Final word from Otakon (Scott Melzer)...
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I'm sure my editors will be more than happy with the arrangement.
Great. Let them know that due to your hard work we managed to
get it in rather than have it rejected. Over at AMVs, if someone
sends in something unplayable it just... gets rejected. I've got more
leeway since I don't have nine hours of small films to deal with.
Just six.
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Thanks again! I know this will be a bigger hit than AMVS3 was last year. 
I think the Geico and some of the other bits are great. I'm
still not a fan of this format (the mini-clip format) and I don't like
the test bars as a transition (kind of annoying and doesn't make any
sense!), but a lot of the bits are good. We'll see.
Perhaps we might have to think about making the transition somehow less annoying? It is a tad abrupt, visually speaking. Again, we can think about it.
And I can't stress this enough. There are only three weeks and a few days until Otakon. We were on borrowed time as it is. Also, there probably weren't as many submissions that year as there were this year (which might explain the inclusion of Leebop, Dr.Tran, and others which had been run for many years before). They had to choose what to play so not all submissions made it.
That said, there is no room for a replay of AMVS3. Otakon has a schedule to keep tight and running on time. Asking them to add a half-hour "pre-show" would be like me rushing the panel out of the room before my allotted time so I can set up to play my audience in. Also, the parody list has already been set so all that's left is to put the shows together, which I know is gonna take time.
Let's not rock the boat by asking for any more than we've been able to get. Otakon is our stage for world premieres and I wanna preserve that.
retired: 2021 
