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		<title>Fantastic Five – The South Africa Chapter – The Contest for Reality Series</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In.com is running a contest for an Online reality show/series that will showcase five people who will be sent to 5 different cities in South Africa and these five people have to travel and blog on the go. Post videos and write articles. As soon as i read the first page of the Fantastic Five [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="Fantastic Five - The South Africa Chapter" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="200" alt="Fantastic Five - The South Africa Chapter" src="http://www.gangavalli.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/fantasticfivethesouthafricachapter.jpg" width="240" align="left" border="0" /> In.com is running a contest for an Online reality show/series that will showcase five people who will be sent to 5 different cities in South Africa and these five people have to travel and blog on the go. Post videos and write articles. </p>
<p>As soon as i read the first page of the <a href="http://f5southafrica.in.com/" target="_blank">Fantastic Five site</a>, I immediately thought WOW, may be this is here for me. But I was disappointed to see a rule saying “You must have at least one International Travel.&#8221; What does this have to do with finding passionate people/bloggers who are interested in Traveling to South Africa and blogging, posting videos about what they see there and ultimately impress the online audience? </p>
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<p>I haven’t done any International Travel yet, but I’m no less interested in the Fantastic Five. All my life I have been watching only channels like NGC, Discovery, Animal Planet and Travel and Living. Those are the channels that play on my TV 90% of the time. I am a great fan of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough" target="_blank">Sir David</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dattenborough" target="_blank">Attenborough</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/who/david_attenborough.shtml" target="_blank">his programs</a>, a great admirer of people like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin" target="_blank">Steve Irwin</a>, <a href="http://www.marktennant.com/madmikeandmark.aspx" target="_blank">Mike and Mark</a>. Do you watch Mad Mike and Mark? hmm.. you should be mad to watch it really. </p>
<p>Ok now finally what sounds like a great opportunity to travel, do wild safari and blog a lot and keep the audience interested, now sounds like “hey, relax this contest is not for the average guys, this is only for rich dudes or business people who do International Travel”? Yes a lot disappointed after seeing that. Being in the Lucky 5 is one thing, now I should even forget getting shortlisted? This is pretty bad. </p>
<p><em><u>An appeal to Web18/In.com and South Africa Tourism:</u> Please change the rule that the contestants need to have at least one International travel. You will seriously miss people like me and People like me will miss one very good opportunity to do what they love to do the most.&#160; </em></p>
<p><em>I am not just passionate to contest, I am sure luck will favor me to the lucky five and I will be the most followed contestant in the whole of the series. So, Please give me a fair chance. </em></p>
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