Official March Forum Contest - $100+ Worth of Prizes!

Will you be entering in this contest?

  • Yes of course!

    Votes: 68 72.3%
  • No, but maybe the next one!

    Votes: 26 27.7%

  • Total voters
    94
  • Poll closed .

Koala_Steamed

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February Contest Winner

Hey Freedom! Family, congrats to our February contest winners winners. We all had lost of fun reading these, it was very hard to choose the winners with only a few votes between them!
1st place $50 cash prize @Korbin
Also steam game Flix and Chill... because you know valentines day and all that :)
2nd place $30 Steam game key Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide @TaylorGames
3rd place $20 Steam game key for Ryse: Son of Rome @HealPleaseHeal


March Contest!
All thumbs!

Details for the March contest
We are going back to the basics, this is something that all YouTubes have created and thought about, yes that's right it's thumbnails.... The image kind, not the ones on the end of your thumbs sort!


We want you to put your best thumbnail forward. We will only be judging one, so make sure it's your best. Also it must be included on your channel (it can't be one you have made for someone else).

The thumbnail will be judged on:
  • How clickable it is, does it draw your attention and make the viewer want to click it?
  • How it relates to the video, it should be clear from the thumbnail what the video will be and what's included in it.
  • Does it scale well, it may look amazing when it is blown up full scale, but if you have half the writings of Shakespeare on a tiny thumbnail it's going to be quite hard for the viewer to read. Don't over complicate it!

IMPORTANT

To qualify for this contest, make sure you follow these:

  • Must be a Freedom partner and have the Purple Freedom! Partner Badge to be eligible for the prizes.
  • Reply to this thread with the image of the thumbnail. Do not just post a video link. You can choose to post the full scale, the small version as seen on YouTube or both, long as it's the same image.
  • It must be your own, copying one off the internet or someone else will get you disqualified!

Prizes
We are having a total of 3 winners! The winner of this month’s contest will receive $50 in cash, 2nd and 3rd, $50 worth of steam game keys distributed between them. More prizes may be given out depending on the amount and quality of entries.

The forum team look forward to your entries. Best of luck to everyone!
Deadline for the contest is the 27th of March, results posted around the 5th of April.
 
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Theonicle

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this is what i like to see a contest where everyone can enter i hope lots and lots of peeps will enter and maybe help each other get better thumbnails ;)
awesome contest keep it up also koala you made a typo you typed you had lost of fun i think it should be lots of fun ;)
 

Crazylawrence

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Is it me or did you forget the change the deadline info before posting the thread? I'll be entering this one as I may actually have a video coming up in the next week or so which will have a nice thumbnail.​

He made a mistake, make that two for this thread already, nevertheless, who said Koala's were perfect?
 
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Nice new contest, i wont be entering this time but GG to the others who won the last contest with me,
and Good luck to those entering this one :D
 

zeke morgan

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Another wonderful forum contest there @Koala_Steamed , can't wait to see all the lovely thumbnails pour in :) - Also just to note Koala you may want to change the deadline date, because as it currently stands you are asking them to submit a thumbnail for this month competition by the 27th of last month - quite an impossible feat unless they can time travel :p
 
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_KenkaGaming _

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No, I am not doing this. My thumbnail skills probably hit rock bottom and besides photoshop is not working on my computer
 

ClerraBellis

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Oh I love making thumbnails so this is like my favorite contest. I've switched computers since I started making videos so I don't have mos tof my thumbnails saved. I guess I'll just choose the one from my newest video!
 

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