ESOOGYERG

SiNNiR
 
Seriously the first few videos were absoluite crap and pretty much not entertaining at all.  Actually none of them "really" are good and several don't even qualify, regardless of 1 second or not, rules are rules. "Any video longer than 30 seconds will be disqualified."
I'm just disappointed that a mine craft player gets the top prize for building a PC?? really?  That's effin pathetic.  There's so many better videos out there.  
I just lost complete faith in EVGA, yep, all because of this contest.  I've Been using EVGA products for years and years, but I'm not buying anymore ever in teh future.  I'll go support MSI or someone.
 

 
None of the winning videos exceed 30 seconds, and they all included game play. I fail to see how they don't "qualify"

ESOOGYERG

wc7718
EVGA - Have a recommendation for the next event...  perhaps a separate event along the lines of the Gaming Event, Social Media Event, etc.?
 
Can you have a "Loyalty Event" where entries are limited to users who have an EVGA account AND has a 'registered' EVGA product in My EVGA>My Products? 
 
Would love to see this further focused on those loyal customers who love EVGA, PCs and gaming. Make sure the prizes go into systems/homes that actually will be used rather than to people who enter and end up reselling their prizes.
 
Thanks!

"We buy your products so you should give us free stuff!" 
Did I get that right? 

wc7718

ESOOGYERG

wc7718
EVGA - Have a recommendation for the next event...  perhaps a separate event along the lines of the Gaming Event, Social Media Event, etc.?
 
Can you have a "Loyalty Event" where entries are limited to users who have an EVGA account AND has a 'registered' EVGA product in My EVGA>My Products? 
 
Would love to see this further focused on those loyal customers who love EVGA, PCs and gaming. Make sure the prizes go into systems/homes that actually will be used rather than to people who enter and end up reselling their prizes.
 
Thanks!

"We buy your products so you should give us free stuff!" 
Did I get that right? 

No... we're loyal customers who have bought your products and have a better chance at winning a loyalty-based contest. 
 
Rather than people who found out about the contest on some random website (and probably never game or even use PCs) for the sake of winning a prize who end up reselling their wins.

DStith

wc7718

ESOOGYERG

wc7718
EVGA - Have a recommendation for the next event...  perhaps a separate event along the lines of the Gaming Event, Social Media Event, etc.?
 
Can you have a "Loyalty Event" where entries are limited to users who have an EVGA account AND has a 'registered' EVGA product in My EVGA>My Products? 
 
Would love to see this further focused on those loyal customers who love EVGA, PCs and gaming. Make sure the prizes go into systems/homes that actually will be used rather than to people who enter and end up reselling their prizes.
 
Thanks!

"We buy your products so you should give us free stuff!" 
Did I get that right? 

No... we're loyal customers who have bought your products and have a better chance at winning a loyalty-based contest. 
 
Rather than people who found out about the contest on some random website (and probably never game or even use PCs) for the sake of winning a prize who end up reselling their wins.

I wouldn't mind if they made it for people whom have registered eVGA products.  Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.  But it depends if they are trying to generate new traffic to the site or not I guess.

ESOOGYERG

FALCOX

ESOOGYERG

SiNNiR
 
Seriously the first few videos were absoluite crap and pretty much not entertaining at all.  Actually none of them "really" are good and several don't even qualify, regardless of 1 second or not, rules are rules. "Any video longer than 30 seconds will be disqualified."
I'm just disappointed that a mine craft player gets the top prize for building a PC?? really?  That's effin pathetic.  There's so many better videos out there.  
I just lost complete faith in EVGA, yep, all because of this contest.  I've Been using EVGA products for years and years, but I'm not buying anymore ever in teh future.  I'll go support MSI or someone.
 

 
None of the winning videos exceed 30 seconds, and they all included game play. I fail to see how they don't "qualify"

You are wrong, there are 2 videos that are between 30 and 31 secs, ie more than 30 secs. If they are 30,50 secs they are more than 30. Do you need I link you them?
And to be precise they couldn't even be exactly 30 secs but less than 30 like the official rules say ("Video must have a run time of less than 30 seconds"). Not an opinion.

Are you really complaining about .197 of a second? The video that went over the longest was only .197 of a second over, clearely there is a tolerance allowed because several things could end up putting your video just a touch over. When I edit, my time format is in seconds and frames, my videos was 30 seconds and 0 frames, looking at this in just seconds you would see 30.030. In the case of the other video, it shows 30 seconds and 5 frames, giving it a time of 30.197. Had the video been 31 seconds or longer, I could completely understand your argument. Since that wasn't the case with any video, I still see no reason they shouldn't qualify.

ESOOGYERG

FALCOX
 
The longest is 30:230 secs not 30:197. And yes I complain about those ones simply because of these rules and indications: "Video must have a run time of less than 30 seconds" and "Any video longer than 30 seconds will be disqualified". This means they could be max 29:999 secs. I worried about these things when I had to insert my video. Just saying...
If they'll let it go it means I overvalued this contest. They make even EVGA Precision but this time they haven't been so precise.

See, we can't agree on a time ourselves, I've checked them all multiple times and the longest was .197 over, clearly you need to allow some room for things like this, otherwise almost none of the videos would qualify because they're fractions of a second too long. I'd suggest focusing on content instead of making sure your video is 29.999 seconds or less. 

ESOOGYERG

FALCOX

ESOOGYERG

FALCOX
 
The longest is 30:230 secs not 30:197. And yes I complain about those ones simply because of these rules and indications: "Video must have a run time of less than 30 seconds" and "Any video longer than 30 seconds will be disqualified". This means they could be max 29:999 secs. I worried about these things when I had to insert my video. Just saying...
If they'll let it go it means I overvalued this contest. They make even EVGA Precision but this time they haven't been so precise.

See, we can't agree on a time ourselves, I've checked them all multiple times and the longest was .197 over, clearly you need to allow some room for things like this, otherwise almost none of the videos would qualify because they're fractions of a second too long. I'd suggest focusing on content instead of making sure your video is 29.999 seconds or less. 

2 video readers say it's 30.230. My video? I already focused also on the content, don't worry. But if you want to speak about the content, there isn't even the reason to focus on it if the chosen is like the 3th one. Tell me why it deserved that position.

The judges picked what they liked, just because you didn't like it, well it doesn't make any difference at all. It deserved that position because the people in charge chose it for that position. There's nothing more to it, you can say it sucked, it was bad, whatever you want, your opinion means nothing in this situation.
 

Plaxotron
Hello I won and I wrote a letter to Evga but still no response, some who won something and wrote there an answer?

FreeJet

Plaxotron
Hello I won and I wrote a letter to Evga but still no response, some who won something and wrote there an answer?

I sent an e-mail yesterday, got a reply within a few hours, sent a confirmation e-mail right back, and today I received a UPS tracking e-mail.  The awesome Puget Systems Gaming PC I won will be here next week.  WHOOSH!!

Halo_003
Well damnit did I really not notice this was going on?
 
Jeez. First year I've totally missed it, that's a shame. Must not have gotten the email, and who actually reads the stickies?

DStith

werty316
I've entered EVGA's Anniversary Event  every year and this time I was lucky (in the Social Media Event anyways). Woot, woot! I can't wait to try out their TORQ X10!
 
I received their email today and replied post haste however I found it odd though that they never requested any info from me. Does anyone remember what info was required when entering the Social Media Event because I am curious as to how exactly they match up your info you entered in the Event against your EVGA account?

Same with me but I am pretty sure that the moderator knows how to find my information on here.  They might just search for your email address or name within the evga.com user database.  If you aren't sure, just email the moderator and let him know what your user name on evga.com is.  I'm sure he won't mind.

Cody4423
So I won second place in the social media event and replied to the email sent to me. Am I suppose to get a reply to my email telling me it went through? Hope I'm still elligible. :)