"Way of the Hoof" Animator Competition

There's a new competition for the animators among you.

Six teams (of currently undefined size) of animators will be working together with a musician to demonstrate "the Way of the Hoof". Pony Martial Arts.
Once the teams are formed, there will be a timeframe of 12 weeks for them to make an animation for it from scratch.

Find an announcement video and a Gdocs file copypasta with the whole information after the break.
As always with these kind of things, spread the word.

Convention: Cutie Mark Con

Ladies and Gentlemen, Fillies and Gentlecolts, Cutie Mark Con is pleased to be bringing Cincinnati, Ohio a unique and wonderful experience. Cutie Mark Con will be May 31 - June 2, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Cincinnati North. There are many guests announced, with more yet to come. visit us at www.cutiemarkcon.com for more information

Or look past the break for some more copypasta and summaries.

Various stats and diagrams

Source

Some statistics about the Season 3 finale in regard of viewers and a summarization of the comic's issue #1 sales have been made.
Summarizing the summarizations:

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With the Season 3 finale, the Hub has outdone all the other major cartoon channels for the younger croud, like Cartoon Network, Nicktoons, Disney XD and some more.

Besides, MLP: FiM earned huge percentages in delivery gains among pretty much every age category up to 54. And it seems to be the "most co-viewed network in Kids 2–11 watching with Adults 18–49".

*cough* Yeah. Kids.

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The comic's first issue sold rather well in December 2012... Considering only the third printing was counted due to the initial delays. It ranked 12th for IDW's comic releases and 189th in general Top 300 comic sales with 8,605 sold reprints and a total of 95,384 sold copies for issue #1.

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For more in-depth information, hit the sources:

DHN's article for the finale | Direct source on Zap2it

Ponyville Gazette's article for the comic | Direct source on ICv2