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Happy New Year’s Eve, Eve everybody!  Man, is it just me or was 2011 totally f-ing banana cakes?  The world might have gone crazy in 2011 but for me personally this was a pretty good year.  I won an assload of video contests!  In fact, probably 90% of my income this year came from winning video contests and from running this site.  I didn’t make a fortune or anything but did pretty ok!

And VideoContestNews.com did pretty damn ok this year too.  I am constantly amazed at how many people actually visit this goofy blog every day.  In November we set a record for most unique visitors in one month:  13,901.  And if at least 383 more people visit VCN in the next 34 hours, we’ll have a new monthly attendance record.  New Year’s Day Update: We did it! Decemeber was VCN’s busiest month ever with 14,072 unique visitors.

A lot of that traffic is coming from people who are looking for info about the Crash the Super Bowl contest.  If that sounds like you, I hope you’ll bookmark us or subscribe to our RSS feed and keep visiting us throughout the year.  But if all you care about is Doritos-related news, we’ll have a whole lot of that for you in the next two months.  Last week we announced our picks for the 25 entries that have the best shot of making the finals of the Crash the Super Bowl contest.  But on Tuesday, January 2nd were going to announce our predictions for which 5 submissions will actually made the finals.  Then after Fritolay officially announces the finalists on Thursday morning we’ll be posting reviews of all the winning commercials.  TAKE NOTE:  If anyone reading this actually makes the Crash the Super Bowl finals this year, let us know as soon as you can and if we like you’re entry we might just endorse it and promote it here on the blog during the month-long voting process.

I’ll end the year with a few Thank-Yous.  First, thanks to all of you for checking out the site.  And an even bigger thanks to those of you who leave comments or send me tips via e-mail.  Oh…and an even bigger, BIGGER thank you to those of you who have been voting for my dumbass contest entries this year!  I know i asked for a lot of votes in 2011 but be aware that if you ever need some votes yourself you should feel free to e-mail me.  And because I can’t help myself, I’m going to squeeze in one more vote request.  Right now I’m in a big contest being run by a company named Randstad.  I’m only a few votes away from being in first place in my category.  It only takes one click to vote and the deadline is Sunday at midnight.  So head here if you’d like to help me out with a vote!

Finally, I’d like to thank all the contest-hosting sites that ran ads on VCN this year.  That list includes Poptent, Mofilm, Zooppa, Highly Humorous and Tongal.  All of those sites are running tons and tons of big-money contests right now so I suggest you check them out and start planning your first contest entry of the new year.

Good Luck in 2012 everybody and I will see you in the future!