deadline: all video links must be submitted by May 1st
(winners will be announced by May 8th - a week before Westerns)

Prizes: there will be prizes! (to be announced later - if you are an ultimate merchant and would be interested in sponsoring this competition email us at - playultimateblog@gmail.com)

So start up those video cameras, not to worry there will be some sweet prizes, but I wanted to announce this soon enough so everyone can get a head start working up some sweet videos. As soon as you are done send us a link.

This is a chance to showcase your team's ultimate skills, your creative talent, your league's prowess and more.

I'll continue to post reminders perhaps once every two weeks or so, but dont delay send in your submissions now!

(Prizes will be announced by April 28th)