What's at stake? $10,000 USD Cash
The 7th annual Pinkbike Photo of the Year Contest is coming fast. The winner will join Steve Shannon, John Wellburn, Toby Cowley, Sterling Lorence, Christoph Laue, and Sean Lee in the PB Photo of the Year Hall of Fame and they could walk away with some serious cash.
Think you have a banger? This is your chance to see how you stack up against the best mountain bike photographers in the world. Any images uploaded during 2017, or
up until Wednesday January 24th, 2018, can be nominated. You can nominate up to three photos of your own, or from other photographers, for entry into the competition. Last year over
285,000 votes were cast until ultimately one image came out on top.
You have until Wednesday January 24th, 2018 to nominate your favourite shots.How Does it Work?
All photos taken and uploaded to Pinkbike during 2017 and before January 24th, 2018 that are nominated by users are eligible. Each Pinkbike user can nominate up to 3 different photos into the contest (
see how to nominate below). The judges will then spend several sleepless nights narrowing the nominated photos down to 32, after which we will open things up to the public. We will pit each photo randomly against another photo in a college basketball bracket-like showdown. At this point, users will vote on the match ups and the photo with the most votes will move onto the next round. So 32 photos will narrow down to 16, then 8, 4, 2 until there is a single photo deemed 2017 Pinkbike Photo of the Year.
The winner that is chosen by you, the readers, will receive a cheque thanks to SRAM, as well as the title of 2017 Pinkbike Photo of the Year.
Rules
• Everyone is eligible except for judges
• Only one photo can be selected from each photographer into the final 32
• You must be the photographer who took the photo and then have uploaded it onto your personal Pinkbike account to be eligible
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Nominations close, Wednesday January 24th, 2018, at 9am PST.Prizing
• Winner will receive $5,000
• Runner Up will receive $3,000
• Semi Finalists will each receive $1,000
Full rules and regulations can be found
here.
MENTIONS: @SramMedia
Shut up Shimano fanboy's, it's the current year...
1. You vote for what you like.
2. More people disagree with you than agree with you, so your choice loses.
3. You post a comment on the next round
“This is such bullshit, there’s no way this should have won”
4. You threaten to quit voting
5. See step 1
www.pinkbike.com/photo/15506950
www.pinkbike.com/photo/15362182
Hand em 10 grand, and they’ll be gone.
But don’t vote twice, it’s not right.
It’s marked to be logged so I’d get out there ASAP.
Head past the township of Mt Macedon, start heading up the hill for about 8 mins, turn right towards sanitarium lake, then it’s your 5th left to the car park.
First part is pines, second in natives.
Good luck
Just a thought, but this contest (and any contest really) can last for what, a decade? Decades? I’d never win this kind of contest; it’s not a personal thing at all. I just think it’d be killer if an organization actually realized this and adjusted for inflation.
Prizes for what "Prizing" might mean..... Taking off the last layer of a very tightly pass the parcel?
www.pinkbike.com/photo/14815567