A little while back, we asked some of you if you would be likely to participate in a video contest on Trinding. With over 200 interested participants, we’re excited to announce that the video contest idea is now a reality! We hope that this will be the first of many awesome and inspiring Trinding video competitions to come. We’re expecting to learn a lot from our first contest and we’re hoping that the result paves the way to doing this regularly… so put your best feet forward and create some outstanding content! We know you can do it. And we know it’s going to be awesome!

How it works

All submissions must relate to the following theme: escape.

You may interpret this theme as broadly or narrowly and figuratively or literally as you wish. There is no constraint on what type of video you should make. It may be funny, serious, informational, or anything else. It could be a skit, a short film, a vlog, a music video, a belly-dancing tutorial—as long as it ties in well with the theme.

Your video has to have been made specifically with this contest in mind! And to help us determine that we'll look at the date your video was uploaded and we've got a few more rules...

Important: keywords

Have your idea yet? Ready to get out there and make something? Awesome, but there’s one more thing. To prove that you made your video for the contest, you need to include one or more of the following keywords. It may be central to your concept, or you may just slip in somewhere under the radar. As long as you use at least one.

Alternative option: if you have an idea but are having a hard time fitting one of the keywords in, you may instead include this clip at the beginning or end of your video.

Keyword list:

“It’s cold in here”

“Survive”

“Buttermilk”

“Wings”

“Fargo”

“Here we go”

“Bellicose”

“Salvation”

“Wanderlust”

“Conspicuous”

“Gentlemen, the game is on…”

“Tae-Kwon-Do”

“Bolivian llamas???”

Just a couple extra rules…

Okay, so there are a few very basic rules. Obviously, submissions must abide by the Trinding Community Guidelines. Additionally, submissions should be “share-friendly,” which means keeping swearing, violence, and mature themes to a minimal for this one. If you’d be embarrassed to show it to your grandma, it might not be share-friendly. Okay, that's it. We promise. No more clamping down on your creative expression!

How to enter

Entry is 100% free. The form for submitting your video will available on July 25th, 2017. The deadline for submitting is August 1st, 2017. To ensure that each video gets enough exposure to voting, we will (tentatively) set the date for announcing winners to August 5th.

How the submission form works

You can now submit your contest entry here!

How to win

All submissions that adhere to the rules above will be evaluated by 3 judges here on the Trinding staff. Each judge will have 1 vote towards the best video. However, the submission that receives the most upvotes on Trinding will gain 1 extra vote. In other words, there will be a total of 4 votes in play for the best contest submission. Make sure to get your friends and followers involved to vote for the best one!

The judges will also select 2nd and 3rd place winners. Also, if we get enough quality entries, we may even pick a top video in each common category.

How videos will be judged

We will be looking at overall production quality, entertainment value, relevance to the theme, originality, and anything else that may set your video apart as a top contestant.

Prizes!

Since Trinding is a brand new and still relatively small site, we aren’t able to offer awesome cash and tech prizes (we’re hoping that will change someday!). For our first competition, here’s what we have to offer:

1st place

Exposure from being featured on a banner that will be shown on Trinding’s main page

A permanent badge that will be displayed next to their username, indicating them as a 1st place contest winner

A permanent feature in Trinding’s “Contest Winners” page, which will go live after the contest ends

2nd & 3rd place

A permanent badge that will be displayed after their username, indicating them as a contest winner

A permanent feature in Trinding’s “Contest Winners” page

We’re also working on some new features to the site that we’d like to give the contest winners special access to, but that’s super secret.

Optional: use this clip at the beginning or end of your video to show that it was made for this contest.

Any questions or suggestion? Comment below!