Challenge-a-thon
Hello!
Over the last 20 days we’ve been running a ‘group challenge challenge’. Early in May we wrote to all the group hosts and said to them:
If you launch a new challenge after May 1st that ends before May 20th your group is automatically in the running for a few RedBubble prizes. It doesn’t matter how many days your challenge runs for, so long as it launches and finishes somewhere within those dates. And it can be on any topic you like.
Prizes will be awarded in five categories:
1. The most creative challenge topic (as decided by RB)
2. The most votes
3. The most votes relative the number of members (providing a group has more than 20 members)
4. The most entries
5. The most entries relative to the number of members (providing a group has more than 20 members)
Each category will have a first prize of US$50 (as a RB voucher) and a second prize of US$30 (as a RB voucher) [the prize is given to the group host(s) to use as they see fit in the group]. This is just meant to be a bit of fun … and for those groups who haven’t yet run a challenge we’d like to encourage you to give it a go!
Well over the last 20 days there have been 375 Challenges, with 15,364 entries and 27,953 votes. That’s quite a bit of challenging. So please put your hands together for the following groups – who have won in one or more categories:
1. The most creative challenge
First prize goes to: The Woman Photographer for the challenge Dot dot dot
Second prize goes to: PostCard Style for the challenge Things that make you go hmmm
Here’s a couple of the higher voted images from these challenges:
2. The Most Votes
First prize goes to: Shameless Self Promotion for the challenge Your very best with 1309 votes
Second prize goes to: Blue Art for the challenge Your Most Popular Blue Image with 1146 votes
Because these groups have won in two categories we’ve introduced a third prize equal to the second prize.
Third Prize goes to: Shots in the fog for the challenge The Magic of Mist with 639 votes
Here’s a few of the higher voted images from these challenges:
3. Number of Votes per member
First prize goes to: Make up Your Mind for the challenge: Create an exhibition poster 1.2 votes per member
Second prize goes to: Halloween for the challenge It should be Halloween all year with 1.0 votes per member
Here’s a couple of the higher voted images from these challenges:
4. The Most Entires
First prize goes to: Shameless Self Promotion for the challenge Your very best with 351 entires
Second prize goes to:Blue Art for the challenge Your Most Popular Blue Image with 322 entries
Because these groups have already won a category we’ve introduced a third prize equal to the second prize.
Third prize goes to: For the Love of Cats for the challenge All Cats with 242 entries
Here’s a few of the higher voted images from these challenges:
5. Number of entries per member
First prize goes to: Halloween for the challenge It should be Halloween all year with 0.45 entires per member
Second prize goes to: Hand drawn or painted vehicles for the challenge What’s faster with 0.33 entries per member
Because these the Halloween group has already won a category we’ve introduced a third prize equal to the second prize.
Third prize goes to: Just Butterflies for the challenge: RedBubble Loves Butterflies with 0.32 entires per member
Here’s a few of the higher voted images from these challenges:
Well done to all group hosts – you do an awesome job!
Ciao,
P.S. A reminder that we’ve updated our tagging so that multiple word tags are now possible. E.g. You can tag a work ‘New York’. So please go back over your tags and review them with this in mind.
H M Bascom
Thanks for updating the tags. That’s very cool.
Congratulations to all the groups, their members and the hard working hosts!
Jen Ryan
OMG!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH from The Woman Photographer Group!!!!! OMG!!!!
MagnusAgren
awesome… thanks RB Team
Jan Piller
Congrats to all the groups!! My thanks to all the hosts that worked so hard to bring these challenges to us!
Leanna Lomanski
Excellent! (especially the tagging)
Ben Ryan
Are you sure you wrote to all hosts? I never got a notice about this.
RedBubble replied
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Hannah Fenton-...
Awesome!!!!!!!!!! Im so stoked that the challenge i setup in shameless self-promotion won twice.
RVRFNX
Well done to all the groups! What a wonderful and thriving community we have here at La Bulle Rouge.
Isa Rodriguez
This is such wonderful news!!!!!. thank you so much .. from our host @ POST Card Style !.. wooooooooo .. im so happy , we worked so hard on this one. the members will be able to tell you . lol!.. with “Things that make you go hmmmmmmm “
Congratulations to all of he groups and the host’. And thank you RB !..
FlowersEtc
BRAVO! Congratulation’s to all. I’m happy it was such a great success for the groups and RedBubble.
Pip Gerard
I’m so excited to hear you’ve changed the tagging system – best news!!!
Pip Gerard
I didn’t see the forum but have started watching it now so I don’t miss any more in the future.
sugargirl
Congratulations to everyone!!
Stephanie Rach...
cool! My group placed second in 2 categories!
Colleen Milburn
Woohoo!! Big congrats to the winners, and all the group hosts who work so damned hard! When’s the next one, RB? hehe
silverstrummer...
Thank you Peter for all your hard work and also congratulations to everyone concerned – David
Linda Bianic
congrats all,,.. and thanks heaps to the hosts ,,, job well done!!
Darren Stones
Nothing like a good stimulus package to encourage the natives. Well done to all.
Rosalie Dale IPA
Well done everyone!!! And thanks Peter for fixing the tags – I noticed yesterday that this was happening – helps a lot.
Lesley Ortiz
Good job everyone! Thanks to all of the wonderful hosts at redbubble, and all of the wonderful challenges ♥
Rosalie Scanlon
Congrats to all.
Kasey Cline
Congrats to all the groups and the hosts! That Rocks!!!
Thanks RB & Peter for launching this was great fun to take part of! Lets do it again real soon!
adgray
BRAVO to you all
The work needed to get a Challenge running is so immense
- even harder when your group is not catered for to use the picture challenge thing!
& yep RB when the next one rolls around will the Challenge accept more than just really nice pictures?
Chookas! ♥
laureenr
Congrats to all. Thanks to all the work the wonderful hosts at RB put in and RB itself. You are all awesome.
skippygirlgrap...
A great BIG CONGRATULATIONS to all the Artist and the Hosts – huge task to undertake and keep control of and to all the entrants who participated. And three Cheers for all the Winners !!!
gabryshak
congrats to all the artists and host!!
and thank you rb for sharin a little love
♥t
Little Rascals...
Congratulations to all!
Hans .
Congratulations to all!
Victoria Sheldon
Congrats to al the winners. Well done!!!!!!
Marie Sharp
Congratulations to the winners!!
Christopher E...
totally awesome, we will take third place in fog group :)
Congrats to the other winners, and a HUGE congrats to every single person that participated whether it be by adding/voting or both!
Katagram
From EVERY member and the two humble hosts (Kat and shilohlin) of JUST BUTTERFLIES, WE thank you from the bottom of our wings for this amazing honor. What a CHARGE this is..congratulations to ALL the groups, members, and Hosts for a great time with theses challenges ! ! RB IS # 1 and a very special thanks to Peter and all of the RB STAFF for giving us a place to call “HOME” !!!
BarbaraManis
Congratulations to all the hosts and members! All of the hosts do an awesome job though, so thanks to all of you!!!
Jessica Walker
Well this entire system fails to be fair for smaller groups. It’s upsetting you can’t highlight smaller groups so that the site may become more aware of them. Maybe you should give awards out for challenges with the least amount of votes… because apparently all of the groups I host kind of suck at that.
Anne Smyth
congratulations to the hosts and to the members..it is a great group and I am proud to be a member
Jessica Walker
I’m a little bit confused when you said the Blue challenge had some of the most votes… It reads “Blue Drop by paolo1955 was voted the most popular entry in this challenge with 13 votes.” You said it has 1146 votes? Am I stupid or just not reading something right?
Jo O'Brien
Hi Jessica, we were looking at how many votes were made on the whole challenge by group members (not just the winning entry)
Hope that helps
Jo
Veikko Suikkanen
Congrats to all the groups and the hosts! That Rocks!!!
bodymechanic
now i under stand why my tag thingy was jacking up on my “space ” being open
Richard George
A big well done and congratulations to the hosts and all who participated.
Nancy Stafford
wow the group i host for the love of cats came in third that not bad at all..
congrats on members and host of the other groups.. .. ..
Colleen Milburn
Have I missed something – I’m normally on the ball! What’s this new thing about tagging (or is it about tags/commas?)
ArtByDrew
Wonderful images and congrats to the winners for their well-deserved wins! I do however question as to why most of the winning entries are photographic works??
Nikki Collier
Fantastic images and a Big Congrats to all of the winners you are wonderful artistst!!
Vanessa Barklay
Fantastic work everyone who was a winner!!!
Trayci Deptuck
Congrats to all the winners out there! Wonderful work!
ScottyL
A great collection there, goes to show the talent we have in our communities.
Congrats to ALL
DragonFlyer
Yep Colleen – it is about the tags / commas… and it’s great to have that! Great work you guys – though I’m not all that sure about the ‘challenge competition’ stuff as it does seem to automatically favour those groups with massive membership over those that are more sort of ‘alternative’ or ‘fringe’.... just not sure….
K xx
Marilyn Harris
Congratulations to all! Great work guys! Marilyn :o)
Ghelly
I’m a very active user and I had no idea about this. LOL, and I host a group that launches a lot of challenges, We had around 50 challenges open for entries in a week. Anyway. Congratulations to the winners!!! Way to go
Everybody come and join our group: first things
Jay Morgan
Great job on the new tagging change Congratulations to all the winners . !
Novice
glad it went well ;-)
Cynthia Adams
Congrats to all,but can we have less photography if theres a next one.?
valzart
Woot lol! congratz sweetheARTzz dancin’ shoez ON lol! ;} happy hippy hugglez
AnitaInverarity
Ohhhhhhhhh Myyyyyyyyyy Thank you from HALLOWEEN- We did good and thanks to all our members for making that happen You ROCK xxxxxxxxxxx
Karin Taylor
We are so thrilled to have won No.3 in the Challenge Challenge, on behalf all the hosts and of everyone, our very special members at Make Up Your Mind Group we thank you Red Bubble !
CapturedByKylie
A big congratulations to all the group hosts.
Bruce Watson
I work with people with challenging behaviours (and thats just the staff), but this is a challenge I can appreciate. Congrats to all. (‘Challenge’ is a funny word if you think about it).
Teacup
Massive effort from Redbubble. Congrats to all the groups and group winners. awesome work. :)
santana
heres to woman photographers
MuscularTeeth
well done too all !
Linda Bennett
Congrats to all as I know every group was promoting this competition!!!!
barnsis
I find this very interesting since I host two groups and spend several hours a day on Redbubble yet I received no message about this. I had seen several challenges which made statements about the prizes offered by Redbubble but I could never find any reference to the event.
???????
Mary Campbell
Bravo, to all who participated and those who won.
jenseyes
awesome stuff big congrats…....
ROUBLE RUST
Ooooooh OMG *THANK YOU from the HALLOWEEN group, we are still in shock!!!!! :D wowowowwowowwwwwwww
Jim Hall
Thanks for the whole contest. Now lets work on more challenges for group members. Despite the prizes, I think that the responses would be larger if artists and writers were given ego-boosting exposure as well as any sort of prize. Wonder what kind of exposure that could be. Maybe a weekly number one, two and three in maybe several categories of judging? Just a thought. JH
DoreenPhillips
Way to go to all The Challengers…..yayyyy…..x
I want to know about the Tagging…......Is it commas like this,and no space,or is it ‘like this’ .......or what or both?........Roll on the next challenge…..x
Lynsye Medalia
WOOT WOOT! I belong to and participated in 3 of those challenges! Thanks RedBubble!
MoxieNox
wowies!! Big congrats to all the hosts and the winners!! What a suprise to come on and see my picture right there!!! The Women Photographer’s group ROCK!!!! WoooooHOOOOO!!
Thank you, thank you!!!
francophotos
Many congrats to you all!!
Barbara Applegate
Congrats to all, great job
Cathy Amendola
AWESOME!!!! Congratulations to the groups…..and a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to the winners!!!
Cathy
Xandru
Well done to all winners! Fabulous show!!!
bubblehex08
Congratulations to all winners!
A few things to RedBubble:
1) I’m hosting 3 groups and I didn’t get that message! I knew about it from other groups and from a forum, but no message to me as a host.
2) As Jessica said above: what can we do on RedBubble to promote our new, unknown, young groups? I don’t like to spam the other groups with journals
3) How can you stop a group if you see that it is not a real success?
MarieJo
Stephen Mitchell
DItto with bubblehex08
Three groups and no bubblemail that I recall spoke about this challenge-thingie.
Seems it really does pay to watch the forums. No matter. Life goes on.
biddumy
Well done to all participants!!!
Hannah Fenton-...
@ bubblehex and jessica there is a section in my group shameless self-promotion where you can tell people about your group Promote your groups Thanks again everyone.
Midori Furze
Thank you~!!
It is awesooome!!!
sstarlightss
Congrats to all the groups and Hosts and co-Hosts for their success! Beautiful “Big” Challenge! ;o)
abfabphoto
Thanks for the update/follow up. Congrats to everyone!! :)
MaeBelle
Congrats to everyone and groups,thanks RedBubble for the fun and games!
BettinaSchwarz
awesome! :) and thanks for the tagging system update – very useful :)
georgiegirl
Congratulations everyone :D
Sonya Byrne
Congratulations to all
ISMAIL ALAOUI ...
OHHH MYYY? my group WON ?????????
chinet
Awesome work! Congrats all!
Scott d'Almeida
awesome work
Tori Buck
Congrats to all :-)
DebbieSteer
congrats