Celebs and Poi Question

So do the celebs have to be well known for this competition or could we use local celebs?

Also why couldnt you make the kid comp 6 and under? I have the perfect pic but he is to old *sniff* Its okay I just wanna raze you guys about it

What Competition are you refering to?
Is there a Poi spinning Celebs competition?
If so I can get about 12 - as im teaching a bunch of them to Spin fire for a SkyOne TV show

disqualified! :P

not from the comp, just from being a hippy. you have officaly sucked satans paycheck you must now relinquish your dreadlocks :P

good luck with that

T

PK & FireNix, you really should check our competitions link more frequently! Here - the master list of competitions (sits right next to "Go Shopping" and "Help"): http://www.homeofpoi.com/competition/view_competitions.php

and the Celeb one entry page: http://www.homeofpoi.com/competition/new_media.php/14

So, I always knew we would get this question - how does anyone define who is famous or not? Am I famous just because I'm part of HoP and people all around the world know of me? I suspect not! but probably for the purposes of this competition one could argue I am!

The intent of the competition is for "famous" people - ones that it's reasonable to expect that a good number of people around the world know the person.
The local mayor or sports team probably doesn't cut it even though they might be "locally famous".

I'm not going to try and define what constitutes "famous" any more than this (at this stage anyway). Remembering that the judging is done by voting so the voting members will decide if someone is sufficiently famous to vote for.

Oh, and for the consumer of life forces - we had to pick an age (almost any age) so we chose the NZ school age as the cutoff. Sorry! Maybe next competition!

my apologies George, I never saw an announcement on the home page, I rarely check that competitions page as most competitions are announced or posted in the forum.

What will these be used for?
Alot of higher end celebrities (which is what you are asking for) will want to know, and many request such photos not be used for anything other than personal use and no monetary exchange.

I also think this is very limiting in that, for many of us, we are hired in to do the poi *for* the celebrity, so they don't have to.

Personally, this competition does not sit well with me at all. A competition on here should be something that applies to a large cross section of people and this only applies to a very *VERY* small group of people. I think it is vastly unfair to most, as many are never exposed to anyone concidered famous...especially of the caliber that you are listing, since you are removing all sports teams, many bands, 90% of politicians and people who are famous from every subculture from the mix. I know a crapload of people who are nationally famous here, but are involved in subcultures and therefore wouldn't qualify.

This isn't like drawing or a photo comp where anyone can try it, if they want to. Most who would want to do this won't be able to because you are asking for people too high end.
And if we are voting on it, then I can say that while FireNix may be teaching someone concidered celeb where he is from, there's a good chance the Americans haven't heard of them, so that blows that out.

Now, you mentioned Jackie Chan and submit a photo. Without photo shop I can take a still from one of his movies, or any other martial art movie that shows the person spinning stuff. What is going to stop people from doing that since the rules of this are mostly unattainable for the masses?

It's like poi-perazzi. *waiting for some hapless soul to get rolled over by a body guard for running down a random celeb with a set of poi screaming "Spin this!" the whole way.

Sorry but this is one competition that I really don't believe should be on here. I feel like it hasn't been thought out as to who it really applies to and I think it's too subjective to allow valid voting.

Although I agree with most of what you said Pele, I also have to say celeb poi is more of a challenge this way. Only a handful of us may actually be able to get photos. Although I believe I will be seeking out Mr Pat Croce since I will have the opportunity in the very near future to get a pic of him swinging poi

http://www.patcroce.com/

Lets make it spin pets then shall we.

Clips of poi pooches. Staffing snakes. Devilsticking iguansa and hooping snakes too .

I agree that determining who counts as a celebrity is incredibly difficult, however perhaps there could be something when you enter the photo to explain who it is?

Yes, I think Jackie Chan and Bette Midler are impossible, but I also think that your local mayor, or your town's best footballer doesn't count, but someone like the captain of your favourite league team should (AFL, NFL, whatever all the other Ls are in the world); even though that will need to be explained to people who don't know. But then it could be determined if they counted or not.

 Written by: Pele

This isn't like drawing or a photo comp where anyone can try it, if they want to. Most who would want to do this won't be able to because you are asking for people too high end.

I actually disagree there. Not everyone can realistically try a drawing competition. My drawing ability is completely crap and realistically I have a better chance at this competition than I would a drawing one.

Believe it or not, but I think that with a little bit of effort (and manners and batting eyelashes), this is more achievable for most people than CoL.
Given the skill required for CoL (in not only poi, but filming and editing et al) I think that more people have a chance in this competition.

Simon Posford signed my poi

who?

Ah!

You'd never guess I'm not a huge psytrance fan, would you?