The contest is run by MakePlayingCards.com (MPC^®), one of the leading custom playing card manufacturers in the world.

The contest is aimed at finding the best playing card performers whom we'd like to help create their own brand of cards and hopefully kick start their own cards business. We will be awarding 12 prizes in total but only one Grand Prize winner who will get the chance to print 100 copies of their card back design on a deck of cards on a limited run of MPC^® linen air card stock complete with custom tuck box and a seal, all shrinkwrapped. What's more, the winner will receive 200 cash prize to spend on whatever they want.

The contest also promotes cardistry and card magic and at the same time to promote the use of MPC^® branded cards to a wider audience and see how they handle and perform in the hands of professionals.

This is the great part because it's a really simple 2 step process as follows:

1. Shoot and create a video of yourself performing your best cardistry moves or magic card trick using a deck of MPC^® playing cards. Your video can be up to 60 seconds long.
2. Submit your entry to the contest by uploading your recorded video footage through the contest form.

Below is an example of a homemade cardistry performance video for your reference. You can of course do further editing to it should you choose to.

The MPC^® Cardistry Video Contest will accept entries between the dates 6 July - 9 November. Any entries submitted after this date may not be considered for the running to win our prizes.

All entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. PST, November 9, 2016.

See the Official Rules page for full details

We will send the deck prizes to the winners provided address. Cash prizes will be awarded into your PayPal account. If you are one of the winners of our Grand Prize or Second Prize, we will work with you after the contest.

Anyone worldwide over the age of 18 on 1 July 2016 may enter the contest. If you are under the age of 18, you can still enter by asking someone over the age of 18 such as a family member or friend to register and enter for you. Please go to the MPC^® Cardistry Content Official Rules for full details.

Yes, you may team up with your friends and have more than one person performing in the video. However, prizes will only be awarded to the registered person who submitted the video. So be sure it is someone you can trust.

Videos submitted will be judged on their uniqueness of the moves shown, smooth transitions, level of complexity, effort and professionalism of the video footage itself such as angles used. Our select team of judges at MPC will select the winners based on the above criteria.

You must shoot the video using a genuine deck of MPC playing cards. Customized or MPC branded playing cards is a MUST. Other branded cards will unfortunately not be accepted.

Since this contest is to promote the use of MPC branded decks, you must use cards printed by us. If you don't have a deck already (which hopefully you do), you can purchase them online on our site at MakePlayingCards.com.

You can do your video shooting on your digital camera or mobile phone. The video capturing capabilities on an iPhone is pretty much amazing and is good enough for this contest.

Make sure you have the correct video format which must be in MPV, AVI, MP4, MPEG, 3GP or MKV. The video size should not be more than 200MB and should contain no more than 60 seconds of footage. If you're still having issues after these checks, please contact us for help.

We will use the video that you submitted to judge the prize winners. We may during or after the contest period publish your video in full or in part on our public sales channels and social media platforms which includes but not limited to the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and our website. Upon entering this contest you agree to authorize MPC to use, edit, modify your submitted video for any future marketing, advertising and publicity purposes as required. For more information regarding the use of the video that you submit, please see our official contest rules page.

All winners will be notified by email in the month of December 2016 (postponed till 10 February 2017). The winners list may also appear on our website and other promotional channels. Good luck and get filming.