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Saturday Night Contest - April Fools!

CaseyRudd

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Hope everyone is having a good weekend! This week's contest is inspired by a day coming up on Wednesday - April Fool's Day! It's been a while since we've had a magic contest, so we felt this was the perfect opportunity to get back in the action.

The challenge is simple, direct, and with one goal in mind: fool us. The challenge this week to is to make a video demonstrating ANY magic effect you desire - but the goal, and the contest, is who can fool US - the judging panel - the most.

The rules: you have a little over 24 hours to make your video, demonstrating your effect. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok, and posted in response to this forum thread on or before 11:00pm EST tomorrow, Sunday, March 29th.

Specifics: your effect does NOT have to be practical. It could be something that only works once, when the stars are aligned and at the most narrow camera angle imaginable. But it does have to be REAL, with no video editing, AI, or anything of that sort. What the camera sees should be faithful to the human eye.

The winner this week will take home 1,000 Elite Member Points, ANY Trick currently in stock, 3 Decks of Anything In Stock, and a deck of Monarch Prestige! The winner will be decided by our judging panel on which video, overall, leaves us the most speechless. The most deceptive, in our eyes and best judgment.

Go for it - get to it and this week, you just might fool us!
 

Nikolay Karagyozov

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Hello all!

Here's an idea i love to joke around with and perform as I can make it quite personal and funny. It uses Daniel Garcia's principle but there are a lot of soft touches to it, that i've came to while practicing. There is a false swing cut that feels seemless and I love. I hope you enjoy and I am happy to give tips to anybody who has liked something in the routine.

Nikolay
 

ST.Alex

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Always wanted to do this ever since I was introduced to magic! Here's my entry:
I don’t want to come across as rude or as if I’m policing anyone, but I think it’s very important to say that living beings who cannot consent actions should not be held or used for entertainment purposes whether we’re talking about magic, circus acts, theatre, racing, or anything similar.

Even if this isn’t something that happens in everyday life like in this case, these forms of videos still promote systems in which many animals have suffered and still in many cases, continue to suffer even nowadays.
 

lapele

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I don’t want to come across as rude or as if I’m policing anyone, but I think it’s very important to say that living beings who cannot consent actions should not be held or used for entertainment purposes whether we’re talking about magic, circus acts, theatre, racing, or anything similar.

Even if this isn’t something that happens in everyday life like in this case, these forms of videos still promote systems in which many animals have suffered and still in many cases, continue to suffer even nowadays.
Hmmn, I didn't consider the fact that it could promote instances where animals would suffer. In this case, my focus was on the well-being of the rabbits so I didn't stop to think about that point of view. I think you have a good point.