Golden Gnome Awards
The Golden Gnomes was the 3rd major video making competition held by Jagex. It differed to the past 2 Machinima competitions as it had an additional 5 category's to enter into, and resulted in 6 separate winners.
The Golden Gnomes were held as an event during RuneFest where attendees viewed and voted for their favourite entry's from each of the categories using small electrical voting pads.
Party Pete hosted the award ceremonies, and a selection of well known Jagex moderators including Mod MMG and Paul Gower, with a guest appearance by Excl, a previous Machinima competition winner.
Categories
For this competition, entrants had a choice of 3 Styles of video entries, which were Machinima, Live action or Animation, and for each of the styles, they could choose either the short story or RSMV (RuneScape Music Video) categories.
The categories were as follows.
- Best Machinima short story
- Best Machinima RSMV
- Best live action short story
- Best live action RSMV
- Best animation short story
- Best animation RSMV
For each of the categories, 2 entry's were selected as finalists.
Rules
What are the rules?
- Entries must be uploaded to Youtube, and sent as a link to the [email protected] email address with ‘RuneFest Youtube Competition’ as the subject line, along with the category/style you are entering your video as and your RuneScape username. Please do not attach a video file to your email.
- If you are under the age of 13, your entry must be sent from your parent or guardian’s email address.
- Entries must be no longer than 2 minutes
- All videos must include your username and the words 'Golden Gnomes' either verbally or in writing in your video. You must not use Youtube annotations to do this.
- Entries must be submitted before 12 midnight GMT (UK time) on the 16th August 2010. Any entries made after this date won’t be considered.
- All videos must comply fully with the Youtube terms of service and the RuneScape Rules of Conduct.
- Your video must be RuneScape related
RSMV Specific
- RSMV entries must use one of the five sound tracks supplied by Jagex at the start of the competition. These sound tracks can be remixed/changed as much as necessary. You may make additions such as vocals and sound effects, however these must be your own work and must not come from a copyrighted source. You can find these audio tracks here.<ref>Mod Hohbein. "The Golden Gnomes Competition - 19/07/10". N/A. RuneFest Forums. *</ref>
The finalists
Below were the twelve finalists chosen by Jagex:
Best Machinima short story (YouTube link)
- Untitled by Robz - Winner
- Untitled by bumbum007
Best Machinima RSMV (YouTube link)
- Untitled by Postrach2
- Untitled by Neon Slay - Winner
Best live action short story (YouTube link)
- Odd One Out by 1carrot - Winner
- The Barbarian Way by Mystic Man77
Best live action RSMV (YouTube link)
- The Switch by High Quota
- Untitled by KKComics - Winner
Best animation short story (YouTube link)
- Untitled by Mino-Tauros - Winner
- The Wilderness Gaurdians by His Lordship
Best animation RSMV (YouTube link)
- Untitled by Josh1391 - Winner
- Untitled by Green Tea3
Prizes
- A Big Ticket (an all expenses paid trip to the UK to visit Jagex Games studio)
- A Runefest goody bag
- Lifetime RuneScape membership
- A Golden Gnome award. (Pictured to the right)
Trivia
- At first, the animation category was not put forward as a category for the Golden Gnomes, but after a great deal of feedback it was introduced into the Golden Gnomes.
- The Golden Gnomes were the first RuneScape video competition to have more than one finalist and the first to introduce the Animation and Live action video categories.
- The Golden Gnome award is not in fact made of real gold, but made of a durable plastic, but is still gold in colour.
- During the award ceremony, Excl, a previous Machinima competition winner, made a special appearance to announce the winner of the Machinima Short Story category.