If you want to make a contest, it's really up to you to sort out all of those things.

However, BricksInMotion has a bunch of official contest every year:

• BRAWL (Brickfilm Rapidly All Week Long) normally happens in the summer holidays.

• THAC (Twenty-four Hour Animation Contest) normally happens around the Christmas holidays.

• Often there's an additional summer contest, like ToY (Tales of Yore).

• If I remember right, there's also an Easter contest.

Now other contests, like Celebration, do pop up from time-to-time, and those are official BiM contests. Conversely, the 2015 Contest (interest in which seems to have all but peetered out) was entirely 'fan-produced' - the admins of the site had no involvement. I started and will judge the contest with a couple of other members, and other members will also be providing members, but it's up to use to do all of those things because it's not an official BiM contest.

Organising a contest is not as straightforward as you might think, though I appreciate that you have begun to give the processes of making a contest some thought. To answer your questions in order:

1) Up to you. You can PM them, make a thread asking for judges, YouTube message people...

2) I'm afraid I highly doubt Brickforge and the like would want to sponsor a small, unofficial contest, so it would be up to you to buy and distribute the prizes.

3) I'm not sure what you mean by this. Mods and admins normally discuss things in detail before they are released publicly, so I guess you could send your idea to one of us and we could 'review' it.

4) That's up to you.

If you think you have a really original idea for a contest, that's great but you might want to check with some older members first, in case it was done before you arrived on the site. I'd also, however, advise you not to make a contest, which may sound hypocritical having started 2015, but I'd note that despite having prizes and everything 2015 seems to have all but failed. Nobody seems to be making entries, and the thread has been dead for months. Other new members often try to start contests on the site, and this normally ends in controversy I'm sad to say (I will not mention names).

There's actually nothing to stop you making your contest right now, as a thread in General Film Discussion, but BiM will not sponsor it, and it's up to you and other members who might be interested to organize and purchase everything.

Sorry if this seems harsh, but this is the policy with contests: BiM has its official ones, and the rest are up to its members.

Now is also probably a bad time to start a contest, what with it being 'back-to-school' time.

I hope all of this helps. Don't be disheartened by any of what I've said.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

By unofficial, I mean it's not an official BiM contest: a contest run by the admins/owners of the site, which is pretty much Smeagol. If he organized a contest, or had someone organize a contest, that had the BiM logo in it, that would count as official. Anything run by individual members is unofficial, and unlike to get the traction of a sponsorship from Brickforge or Brickwarriors. For a start, those companies need to receive something in return: BiM can offer a small amount of publicity, which individual members mostly can't (an exception could be thefourmonkeys - I think they ran a contest sponspored by Oyo that was an unofficial contest). Just say if this explanation isn't clear, I'll try to make it as succint as I can.

There's no set of guidelines for a contest, as we make a point of not enforcing/monitoring every thread and challenge members make (we're a very relaxed forum compared to others, and I think our environment is better for it), but it might be worth just getting a second opinion. Sure, I'll give your idea a read. I'll give you as honest a response as I can, so please don't be offended if I make some radical suggestions; I think it's better for mistakes to happen with any project before it goes public. Trial and error, right?

If anyone's working on an entry to 2015, then that's news to me. The idea is it would be an ongoing contest to produce a high-quality brickfilm segment, but people didn't like the idea of tri-monthly updates, and so I now have no way of guaging interest.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

Yay!   that makes you and Sonjira. Glad to know interest hasn't died after all!

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

With a $100 prize, how could I refuse?

Alright thanks for that Jampot, wow this thread took a good toll onto your contest

But nah honestly thank you, you answered all my main questions I had. I will get in touch with you soon.

Sincerely,
Divine.

Psst that exists...

Please don't make fun of other members, Divine.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

It did sound like you were making fun of him.

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Rockydude I really don't think you need to continue what Jampot initially said, after I responded as I was very clear on what I said.

And Kizar I knew you wouldn't find it offensive mate Just having a laugh and I'm glad at least you had a laugh as well that was the point   I like the sound of that contest! I actually look forward to it man! If you need judges or someone to help you out PM me or let me know I'll be happy to give you a hand.

Next time to avoid issues or miscommunication can we please avoid commenting on behalf of someone else, for things that are clear it could be a joke, as this was clearly just to have a laugh about and meant no kind of offence, because that way realistically only offending me which is not nice.

But honestly lets forget about this and just be happy I believe I have a great relationship with everyone here  infact all of us do with each other lets not ruin that

Also could a Moderator please lock this thread? Theres no need for any other comments or for this thread to continue being unlocked. I don't want this escalating into something when nothing happened.

Sincerely,
Divine.

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