Welcome to the first annual Beginner Blending mixing competition.
This contest was built to push your ability as a mixer, teach you to adapt, and help your learn about flavor ratios.
We are proud to announce All The Flavors and E-Cig Express as official sponsors for our contest. They will be helping facilitate prizes for the winners.
You will be judged on three criteria points for each round:
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The basket ingredients - You must use all basket ingredients assigned to you. They must be present and noticeable in your final product. These should be the showcased flavors of your juice.
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Presentation - You must include a description with your juice detailing what your were aiming for, how it turned out, and what we should expect when vaping your juice. Does your description match what the judges experienced?
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Is it good? - Very simply put, is this something I would want to continue vaping. Would the judges add it to their weekly rotation? Did you utilize the best additional ingredients possible to elevate your juice from good to great?
Leaving out a piece of the criteria will not be an automatic disqualification, but it will be weighed very heavily against you at the discretion of the judges.
Each round will consist of a designated list of basket ingredients that must be present in your juice. You can use any flavor, up to the max number of allowed flavors for the round, from the vendors listed below to help augment your final product.
- Capella
- The Flavor Apprentice
- Flavor Art
- Flavor West
- Flavorah
- Jungle Flavors
While not forbidden, you are highly encouraged to not use flavors containing fructose.
Sweeteners, including Ethyl Maltol, Maltol, Sucralose, and Erythritol, will be considered free ingredients and do not count against your additional flavor total.
Round 1
All Contestants
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CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl
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JF Fuji/FA Fuji
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TFA Strawberry Ripe
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Up to three additional flavors allowed
ROUND ONE ENDS OCTOBER 31ST
Round 2
Final Twelve Contestants
Required
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To be announced
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To be announced
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To be announced
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Up to three additional flavors allowed
Round 3
Final Four Contestants
Required
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To be announced
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To be announced
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To be announced
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To be announced
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Up to four additional flavors allowed
Sharing your recipe before judging or using an existing recipe will be an automatic disqualification!
All submissions must be made to All The Flavors. You can use a free membership to submit your recipe if you do not already have one.
The submission page on All The Flavors should be active later this week. I will update this post as necessary.
(1) Entry per contestant!
Prizes
- $100 cash for 1st place from the Beginner Blending and DIYorDIE crew submitted via PayPal
- $50 cash for 1st place from All The Flavors
- Prize bag from ECX
- 1 year Premium Membership to All The Flavors for the final four contestants
- Lifetime membership to DIYorDIE for 1st place
- Full line of DIYorDIE concentrates for 1st place
- Original label design for juice of your choice by our own Mr. Matthew Kocanda for 1st place
- And more prizes to be announced
Restrictions:
" All participants and contestants must be 18 years of age or older. Alaska, Alabama, & New Jersey contestants must be 19 years or older and California & New York contestants must be 21 years or older to participate. You must present a state issued ID in order to receive any prize winnings. Any contestants that underage will be disqualified and removed from the website completely. Also, any use of nicotine or e-cigarettes are at the discretion of the participant/user and is not recommended nor encouraged by DIYorDIE, InTheMix, Beginner Blending, or Walker Vapor Group by any way. "
Holy fuck! Its iron chef Diy Ejuice!!
That was the goal!
^^Except ^^for ^^it's ^^technically ^^CHOPPED! ^^Hence ^^the ^^name, ^^MIXXED!
Shoulda called it ~~the vegetable glycerin chef~~
MIXXED is fine, I guess
Honestly, how many beginners have JF Fuji in their arsenal?
It's been changed to JF or FA Fuji.
Good call, I suppose. I didn't realize it was a month out, so its not really all that unreasonable. Fuji was out of stock the last time I grabbed a bunch of JF, but I haven't seen it show up in many recipes, so that's why I asked.
Or non-beginners for that matter. Cat and I are sitting on roughly 150 flavors and don't have JF anything.
I was thinking of entering since my original creation chops aren't quite as refined as Cat's and I'd like to get better, but that would rule me out unless the first round lasted long enough for me to get an order in and then figure out how to use it. :\
I -do- really like the idea of this contest though. How long is each round going to have for submission?
edit: yay /u/Vurve you're awesome!
We really weren't trying to make it difficult on people.
We want to make the contest to be accessible to as many people as possible, but didn't see a problem with 1 month to get the flavor.
A slight misstep in our direction.
Yeah, I gotcha. Honestly the only reason I don't own any JF is because BCF doesn't carry them, and I'm so spoiled by local pickup that I only very rarely order flavors through the mail. If their Yellow Cake ends up being a game changer though I may have to change that.
I mean couldn't you reveal all the required flavors in advance?
Otherwise people (I assume it's not just me) have to order the flavors every month if they are missing something. I can't get every flavor in my country, so shipping usually takes more than a week. Not even considering the shipping cost.
I like that you only have a month for each recipe, but it makes the contest quite expensive for some of us.
> Original label design for juice of your choice by our own Mr. Matthew Kocanda
That beats any other prize. Matthew's illustrations are fucking bangin'
This guys design work is seriously amazing.
He's also incredibly versatile. His watercolor illustrations for Wayne's concentrates are awesome. But he also does some grim, dark digital illustrations which look amazing.
Quick question for clarification, how forefront do the basket ingredients need to be? For example, if one where to use CAP Cinnamon Danish and get a noticeable Cinnamon from it but not a noticeable pastry would that be a negative from a judging perspective? I know for example in chopped the judges need to be able to taste the ingredients but the cooks do a lot of "bending" with the ingredients.
Why no Lorann flavorings?
Lorann has recently distanced themselves from vaping, making some of their flavors inaccessible.
Have you got a link to more info on that? Googles giving me nada.
It was a silent transition.
If you go to their website, they no longer have the colorless versions available. If I'm not mistaken, they also have a disclaimer saying their products are not for vaping.
Ahh, found it.
http://www.lorannoils.com/e-cigarette-inquiries
We'll, I'm fucked. I can't taste strawberry anymore. I really wanted to do this though.
Love this contest idea and I'm going to make my best effort.
While I understand what a globally loved and possessed flavor Strawberry Ripe is, it's unfortunate that a seems like decent percentage of people have trouble tasting it ( including me).
I hope this is a success and I can have a better experience with the next contest!
Then by all means use strawberry ripe with the aim of adding a fruity sweetness to your mixture.
I have a hard time testing strawberry ripe by itself as well, but it's always noticeable when I put it in a mix due to the sweetness it brings to the table
That is a good way to look at it. I've never established a recipe and then added TFASR to see how it changes even though I don't taste the main profile. Now's my chance!
I've decided I'm going to be the Beethoven of this contest. Might be deaf to strawberry ripe but I'm gonna write something lovely.
I thought ATF is only exclusive to Android? I have an iPhone /:
Just use their web page. If works equally well on Windows, Android, and Apple.
www.alltheflavors.com
Can anybody in the whole world enter? or only the US of A?
Question. Obviously if someone specifies a month or something like that, it would be out of the question, as it would hold up the whole contest. But if I specify that my recipe requires steeping for a week, and get it submitted in time that it could be mixed and steep for a week even before the deadline, will the judges do that?
I really should have thought to ask this before hitting that enter contest button, but it's too late now. I was just so excited that one of my versions steeped out to be contest-worthy in a week. However, it's an atrocious shake and vape.
Contest entries will be steeped for a max of two weeks. Given the nature of the flavors, we do not expect to receive a lot of shake and vapes.
If you have a requested steep time, be sure to include it your description.
Obviously a little late, but send me a pm when we announce that we are now judging. Otherwise, 2 weeks will be the standard steep time
I did specify one week in the description, but might not have been crystal clear. If sits for two, hopefully there won't be much muting from all that Ripe. I should have waited another week before submitting to find out. Little too eager and jumped the gun. So, I'll PM you when the judging starts, thank you for that and thank you for the quick answer!
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