Saturday, February 14, 2009

The BOMB Squad Launches A New Contest

Through our working of The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP we have come across an issue which has doesn't help the promotion of big bubbles.

There are tons of interesting videos out there of people blowing bubbles, many who could be excellent entrants in The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, and a good number who apparently have the talent to take their bubble blowing a long way into the contest's future.

The problem is they are extremely hard to reach to let them know about our contest, and how easy it would be for them to enter it. The question became how do we get those videos involved, and then, hopefully later, the makers of those videos involved?

The answer to this problem is beginning to be formed-and hopefully solved-with our bubblegum lens on Squidoo. It's here where we created our newest contest, The UNNOFFICIAL BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

We found that Squidoo allows you to gather youtube videos and put them on your page.
At first we wanted to, as a service to people who had made great videos of themselves blowing bubblegum bubbles, put links up to these videos. But we discovered it a way to carry it farther. Much farther. Why not have an unnofficial contest with the default pictures of these videos?

It runs on the same concept The BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP does. Where all the entrants are lined up in order from biggest to smallest bubble, and that would determine their final position.

So we gathered a lot of videos with bubbles the size of the blower's head or bigger, and we put the contest together, where it can bee seen on our squidoo lens. We then placed them in order, and at this moment we have 41 entries.

While these bubbles would be what we call "qualifiers" for the BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, they are not entrants in the BWC, and therefore not eligible for recognition in it. To enter they have to go to the website and fill out an entry form, or they have to be invited.

Still, the UNNOFICIAL BUBBLEGUM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP is another way we've provided to help bubble blowres get noticed, and one that can lead the way for them into the BWC and bigger and better bubblegum things!

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