The 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens Scratch Made Light Contest - Final results!

Judges have been working very hard and the results are finally in. Please accept my sincere apologies for the elongated delay!

People’s Choice Award voting has started! Please show your appreciation and vote here: The 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens Scratch Made Light Contest - People's Choice Award - Please vote!

Again, the competition was very tight and all finished lights were simply awesome! This made judging very difficult, and we had to make tough decisions when arranging the contestants to correct order.

While judging we not only concentrated on what we think was the best light in the competition, but went through all the build threads and systematically gave points based on the following criteria:

  • Uniqueness/Innovativeness of the build: Is it a one of a kind? Different? Using New methods?
  • Skill level of the finished build: Does it look like a hack job? Or were the finished parts/assemblies done with skill and care?
  • Thoroughness of the build thread: Did the builder do a good job of showing and explaining to the forum, how he did the steps in the build?
  • Documenting also the failures & obstacles: How did the builder solve the inevitable problems? Documenting the obstacles and using the power of the BLF community to solve them is seen as a big plus!
  • Possible new driver design or custom firmware is seen as a plus (especially when shared and open source in a true BLF spirit)
  • Following the guidelines: Did the builder follow the rules and guidelines written in the contest thread?

All finished lights were great, so the small details like thoroughness of the build thread and documenting the obstacles were important factors when defining the final order. AND EVEN THEN, THE RESULT IN HAND MADE CATEGORY WAS A TIE!

Before going to the results, I’d like to thank once more all competitors for their hard work building the lights and documenting their builds for us readers to admire and learn from. Thank You very much!

…and then to results, with a selected comment from judges for each.

Hand made:

  1. FmC: 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens Scratch Made Light Contest - FmC's Hand Made entry. Jack's Survival Sack!
  • “FmC never fails to impress! Original as always, and incredible fun build thread.”

1. CRX: CRX Rotary - 6th Annual BLF/ Old Lumens Contest Winner

  • “Exceptional craftsmanship.Your ability to layer multiple finer details one upon another in your build makes it a joy to watch unfold. Crazy attention to detail .Beautiful work !”

3. MtnDon: The 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens - Handmade - MtnDon's Entry (fini)

  • “Wow!!! Incredible craftsmanship and originality. Old Lumens would be proud.”

4. gchart: 6th Annual BLF Handmade Entry (Finished!) - gchart

  • “A nicely laid out, easy to read and understand thread. The light is Simple, Smart and Beautiful.”

5. everydaysurvivalgear: EDSG-6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens HandMade Light Entry (finished)

  • “Unique light and fabulous photo documentation”

Machine made:

  1. Flashy Mike: 6th Annual Scratch Made Light Contest - Flashy Mike's machined project
  • “Wow, what a surpise! Incredibly innovative and well designed. Driver and Android app from scratch!!!”

2. MRsDNF: MRsDNF's 2018 Old Lumens comp build. Finished.

  • “Always a master, always successful, always MRsDNF :slight_smile: Too beautiful for words.”

3. pinkpanda3310: The 6th Annual BLF Old Lumens - machine made - Pinkpanda's Entry

  • “First reaction is this is just a pipe and parts. Then I realize I’m standing in a field with a hoe watching a master craftsman at work. Oh my!”

4. kaybi: The 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens - Machine Made - Kaybi's Entry

  • “Cool, another 3D printer success”

Available prizes:

Claimed prizes:

  • CRX: ReyLight Mokume LAN, provided by Rey
  • FmC: ReyLight Triple Ti (Dawn), provided by Rey
  • Flashy Mike - WubenLight A21, provided by Wuben
  • MRsDNF - $65 gift card to GearBest.com
  • MtnDon - WubenLight TO10R, provided by hc-lights.fi
  • pinkpanda3310 - Emisar D4S Flashlight w/ 219C LEDs w/ worldwide shipping to any of the countries USPS ships to, provided by Mountain Electronics LLC
  • gchart - WubenLight TO50R, provided by Wuben
  • kaybi - Custom built C8 w/ 20mm MTN-BST3 driver running an XHP35 HI @2.2A (bypassed switch, etc.) w/ worldwide shipping to any of the countries USPS ships to, provided by Mountain Electronics LLC
  • everydaysurvivalgear - $35 gift card to GearBest.com

Awesome! Congrats to everyone, and thanks very much to _the_ for all the time he dedicated to this!

Thanks to all that entered and also to those that commented. Its amazing the talent and abilities shown here from the members builds and the inspiration others can draw from their efforts. :+1:

Congratulations to the winners this year! :partying_face:

I missed out on the fun this time, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to find the time to do this. Hopefully, I will be in a position to build a light next year. :smiley:

Alright! Great job, everyone. Already looking forward to next year :smiley:

Congrats to all the participants in the 6th OL contest! Those were inspirating builds and it was good to see exploring new technologies and options and also new types of lights!! Congrats to all :wink:
:person_with_crown:

I would like the ReyLight Mokume LAN.

So do we switch to Flashy Mike in the machine-made category for the next pick or does FmC get next choice because of the tie?

Congrats to the winners!!!

Oooh a tie for first place!!! … I think that means they take a saw to the first place reward and one of them gets the front half and the other the back half. :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks to everyone who helped organize this and participated.

Thank you the . You put in a fair effort to organise all this. I’m glad to be part of it.

I’m gonna refresh myself with everyone’s build then head over to the people’s choice awards :partying_face:

Good work everyone involved.

I really didn’t see a tie coming, never mind for 1st place… I’m in discussions with CRX regarding prize selection.

Ok, after some intense discussion, CRX has chosen the Mokume.

If I am to choose next, I will have the Ti Dawn.

Cheers! :partying_face:

FmC, for at least some of us watching your builds, a tie for first place isn’t too unexpected. You guys are all very talented. :person_with_crown: :+1:

Awesome work to all of Ya! Congrats to the prize winners.
Always enjoy watching these builds. Thanks to all involved for making it happen.

Glad to hear you managed to agree on the prizes. :slight_smile:

Flashy Mike - Which prize would you like to have?

First, congrats to everybody participating and thanks a lot to you, the judges and the donators of the prices!
I’d be pleased to receive the Wuben A21.

It’s yours!

MRsDNF - Which prize would you like to have?

The $65.00 gift card from Gearbest. Thanks Gearbest and all of the sponsors.