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Not to be out done by the recent flurry of convention announcements, The Blizzard World Wide Invitational 2008 is throwing out an announcement or two of its own. Today, they are officially announcing a Machinma contest. There will be two categories, one for movies, and one for TV Commercials for WoW items. Online submission is open from June 9th to June 16th. You can check out the contest details (Including the prizes, of course) here.

If Machinima isn't your thing, but you're still creative in other arenas, the announcement also mentions that they will reveal more contests in the near future.

At the moment, the official terms suggest that the contest is open only to Europeans, but if that pans out, I'm certain American Machinimists will get a crack at things at Blizzcon 2008.

This isn't the first video I've seen of this particular leap, but I still find it to be an impressive one. And I think the sight is only improved by the addition of the mechanostrider, which adds an entertaining smoke trail. Of course my interest in this video could, at least in part, be attributed to my immense fondness for jumping off all manner of tall objects across Azeroth, and this particular leap is the longest I'm aware of in the game -- or at least the longest one that doesn't kill you in the end.