Who da fuck judge Batalla photo contest?

[jsnow]

How did a stock photo win over all the other WAY better ones? I smell a pay off! Is NS contest becoming the way of the American $ system, pay to win?

https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/44934.0/Batalla-Photo-Contest-Winners

 

[jsnow]

For those to lazy to click.

This won?



Over all of these

 

[nutz.]

Dude. Read the top blurb.

"The guidelines were simple -- enter your best ski shot, be it urban, park, or powder, and let the community decide what makes a photo truly epic. The votes we're tallied from over 50 entrants and one man came out ahead."

People VOTED for it. It wasn't judged by us.

 

[jsnow]

Clearly it is a flawed system.

 

[eheath]

ANY contest that is an online open voting contest is flawed, popularity =/= best.

 

[nutz.]

^truth, but I bet that OP is one of those people who would complain about the outcome no matter what.

 

[ShredMasterPlus]

yea popularity contests suck, whoever has the most facebook friends wins. That photo blows compared to everything else.

 

[jsnow]

Not at all.

If any of the other photos listed on the link won I would have not made this thread.

 

[Miomo]

It was almost definitely a contest sway

 

[Drail]

Newschoolers.com is very proficient at contest sways. With that in mind, I don't know if you're allowed to complain on here about a contest sway, no matter the outcome.

 

[ABalls]

Ya that's ridiculous but the people voted for it so it won.

 

[Peter.]

it's an NS member's photo, the one that won

 

[cydwhit]

So is Gavin's that didn't and I am pretty sure a couple others of those are NS'ers as well, I don't see your point. This was a popularity contest not a "Which photo is objectively better" contest

 

[terraclot]

because objectivity is a thing when talking photography

 

[terraclot]

Because objectivity is a thing when discussing photography.

 

[cydwhit]

It's not, but I think it should be.