After you win first place in the python-whacking contest in Florida, you might be tempted to spend some of that $1500 on a famous Everglades Pizza featuring frog legs, gator meat, and ground python. Know that the Everglades’ superintendent highly recommends against doing so. “For some reason, the pythons that are coming out of here, [ more... ]
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Setting up a video contest seems like a lot of fun, but then you realize you have to watch hundreds, maybe thousands of long videos and try to fairly judge them. V.I.O. has found a way around that by having a video contest with videos are limited to 10 seconds each. To enter, you simply [ more... ]
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Are you a knife person? Then friend of The Goat and Midwesterner the Gear Junkie has a contest for you. It’s called “Your Knife Story” and you have to submit a 100-word story about a knife and then share it with your friends to be entered. They’re giving away $5k in prizes (not all of [ more... ]
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Yesterday Teton Gravity Research announced a video contest for skiers called the CO/LAB. They’re asking people to send in stuff they’ve shot, edited, and scored, though instead of offering some garbage like a sponsored trip or some free skis, they’re going to hand out $100,000 to the winner. The films will be due sometime next [ more... ]
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Reel Rock is asking people to visit their competition page and select which of their 13 finalists you think should have their short film included in the annual Reel Rock tour. I watched two videos while I was on their page, and they were a bit funny. But if you think I’m going to sit there and watch all 13 you’re crazy. Not that it matters for these kinds of competitions. Whoever can mobilize their families and Facebook friends to register and vote the most will win. Good luck competitors!
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My friend the Gear Junkie is offering to take the lucky winner of his Most Durable Person Contest to Utah for some kind of all-expense-paid vacation. The particulars of the contest are on his site. I didn’t read the details but apparently HE WILL NOT SLEEP WITH YOU if you win, so, you know, there’s [ more... ]
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The helmet cam maker Contour (who’s currently battling with GoPro to outfit every teenager with a camera) is running a March Radness contest. They’re asking people to submit ski or snowboard videos, and then they’ll select 32 to go head-to-head. One bracket will be ski videos, the other snowboard. The winner gets an all-expense paid trip to shoot with either Standard Films or Poor Boyz. Submit your video here.
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Warren Miller is truly old school. The gentleman is running a contest, but instead of some YouFace, mobile FourSquare mayor-off, he’s asking people to write essays about their first time on skis. At 500 words I will be unable to relate my daring nighttime ski-escape from the Bolshevik invasion of the Upper Peninsula, but I’m [ more... ]
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Trade your contact information for a chance to win big. You can give us the email address you use for spam, just be sure to check it to see if you won. Enter To Win 3 nights at the Cliff Lodge and 3 days of Tram/Chair skiing, The North Face outerwear, Dynastar Skis, and The [ more... ]
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Here’s an idea – you design the graphics some skis for us and we’ll give you a pair for free (then we’ll sell your design and make billions – BILLIONS!). G3 is running their annual ski graphics competition, and this year the winning design of the Manhattan skis will be sold exclusively on Backcountry.com. It’s [ more... ]
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