The major aim of the VideOlympics is to promote research in video retrieval research. An additional main goal of the VideOlympics is giving the audience a good perspective on the possibilities and limitations of the current state-of-the-art systems. Where traditional evaluation campaigns like TRECVID focus primarily on the effectiveness of collected retrieval results, the VideOlympics also allows to take into account the influence of interaction mechanisms and the advanced visualizations in the interface. To prevent that interesting ideas are not exhibited due to a fear of "losing"; for example because companies do not want to be associated to an inferior product, or because smaller research teams will feel they cannot compete against the resources of the larger groups, we do not strictly score performance. Moreover, the VideOlympics should be fun to do for the participants and fun to watch for the conference audience. For all these reasons, the VideOlympics should only have winners.
