So, yah, you might remember this video "Cylindric Router (Fright Machine)" that I posted a couple months ago, and I may or may not have mentioned that I also entered it in Atari's "Make Something Unreal" contest. Well, as it turns out, my video was chosen as a finalist under the Matinee/Machinima catigory of the conte...st (the catigory I submitted it in, no less) as one of 8 finalists of the 19 submissions (only 19?).

What does this mean? I have a chance at a 1st place prize of $5000? Eh, technically yes. Of the 8 finalists, the 5 top-ranked submissions will win a prize ($5000 for 1st, $2000 for 2nd, $1500 for 3rd, $1000 for 4th and $500 for 5th) and I'm assuming those placed 6th-8th don't get crap. Either way, my video was chosen as one of the top 8, so I have a chance of placing for a prize. However, the cool people over there at Atari decided to not notify any of the finalists that they had been chosen (or, at least not me and 1 other submitter) as a finalist. So, I'm guessing they haven't contacted me either because I've been disqualified or because I didn't place in a paid position.

I've been really bummed about it and really anxious to find out what is going on. What was supposed to happen was from November 1st to the 13th, the submitters would have a period where they can re-submit their projects after polishing them up for the final judging, however neither me nor at least one other person has received any information. Best case scenario is they have just been delaying the notification (since it hasn't been posted on their main page yet, in fact I had to browse their forums to discover that I actually was a finalist in the first place) and they will push back the deadline for re-submission.

I don't really care about the re-submission anyway, since going in and polishing it up and re-recording it would take a lot longer and more work than I'm comfortable with. I just wish they would contact me and confirm that I actually AM a finalist or at least have the nerve to tell me that I didn't win -.- So I don't know. I hope ya'll will wish me luck and all that good stuff, and hope that my video will be scored high enough to finish in a paid position. I doubt it will make 1st place (though would be amazingly good for me if it did), but even 5th place would be wonderful. I am hoping and very anxious about it, but I'm trying my best to not get my hopes up really high just in case I don't place in a winning position. *sigh* I wish I hadn't stumbled onto this post in the first place :C I wish they would at least contact me to let me know what's going on, or at least post updates on the website or their forums.

To check out the video again, it's @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yhiuSY_F68

I requested it once as FA's LOTD but it never got chosen -.- go figure o.o