Lady Shinsei wrote:I have one thing to say about improvement:
Quit showing videos that use the same Anime clips in them! It's really annoying.
I can understand having vids that are from the same Anime, but to use nearly
the exact same scenes in more than one? UGH! It's so lame.....
so what you are saying is that if next year you happen to use a anime clips that a few others use, your video should not be shown regarless of how good it is

... Quite honestly this has nothing to do with how good a video is and if it deserves to be shown or not... Any contest that look at it that way I would not want to enter.
Lady Shinsei wrote:
And I think it'd be fair if there was a new category - Fairly Decent Job!
That way AMVs that couldn't make it to the other categories, but were done
well or their makers were put through a crapload of grief to submit them,
could have the opportunity to still win an award and get their vid seen...
(case in point: Majin Dan's "Trial By Combat" Naruto video... *sigh*)
Quite honestly, that sounds like your bitter about that particular video not being show. Granted, It would be great if it was possible to have contrsts show all thie entires in the finals, but this is just not possible anymore. Besides, accroding to your theory, there were already a lot of Naruto videos so they should not of been shown anyway since they use the same anime clips most likely
Honestly, I understant your fustration, but it's not up to the contest to start cutting video just because they use a particular anime. In all fairness to Sakura-Con, overall the finals had a decent set of videos IMHO...
Vlad