GoPro Contest December Winner

Jan 14, 2015

by Pinkbike Staff

GoPro and Pinkbike have teamed up to bring you a POV video contest like no other. We've had people from all over the world submitting their raddest POV footage in order to take a shot at winning $20,000 and all the glory that goes with winning the raddest POV contest ever! Here are the judges top three vids from November. Congratulations to Brook Dequesnel for taking the top spot and moving onto the finals!

#1 - Brook Duquesnel - Telonics

#2 - Olivier Cuvet - Gets Airline

#3 - Vince Bugni - Grandma's Kitchen

#4 - Mal Townsend - Warrimoo

#5 - Ryan Lloyd - Adelaide City Dirt Jumps

JUDGES SCORECARDS

AARON CHASE

Brook Duquesnel
Cinematography & Composition - 1st
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 1st
Performance & Style - 1st
Beauty & Lighting - 1st
Brook Duquesnel: OVERALL - 1st

Vince Bugni
Cinematography & Composition - 2nd
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 2nd
Performance & Style - 2nd
Beauty & Lighting - 2nd
Vince Bugni: OVERALL - 2ND

Olivier Cuvet
Cinematography & Composition - 3rd
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 3rd
Performance & Style - 3rd
Beauty & Lighting - 3rd
Olivier Cuvet: OVERALL - 3rd

PAUL RAK

Olivier Cuvet
Cinematography & Composition - 1st
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 1st
Performance & Style - 1st
Beauty & Lighting - 1st
Olivier Cuvet: OVERALL - 1st

Mal Townsend
Cinematography & Composition - 2nd
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 2nd
Performance & Style - 2nd
Beauty & Lighting - 2nd
Mal Townsend: OVERALL - 2ND

Vince Bugni
Cinematography & Composition - 3rd
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 3rd
Performance & Style - 3rd
Beauty & Lighting - 3rd
Vince Bugni: OVERALL - 3RD

KELLY MCGARRY

Brook Duquesnel
Cinematography & Composition - 1st
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 1st
Performance & Style - 2nd
Beauty & Lighting - 2nd
Brook Duquesnel: OVERALL - 1st

Olivier Cuvet
Cinematography & Composition - 2nd
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 2nd
Performance & Style -3rd
Beauty & Lighting - 1st
Olivier Cuvet: OVERALL - 2ND

Ryan Lloyd
Cinematography & Composition - 3rd
Perspective & Difficulty Shooting - 3rd
Performance & Style - 1st
Beauty & Lighting - 3rd
Ryan Lloyd: OVERALL - 3RD

Inspired? You can still enter...

You. Your bike. Any Line. Anywhere.
Submit your stunning, technical, or just plain rad raw one to two minute GoPro clips and you’re eligible for the $20,000 grand prize. The judges will also be selecting the best of the month and counting on the world’s vote to select monthly winners.

Dates:
October 30, 2014 – February 28, 2015

Location:
Planet Earth

Judging Criteria:
Cinematography and Composition (25%)
Perspective and Degree of Difficulty of Shooting (25%)
Performance and Style (25%)
Overall Beauty and Lighting (25%)

Prizing
$20,000 Grand Prize
$1,000 Monthly Winner

Contest Page
Full details, judging criteria and official rules here. Good luck!

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37 Comments

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kdstones (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:35)

I feel like #1 was picked solely because he was on a 4 wheeler. It was unique, but anybody who owns one of those bikes could have won according to the judging.

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dirtysanchez44 (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:18)

Number one was sick, but i seriously need some trails like those in 2 and 3 near me! Crazy

scott-townes (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:25)

This is turning out to be a very enjoyable contest. Loving the trails and that dude was ripping on the 4 wheeler.

cascadiac (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:27)

#3 was balckrock Oregon!! Still my favorite home trail system.

drummuy04 (Jan 14, 2015 at 15:56)

If I had a 4 wheeler, fire roads would start to be freaking rad to descend.

Zimmer68 (Jan 14, 2015 at 17:41)

There's some pretty rad fire roads out there, no joke. There's some steep, winding ones if you look around!

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nvranka (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:31)

#1....really? Cool that the guy is out there on a 4x, but that isn't telonics, it's a fire road. Weak.

ms-dos (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:17)

Yup, it's the Canyon Acres fireroad that's NEXT to Telonics. Very misleading.

rewob (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:07)

I was going to say... Laguna, really? But then I saw he was on four wheels. But then I watched it and reverted to my original reaction.

At least i have a better idea of what gopro and the judges want. Not just a sick line. Some personality.

bikerofestacada (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:04)

Thats me in #3! Congrats to the winner! I really want to ride that trail in #2.

TreyDownhill (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:20)

awesome riding man! Congrats

KonaOp-09 (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:05)

The trail in the Oliver Cuvet video is frickin sick! So smooth and dialed...

nohyphens (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:26)

I think this video should have won - easily the best

Zimmer68 (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:15)

yeah bro! YEAH BRO!

kri5ten (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:23)

Is it only me or is the #4 video speed up to look faster?

sawnoff666 (Jan 14, 2015 at 22:57)

That's my clip. Definitely not sped up. It has to be raw footage to enter the contest. I just don't like to wear my brakes out. Brake pads are expensive these days.

aly-14 FL (Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32)

You've got a properly sick trail there...very jealous

mddigger (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:46)

The trails in 2-4 are friggin crazy, definitely not your average joe trails.

glasgowdan (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:33)

I'm a bit disappointed that all the videos are smooth bike park style (perhaps with the exception of No4). Where's the REAL downhill?

mddigger (Jan 14, 2015 at 15:17)

Fest series is smooth ;-) I think gopro was lookin for the "wow factor" and some of these videos had some big drops. Stuff like rampage and joyride with jumps is just more mainstream than full on DH. Personally tho I think some gp footy of someone like ratboy literally flying through rock gardens should have won.

shotouthoods (Jan 15, 2015 at 19:08)

Nice clips. Am I the only one holding his head up while watching? I don't use a camera on the trail but if I could see just a little more of the trail ahead. I guess it is a matter of opinion.

Malcgambler (Jan 15, 2015 at 10:53)

I thought the idea was to see people riding self built lines filmed in an interesting way these kind of looked like people just hitting nearby spots with a go pro on. Maybe I've miss understood the point

Obeh (Jan 14, 2015 at 13:09)

4 and 5 seemed more worthy imo

YoKev (Jan 15, 2015 at 1:21)

I'm glad I wasn't asked to 'judge' these vids, as I not only DON'T know why the #1 is better than the rest, I don't think it's even as good as some of the others.
He's simply riding down a flat fire-road, albeit on some kinda 'vehicle' I've never seen before. Is that the reason?
I personally felt his camera should've been tilted up more to show more of the trail ahead, and with some of the other vids showing the riders clearing obstacles of all shapes and sizes, and the terrain definitely having a LOT more features, I would've picked different vids for BOTH the first and second place.
The second-place vid has his camera pointed down way too far, so you only saw the front of his bike, and just a smidge of the terrain out in front.
As far as the quality of the footage, again, others seemed to me to have more clarity.
I didn't read the rules, so I have no idea what they were looking for. As I said earlier, the only 'advantage' (for lack of a better word) I can think of was the type of vehicle he was on. It was definitely different than all the rest, so I'm guessing it came down to that.

cjkj1999 (Jan 16, 2015 at 10:27)

That moment when you realize... 360s are AWESOME!

dhfreerider20 (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:24)

#3 was the sketchiest line of all time

shosan (Jan 14, 2015 at 16:07)

that is canyon acres, not telonics.

lachlan-b-media (Jan 17, 2015 at 5:03)

Number 5 was filmed with my go pro and I uploaded it to my account. Ryan is such a rad rider!

dpoie5810 (Mar 5, 2015 at 19:03)

I like Brook's, because he's paralized from the waste down and it doesn't stop him!

ibishreddin (Jan 14, 2015 at 15:09)

I could have sworn this m.pinkbike.com/video/376962
Was going to win

oliv69 (Jan 15, 2015 at 0:19)

Yeah ! Don't understand the global ranking regarding to the judges scorecards, but stocked whatever !

seanblurr (Jan 16, 2015 at 8:51)

How can you judge these on cinematography and composition? It's a fricken helmet cam, yo!

Jiffla (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:04)

I agree with Kelly's scoresheet the most

fpmd (Jan 14, 2015 at 14:39)

Paul Rak read my mind.

vbsorin (Jan 15, 2015 at 0:14)

Insane run by Brook Duquesnel.

anchoricex (Jan 16, 2015 at 10:37)

How is cinematography a category when we're looking at helmet cam footage that can't be edited ?

thattailwhipthough (Jan 14, 2015 at 18:23)

sooooo dope