Update:

February 10th, 2012

Judging is now complete and all votes have been tallied for the viewers choice! We are working on banners as well as reviews. We do have quite a few of them to write so we appreciate your patience. We hope to have them done in a couple weeks, if not sooner.
Viewers choice went rather well and we will keep this going until further notice. Thank you everyone for being so compliant.

-- Gina and Diana

January 18th, 2012

To all SYTYCV contestants, viewers, and supporters:

We have now opened the voting for the no effects challenge. Each contestant received a video to upload which will inform their viewers that voting for this round is now open.
A play-list has been made for the SYTYCV channel. This is where viewers will be able to watch all the videos for the no effects challenge. Once watching through all of them, decide which video they like best and cast a vote. Viewers have a limit of 5 videos to vote for, and can not vote the same video twice.
A video has been uploaded to the YouTube SYTYCV channel. All votes must be cast on said video, or your votes will not count.

Where to cast votes: Here

Any votes made on the actual entry or the contestants 'vote now' video on their channel will not be contributed to the votes. Contestants are free to vote, but are not allowed to vote for them selves and are also only allowed to vote ONCE. For one video of their choice.

The viewers choice award will not reflect the judges scoring system. A vidder might not make it to the next round but still win the viewers choice award. Please keep in mind the viewers choice award is separate from the judges choices.

If everything runs smoothly with the voting system this challenge, we will continue to do it through out the competition. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask the judges. Good luck to all of you!

- Gina & Diana

January 16, 2012

Challenge 1 is officially closed! We do have a massive update to send to all contestants and we will be doing so shortly. Thank you all for entering.
Bloempje721 and Jocone ; it is unfortunate that you could not participate in the challenge. Good luck with your endeavors! We hope you a steady and healthy recovery Bloempje721. All the best with your decision Jocone.

January 9, 2012

We've had a few people need a deadline extension. We will move the deadline to January 15th, 2012. Hopefully this will prove useful to those who need it! Happy Vidding everyone.

December 6th, 2011

The first challenge for the Finalists is now up. The challenge is the 'no effects challenge".
If your name is on the Finalists list, you are taking part of this challenge. You can locate the list on the “Finalists' page. There are 52 finalists this year. Best of luck and congratulations to all of you! For tips, rules and guidelines on the current challenge please visit the "guidelines' page.

Dates have been pushed back due to extensions and delays in results. The deadline for the current challenge will be on January 10th. If an extension is required by enough people it will be extended.

This year we are introducing a viewers choice award per challenge. We have provided a video per finalist to broadcast the voting option and to announce their spot in this years finalists. Viewers will be able to vote at the end of each challenge. Finalists will post a link in their entry's description directing the voters to a separate video where they will be able to vote. Voting will begin once the challenge has officially closed. An update regarding the voting system will be posted January 1st. Contestants will receive further information regarding said videos once they submit their entries.

We want to give another huge thank you to our co -- judges Gaby and Michelle. We couldn't do this with out you ladies! We appreciate the time and efficiency in your judging.

Choosing this years finalists has been the most challenging to date. Every contestant did phenomenal! In the end it came down to the numbers in our scoring system. Please visit the "about" page to see our full judges criteria based on said scoring system. We want to thank those of you who entered but did not proceed to the next challenge, as well as congratulate those who did. We hope to see you continue video editing as well as show support to those who are still in the competition. Thank you & happy vidding!

If you have any questions on the upcoming challenge or anything else regarding the competition please feel free to ask.

--Gina & Diana

November 20th, 2011

We apologize or the lack of updates. We are working on results as we speak. This last round has been giving us a few issues since we have more work to do this time around as we prepare for all the challenges. The results will be posted shortly, just stay patient. There is no harm in asking. The dates on the site will be adjusted, and accordingly for school, work, holidays etc. We just ask that you continue to support the competition. We are doing the best we can to finish.


--Gina & Diana

November 9th, 2011

The Emotional Contrast challenge is officially closed. Thank you to all of you who submitted. Due to an extension in the deadline, results will have a slight delay. There is no set date for when the results will be up, but we hope to have them done asap. We thank you all for your patience. Thank you!

- Gina & Diana

October 28, 2011

We have decided to extend the deadline until November 5, 2011. We will be giving more updates shortly. Hope to see you all enter!

- Gina & Diana

October 6, 2011

Sorry for the delay everyone.
The Semi-Finalists results have now been posted. You will be able to locate them on the Finalists page on the navigation bar. In order to determine whether you will be taking a part of the EM.CO challenge please make sure your name is on the seniors list.

We want to give a huge thank you to all of those who submitted into the semi-Finals Jr round. To those who did not make it through this round, please do not feel discouraged. We encourage you to continue vidding and hope to see you all back for the following season! You all have amazing talent.

To all of you listed on the seniors list; you will now be taking part of the EM.CO Challenge. There are two groups for this challenge. Your name will be listed under the either group A. or group B. Each group contains a set of 3 different emotions that must be incorporated into their entry. The emotions corresponding to each group will be posted on your list. These lists can be located on the �guidelines' tab located on the navigation bar. There you will also be able to find further information regarding the current challenge. Congratulations and good luck to all of you who have made it to the Finals!

Finishing off, we want to give an enormous thank you to our phenomenal co-judges Michelle and Gaby which whom with out, this would not be possible. Thank you ladies for being great co-judges.

We are looking forward to seeing your entries. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to message us. Thank you and good luck! Happy Vidding :)

- Gina & Diana

October 2, 2011

An update is over due. We've had major technical difficulties with the site. Mainly the pages not working or being edited properly which lead us to update this late.

Unfortunately we are running a bit behind schedule. There were a quite a few contestants who entered their videos late which held us back a little in judging. There was a lot of mix up with the deadline as well. Please be sure to know exactly when that is. YouTube was also having a laugh because a couple contestants mentioned not seeing their entry after it was accepted. We aren't sure why this happens but it's always a good idea to double check in case!

We very much appreciate your patience and will have the results posted shortly. Sorry everyone.

date: Thursday, September 8th, 2011

The SYTYCV S3 Audition round is officially finished being judged. Results can be located on the �Finalists' page. We want to thank everyone who took part this year! Each entry submitted was a joy to watch and judge!

To those who made it to the Semi-Finals:
There are two groups of semi-Finalists. Please look for your name on both lists of Semi-Finals JR or Semi-Finals SR.
If you are on the Semi-Finals JR list. You will be participating in the current challenge to determine whether or not you will be progressing into our Semi-Finals SR. For guidelines on this challenge please visit the �Guidelines� page located on the navigation bar. Thank you!

If you are on Semi-Finals SR. list You will not be participating until the next challenge which will begin October 1st 2011. You have secured a spot in the competition until a later time. In the meantime you are more than welcome to show support to those currently participating. Congratulations and thank you for your patience.

To those who did not make it past auditions: We want to encourage everyone to continue video editing and expressing them selves through this art form. Each and every single entry we received was fantastic this year. Some did not progress due to misreading the rules, and others because of not falling under judging criteria. Setting the judging criteria aside, every entry was extremely intriguing. We were introduced to so many brand new fandoms and vidders thanks to all of you. Please do not feel discouraged, continue editing and expressing your love for said fandoms. Each participant did an outstanding job! Although you will not be taking part in the challenges, you're more than welcome to continue taking part of the competition by showing support to those editors who are. Thank you and happy vidding!

If you have any questions regarding why you did not make it past auditions, we suggest reading our judging criteria to get an idea of what we look for. That can be located on the �About� page. There were a few of you who did not follow rules through completely, main one being a minimum of 40 second snippets. We deducted points based how many rules were broken, which made your overall score suffer.We will not be able to answer individual questions as to why you did not progress, we sincerely apologize. If you would like to learn a thing or two please continue following the competition until the Finalist challenges.

Please don't forget to thank our amazing co-judges Michelle and Gaby who did a spectacular job! Judging all of the entries was extremely hard this year. We appreciate the hard work ladies, thanks a million.

If any of you have any questions regarding the current challenge don't hesitate to ask. Thank you for your patience, happy vidding!

- Gina & Diana

date: Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Thank you to everyone who auditioned for SYTYCV S3. The auditions are now closed and judging has begun. Due to the amount of entries we received in the last few days the results have been pushed back to September 8th. On the 8th a video will be posted regarding the semi-finals. A list of those who made it to the semi-finals will be posted here on the website. We appreciate your patience.
If you encounter any problems or have any questions regarding your entry feel free to ask in the tag board. Thank you!

- Gina & Diana

date: Monday, August 22nd, 2011

We are getting close to the end of SYTYCV S3 audition round. It is now one week away, closing August 30th 2011 11:59pm PST. If you were considering entering, please make sure you do before then.
For those of you who have entered and might know any one who could be interested in taking part - please share the audition round video in order to get the word out to all vidders. We want every vidder possible to have a chance to take part, we would appreciate the help in informing them. Thank you all, we are looking forward to seeing and judging your amazing entries!

We have cleaned up the entries, and the responses that have not followed the rules have been denied. We went through each video making sure they followed the rules and on the 10th and 18th all entries were up to date. If you submitted but did not see your video response it is because you didn't read the rules completely. We will be doing this again on the 25th, and all pending video responses will either be approved or denied. Please make sure to read the rules if you wish to submit.

date: Sunday, August 6th, 2011

We've added the season 2 awards under the finalists section.

Also, to all those who have submitted but have pending video responses: You need to read the rules, before we accept your video response. Read them thoroughly, and be sure to submit once you've familiarized yourself with them.

date: Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Video Package updated information: We would like your video video snippets to be a minimum of 40 seconds for the video packages. Each video snippet can exceed 40 seconds in length if you want to show us a bigger piece of your selected video snippet. You must keep a part or your whole video running for 40 seconds with out being cut.
Example:
Video a. 00:45 seconds
Video b. 2:00 minutes
Video c. 1:00 minute
Video d. 00:40 Seconds
You are not supposed to cut up your video into different parts and place it at random spots of your package. We are not asking for a music video of your music videos. Simply previews of the videos you feel showcase your editing style to it's full potential and versitality.

A rule has been added to the rule page
15. No collaborations are allowed. The video you submit must be a video of entirely your own edit. The only exception is if the collaboration/mep piece is 40 seconds or longer. For example - Four, 10 second pieces that = 40 seconds, would not be allowed. The 40 second piece from a collab/mep needs to be a complete continuity of editing. Also you'd need to re-upload only your piece, to avoid us judging the whole video, just your edited piece.

Date limitation Information:You are allowed to enter videos dated as far back as you please. However, we suggest entering newer videos since we would be able to get a better viewing of your style now as opposed to 11 months back. The choice is yours.

COPYRIGHT ISSUES INFORMATION: If you are having a problem uploading a video due to copyright. We will accept a link from another streaming site such as 4shared. In order for us to view this submission you will need to creat a text video which informs us of the link in the description, and that text video will need to be posted as a video response. The video response is crucial.


If you have any more questions feel free to ask. Remember to read all the rules & good luck!
- Diana & Gina

date: Thursday, July 28th, 2011

After the long wait, we have finally returned for Season 3 of SYTYCV!
We would like to thank everyone for their patience during our hiatus! Since season 2's end in 2010 - we have made quite a few changes to the competition.
If you are interested in taking part of SYTYCV this year, we strongly advise that you take a look around the site to familiarize your self with the rules, format, info & everything else regarding SYTYCV.
This will let you know what you're getting yourself into before you submit. This is a very time consuming and demanding competition. Please keep that in mind when considering your part in it :)

The judges of this years challenges will be:
Gina & Diana (SmokeyFizz) - Gaby (Gabygal7) - Michelle (Meeshell384)
[Gaby & Michelle are two of our last years finalists]
The audition round video will be posted on August 2nd, until then. Get ready and please spread the word. All vidders are welcome!

- Gina & Diana