Settling some old debts. Everyone remembers the "Your Song Is Sung" contest, but not everyone remembers how it ended. Because we never actually announced the results. Our deepest apologies. But better late than never. Dedicated to the upcoming inauguration.
The talented con man who managed to bend a huge country to the task of making billions for his friends and dacha neighbors is, after all, moving into the Kremlin to the "special" peal from the Ivan the Great Bell Tower. But we know his song is sung. Results of the "Your Song Is Sung" contest. T*he contest jury: *Yuri Saprykin, Maxim Vitorgan, Ilya Yashin, KermlinRussia and Ilya Varlamov. (This time we decided to let the jury choose the winners in order to avoid manipulation through inflated YouTube view counts.) All jury members independently selected their top three. Their choices were often different. We used the following simple method: in each case, the video ranked first received 3 points, second place got 2 points, and third place got 1 point. Then the points awarded to each video by each jury member were added up, producing the final top three. The videos that placed second and third received the same number of points, so the prize money for second and third place will be split between them. First place (receives 150,000 rubles) ** "Happy upcoming Old Bastard!"**
Second and third places (75,000 rubles each) Jeeves "Why Putin?"
Rabfak "Goodbye, Putin!"
The jury's votes broke down as follows: Yuri Saprykin: JEEVES - Why Putin? http://youtu.be/J0519GY_H6I Citizen Akyn - Vovka http://youtu.be/ExsIR0Ex00s Rabfak - Goodbye, Putin! http://youtu.be/9k5IP52AOno Maxim Vitorgan: Plyum-Bum - Choice http://youtu.be/e29CqClfMOM Happy upcoming Old Bastard! http://youtu.be/fI5vz_2Ba9k Rabfak - Goodbye, Putin! http://youtu.be/9k5IP52AOno Ilya Yashin: Law-Abiding Citizen - We Don't Believe You http://youtu.be/xZZdkNM0B8E Rabfak - Goodbye, Putin! http://youtu.be/9k5IP52AOno Plyum-Bum - Choice http://youtu.be/e29CqClfMOM Kermlin: Happy upcoming Old Bastard! http://youtu.be/fI5vz_2Ba9k Rabfak - Goodbye, Putin! http://youtu.be/9k5IP52AOno Law-Abiding Citizen - We Don't Believe You http://youtu.be/xZZdkNM0B8E Varlamov: JEEVES - Why Putin? http://youtu.be/J0519GY_H6I Happy upcoming Old Bastard! http://youtu.be/fI5vz_2Ba9k ENOUGH OF THE BLIZZARD! - Sergei Shiryaev and the STILYAGI group http://youtu.be/JdEixnjaPRs Congratulations to the winners, and my deep gratitude — along with wishes for continued creative success — to everyone who took part in the contest. You are greatly upsetting Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Gennady Timchenko, and the Kovalchuk/Rotenberg brothers. And that is wonderful. Special thanks to the extremist-minded citizens who funded our prize pool: Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Sergei Aleksashenko. You can see the full contest playlist here.