Rider4Z wrote:Concourse Hall was better than Hall G. i agree acoustics were bad, and the lights stayed on making it hard for the audience to absorb themselves into the video
We were all too aware of those lights. Our tech staff had been struggling for 45 minutes to get the convention center to turn them off. The final pre-show vid had played and I had to make the go or no-go call to launch the show. I decided "no-go", relaunched a block of preshow, and was so
livid at that point that it took three people to calm my ass down, and I'm usually the quiet level headed one.
Anyway, finally the convention center informed us that the
fire marshal had dictated a minimum lighting level and that the lights we were
permitted to turn off were already off. That was the end of that matter. With nothing to be done about it, I let the matter go and launched the show.
creator's jury duty.... yeah nobody was happy about that. bryce suggested we revolt and LC suggested we bolt out the back door.
Well, for what it's worth, you've done your jury service and are customarily absolved from being called for jury duty again for another year! [bah dum bum]
Ahem. Anyway, yeah. There was no contingency for the situation, so that was the quickest and simplest idea I could come up with on the fly. Basically, the situation was that there were three vids tied for Creator Favorite (and each had gotten only three votes out of 27), none of which were the Audience Favorite or Judge Favorite. There was
supposed to have been a staff favorite too, but of the staffers who attended the staff screening, only five turned in ballots, so I threw it out.
So, yeah. Judging structure. One more thing to revamp for next year.

troy, that was cool you had the winners come up during the masquerade half-time show. great acknowledgement.
It didn't go as smoothly as I'd liked, but it was important to me to do it. It was the completion of a full circle. And it gave me
so much joy to be able to announce Melichan as the winner of drama, considering how surprised she was to have even gotten in. It's reactions like those which warm my dark heart with the light of a thousand suns.

Anyway, in summary, this year's objective was "shock and awe". I wanted to astound everyone with the quantity and quality of AMV Events at AX this year. Everything Vlad and I have heard indicate that it was quite successful, but I'll let you guys be the judge.
