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Beijing 080808 Video Contest
The Beijing Games are the most anticipated Olympics in a generation. The once closed country of China has invested billions of dollars to throw the biggest and best coming out party the world has ever seen. TrackandFieldtours.com and Flotrack are teaming up to get you and a friend to the Olympics. TrackandFieldtours.com is the best way to catch all the track action in Beijing. It's so good that a lot of their clients are the athletes' family and friends. Track and Field Tours owners, Adam and Jessica Dailey were both Footlocker finalists and ran at the University of Arkansas who, like us at Flotrack, saw a need in our sport and decided to do something about it. The best uploaded video will win a track fans dream vacation, a trip for two to the 08 games with tickets to the track events. For more info about the wining prize and about the community's own Adam and Jessica Dailey click Track and Field Tours.
Win a trip to the 2008 Games in Beijing, China! Get your videos ready because the best uploaded video wins a pair of flights, hotel accommodations and tickets to the track competitions at the 08 Beijing Games. The contest is sponsored by Track & Field Tours. Visit their website at trackandfieldtours.com
Rules
- The Best uploaded running/track related video wins 2 tickets to see the '08 Beijing Games.
- You can upload as many videos as you want.
- The winning video will be picked by the track community based on the number of votes it receives.
- The contest will be in 2 phases: Those who upload a video before Feb 12, 2008 and those who upload videos afterwards. The top 6 vote getting videos from phase 1 and the top 4 vote getting videos from phase 2 will move on to a final voting competition. The video that gets the most votes from these remaining 10 will be declared the winner.
- We do not care where you are from... but here is the catch: If you are not from the US. we will only put up to $3000 USD for both of your tickets.
- To win you must be 18 years or older or you must be accompanied by an adult
- The contest is sponsored by trackandfieldtours.com. Winner will receive 2 airline tickets, hotel accommodations, and tickets to see the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
- Note. Videos that we find inappropriate (pornographic or obscene) will be disqualified and removed from the competition and the person who uploaded it runs the risk of having all their videos disqualified.
- Rules are subject to change.
Schedule
Phase 1
Nov 16, 2007: Phase 1 video uploading begins.
Feb 07, 2008: Phase 1 uploading stops and voting on videos begins.
Far 29, 2008: Top 6 vote getting videos move to the final round .
Phase 2
Feb 07, 2008: Phase 2 uploading begins.
May 15, 2008: Phase 2 uploading stops and voting begins
Jun 11, 2008: Top 4 vote getting videos move to the final round. (Voting ends at 11:59pm CST)
Jun 14, 2008: Votes are reset and top 10 videos battle it out.
Jun 26, 2008: Winner of Beijing contest is announced.
Fans of this video
What kind of mileage have you been running?
You have some great scenery in your runs, but it got kind of boring watching it for so long. I think some voice-overs or something about your training would've helped rather than just watching you run.
also, shirtless in january? or is that from a while ago?
i think people are dense, if they think that hard about this vid.
-brady
People who don't say their goals out lout don't believe them, and thus, won't succeed. Saying goals out loud or writing them down is just like visualizing a race or meet, it can only help. As long as the goal is realistic, and this one clearly was, it's key to voice it. I must say, you are incorrect.
Congrats on meeting your goal. Now, set a new one.
he set a goal and got it, a goal he wanted , a goal he worked for, more than most of you can say
IMHO, if you put a near-20 minute video of yourself on this site then you are game for some constructive criticism and praise. Although I didn't watch his full vid, I did get the gist and offered both in my previous comment.
Hope you get to China kid!
But, I'll have to disagree with Objective runner. A running film is effective when it insires you to go out and run, this does just that. As for filmmaking skill.. the award definitely belongs to An Actual Revery (which has no shot at the moment.. unfortunately). All of this rhetoric doesn't take away from the fact that I succumbed to the networking and marketing genius of Sitler and voted a 6. 5 on Coast to Coast. 4 on An Actual Revery.
Uncle D. :)
Jake
"is as follows: train a little, music with running, train some more, music with running, completely cliche voice over thrown in. maybe i should have taped myself training one day and thrown in some music if i knew i would get this many votes"
The second round has started and you can upload a video. I hope to see yours. Right now there is a 1 and 38 chance in winning a trip to the olympics.... Not that bad huh? If yours is better then this then you will win and i will be entertained.
Chip
Now it seems somebody finds it funny to post comments using my name. I have not & will not ever bash any of the other videos!!
Perhaps it is just the sheer epicness of the video?
It's always fun seeing what the YCHS Class of '07 is up to next.
Its also simply a matter of going to college where you are forced to train harder and dropping a time that wasn't very good to begin with.
This video isnt about time he ran, it is about the time put into cutting the time down. Just because this isnt olympic qualifying time, or even national qualifying time has nothing to do with it. It is just the simple story of getting the job done. Maybe to inspire the many more people who are running around 17 min to get their time down to possibly the 15:45 range.
I am not sure why you are so angry, but I will remind you that I am simply expressing my opinion through as protected by the Constitution of the United States of America. I am sorry if my tone offends you, but I cannot change who I am at heart. Perhaps I am wrong in my harsh evaluation, but as I am implied, my comments are intended to be objective so making this personal is quite unnecessary and inappropriate.
I will soon attempt to take bicentenial man to a new level by introducing 100 shots of Vodka. I shall call it the tricentenial.
When you break 14 let me know, that might make "watchable" movie
Okay guys Jake is in first, lets DO THIS!!!!!!!!!
If you don;t grow any more, look into being a jockey
Tacky Tracky......I don't know a lot of what Pre's thoughts were on certain subjects but I judge from some of this well known quotes (i.e. "To give anything less than your best is the sacrifice the gift.") that Jake stands in much higher regard than you could apparently ever understand.
For the height thing, if you don't believe telling it how it is go to the social equity meeting and beat around the bush some with those people. Better yet, do us all a favor and just beat off.
Truely inspriation video man. You got a 6 from me.
It actually gets much more complicated when you look at cases involving threats such as City of Little Falls v. Witucki. You also must consider whether or not my statement created a clear and present danger, which it certainly does not.
I was simply exercising my first amendment right of free speech. Its pretty said that you ask me what country I'm from when you don't know the laws, let alone the consitution of your own country.
If i said that somebody should shoot the president, i would have to take an "critical step" towards performing the actions in which I threatened.
Get a life, or go back to school...
If i said that somebody should shoot the president, i would have to take an "critical step" towards performing the actions in which I threatened.
Get a life, or go back to school...
You should know from experience... You kept trying but looked like a moron. I'm just glad that I could learn from your mistake
I don't believe in hiding behind fake names to talk like i know about something i don't - I'll just say this, let our next 2 years speak for themselves, anyone who knows anything knows that our program just changed it's head coach, and things are improving quickly. As for calling me a pervert... lets talk some times - i'd love to hear what you got... my aim is sborch88
Nothing to brag about.
Obstacles are those terrifying things that get in your way when you lose sight of your goal ... author unknown.
Pay no attention to the negative input... concentrate on the positive... you entered the contest... Way to Go... Go SHIP
All you have to do is sign up (http://track.flocasts.org/auth/register), which takes less than a minute, go to this link (http://track.flocasts.org/beijing2008/finals), and then vote a 3 for the video. As you can see Jake is not winning at the moment, help him win this contest and make the trip to Beijing representing SHIP!
Thank you everyone for your support and trying to help out Jake. I apologize for not being more specific with the voting directions when I sent the email.
Good luck dude
Just because you're biased and go to Shippensburg with Jake doesn't mean that you have to protect his (very) young eyes from seeing why he didn't go to Beijing.
SHIP IS IT!!!
that kenya video is shoddy. Hopefully, they'll uncover how he is cheating and take the trip away.