Round Fourteen Closes

This round is now closed... thanks to everyone who submitted. I will likely tap one of our stand in judges to help this round as our Jenn is on vacation and I hope she is having a blast!! Anyways, be back soon with the winners!

The final 10 entries:
Mariana, luvtheheaven, Buffybot, brighette, Lolilie, evangelin, EndlessNight, Dreamhunter, andrea and divine_chick.

(Valika: I received your entry and will hold it for Round 15)

Round 14 Update 15/25

Hey Y'all...
Just wanted to quickly post that we've received 15 entries so far today... they are from: Jaidanwolf, ADF Productions, KRL2008, monsie, Mazza, Bad Fred, Firefly_Ca, strawberrybisque, Gaia89, Artanis, mresundance, Kimberly, wolfpup, Lena and Camelia1986.

I have decided to open the doors for a couple new hostees. If you'd like to be hosted here on Broken Road... contact me. I am only accepting serious vidders =) By serious I mean that you plan to be very active with the space given to you. You must have FTP and experience in html/php.

Be back soon with more round 14 updates!!

Round Fourteen Opens + Round Thirteen Awards Online

Good Morning!!
Well I finally got R13 awards done!! They are online and I hope you like them. My animation program isn't working right so I decided to do them way different than the site has done in the past. I really hope you like them. (divine_chick and KRL2008: your videos didn't make the cut for the round as we could not download your videos. you can resubmit them!) There are no judges choices this time as only one of us judged.

Round Fourteen is now open for submissions. Please read the rules before entering your videos. I have decided to allow Supernatural videos for the next 2 rounds to give the loyal vidders of the fandom a fair chance to change our minds about the fandom, so please take advantage of that.


***edited to say... added Most Fun and Most Fun RU awards to the R13awards page as I forgot to add them this morning, sorry about that!!

Jenn to be in the New York Times!

Okay, so excited here... our very own Jenn has been spotlighted by NYTimes.com in their article:

'House’: Never Give a Sucker a Happy Ending

A version of this article will appear in print on May 12, 2009, on page C3 of the New York edition. In it, they talk about one of Jenn's favorite ships HUDDY. They write:

At last count YouTube listed seven pages of fan videos under the subject heading Huddy, the Brangelina-ized coinage meant to designate the fractious love connection between Doctors Cuddy and House on the Fox series “House.” One of these videos abjures all the cheesy sentiment that the show, which ended its fifth season on Monday, has aggressively rejected. Alluding to the impediments presented by House’s painkiller addiction, the video is in French and titled: “Je Me Sens Si Seul (Sans Ma Vicodine),” or “I Feel So Alone (Without My Vicodin).”

Among the non-Euro entries, some toss reality out altogether, extrapolating from random House-Cuddy scenes to completely fabricate plotlines. I point you to “House/Cuddy — Kissing You,” by someone who calls herself Duchesscloverly, a video that imagines Cuddy pregnant with House’s baby and then enduring a miscarriage that we are meant to believe bonds them further.

It is not merely the unrelenting push-pull of the show’s writing, but the “His Girl Friday” chemistry between the actors Hugh Laurie (House) and Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy) that inspires otherwise reasonable women to bizarre, time-consuming digressions of fantasy. By “otherwise reasonable women” I am not referring to the cohort of Duchesscloverlys but to the person typing these words on my laptop.

Please take the time to read it. Score one for Jenn!!!! WOOT

Judging has been done a while for this round. Awards will be up soon. I am having issues with my editors, so please be patient a little longer, k??

Round Thirteen Closes

This morning R13 closes with 25/25 entries! Thanks to all who submitted. Please visit the nominees to see all those who entered... Judging will start today and awards will be up as soon as possible.