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Tournament: Temple Run: Judging!!!
Member Since: 3/22/2012
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I can't believe even 1 of them didn't send! I'm adding an extension of 24hours again!
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You need to PM them. Tell them that it's ridiculous they can't sit down an write 2 paragraphs.
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Member Since: 4/18/2009
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Didn't I tell you I was quitting? 
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Kavish, last 12 hours!
Josh_923 and Phoenixstar are automatically eliminated because they're quitting but one of the 10 too will be eliminated! And because of that there will only be 9 contestants in the round 7!
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The essays are too long! I Just said 2 paragraphs! I'm gonna post the essays scores later!
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WELCOME TO.......
"Essays Scores"
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Inner Insanity: The best video I have seen Perfect by Pink. The song itself is uplifting and tells people that they are perfect as they are. The video, to me, tells a story to go with that message. So many people can relate to this girl who's been picked on and abused emotionally. I cried when I first saw it.
The most emotional moment is the scene where she is in the bathtub cutting herself. She carves "perfect" into her wrist. The music stopped here and I just lost it. After a few seconds she gets up and realizes she doesn't need to be doing this and ends up being a successful artist. This video is the best not only for its story, but because it's something happens all the time. It's nothing green screened, it's not glamorous but it's highly relatable and tells this story, well, perfectly.
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Content and Briefness: 32.5pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 32pts
Number of Errors: 17pts
Punctuality and promptness: 12pts
Total: 94.5pts
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The song and the video itself is one of the most overlooked in Rihanna's discography. Collecting awards right and left. The Grammy and the VMA it has speaks for the quality of the video. The beautifull speach at the begining will left you speechless for sure. The video kinda show the modern society and the modern turbulent relationships nowadays. Its ups and downs, happy moments, feelings of anger...Love, violence, sex and drugs are the main themes of the video. It caries a message of loving someone so much it becomes hurting.The production is astonishing too. It has great scenes and the use of vibrant and neon colors is well treated. It has a great cinematic feel and it's a great pleasure watching it!
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Content and Briefness: 33pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 31pts
Number of Errors: 14pts
Punctuality and promptness: 11pts
Total: 89pts
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Iggie: The video I'm sending in is Die Another Day by Madonna. This video is simply beautiful. The visuals alone make this video one of the best videos out there. This music video is the 2nd most expensive music video ever made. It cost over $6,000,000 to make it. The stunts done in this video are simply amazing. When you watch the video you'll basically be watching a mini action movie. The music video has a lot of references to some classic movies. One that pops up to everybody is the iconic Luke Skywalker lightsaber battle with Dark Vader from The Empire Strikes Back. I hope you all enjoy this amazing music video
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Content and Briefness: 33pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 34pts
Number of Errors: 18pts
Punctuality and promptness: 10pts
Total: 95pts
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Middle of Selena: I chose the video not only because I love the song and I'm a P!nk fan, but also because the video perfectly showcases the aggressive attitude that the song gives off and P!nk's humorous personality. I think it stands out from other videos, particularly breakup ones, because of the grabbing visuals (driving a lawn mower in L.A. streets, cutting down a tree, getting naked on the red carpet, etc.) and also because through all of the chaos, P!nk still manages to have sentimental moments in there by including her husband in the video and having headlines about their separation move around behind them during the bridge.
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Content and Briefness: 32pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 32pts
Number of Errors: 18pts
Punctuality and promptness: 9pts
Total: 91pts
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Simon1120: And the MTV Video of the Year goes to.... BAD ROMANCE. There is no doubt that this is one of the leading top music videos in the late 2000s. Lady Gaga has indeed brought the standard of a quality music video to a higher level. After years and years, most music fans will still be able to recall the highlighted music fashion and the icon of music video: Lady Gaga and her presence in Bad Romance. Nowadays in the music industry, the single has become one of the few artistic evidences that combines a mastered song that gives a singer her signature hit, and a mastered music video that identifies her as a music icon at the same time. The video achieves tons of positive critic reviews for illustrating the risqué and symbolic nature of the plot in its very artistic direction and vivid imagery. Without overusing any thrilling images, the video is able to express the concept of the abstract monsters, who rescue Gaga's loneliness away from the men who allured her with the romance that never works out. Not only because of such a creative plot rhyming along so well with the addicting 90s pop experimental background, the entire music video with its every single scene show that Gaga is able to maintain her hitting streak of generating powerful fashion images to accompany her music and stage presence in front of the camera. Further than that, the choreography is another reason that helps the video being nominated for multiple VMA awards, it was compared at some certain level to Michael Jackson's Thriller that it has the powerful robotic dance moves, and zombie-like arm movements to support its various themes for being kidnapped in the coffins, being seduced with a lap dance, then cat-walking in front of a mirror, and paying revenge with sinister flames at the end. Again, with its iconic and "wicked" sex appeal ideas, this music video deserves to be ranked in the same levels with all the top possible epic music videos.
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Content and Briefness: 28pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 33pts
Number of Errors: 17pts
Punctuality and promptness: 8pts
Total: 86pts
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Tylerbv: I chose this video as my favourite video of all time for many reasons. The first reason is the great cinematography of the video. The imagery, as seen in the eight ball keychain, the cars, and the headlights are all great ideas. The whole video is a giant mystery, and we're never really sure who's doing what, which adds to the dark setting and creepy theme of the video. The acting is superb by Carrie, the mistress, and the husband, and at certain points of the video, Carrie does a superb job of appearing possessed by the car. The final twist is my main reason for adoring this video. After a great, dark, video with tons of symbolism, great acting, and awesome story-telling, the video does a complete turn at the very end. Just when we think the story's over, and the two women have finished their dastardly deed, we learn something else that is a key element to the story. The video finishes with very creepy piano music, and the sight of Carrie and the mistress riding in the car, with no driver. The car is driving itself, as it is possessed. This allusion to the great film 'Christine' by Stephen King adds that extra special touch to the video, and every viewer is shocked at the end of the video. Because of this, I chose this video for the challenge.
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Content and Briefness: 31pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 33pts
Number of Errors: 16pts
Punctuality and promptness: 7pts
Total: 87pts
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TheResonantZune: Now I could have chose this song for the sake this video was awarded an actual VMA, or the fact its really catchy enough for Pitbull to use it in his new top 10 single, I’ve always liked this song even as a kid. There was something incredible in seeing a keyboard’s lights go crazy during the keyboard playing this song that was so amusing as a child. Anyway this video has a simple story line, a girl falls for a boy in a comic book, with really cool hair, who happens to be a racer or something. Its just really cool to see the sketches seem to groove well with the song. Its much better then the original video too. Plus there isn’t really any video that emulated the video like this without paying some sort of homage to this very video. I mean its pleasing to the eye. Since this is a competition about songs as well, this song has decent vocals, but background keyboards and synthesizers which is semi –relevant now, make this song timeless and a rightful one hit wonder in the US more so then Gangnam Style or Harlem Shake. I love it so much
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Content and Briefness: 33pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 33pts
Number of Errors: 16pts
Punctuality and promptness: 6pts
Total: 88pts
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theoyella jukebox: One of the most critical aspects of a great music video is whether or not it captures one's attention and paints a lasting, defining image in the mind of the viewer. But it is a fine line, some videos can seem overdone to some people and to others may be just right. I believe Gotye, currently one of my favorite artists, captures both of these aspects in his music video for "Easy Way Out," a flop single from his 2012 album Making Mirrors. The narrator in the song is a man who is bored with his life, plagued with frustrations and paranoid thoughts, and empty. He tells himself time and time again that "it's alright now" and masks how he really feels with "a brave face"; these feelings "have a habit of persisting" and ultimately he finds himself "looking for an easy way out." The video captures this perfectly. In the beginning, he gets up and goes about his normal, average, dull life. He smokes a cigarette, goes to work (a job that he's obviously very bored with), reads the paper on the train back home, uses the toilet, and takes a shower. The video captures all of these scenes from the middle of everything, in a wide-sweeping continuous panaroma. The second time around, is very clear that the character that Gotye is portraying is exasperated and bored to death of his mundane life. He gets up out of bed reluctantly, gets dressed sloppily, pours out some coffee, drinks it after coughing from his cigarette smoke, goes back to his office job that he hates, sleeps on the train, reads the newspaper, uses the toilet, takes a shower...and it keeps going around and around. The next time around, he sets his newspaper on fire with cigarette. In the next scene...he is at his boring office job, and now...he's banging his head violently on his typewriter and "blood" splats everywhere. Then he's on the train, then the toilet...but by now, everything is catching on fire (even his poor cat). His bedroom is engulfed in flames when he wakes up. His kitchen...completely destroyed, then you see Gotye lying there at his job where he was yesterday presumably dead. You might not notice the visual decay of the scenery the first time, but when you watch the second time, the third time, the fourth time...you see something you didn't notice, you see something new every time. Near the end, Gotye is sitting on the train (which is completely covered with graffiti by now), then his bathroom, and then ... the scene finally transitions to him back at his bedroom, which has been completely destroyed by the fire. He sings "looking for an easy way out" as the scene literally burns up, like a flame to a piece of paper. I think this is may be one of the best videos I've seen. The way the effects were done were amazing, the way the camera goes around in circles to show the way we can go around in circles our entire lives, the way the scenery darkens and darkens. Gotye has some amazing symbolic videos and this is one of my favorites by him. I hope you can see the magnificence of this video, too.
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Content and Briefness: 27.5pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 32pts
Number of Errors: 18pts
Punctuality and promptness: 4pts
Total: 82.5
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Kavish: This video is the first video that caught my attention when I was just starting to get into music. Being an Evanescence fan since their debut, I connected to them really quickly and when this video got released, I could totally relate to it. Not only does the song seem like it's something written from my point of view, but the video looks like a theme video of my personal life. I've lost of lot of loved ones while growing up, and while this song reminds me of them, the video reminds me of who I am. Amy Lee is a ghost in the video and she is never seen touching the ground. She is walking on a fountain, lying on a car or a roof, and sitting on a tree. It portrays that thin line between life and death to me. We may be living in this world, but at the same time, we are not really here. Physically we are, but mentally not. And this reminds me of my darkest times when I think of the people I have lost. I often feel like they are here with me, and I often wish I was in 'their' world. And that's what this video represents to me. The concept is very simple, but it means a lot to me. This is why it is my favorite music video. The fact that it is in black and white makes it even more reminiscent of the past and brings this sad moment. Also, being a huge Evanescence fan, this video means something to Evanescence fans in the sense that Ben Moody (the one who collaborated on the song + video), left the band two weeks after shooting the video. It was a sad moment for Evanescence fans, and this is something we all remember while watching the video. On an ending note, I don't think that a great music video is one where there is perfect editing, or dancers, and so on. For me, a great music video is one where you can feel the emotions, and get what the song is trying to portray. And that's what this video does to me. Chills, and feels.
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Content and Briefness: 30pts
Catchiness and well attractive: 32pts
Number of Errors: 18pts
Punctuality and promptness: 3pts
Total: 83pts
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
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I did great! 
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Congrats, you got the highest score.
But only by .5 
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
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Originally posted by Inner Insanity
Congrats, you got the highest score.
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Thanks.
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/31/2012
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Sorry for the length. 
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Member Since: 11/27/2008
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Lord, I need to send in my scores.
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Member Since: 1/3/2011
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Wait 2 judges walked 
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
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Mess.
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this game taking forever 
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Member Since: 5/27/2009
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I'm out with or without the judges scores
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Inner Insanity!!! 
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Member Since: 9/15/2012
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I never got any PM with entries or instructions on what to do.
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Member Since: 11/15/2010
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Originally posted by AdamAL4
I never got any PM with entries or instructions on what to do.
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yes!! you're back!!!
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Member Since: 11/15/2010
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Originally posted by Inner Insanity
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WTH,!!! Should say SyntaxError not Inner Insanity!
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