The Otakon 2009 thread

[Adv1sor]

Sounds like another great show in the making but is it really Ok to get excited about Otakon while the Cherry Blossoms are still in bloom?

I'll work up something to send in soon. I hope I make it this year, last year blew my perfect record!

[HalOfBorg]

Mine's gonna be more of a parody of special effects videos.

Looking forward to seeing it.

[Altiryoko]

Yea, well Animenext and Otakon are waiting pretty long to tell us their deadlines. Wouldn't think that making the rules official would take that long since this is a yearly thing.

Just would have wanted the site updated faster so I would know exactly how much time I had left to finish it.

They already did tell us the deadlines:

AnimeNEXT: May 22
Otakon: June 7

And in AnimeNEXT's case, the rules ARE official and linked to from their front page. As for Otakon, even though the rules aren't official, Vic just told us that "[t]he deadline is a VERY HARD DEADLINE."

I know. Just saying that times seem to be hard for cons this year. Lots of hard deadlines going around this year. Can kinda see why since everything is volunteer

[freya13]

500 badges don't laminate themselves

>.< yea you're freakin telling me......... you're welcome Vic

[Castor Troy]

Uploading my entry now.

[OtakuForLife]

I plan on submitting... but what is the question.. I'll get back you on that

[VicBond007]

The rules are done and approved. Nothing was changed content-wise, only some of the wording was altered for clarity. Expect to see them online in a few days. Keep 'em coming!

[RolltheStampede]

Okay, so say we send in one video now, but then in May it wins something at, say, AnimeCentral... can we send in another video to replace it?

Also, can you please add this contest to the contests list?

This question is to piggy back off of Scintilla, If you send in a video then in the meantime it wins somewhere else and is then disqualified will it still be shown?
I would understand it not being able to win something but i would think if it makes the cut it would still be shown.

[VicBond007]

This question is to piggy back off of Scintilla, If you send in a video then in the meantime it wins somewhere else and is then disqualified will it still be shown?
I would understand it not being able to win something but i would think if it makes the cut it would still be shown.

It will still be shown in overflow, regardless of whether it makes the cut (even though the cut is technically determined well after the deadline...) If we allowed it as a non-competing entry in the final contest, then it's entirely possible that an entire category could be filled with non-competes except for 1 or 2 videos, meaning that awards would end up getting defaulted instead of determined by vote. If that happened, I'd never hear the end of it, lol. That, and it keeps overflow awesome.

[Scintilla]

It will still be shown in overflow, regardless of whether it makes the cut (even though the cut is technically determined well after the deadline...) If we allowed it as a non-competing entry in the final contest, then it's entirely possible that an entire category could be filled with non-competes except for 1 or 2 videos, meaning that awards would end up getting defaulted instead of determined by vote. If that happened, I'd never hear the end of it, lol. That, and it keeps overflow awesome.

Oh yeah, here's a question about overflow: is there any way to keep people from wondering why certain awesome videos didn't make finals (if it's because they had already won somewhere else)? I remember a lot of people wondering about that last year -- if not here, then on their Livejournals and whatnot.