I will not insist on anyone appearing on camera; I don't consider that fair play. I believe I stated in an earlier round that your anonymity can stay intact if you so desire and I have no intention of breaking that promise.

You may, however, be required to create a video of sorts...

I've decided to break fifteen at the least. I'll have it done by 12

f*** you, back to back posting limits

^
-thy=vinyl

Things getting real.

You saw nothing. Turn around and go back.

[This message has been edited by Watson (edited 12-22-2011 @ 06:01 AM).]

The deadline has passed (along with a little extension - think of it as a Christmas gift ). The times submitted are listed below:

Major Helper - 13.31
CarolKarine - 13.51
Mole - 14.38
Ser Periagil - 15.05
Popey - 15.43
Vinyl - 15.53
Vox Nihili - 16.15
Watson - 17.38

The fastest time was Major Helper in a see-it-to-believe-it time of 13 minutes 31 seconds.

Popeychops and Vox Nihili were entering for the lulz and Watson opted to use his bye, so the slowest time unfortunately was Vinyl.

Vinyl, you have been ejected. Welcome to the judging panel

Guard of Osiris, you did not submit an entry in time and your bye has already been used, so you are eliminated due to inactivity.

Round Eight
Youtube

Dammit these pictures are getting hard to find

This round is pretty straightforward and it gives you a helluva lot of freedom to do whatever you fancy. All you have to do is make a video and upload it to youtube, then post the link here (or embed if you know how).

You can do anything you like in the video (so long as it's legal and abides by both by youtube's rules and by HG's code of conduct. You can sing, you can dance, you can recite poetry, you can train your dog to juggle, you can make a kick ass marble run... Really, it's anything you fancy.

Rules
♦ Nothing that breaks either site's rules or infringes copyright please.
♦ The video must be your own creation - you might want to create a compilation video of funny moments or whatever, but there you must be responsible for the content of your video - I don't want anyone ripping anyone else's work off!
♦ The judging will be two-fold: The videos will be ranked by number of views, the most-viewed video getting +5, the least-viewed earning +1. The judging panel will then also choose their favourites and rank them (as in the persuasion round). The judges' scores will be equated to the number of views, giving each video a total score of between +10 and +2; the judging panel has as much influence over the score as the number of views - although if a judge really likes one video there's nothing stopping him from watching it several times! In the event of a tie, the number of views will be the deciding factor.
♦ The video must be uploaded any time after now - some of you may have youtube videos around already but they will not be accepted since you'd have an unfair headstart.
♦ Some form of proof that you are the uploader is required; whether it's in the video or a comment by the same username doesn't matter, but I want to confirm that people aren't just linking to random videos on youtube!

Hints
The scoring system is biased towards the number of views your video receives, so make it entertaining or, failing that, link to it everywhere.

The deadline for uploading your videos and linking to them here is Midnight (forum time) 31st December 2011

[This message has been edited by NowhereT (edited 12-22-2011 @ 05:29 AM).]

Will update OP later, real life beckons - sorry!

Ffffuuu-

Now I'm glad NowhereT missed my earlier post.

So does it need to be original content or can it be something taken from somewhere else

I don't understand the scoring system either.

So it needs to be a video of our creation, which should have something that makes sure its ours[Voice/physical presence] uploaded on my YouTube account- and that it needs to garner as much views as it can.


Amirite?

I would have won this one for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaW9nqARhH0 961 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h4aLq6B-4w 748 views

I gots dis. I have some musical pieces I need to upload. Now I'm just gonna advertise the crap out of them.

The scoring system is in two parts - the judges rank competitors as in the Persuasion round, so it might look like this:

Dave: +27
Eric: +22
Paul: +15
John: +7
Mike: +4

This is then translated into a +5 to +1 rank:

Dave +5
Eric +4
Paul +3
John +2
Mike +1

Now we look at the views:

Paul: 142 views
John: 105 views
Eric: 62 views
Dave: 43 views
Mike: 12 views

Again, these get translated to +5...+1:

Paul +5
John +4
Eric +3
Dave +2
Mike +1

The summation of the judges and the views scores give:

Paul: +8
Dave: +7
Eric: +7
John: +6
Mike: +2

So Paul wins and Mike loses.

Is this clear enough? I hope so If not, don't worry about it too much - just understand that your video is aiming to get as many views as possible and to be popular with the judges too

@Ser: You don't need to appear in the video if you don't want to, I just need some way of confirming that the video is yours - put it in the description of the video if you like, or in the video itself it doesn't matter

@Mole: You can use other footage if you like but it has to be your creation - a mash up of every gunshot fired in Pulp Fiction is fine, since you made the video. Just copying and pasting somebody else's video is not OK.

Any further questions/clarifications?

Can i have Major's recorded file?
If he has it? or if you have it T?

Done

Sadly I/it didn't record it I only have the save file. I can copy paste the explanation I gave NT though:

Ok :P Here's what I did anyways: built two houses, found boards with scout and lured one to base while building vills (wood). When boar in, kill it and start feeding while getting another boar in etc. (found turkeys too), 9 vills and then the tenth one with ninth one on wood. 11th on gold, rest of the produced vills on wood. Build a lumber camp when able to. Keep luring boars in (I think there were three?) and then chased in deer while feasting off of turkeys in the gaps due to my poor micromanagement skills :P build mill in some gap with a hunter. with 14 vills and the scout, advance to feudal. Woodcutters manage to cut enough wood for BS and market as the miner (which I misplaced at some point and had to order two (and later three guys) to mine gold) gets enough gold and the feeders get enough food for castle age. during transition quickly chop enough wood with every vill for a mining camp and then build it and mine stone and then build the castle.

Lots and lots of pausing and grey hairs with luring the boars/deer in :P If I was really good I'd be able to kill the deer and boar inside my tc but I had to make do with immediate vicinity. Some hitches here and there (gold miner getting assigned to wood I think, after two or three loads and the stone beign on the other side of the base from the forest which used a lot of walking time.)

Used turkeys to find the stone actually, since my scout was busy being chased by boars :P


There is a good recording with someone castleing in under 11 minutes in the blacksmith.

http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=9338

I used mongols but the map was yucatan due to overabundance of food.

Oh and this round is gonna be pretty hard as I have almost no subscribers

My best video has 2777 views but that's over 1,5 years old

EDIT: plus I have almost no material to use either, to hog in the views

[This message has been edited by Major Helper (edited 12-22-2011 @ 09:34 AM).]

I wouldn't be expecting many views tbh - my one and only youtube upload has 83 views after well over two years!
Mind you, it was only uploaded to show my then gf, so who the hell are the other 82 weirdos?!

I'm still gonna do my best Gonna try to strive for a musical piece even though I've no ear for music It may become my most hated video but one's got to do sacrifices to get anywhere!

I had a vid of my brother singing terribly in the shower, and it had somewhere near 10,000 views after 2 years. I decided to take it down though. (I felt a little mean.) anyways, my channel is entirely musically based.

I wish this round had started about 3 weeks ago though... I'm gonna do my favorite christmas piece that I've composed this year.

If the deadline wasn't so soon, I'd be able to do another chili eating video If possible, could you extend the deadline to 8th (or even just 3rd) of January and I'll be able to do one. I'll be going back home from parents after New Year. I'd also have the better webcam then.

EDIT: by the way, how will you fairly judge the videos by the view count when people most likely won't be submitting their videos at the same moment?

[This message has been edited by Major Helper (edited 12-22-2011 @ 11:11 AM).]

I'm reluctant to extend the deadline too far, because otherwise this thread runs the risk of sinking :/ Chilli eating could be brilliant, I'd probably watch that a few times

The view counts won't vary too much (the maximum difference between uploads will only be around a week) and it serves as incentive to get your video uploaded ASAP! It's still fair IMO because everyone found out about the challenge at the same time.