We’ve got a winner to the Themetacular Contest, and his name is DJ Shox. Wow. I didn’t expect such a turn-around, but apparently, Shox has been hitting the campaign trail. Like. A. Madman. His rendition of the theme song will now land a coveted spot in the Season Finale intro sequence.
Congrats, dude, you earned it. To hear more of DJ Shox’s compositions, feel free to listen at your heart’s content.
To everyone else who entered, much thanks for participating, we really loved hearing all that you guys put out there for us to enjoy. It was such a great thing to see this community jumping into something like this. Not everyone’s favorite won, but hey, that’s why we vote.
Me thinks we need more contests in the future. If you somehow missed all of the excitement, you can go listen to the finalists. But for now, here’s your Miss America:
http://www.smoothfewfilms.com/audio/contest/finalists/tlwcontest_DJShox.mp3
First
Congratz to DJ Shox!!!!!
You are the winrar of the interwebs!!!
WOOOO……. nice man 😀
[quote comment=”6296″]First
Congratz to DJ Shox!!!!!
You are the winrar of the interwebs!!![/quote]
Lololololol 😀
prolly the most crazy turn-around evar!
:(, I was going for Lars, but I mean what are you gonna do?
Great work man you earned that.
Thanks guys!
I had the help of a massive community from Flash Flash Revolution, with 60,000 active members who helped chip in and spread the word. I also had help from a lot of people on Steam, as well as getting an announcement placed on Xanatos’ Steam Community page. The entry speaks truth, I contacted people night and day for hours on end to get votes, and I even had a “campaign manager” haha. It was a fun ride doing all that and pretending to be some kind of presidential nominee. At one point I was considering making flyers and promotional material.
Also YOU GUYS helped decide your favorites, and that’s what’s important too. I was impressed to read that some of you actually explained your reasoning and your critiques of all the finalists, and it was awesome to read all the different ideas on what The Leet World should sound like. I was rooting and voted for John Kozera, simply because his entry was definitely unique, and to do it live was awesome. I know what it’s like to go through mic placement, sitting there doing take after take, mixing it all down just right, etc, and I’ll tell you guys, it can get frustrating sometimes to go through all that trouble. So kudos to John for making it extra awesome!
Every one of the entries were amazing, and I’m impressed by their skills with music. Tim W’s entry DEFINITELY needs to make its way somewhere in there, just too funny. Definitely a lot of awesome stuff all around, so I was honored to be a part of this. Once again thank you guys for giving me this honor. I’m just as excited as you guys are for the finale!
Also this is for you, my own tribute to you guys:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a70/djeros/win.png
seriously congrats dude…I knew youd win…yer rendition was mixed better and sounded more professional than Lars’s. Great job
Congrats
i was hoping for Lars Erik Fjosne
but congrats on winning DJ your version was my second choice anywhooo 😛
Nooooo you bitch! 😛 haha, crazy turn-around. Congrats dude, youve totally earned it, awesome remix! 🙂 I will get you another time… you just wait… yooooou juuust waaait….. !!!
NO WAY!!!
What a turnaround, well done Shox and Lars.
What a turnaround…
Tim :'(
fuck yea 🙂 if ur going to have a dramatic ending you should use Aaron A.’s song nice job all contestents congrad dj. i voted for you i was so shocked that you won by that much in the end .
Oh my god, the winning entry is pure win!
awesome song thats all to be said woot to teh dj
congrats to the winner
Congrats, great remix.
but i think the real winner should have been tim. Maybe they should do another contest for the most funny one.
umm wtf Lars got more votes !! !_!
Awe shox, that was cute, thanks. <3
I should’ve made more accounts and voted for Lars, thats probably what some people did for Dj Shox cuz that was a hell of a turn around. Still like Dj theme as well.
So you should have cheated so that a contest you have no personal stake in could go the way you wanted? Classy. 🙂
Actually, we set the contest up to work so that votes were logged by registered user and IP. We had a good contest, we don’t need somebody throwing accusations around.
that was epic!
Wow, Shox did a good job on getting people to vote for him, he earns it if he asked that many people… Anyway, Congratulations DJ Shox, I love all your work and it all turned out good for you. ^^ Goo-bye
wow i really thought Lars was gonna win what a turn around. Personally i think DJ Shox’s version is crap but thats just me. well done!!!
[quote comment=”6319″]So you should have cheated so that a contest you have no personal stake in could go the way you wanted? Classy. 🙂
Actually, we set the contest up to work so that votes were logged by registered user and IP. We had a good contest, we don’t need somebody throwing accusations around.[/quote]
LOL i have another pc with a different I.P and i could of voted with another account but i didnt :P. Sorry for my last comment WELL DONE SHOX U ROCK (and ur not crap)
I was rootin’ for Lars (like pretty much everyone who’s posted a comment) but congrats to you winner. I cant wait for the Finale!
Amazing, I thought Lars was in the clear. Congratulations, honestly. You’ve earned it by your amazing skills, make me so proud. And, I am so happy that we (the community) participated as much as we did. I had high hopes that were exceeded :).
Eddy, you should check your PM’s and look for the one I just sent you about a really really smart, fun, creative contest idea.
-G
Good Job!
How the hell did Shox won?? I saw Lars from the top.. OMG !! That Was So Fast!!
Did he Cheat or something.. I think somethings going on around here..
Personally i thought Lars Erik’s one was best, but hey you earned it.
[quote comment=”6334″]How the hell did Shox won?? I saw Lars from the top.. OMG !! That Was So Fast!!
Did he Cheat or something.. I think somethings going on around here..[/quote]
What Franzcis066 said…yeah last time I check (like 2 days ago) Lars was way ahead of everyone else.
How the heck did Shox jump to 45% in like 1 day??? I’m not really jumping into conclusion that he cheated or anything but is there like a miss calculation or something???
1 word WOW
damn shox u got so many votes in a NIGHT last time i checked around evening i guess lars was winning and had alot more votes then you.I mean WOW.Well either u or lars had to win anyway.It was really hard to decide who i should vote for but i ended up voting lars xD.You both are great.Im glad its not anyone else then lars and u (no offense to others XD)
[quote comment=”6336″][quote comment=”6334″]How the hell did Shox won?? I saw Lars from the top.. OMG !! That Was So Fast!!
Did he Cheat or something.. I think somethings going on around here..[/quote]
What Franzcis066 said…yeah last time I check (like 2 days ago) Lars was way ahead of everyone else.
How the heck did Shox jump to 45% in like 1 day??? I’m not really jumping into conclusion that he cheated or anything but is there like a miss calculation or something???[/quote]
Guys, please stop throwing around these accusations of cheating. We are well aware of the possibility of ballot stuffing in these online contests, and we took EVERY measure we reasonably could to prevent that from happening.
Votes were counted by 1) user ID 2) ip address and 3) cookies. It is surely possible for one person to vote more than one time, but it’d take a hell of a lot of effort, and there’s only so much we can do. What happened here is that Shox went out there and campaigned and got people to come to our site and check out the contest.
We know this because we have a tracking and analytics system that tells us exactly where everyone comes from and how many of them there are. We are all for this kind of campaigning. It’s a completely legitimate way of doing things, considering our system prevents folks from turfing accounts and voting repeatedly. Shox worked hard to get the vote.
Holy crap that was the niggest combak EVAR
BIGGEST EVAR COMBAk
shox FTW!! Maybe he had a lot of ppl he knew that were gonna vote for him wait until the last night! 😀 his was the best imho and im glad he won! 🙂
DUDZ…DJ SHOX DJ SHOX DJ SHOX DJ SHOX FTW FTWFWTFWT… i loved his…even my sister who doesnt watch the leetworld loved it and she voted for him
Proxy is good isnt it ?
I want to hear Lars in next episode D:
Bull. I sense cheating. I don’t give a crap if you have to signup, that doesn’t prevent cheating. Lars should have won. I really don’t like Shox’s remix (in fact, I hate it [sorry, not into the over the top club techno]).
Lars:
You should have won.
Sometimes, things you like lose. Anybody that follows Houston sports would know that for a fact ;).
If we suspected cheating, we’d definitely be looking into it. You don’t have access to our analytics, and you can’t see the hundreds (maybe more than a thousand) visits that Shox sent to the Themetacular post from the posts that he made on other forums, etc. Lots of links from lots of places, where people commented to say that they were voting for Shox. Bottom line is, he worked hard to get those votes, and he got them.
I don’t want to have to close this post off to comments, but if you can’t stop with the wild (and completely unfounded) accusations, we might have to. Haha, I’d hate for this to be the last contest we do, but all of this bickering is souring what I think has been an awesome thing. We got great entries, great comments, great participation.
This was not my favourite composition, but I believe this one is more suitable for (an ending or last episode opening).
Congrats DJ!
Lars was way better. Its gay that DJ Shox actually had to go “recruit” people so they could vote for him. In my opinion Lars got the vote of the community and DJ Shox beat him by making his friends vote for him. Cheap.
Guys, please. Chill out. Face it, no one cheated or would have. DJ Shox won. I’m sure that Lars asked for people to vote for him too (Not sure about that!!!).
I think it’s cool that everyone is so into the contest but, it’s over and you need to stop complaining about who won. If there is evidence however of any cheating then he who has that should give it to Eddy, Nick, Daniel, Jace, or Jeff. Other than that, it’s over and done. Please just move on and be proud for Shox and for the contestants who were finalists.
-G
I’m just giving my opinion here though. I don’t think it really fair for Lars.
I know that Shox worked hard to get lots of people to vote for him on his “CAMPAIGN”. But this is not presidential election, you voting for “which song is best for LEETWORLD”, you not voting on the person, you voting on the song. What Shox did is he got a crap load of people to jump on his “wagon”, they don’t give a crap about what Lars song have to give…
VOTE FOR THE SONG, NOT FOR THE PERSON. Many people in this community know Lars was much better, WE WANT A GOOD INTRO SONG
Doublepost for the win:
Maybe Lars already has enough publicity through Lit Fuse. He’ll continue to get more. It won’t hurt for another artist to hit the Machinima market. Someone IRL may offer someone a job based off of what they produced for the community for free.
You never know what will happen, so best bet: Ride it out and see what happens.
If Lars really did the same thing then shame on him too…
This is why I hate public vote, lots of crap going on between the real vote.
I could always skip the lousy intro, it not even that important to waste your time going around recruiting people…lol
For the future( if there still going to be contest like this ), voting system should be more like American Idol, where public vote only some what effected, but the real decision should base on real judges…maybe Ned as Simon and the rest of the Leet team.
Hmm. I was hoping Lars would win, but congrats to DJ Shox
I wanted to vote but my request to sign up got cancelled along with my Gravatar! *sobs*
Xplore Insanity said what I was going to point out, isn’t it suspicious that Lars fans dominated the comments, yet DJShox won? And even here, there are many “I voted for Lars but congrats Shox” comments.
And the campaign thing is bullshit. It’s all about the sound of the song, not the liking of the person.
I know I sound like a sore-ass loser, but this is not right at all. I’m very disappointed in this.
It will hurt if another Machinima artist hits the scene. The reason is that if that artist is no good then the quality of the Machima goes down with it. I call bullshit on DJ Shox. Come on guys, Lars was the real winner because the majority of the community voted for him. In a last ditch attempt to win, DJ Shox “recruited” people to vote for him and not his stupid intro song. You see it in all these post, we wanted Lars to win because he had the superior song. If you guys go with DJ Shox you will dissapoint all of the community.
Vic has it in the bag.
LARS = EPIC WIN!!!
HELL YEAH VIC!!! I SECOND THAT!!!
Everybody know Lars song kick some ass!!! YOU VOTING FOR THE SONG, NOT THE PERSON
Shox got no skill, he just hiding behind his friends asses.
ok, I have to say my piece on a couple comments here:
1:[quote comment=”6357″]For the future( if there still going to be contest like this ), voting system should be more like American Idol, where public vote only some what effected, but the real decision should base on real judges…maybe Ned as Simon and the rest of the Leet team.[/quote]
American Idol’s judges pick the finalists in the beggining, after that it’s out of their hands and the public gets all the power. Exactly like this vote. Just thought I ought to clear that up.
2:[quote comment=”6361″]It will hurt if another Machinima artist hits the scene. The reason is that if that artist is no good then the quality of the Machima goes down with it. I call bullshit on DJ Shox. Come on guys, Lars was the real winner because the majority of the community voted for him. In a last ditch attempt to win, DJ Shox “recruited” people to vote for him and not his stupid intro song. You see it in all these post, we wanted Lars to win because he had the superior song. If you guys go with DJ Shox you will dissapoint all of the community.[/quote]
There is SO much I disagree with in here that it’s not even funny. first off:It’s a vote, and you all are playing real sore losers on this. I voted for Shox from the start because I thought his fit the show best (there’s a comment in the vote thread explaining my views), I’m as amazed as anyone else about this turnaround, but there is no sign of foul play here. He did what anyone trying to win a vote for ANYTHING will do: convince people to pick him. That’s what a vote is, so quit this “cheating” crap. Lars probably did some to, and that’s totally fine as well. It happens, and you need to get over this grudge you have. And telling the Guys that they’ll disappoint their fan base if they don’t do what you want? That’s low. this is Player-like behavior “ZOMG WtF ChEatErS!!1!”, and it’s ruining what should be a very cool moment in Smooth Few Films history. Don’t be a kill joy man, why can’t you just roll with it? Does it really matter that some guy you probably don’t even know won an online vote and you picked one of the other guys? Just let it be man. Oh, and have you considered the fact that the people who voted for him haven’t posted because they won, and the Lars’ supporters have because they didn’t and felt obligated to be heard? I wasn’t planning on posting until I saw all this bashing and fingerpointing going on. Think about it before you end up as the little n00b who cried hax, k?
ANYWAYS… congrats to DJShox, can’t wait to hear his work in the (three-part) finale!
Soup Bandwagon?
Hey Ned, what kind of soup?
I read your previous post, and, personally, I don’t give a damn if Shox becomes president or Lars becomes a famous rapper. A true Leet World fan knows that it’s not about popularity. It’s all about whether it sounds good or not. And it’s very evident that this turned out to be a popularity contest, which is definitely not what it is supposed to be.
It’s just a theme song contest, people! Chillax a little. 🙂
A few things should be said before I close this post.
Comments don’t determine the overall thoughts of the community. Thousands of people come here everyday (yes, thousands), but only a hundred or so comment. Just because 5-10 are vehemently voicing opposition doesn’t mean the whole community is upset, either. The few don’t speak for the many.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m super proud of this community’s passion for what we do. All of this riled-upness comes from your love of the show. But yes, a couple of you really are acting like sore losers over this.
And a few of you are being downright rude towards people that worked hard on something creative. Say what you want about the contest and complain that it wasn’t fair (even though Lars posted a link on his website too and told people to vote for HIM, just like the other contestants no doubt did)…
However, don’t be a jerk about someone’s hard work. It’s immature and frankly, disappointing.
I believe Jonathan Coulton, the writer of Still Alive, sums it up perfectly when he commented on people bashing fan-made tributes to his work:
“Really? This is a good use of your time, to make someone you’ve never met feel bad…? Where’s your thing that you made and put online for everyone to see…?
My hope is that the rise of amateur content and all these channels dedicated to circulating it is creating a race of super humans who have extra thick skin… It takes a lot of guts to put yourself out there. Believe me, I know, I spent nine years in a day job because I was afraid to do it. So it drives me nuts to see people lobbing bullshit negativity into the crowd… if you don’t have a piece of yourself to contribute, keep quiet. The rest of us are working here.”
So, in the interest of not furthering the poo-slinging, I’m going to close this down. It’s unfortunate that the actions of a few have brought it to that. Once again, congrats to DJShox, and thanks everyone for voting!
Also, go look at this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JUhM0BrZjsM 🙂