Wow. I mean really, wow. Either the Samsung Galaxy S II is the hottest smartphone since Apple unveiled the iPhone, or a lot of you are just hanging out on Giz to get yourself free stuff. Either way, there were some seriously impressive entries to this comp. Unfortunately though, we only have three phones to give away.
Firstly, a note to everyone who destroyed their phones in order to try and win the Galaxy S II – I’m sorry, but you didn’t win. I hope you have a backup phone on hand…
Now, on to the winners.
It’s amazing how much effort you guys put into some of your entries. As such, all three winners submitted videos with their entries. So, without further ado, here are the winners:
*drumroll*
Wade:
And finally, Spik3balloon
This was easily the most difficult competition I’ve ever had to judge. Congrats to the winners – I’ll be in touch soon!
Elie
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:25 PMNaww… I wanted my shiny new phone :(
Anyway, congrats to the winners! :)
The Cracks
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:30 PM‘Grats Dawdle!
Joel
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:31 PMCongrats to the winners, not sure if someone with an iPhone 4 really needs it. Would have preferred to see it going to people that actually needed it but either way the effort was definitely there so well done.
Jack
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:34 PMSpik3balloon was awesome.
the other two, meh.
pollo
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:48 PMagreed Jack,
Spiki3ballon did well but the others… double meh.
xtranormal.com:
‘If you can type,
you can make movies…
and win gizmodo comps somehow.’
congrats though everyone…a win is a win!
Bad Loser
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:54 PMI agree. Congrats Spik3balloon – if there was a first prize, would be yours by a long way. More effort and fancy tools than inspiration from the other two. Can’t believe the theme of “my current phone is rubbish” won two of the three available prizes. Just give all three to Spik3balloon.
Caesar Wong
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM“Can’t believe the theme of “my current phone is rubbish” won two of the three available prizes.”
Too true. Just goes to show that thinly veiled begging trumps imagination and creativity in 2/3 cases! :-)
Reppa
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:55 PMI agree!
XtraNormal is just text to speech.
Spik3ballon was the best.
WTF
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:01 PMYeah, weird choices. Even the Angy birds guy was better than the Dawdle one!
WTF
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:02 PMHere http://youtu.be/QgmwyOAkZTo
aarick
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:52 PMAngry bird should have won! i agree..the text to speech one is just crap..dunno who was smoking what when they decided that was one of the top three.
Steve
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:51 PMMan, yeah, this guy definitely deserved it more than the 2nd entry. Much more effort and creativity. Bad luck.
Senna
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:32 PMI agree, i saw alot more better entries than the first two!
zzzzzzz
Divv
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:43 PMSeriously terrible!
Gabriel
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:45 PMI didn’t stand a chance hahaha these were great
Jonathan
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:48 PMWow, these are really the winners? Can we get some insight why these won? Or get a list of the top contenders?
Caesar Wong
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 6:45 PMYeah, just out of interested I’d be curious to find out whether any of the non-video entries even got close, ‘coz it seems like an unfair comparison pitting video against still pictures (or even just words). I put a fair bit of effort into my pictures, but they were nothing compared to the video entries.
Caesar Wong
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:50 PMCongrats to the winners!
Man, how can you compete with people like this who have both resources and talent (and a lot of time to waste, it seems)?
Bleh.
Wade
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:51 PMWow thanks Giz! I feel so privileged.
Sam Turville
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:54 PMCongratulations you three! Deserving winners!
Wish i could have had a camera to use to compete with, but i was the person who’s phone was drowned by his sister on his birthday a few days before this competition.
If you have a spare decent phone (which is now outdated by your Samsung Galaxy, basterds!) and would feel generous enough to donate it, email me.
Sam_Turville@hotmail.com
Ryan Kim
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:56 PMAm i the only one who doesn’t get the last two? And is the Dawdle entry even under the word limit??
Peter F
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:00 PMHaha he’s one word over. But if you include the text after his link he’s well over the 50 words.
Oh well good job guys.
Nick Broughall
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:01 PMWord limit was for the comment, not the audio in the video.
Peter F
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:04 PMYeah his comment was 51 words. If you include the text after he posted the link then he goes over by more than that.
DaveO
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:31 PMthe poem, not including the link or other text, is 51 words. then dawdle goes on to post more comments. plus the video made no sense. i smell a rat..
SthX
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 9:51 AMTwitter:
Bruff
Woke up to 400 comments awaiting moderation. People want to win a Samsung Galaxy S II, it seems…
lamboman007
@Bruff Wow. Here, I’ll help you out. @niewho Sughly and @Blaghman should win :D
niewho
@Bruff @lamboman007 @Bruff @Blaghman I like this tweet! ;P
Intrigue!
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:59 PMOoooh, over the word limit in the comment. Tsk tsk!
Evan
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 3:58 PMGood work guys, well deserved wins all round.
Caesar Wong
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:00 PMLOL at all the bitterness from people not winning. Sucks to be us, but unfortunately the T&Cs has the usual “Judges decision is final” clause so no matter how much breath we waste on this the winners will still remain the winners.
There’s always the possibility of a Samsung Galaxy S III comp next year :-P
Caesar Wong
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:07 PM… maybe with one to be given away as a readers’ choice to stop the subsequent bitching.
Reader Choice
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:44 PMThat’s actually a good idea! It would have also given Giz a lot more traffic…
Davey C
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:53 PMyeah it does suck to be us lol, but what i’m complaining about, as are many others, is that some of the other entries (not mine) were really creative and contained a lot more effort than dawdle’s video. also, one problem with “readers choice” is that people spam facebook to get their friends to vote for them, regardless of how much their entry sucks. it’s never fair :P
Reader Choice
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:36 PMTrue. So maybe one readers choice phone is a good call. But for now, let’s see some of the other talent. Post your favourites further down the comments.
Blaghman
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:05 PMGood work everyone, and congratulations to the winners.
Chuloopa
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:05 PMWow, some people on this site are seriously sore loser.. grow up guys… Seriously..
Congrats to the winners – especially dawdle – Kotaku Represent! lol
DaveO
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:50 PMare you serious? you do realize that dawdle didn’t do any of the animation in his/her video, right? also, if you looked through the other entries, there are tons of creative ones.
welbot
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 6:16 PMheh and Nick wonders why the Kotaku community is thriving compared to Giz. This thread says it all I think ;)
Dan
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:06 PMDam, wish I won a galaxy 2. Oh well, might buy one outright.
Yianni Soc
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:07 PMI Can’t believe I didn’t win! i was just about to actually submit an entry as well.
grats to the winners, be sure to ppost back how awesome it is.. or how much you sold it for on ebay. (ps: email me if you wanna sell it. haha)
Jim
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:15 PMThese were truly awful
Joel Eade
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:31 PMCongrat’s winners! Make’s my devil-horns-on-an-N97 attempt seem pretty lazy in comparison :)
Drew
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:32 PMYAY I’m getting a new Samsung Galaxy S II!! But didn’t win one from Giz. Mine is on pre-order from Optus. Can’t wait until Wednesday, even managed to get the day off work to play with it!!
Gratz to the winners!!
Sam Turville
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:39 PMHow much a month?
Davey C
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:40 PMi pre-ordered one too! i hope you’ve booked JUNE 2 as your day off work, and not june 1, as there’s a good chance our phones won’t arrive when promised by optus. even if they do, you might not get it til 5pm or something! go to work until you have your shiny phone, THEN take the next day off :P
Drew
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 7:50 AM@Sam. I went for the $59 cap plus $5 a month for the handset as well as about $8 a month for insurance.
@Davey I’ve spoken with the delivery dept yesterday who assured me I would be receiving it on Wednesday. One can only wait and hope. Stay tuned, will reply again once I get it.
Drew
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 5:45 PMWell my Samsung Galaxy S II has just arrived from Optus a day early!!! OMG I love this phone already!! Just simply amazing!!
BJ
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:45 PMLucky buggers, good luck to yus alls.
Reader Choice
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:46 PMSore loosers unite! What were your favourite entries?
Let’s see the full range of talent that Giz readers offer!
Lindsay
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:27 PMI am jealous of the winners but had fun hitting my girlfriends phone with an axe and filming it in slow mo. So not too much of a sore loser ;)
http://youtu.be/NltWVlWl2bA
Graham Jupp
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:42 PMOMG…. those red gloves…. ITS YOU! You were the guy in the forest. Haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJxTWvOzi9A
BTW, I am a literal sore loser, I still have thorns in my feet after running barefoot through the bush to make that video. But a big congrats too all the winners, Spik3balloon in particular as that effort was excellent.
Lindsay
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 8:41 PMHaha, the red gloves, the axe… I even have those boots! Hmmm…
Graham Jupp
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 10:47 PMYeah, I meant to mention the axe … We should really team up, Im sure we could make great C grade horror together. Think I’ll use a PC for editing next time though rather than editing it in-phone. The compression turned the fast scenes to mush after it was rendered, it wasnt meant to be pixel art. :(
Phil
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:46 PMThe deadpan humour from Brenton made me laugh.
http://youtu.be/3NjLeADaYWQ
Angry Bird
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 8:54 PMThe Angry bird one linked up top was pretty funny.
http://youtu.be/QgmwyOAkZTo
Jeff
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 10:56 PMOMG anyone see PeterF18 video? it was awesome… should have won… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy3SI0Amd_c
the videos at the end are hilarious!
dawdle
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:55 PMHurray!! :D Batguy should have deserved one too.
Jonathan
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 4:57 PMI’m soo jealous
MrTaco
Monday, May 30, 2011 at 5:33 PMHahaha, Spik3Balloon’s was amazing. Couldn’t watch Dawdle’s one because it didn’t work for me.
I can’t believe the brick guy wasn’t one of the winners though. I thought he would’ve had it for sure!
Prince
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 10:56 AMEr… which brick one are you talking about, lemonlime’s?