I can only say, we had a bunch of problems in our AMV contest that drove us all nuts. followed by the worst thing. most of our staff left for christmas vacation right after the convention...so unfortunately all the info you guys wanted and deserved was not posted until the first weeks of January.
While we did announce the winners of the contest Sunday - that will never be done that way again...I know some other cons do that, but i did not likey that at all...T_T
Our site does show the winners and the winner of "Best of Show" actually lives in Guatemala so he could not make an appearance, but he is really happy he won the Plasma Screen. It is being hand delivered to his family here in Miami (apparently they have a warehouse here)
for St. Louis, the contest is being run differently. all EXPOS will run in the video rooms during evenings, tributes will also run in these rooms.
In St. Louis we will only have the 2 hour run on Saturday. no delays! the seating schedule will be in the conbook - if we get 159 videos as we did in Miami the top 2 hours will be played leading to the winners which will be announced at that time and handed their prizes.
Forgive me for any hyping of the contest. We only wanted to advertise its first of a kind size of prize. which I think the winner was very deserving of. some of you guys I have spoken too in regards to winning your category - sorry promodo if you name is mispelled, pop me an IM and i will get it fixed. all your videos were great. we are sorry if they played sequentially, rebuilding many of them from a hacked site was not easy. and some of your videos were misplaced.
I have a few ideas on how to make it up to all of you so give me some time and it will be done. ^_^
oh yeah - Koopis! damn I still get chills when I watch your Rahxephon video...^_^
Thank you all for the constructive criticism - We have new staff working on the AMV contest for St. Louis that will not make the same mistakes as in Miami, I hope I will deliver the contest everyone deserves.
if you have questions for him - send them to
Juan Garcia
ziekrage@gmail.com
Thanks
Manny Camacho
Director of Convention Operations
Convention Chairman
Kunicon
AOL IM: MoadibAFS