Otakon: Rules and Submission Form

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Otakon: Rules and Submission Form

Postby hackerzc » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:49 pm

Ok everyone, I know it's been long in coming, but the rules and submission form for the contest are ready to go. They can be accessed in the files section of the OtakonAMV Mailing List
You have to join the list to have access to the files.

Please note: each person has to be approved for membership prior to having access. So please list your reason for joining in your request.(need for approval may be lifted in the near future)

Thank you, and I look forward to seeing a number of our "regulars" again, as we work through yet another year of transition.

Also for quick refference, the Due Date is May 19, 2005
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Postby Illia Sadri » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:24 pm

Um is there a possibility of having the forms and guidlines posted on the site directly anytime soon?

Some people are not particularly fond of mailing lists and the general clutter that occurs in their inbox as a result.
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Postby hackerzc » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:31 pm

In all honesty I do not know when they will be available on the site. Seeing how the rules are finalized, I do not think it will be too long.
I personally would like to see them there by the end of the week. But that is up to Otakon's webmaster to post. I do not even know if he has the infomation yet or not. I only learned of the rules being available today myself, and was given the go ahead to let others know they are available.
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Postby Pwolf » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:37 pm

Illia Sadri wrote:Um is there a possibility of having the forms and guidlines posted on the site directly anytime soon?

Some people are not particularly fond of mailing lists and the general clutter that occurs in their inbox as a result.


join the mailing list, get the files, then quit :P


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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:45 am

3 months prior to the Con for the deadline... :shock: That's going to be tight for me to get things done... Why 12 weeks?

Also, the form has FTP as an option but it's stated there will be no FTP site...

Looks like the rules are exactly the same as last years and the same submission form...

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Postby dwchang » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:50 am

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:3 months prior to the Con for the deadline... :shock: That's going to be tight for me to get things done... Why 12 weeks?


100% agree.

Last year we had a good 5 months to get our entries ready. Considering somet of us were waiting for the rules, this seems a bit strange. Also the con is late-August vs. late-July...seems like they just chose the exact same weekend as last year. I only remember since it was right after ACen again ;)

Also as Vlad said, if we have to now mail our entries in, effectively there aren't 12 weeks, there are 11 since we have to take into account the postal service.
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:55 am

Hey John, please dont take this the wrong way, but I've yet to see even one post from this new Coordinator? Please tell me it's not a communication repeat of last year...

Also, The rules indeed look like a exact duplicate of last years as with the form, are there any changes at all?? Just wondering....

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Postby TaranT » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:24 am

Would it be a problem to post the rules here on this site?

There are several other contests that have no rules posted on the respective conventions' Web sites for whatever reasons (Fanime, Anime North, Anime Central, and Anime Next). The organizers have posted the rules here (except Fanime where the rules are on a personal site).
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Postby hackerzc » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:50 am

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Looks like the rules are exactly the same as last years and the same submission form...


Actually the form is different. Infact the choice of submission (ie: FTP, CD, TAPE) was not on last years rules. And the rules have some changes/additions.

Oh, and the FTP submission is on the form because the coordinator did not know until a few weeks ago that OtakuVideo no longer existed. Last I was told, The possibility of FTP is still being looked into.
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Postby hackerzc » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:51 am

dwchang wrote:
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Also as Vlad said, if we have to now mail our entries in, effectively there aren't 12 weeks, there are 11 since we have to take into account the postal service.

*cough* postmark *cough*
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Postby TheSmokingMan » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:00 pm

Ughh... That's going to be a crunch. I'm a senior in college and have no time to work on a video until after I graduate in mid May. Even an extra week would be extremely helpful.
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Postby tuathaanwarrior » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:50 pm

This does seem rather soon, but i have the good fortune of bein a senior in high school so that it doesnt really matter for me.

Anyway this is my first con and im still kind of noobish about technical things, so after reading the rules, i was a bit confused about the format. If I follow the section about conventions in EADFAG, will this be okay for otakon?
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Postby Scintilla » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:15 pm

tuathaanwarrior wrote:If I follow the section about conventions in EADFAG, will this be okay for otakon?

Am I missing something? As far as I can see, that section still isn't up.
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Postby tuathaanwarrior » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:25 pm

Scintilla wrote:
tuathaanwarrior wrote:If I follow the section about conventions in EADFAG, will this be okay for otakon?

Am I missing something? As far as I can see, that section still isn't up.


Oh shit... I guess if I followed it Id be marginally magical...
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Postby Cybermat » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:33 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:3 months prior to the Con for the deadline... :shock: That's going to be tight for me to get things done... Why 12 weeks?

The AMV deadline was always around 12 weeks before Otakon... I think back in 2003 it was even 14 weeks before the convention.

The reasons why are that cataloging & timing around 200 AMVs takes time, making slates & mastering up half a dozen prescreening tapes takes time, selecting the finalists takes time, printing the ballots takes time, and mastering the contest tape takes time. And this year there's not going to be Otaku Video there to lean on for the heavy lifting.

Honestly, it's a big pile of work to do in twelve weeks without screwing it up royally, or burning yourself out in the process, or slacking off at the day job.

I agree though, that it would be more helpful if the rules could be posted before Christmas (rather than in February) but that just never seems to happen. :-(
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