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Montage Contest = Popularity Contest?
Vrbas
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  #51 (permalink) Default 06-13-2006
 
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Originally Posted by Holy
i think its pretty obvious that a person's name has a LOT to do with the outcome of the contests.

Montage Contest 1:
Dymdez won, even though the footage wasnt super liek Sexorcist or as entertaining as Northwests.
You're kidding right? I'm sorry but what do you think won all of Dymdez' fans over? Honestly? It was his insane footage, at the time. Along with Forza's style of editing. Even now i look back and still consider some of the clips he had to be pretty crazy. I think you might have missunderstood why people liked him.

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Montage Contest 2:
Titan VIII's third montage still is one of my favs today... but somehow it lost to 2 montages filmed in matchmaking, in snipers games (with 2 snipes to kill clips), and lame double snipes on ascension... Halogod and Vrbas... how did they get that far. I think the fact that Titan was somewhat of an asshole played into his loss.
Even I admited i didn't deserve to win. To this day i hold tightly to that statement. Titan and HaloGod both had better montages than me and should have been in the final round together. When i was put up against sexorcist i thought i was boned, honestly. If you don't believe me, i don't care. I'll express my opinion and say that i believed the HaloGod deserved the win for contest number 2.

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Montage Contest 3:
Now, i'm not trying to get on Titan's d.ck or anything... but he clearly should've won that contest hands down. Itwasluck and SHOOK beat him out. HOW i say, shooks footage was not on par at all and luck's where single snipes in sanc snipes games. PLUS Titan's amazin editing is still unequaled. Its apparent that Titan should've won the third contest and i think a lot of people agree with me on that one.
Dunno about the "hands down" winning part. But i do agree Titan stood a better chance than what was given to him. I still think ArKive's was pretty sick but to be truthful, i don't even remember who won that one. I'm sure popularity had something to do w/ it since that is basically what montages are now.... popularity.

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Originally Posted by Holy
Montage Contest 4:
This one i think was a popularity contest to an extent. For example, Oscarmayerninja had some of the best footage but he got beat out by arkive and halzred. No offence to them, they had great montages but i think what they have done for the halo community played into people's votes for them. Itwasluck's and reid's however deserved to be up there cuz they simple had some of the best footage. done and done.
I agree w/ you on this.
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