DigitalPanther wrote:OK we announced it (unofficially) in the AX forums..so Now it is time to post it here. The "Official" announcement will be going out next week but we wanted to give you, the editors a heads up.
The cash prizing for the AMVs that was alluded to before will break down as follows.
Best of Category (Drama, Action, Pro, Comedy, Fun/OVA) will be $1,500.
The Best of Show will be $2,500.
For those of you doing the math the cash prizing comes to 10K. This is in addition to that crappy Naruto figure you didn't want.

It has taken us many many years, to get this contest the respect it deserves and to be treated as more than the black sheep. Now we are the cool Black Sheep.

We owe it all to you guys and your continued support over the years. Thank you!
This year is our 20th Anime Expo. The theme is "Year of the Fan". As part of that, the CEO and the board gave us $10K to use for AMV prizing.
Now, lets get those edit rigs a whirrin. I look forward to seeing your entries.
-Michael
AKA
-DP
I just learned about this from the press release on
AnimeNewsNetwork. I find it very ironic that when I announced us doing something like this at
A-Kon a couple years ago - awarding cash prizes - people raised hell about it and even threatened boycotting submitting. Now that AnimeExpo seems to have created a precedence for legitimately giving "
large" cash prizes to winners, perhaps we can start offering the same thing at
A-Kon, without the backlash from editors.
Granted, I do recall Otakon (and I think AnimeFest in Dallas) gave cash prizes to winners in the past, but they were chump-change compared to the
thousand$ being offered in L.A.