Beijing 08 Olympics
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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
ps: my favorite part was when lugie decided to run with the camera and explain the effects of running at altitude and the continental divide.
Nice job on the video guys
During the 2004 run we had 18 runners and in 1979 they had 12 total. However, do to injuries and other problems we averaged 16 people on the roster during our trek.
The reason we did it with more people in 2004 is because our team was larger, and we had more expressed interest with the background of the 1979 relay run. (Also a large incoming freshman class that year)
in light of your comments, i will be waiting in much anticipation for your shorter, un-crappy version of your coast-to-coast run.
Maybe you should use some of your pent up frustrations on some extra miles.
So, let's talk about the film. This was a pleasure to watch, is very well done and deserves accolades. GREAT FILM! Good luck in the contest! I vote 6!
The video is great. I still regret not quitting my job so that I could take part in the relay.
Back to the real topic... FANTASTIC job guys. Really. The run... the video... the music! I give it a 6!!!!! All the way to Beijing!
...and I suppose this movie could have been longer had it included the run-ins with police, people flipping out (me) at other people (Leon), and lengthy quests for places to squat ... but luckily most of that wasn't filmed.
- the comeback
...and how could anyone knowing any of these guys pick a favorite?!
- the comeback
- carlyle jones
the comeback
run. We all hope ypu win.
Thanks for explaining 3 comments ago that there are 22 people involved in the run itself, etc. etc. I do agree with what upstate XC is trying to say, that 15:46 and the falling hurdle girl video just aren't worthy! But they seem to have access to different computers and servers or they have everyone in their church voting for them without looking at the other videos. Too bad.
good video. 6 points.
Well, it seems it doesn't matter how good the video is or isn't anyway, it's whoever can get the most FRIENDS and FAMILY to vote.
Let's support R.I.T., Rochester, NY, USA!
exactly, lets vote for The Future Champ so a young Kenyan gets to go to the Olympics