I usually don’t post about new contests since there are plenty of other sites devoted to doing that. But the 2nd Annual Louisiana Hot Sauce Video Contest is a great example of what a GOOD contest looks like. What makes this a contest well worth entering?

1. First place gets you $5,000
2. There are two runner up prizes of $2500 and $500
3. There are no time limits on entries
4. There is no required info
5. Videos can be about basically whatever you want
6. View counts and votes don’t matter
7. Judges alone pick the winners
8. Just by entering you get a free t-shirt!

That’s how it should be done, son! Essentially there is only one rule in this contest; use a bottle of Original Louisiana hot sauce in your video. Having loose requirements will help insure that the sponsor gets a whole lot of interesting and crazy entries.

The deadline to enter is….January 31st!?!? That’s almost four months from now. Pfffft. If you’re anything like me you won’t be shooting an entry for this one until around January 25th.

Since this is the “Second Annual” Louisiana Hot Sauce Video contest I thought I’d look up the winning video of the First Annual Louisiana Hot Sauce Video Contest. It turned out to be a not so super-great rap video. I read that more that 70 videos were submitted to last year’s contest but this video was deemed to be the best of them all. Judges make odd choices sometimes.