GifTournament Battle #2 Round #3 Discussion Thread

[u/GifTournament]

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[u/Godmadius]

That Cameron Diaz Gif might be the best thing I've seen all year. That was absolutely magnificent.

[u/HallucinoJER]

I really thought we were done with the DNQs by now... so yeah

[u/pencer → u/HallucinoJER]

It's surprising. Not sure if it's lack of commitment, users unable to come up with something, or an intimidation issue.

[u/beautify]

Wait..You're going to have a combined gif, where Neo learns how to rock, and it's not combined with wyld stallyns footage? Am I the only one here who thinks that's a DNQ?

[u/plowkiller → u/beautify]

I think it's because it resembles keanu from that movie. Sure, wild stallions would have been funny, but I think the Creator was going for accuracy.

[u/thirtyseven1337]

There were two battles where I thought both GIFs were really good... KitKat vs. Skyfall and Faconers vs. the Pirates of the Caribbean one.

[u/mrpancake8 → u/thirtyseven1337]

The text animation in skyfall didn't add much to the general context unlike the kitkat one IMO, both great combos though.

[u/waffles_and_boobies]

"Fell a sheep at the wheel" ... I see what ewe did there.

[u/diatone]

I laughed at most of the entries, but the Spock/Bilbo one got the biggest laugh.

[u/Ramwen]

Damn you Gfycat, and damn your dark WEBMs! Great gifs as always guys! That Neo gif made my day.

[u/matt01ss → u/Ramwen]

Yes, still not sure why this happens from time to time with some gifs. I suspect there are some transparency or color palette issues occurring when the gif is originally saved. This might be causing problems when gfycat attempts to convert it to webm.

[u/MarkovManiac]

I don't think there's a bad gif in this round, awesome stuff. I'm a little concerned that u/drrhymes was one of the few that made me laugh out loud though.

[u/poppzE → u/MarkovManiac]

I fear u/DrRhymes might break you, my friend.

[u/amateurcreampie]

There. Did my duty this morning and voted on every battle while enjoying a nutritious breakfast at the same time. [Nice work everyone.] (http://i.imgur.com/mWyNute.gif)

[u/plowkiller]

This may be the first round where I actually really like how my gif came out.

[u/Butcher_Of_Hope → u/plowkiller]

Considering that you made it this far... Perhaps you should have more faith in your skills.

[u/patatbeerho]

So, maybe not the perfect place for this, but it seems that the first round might be better off with a larger "round robin" style competition, rather than a single-elimination round. Think world cup competition. Anyone else feeling this?

[u/MarkovManiac → u/patatbeerho]

I can't imagine trying to coordinate that. u/matt01ss and all of the mods work their asses off as it is.

[u/kcspot]

could someone tell me HOW the Falconers one counted? All that one was is just putting one image on another.

[u/Butcher_Of_Hope → u/kcspot]

The rules are generally very loose when it comes to gifmaker interpretation. The weekly battle over in r/HighQualityGifs is a prime indicator of that. Even the vaguest reference to the subject is enough to make it eligible.

Here we have a Falconer video which starts off normally enough, but then adds the Star Wars with Han Solo flying his Falcon, and it creates something new. While it is a tangent to the traditional combinedgif it is an amalgamation of more than one idea.

edit: clarity

[u/BruceWillisWasAGhost]

Wow, I had a hard time coming up with an idea for this one, but I might have been the only one.

Great job, everyone! These are really excellent gifs!

[u/plowkiller → u/BruceWillisWasAGhost]

Same here, I just picked two movies and tried to put them together the best I could.

[u/preggit]

Wow, another great round with some truly creative gifs. Nice job everyone and good luck!

[u/[deleted]]

I haven't seen any matchup 5 love so far so I'm gonna do it.

Both of those were Top Notch IMO (capitals relevant).

One was top because of the beautiful actor tie in across movies and I wanted to vote for movie love.

For nerdy love I hold deep, I wanted to vote for the tie in between NASA and (fuck who was doing the research for the other one.... There's so many out there trying to replicate humans right now)

IDK for me that was the hardest matchup to choose from just from a personal standpoint. Sorry to whoever loses that round I couldn't help voting for both (and throwing my vote away).

[u/[deleted]]

For me, it's a tie between the Cameron Diaz/car and the KitKat/Rocky one. Both had me in stitches.