Hello everyone. Unfortunately we have to make some changes to our Saturday Night Contests as we have become extremely disturbed with the amount of people that have tried to pass off old submissions as new, and try to curb the system. This is not what we want to encourage, and therefore we have to take some serious action. We like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt and want to believe people are using this contest as a means to challenge themselves and honor the very simple rules we set. However, when repeated actions like this happen from multiple users taking advantage of this platform just to win a prize, enough is enough.
It brings up the question sometimes if doing video and picture contests is worth it if we keep on getting old entries submitted as new ones? We certainly don't want to stop these kinds of contests and prevent honest people from taking on the challenge to win a prize that they worked hard to have a chance to earn. It's definitely not fair to the great people that take these contests seriously and have been since the beginning.
We've even had to bring this up very recently in another contest, and we're tired of seeing it. We know all of you are tired of seeing it to. Of course, we don't remember absolutely every entry that has been submitted by every user ever and we don't have a file of every user's submitted entries to go back and check as that would take forever and delay the judging process. We usually look at time of upload for videos and photos on YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram to determine whether or not a video or picture is old, but because we allowed a direct file upload as an entry instead of Instagram in our most recent contest, we couldn't detect that.
Going forward, all picture entries MUST be uploaded to Instagram only. If you do not have an Instagram account, it is completely free to make one. We can't have this issue happen in the future.
Every single entry in every contest before and in the future requires a NEW photo or video submission. There are no old photos or videos allowed whatsoever in any contest; past, present, or future.
Also going forward, each participant that is caught cheating will be permanently banned from any and all theory11 contests in the future. This includes Saturday Night Contests AND the Holiday Contest. We absolutely cannot and will not tolerate cheating of any form in our contests, period. We hope that these new guidelines and penalties will help curb the amount of attempted cheating, as we want these contests to remain a platform where you can challenge yourself in new ways and be rewarded for doing so. We love putting on these free contests for you every Saturday, and have been doing so for over 11 years. We want it to continue, we just ask that you respect our rules and guidelines. Let's work together to make these contests fun and fair for everyone.
As always, see you all on Saturday for a brand new contest!
It brings up the question sometimes if doing video and picture contests is worth it if we keep on getting old entries submitted as new ones? We certainly don't want to stop these kinds of contests and prevent honest people from taking on the challenge to win a prize that they worked hard to have a chance to earn. It's definitely not fair to the great people that take these contests seriously and have been since the beginning.
We've even had to bring this up very recently in another contest, and we're tired of seeing it. We know all of you are tired of seeing it to. Of course, we don't remember absolutely every entry that has been submitted by every user ever and we don't have a file of every user's submitted entries to go back and check as that would take forever and delay the judging process. We usually look at time of upload for videos and photos on YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram to determine whether or not a video or picture is old, but because we allowed a direct file upload as an entry instead of Instagram in our most recent contest, we couldn't detect that.
Going forward, all picture entries MUST be uploaded to Instagram only. If you do not have an Instagram account, it is completely free to make one. We can't have this issue happen in the future.
Every single entry in every contest before and in the future requires a NEW photo or video submission. There are no old photos or videos allowed whatsoever in any contest; past, present, or future.
Also going forward, each participant that is caught cheating will be permanently banned from any and all theory11 contests in the future. This includes Saturday Night Contests AND the Holiday Contest. We absolutely cannot and will not tolerate cheating of any form in our contests, period. We hope that these new guidelines and penalties will help curb the amount of attempted cheating, as we want these contests to remain a platform where you can challenge yourself in new ways and be rewarded for doing so. We love putting on these free contests for you every Saturday, and have been doing so for over 11 years. We want it to continue, we just ask that you respect our rules and guidelines. Let's work together to make these contests fun and fair for everyone.
As always, see you all on Saturday for a brand new contest!