Stop the Presses! Biggest Machinima Contest Ever?

Yanked from slashdot:

Blizzard Entertainment and Xfire have just announced the largest ever machinima contest with over $10,000 in prizes from AMD, Hypernia, Creative Labs, XFX, D-Link, Corsair, ZBoard and Time Games. The contest involves entrants producing movies using the Blizzard Entertainment MMORPG World of Warcraft game engine to create imaginative movies in the three main categories of Dance, Comedy and Drama. Six prizes will be awarded for each category. An additional Twenty prizes will be awarded in special categories including Best Music, Best Dialog, Best Action Scene, Best Pun or Line, and Best Editing and Special Effects. A special prize from Hypernia will also be awarded to a selected movie. Entries must be submitted by January, 21st 2006.

Largest machinima contest ever is a bold statement, seeing the Make Something Unreal 'Machinima' Finalist got like $25 000 or so. But hype is hype. Sweet pot but not sure its enough for me to jump on WoW machinima making...I'll ponder. ;)

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