This ougtta teach me to leave the internet alone for a weekend! I wander off for a few days and when I come back y'all are full of questions! Anyway...
[quote= "TaranT"]
Maybe it makes sense to add a rule that the vid can't be listed (
). While it's impossible to search every site on the Web, the Org's d/b is unique as a concentrated source of AMV information. Or maybe it's not worth worrying about since complete and absolute "blindness" may not be achievable in the general sense. And the current system seems to work well enough. [/quote]
Essentially, it would be overkill to make this a rule. It's certainly a suggestion, and I'd advise anyone thinking of entering from doing exactly as you say and refraining from putting up the info until after the contest, but enforcing it would be rather tyrranical of us. I barely have the time to set up the contests as it is...much less browse the index close to con time, so it's hardly a concern on my part. Other judges might encounter it accidentally, though. We're trying on our end to remain "blinded" to the entries, so it would be a one in a million chance if one of our judges happened upon a contestant accidentally.
As for the life action stuff....if you think it would have a chance of winning Master's, go ahead. Considering that this is an AMV contest with but a single winner, that would be a bit like a cat winning at a dog show. The "trailers" though are just fine. Despite the fact they aren't really technically anime music videos, the whole genre has pretty much been adopted into the AMV scene.
The Viewer's Choice awards was a question that Patrick brought up as well. This is kinda a touchy area. When the rules were first written up there wasn't any such thing as an online contest. The rules were written to try and limit the competitors to a certain level of expertise, since there were only so many convention-run contests out there, and they all aspired to a certain level or higher, and the more experienced makers wanted to compete without stepping on the new guy's toes. Now, with all the online contests out there, the scale's kinda outta whack. Some contests are really great, some are very similar to convention contests, but others become difficult to compare... some contests are run among a small group of friends (competitors and judges), and some run with weirdly exclusive criteria (pick the subject matter, video source, etc). Rather than try and evaluate different contests on some sort of quality scale, dis individual contests and approve of others (like AMVers need more divisive infighting) it was decided just to exclude "online contests" altogether. The Viewer's choice contest could be argued as an exception, since it's the contest run at the nexus of the hobby. If anything qualified, it would.
But to do that would be pretty hypocritical of us. We said "online contests" so we have to mean it. Therefore, the Viewer's Choice Awards are not eligable for qualifying for Master's.
As far as naming the file, that's not a real problem. Quu does the final "blinding" of the entries before they come to me, and he's not one of the Judges. All I ever see are a list of entry numbers.
Boy, bunches of questions on Master's already!
The rest of the stuff TJ pretty much fielded.
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
