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Tyson Hunger Relief contest

Over at Tongal, Tyson is running a video contest designed to promote hunger-relief efforts.  Filmmakers were to go out and shoot short documentaries about individuals who were trying to make a difference by collecting food, organizing food drives or working in pantries or shelters.  The thing I like best about Tongal is that they have a strict “No Voting” policy on all of their contests.  Instead, they often hold “prediction contests” to go along with the main competition.  For the hunger relief contest though they are giving several bonus prizes (biggest is $750) to those entries that receive the most views between now and January 6th.  The submission period for the competition just closed and the entries can be seen here.  Judges will award several prizes but the best of the bunch will get $2,500.  But that’s not all!  In addition to the prize money, the food bank featured in the winning video will receive a donation of 35,000 POUNDS of food from Tyson!

This was a tough contest to create an entry for so only 12 submissions were recived.  And one of them just happened to come from Beardy’s “good friend” Dan.  So if you want to show VCN a little support, why not throw him a view by clicking the play button below?  Important note: To prevent fraud, Tongal only counts one “view” per IP address.  That’s the only way to keep things legit so good for them.

If the video is choppy, try turning off the “HD” button. If the player won’t come up, click here to watch the video on Tongal’s site.

‘My Chipotle’ winners from like 2 months ago

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Here’s a bit of advice you would do well to heed; never enter a video contest that is being advertised on a billboard.  If you’re serious about winning contests, avoid the high-profile stuff and concentrate on winning the contests that only 9 people enter.

As much as I love Chipotle, I knew I should resist the temptation to enter their “My Chipotle” video contest since they’d probably recived thousands of entries.  (they did)  To enter the contest you were supposed to create a video explaining what your personal, favorite taco or burrito is. (Mine: Chicken burrito with black beans, medium hot salsa, rice, cheese and a smidge of sour cream.) The winners of the contest were announced like 2 months ago but since I actually considered entering this one, I was curious to see who eventually won. And here’s who did.  First place was $10,000:  http://mychipotle.com/#/view_submission/63673

I ‘d embed the video but it wants to just start playing on its own.  I hate when websites do that so I won’t do it to you.  Another musical entry took second prize which was $5,000 and a Chipotle party for 50 people. Wowza.  http://mychipotle.com/#/view_submission/63773

I sort of love the first place winning video a lot. But the second place video is yet another Andy Sandburg comedy-rap rip off. There seems to be one of those in every big-money video contest. This one is especially annoying thanks to the creepy kid doing the rapping.

Anyway, wow. I swear to God….I am going to try and get to a chipotle as soon as possible. I need a burrito, STAT.

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