"Ultimate Gran Turismo Fan" Contest Winners?

[spdfrks10]

congrats to everyone nothing better than Gran Turismo and its fans and community

 

[Jordan]

Congratulations, Jordan. I wonder how much weight they gave production value of your submission, because I am sure some people went insane putting something together. That is the only way I could see someone winning over you, is if they made a GT ad.

Maybe the Lucas Ordonez Make.Believe ad was the winning submission and Lucas won. I could see that beating out creating one of the most popular fan sites.

I spent about 4 days producing and editing my video entry, with screen shots of the site and Skip Barber footage of me on Laguna Seca. Regardless, the official contest rules made it clear that "video submissions must have never been published or professionally developed", and all entries were to be primarily judged based content, not creativity: "60% showing you are an ultimate Gran Turismo fan, 20% showing you are an ultimate car or race fan and 20% creativity". Anyways, they must have sent in good stuff, so congrats to both of them. 👍

I thought it was nice that in the story, they put a link in for GTplanet. That will for sure bring in some new members!

Yeah, I noticed that too and thought it was great, but it appears to have been removed.

 

[TorqueHappenS08]

Congratulations Jordan, Your a 1st place winner in our eyes, and that's what counts.

 

[steven]

Well done Jordan - and let's all hope you will remain to be the big GT fan you are now, because it brings us a lot of joy with the excellent site that you maintain.

 

[Rykon Zero]

Yep, Jordan. No matter what, you are still the number one fan in my, and many other peoples, eyes. Great job, on winning the prize and running this forum.

 

[ARDA_TIRMAS]

Congratulations Jordan, can we watch your video?

 

[Aldo]

Congratulations Jordan, very well deserved

I'm disappointed that my entry didn't get some recognition. Apparently playing GT for over 10 years is fine, but send them a film of yourself following Kazunori Yamauchi around everywhere and suddenly you've gone "too far".

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Congrats Jordan and thanks once again for the best site on the internet! 👍

 

[zed300]

Well deserved Jordan, after all the effort you have acheived for all of us here, it must be fulfilling to get some recognition from the instigator of your world wide community. 👍

 

[GTCr@zyPSP]

Props to Jordan

 

[HakiraDyson]

Hey, this is Sam, I won second place in the contest. I just wanted to also congratulate Jordan on winning third. I pretty much knew someone from GTP would win but I didn't think it would be myself and the founder! Congrats!

 

[sems4arsenal]

i think the winner of the contest is a gtplanet fan i think he said that on the facebook gtplanet page that he had won it but not sure

 

[Jordan]

Hey, this is Sam, I won second place in the contest. I just wanted to also congratulate Jordan on winning third. I pretty much knew someone from GTP would win but I didn't think it would be myself and the founder! Congrats!

Nice job, Sam, congratulations and thanks for stopping in. 👍 Did you send in a video, essay, or slideshow?

 

[HakiraDyson]

I did an essay. I was surprised to see that I got second for the essay!! I thought they would only pick winners who did videos!

 

[FoolKiller]

Yeah, I noticed that too and thought it was great, but it appears to have been removed.

You must really cut into their community plans. Anytime they have a Gran Turismo related post on the PlayStation Blog I find myself answering someone's question with a link to GTPlanet, but my post is held "waiting for moderation" for nearly 24 hours. Any other topic and link takes less than an hour to get cleared.

Of course, if Sony did community stuff seriously they wouldn't need to worry.

 

[Sphinx]

Congrats Jordan. 👍

I've been out of the loop for a while so didn't know anything about this.

Was it a US only event?

 

[Jordan]

You must really cut into their community plans. Anytime they have a Gran Turismo related post on the PlayStation Blog I find myself answering someone's question with a link to GTPlanet, but my post is held "waiting for moderation" for nearly 24 hours. Any other topic and link takes less than an hour to get cleared.

Of course, if Sony did community stuff seriously they wouldn't need to worry.

I think you are correct, as I have experienced quite a bit of disdain in my communication with Sony. It's very unfortunate, but I think it makes them uncomfortable to have the largest and most vocal gathering of the GT fan base beyond their control. My suspicions were reinforced after I talked with someone involved in licensing Sony products - they said they've never seen any company so concerned/protective/obsessive over any brand as much as Sony is over Gran Turismo.

Was it a US only event?

Thanks, Sphinx! Yes, this was a US only event.

 

[LeGeNd-1]

Congrats to the 1st place winner and HakiraDyson . I still think Jordan should be the winner though.