Machinima contests and Jagex.

Okay, I felt I ought to express my opinion about our latest "contest", the Jagex Machinima contest.

When it was released, I loved it. What a great idea to get budding video makers into the spot light for just how talented they are. I've a few friends that made videos, my favourite out of those, by Hello982, can be found here.

My personal favourite out of the six finalists was definitely "Mith sword" because of it's sheer brilliance and hilarity. He throws a box at him, to hurl a door back? :D

However, when they named the winner (which, unfortunately, we all knew was going to be Excl) I felt absolutely terrible for the other finalists. Why? Because each of them had no more than 2,000 subscribers at the beginning of the competition, and most of those were likely also subscribed to Excl, because they enjoy that style of video.

What I'd like to see, if Jagex ever repeat that type of competition? An ammature video maker's competition. Anyone with more than a couple thousand subscribers? No. I wouldn't have them taking part, it's like David vs. Goliath, except this time David is the boy who sits at the back of class playing his PSP.

Thoughts?

~Oscar