Help Me Choose! Photo Contest Submission

[sklar]

I have been shooting up in Vail at the GoPro Mountain Games for their photo contest, and I need some help choosing which photos to enter, please state your preference.
Here are last year's winning photos for reference:
http://www.mountaingames.com/summer/...2-winners.aspx


I get one entry per category and one GoPro entry per category, so I need to pick one from each of the categories below. That means either 1 or 2 for the first category, then either 3, 4, or 5 for the second category, then 6 or 7 for the third.

SO< PRETTY MUCH, I need to pick 1 or 2. AND 3 or 4 or 5. AND 6 or 7

The first is:

PERFORMANCE
The sports and action images that define the Mountain Games: Action.

1.


VS

2.



PERFORMANCE-GoPro

3.


VS

4.


VS

5.



VIBE
Details, humor and the personality of the Mountain Games: Mood.

6.

This is a dad rinsing off his daughters shoes following the mud run

VS

7.



Thanks for the help!

[kalisto]

1 / 3 for me... then inevitably 6.

[bfree]

1 3 and 6 as well, but check the white balance and consider cropping tighter on 3, IMO. Nice work overall!

[geomorph]

Could you explain what is going on in 2, 4 and 5? I'm not very familiar with whatever sport that is.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

What everyone else has said & asked.

[systemoverblow'd]

Same as everyone else.

My $.02. Think about switching your logo to the other side on 1, 2, 3, and 6. I have found you want to keep it away from the action or interesting parts. It is actually distracting to me in those 4 images

#1: I'd much rather see it on the dirt than on the side supports of the ramp since the curvature brings my eyes there.

#2: The person is facing the logo again drawing the eye. I'd like to see it on the left behind him.

#3: It's practically engulfing her and the waves she's battling. Weights down that side too much.

#6: It's covering up the beginning of the rainbow and the background action of another muddy person. Put it on the left in the grass as that part of the image doesn't mean anything.