Best Shot Contest Results

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What is your favorite video?

Poll ended at Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:42 pm

1130 gram slug impacting a steel plate and a wooden door
12
31%
Golf ball impacting a watermelon
8
21%
Frozen can impacting a stereo
16
41%
Golf ball impacting a water filled milk jug
0
No votes
Two golf balls impacting the top of a steel drum
3
8%
 
Total votes: 39
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Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:31 pm

I just watched mtronic's vid, and it's awesome! He made the target look absolutely massive. Kind of interesting that the second camera filming my shot was in almost the exact same position as the one filming mtronic's shot. It was originally intended that the high quality vid camera I'd borrowed from my friend would record damage, while the other camera would record the muzzle blast and possibly catch the projectile in flight.

Of course, things don't always go as planned :roll:, and I ended up doing my best with the sh*t quality film from my $100 digicam...
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Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:50 am

Of course, things don't always go as planned, and I ended up doing my best with the sh*t quality film from my $100 digicam.
Not like youtube would have done the good camera any justice though.
On an unrelated note, where do you keep getting all these doors?
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Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:05 am

_Fnord wrote:where do you keep getting all these doors?
I was wondering that myself to be honest, I'm starting to think DYI lives in a house with a lot of sack-cloth hanging around :D
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Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:40 am

Watermelons are said to have the consistency of a human head
human heads and coconuts take the same amount of lbs per square inch to smash, 900lbs roughly.

MrCrowleys vid got a lot of work put into it :) I have a new computer so soon I'll be able to pump out some sweet(no watermelon pun intended) vids soon :D Ive scavanged a few cool items to destroy:twisted:

This comp is going very well I like all the vids so far. 8)

Some of the canons ie FEAR own and I dont think its vid gives the canon the justice it deserves. All in all I wish all entrants the best of luck and keep the camera rollin'
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Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:01 am

1 day left for voting, 41 votes I thought there would be more by this time.
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Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:45 pm

Me too, I would have thought there would be more interest. There was alot of interest on the original competition thread, I don't know really..
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Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:52 pm

I'm still unsure.

Often I think stickying something has the reverse effect. Often I'll miss new stickies for a day or two.
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:10 pm

I'm not sure if the poll is still open or not, but if it is then it shouldn't be. 7 days are up so I'm calling the final rankings. See the first post for the results.

Thanks again to everybody who entered and voted. I'll be sorting out the prizes ASAP.
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:25 pm

So mtronic won.
He had a really good vid.
I voted for DYI but mtronic would have been my second choice.
good job man enjoy the prize.
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:58 pm

mtronic is the man, tie your cape around your neck.
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:37 am

Well done dudes. :D
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:34 am

Nice one mtronic. You had one hell of a shot there.
All and all, a fun contest.
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:03 am

Yes, it does seem a good idea. A user-backed contest, (i.e. where one user makes up the rules, fronts ((most)) of the prizes, holds judging, etc.), seems like it should be the "norm" for now.

And good job mtronic. I still say the stereo should have rolled into the water, though. :P
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:10 pm

Hmmm...Now if he could log on so we could get the prizes sorted out. Looks like he hasn't been on for almost 10 days :? Anybody know if he is on vacation or something?
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:29 pm

Well he made a comment in this thread 4 days ago, and one would think that even then he knew that he'd win. I wonder why he hasn't been on?
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