I don't know if you read my post, but that's exactly what I was saying -_-;;anneke wrote:If you don't like the deadline, don't enter. It's as simple as that. You know what the deadline is, you plan accordingly, or you don't enter.
It's trivial and simple logic, if more and more creators continue to not submit to Otakon due to the deadline, the quality of the contest will continue to degrade. I for one enjoy Otakon's contest the most and thus am making a concerted effort to try and improve a growing problem I see. It's probably the only contest and convention I'll be going to/submitting to and thus I would like to see high quality work .
Bully? That's funny considering I have no intention of finishing my entry and some of your antics I have heard of. I suppose I should stop there though.
Alright please don't take this as a joke or me being sarcastic, but I think I speak for 90% of the college, high school and graduate students when I say:feqqr wrote:Had people posted about the conflict when it was announced or when their school schedule told them finals would be set, we would have been more likely to have considered it. Of course, Antonio is head, and if he wants to say otherwise or disagrees with my throughs, please defer to him.
"We will have a conflict during the Otakon deadline if it is in early/mid-May. Every year. We have finals, projects and research that is more important and thus will not be able to edit.
The idea of editing that far in advance is also not an option for many of us and even a smaller minority really ARE that busy the entire year (just as you are with your personal life).
Please take the time to consider this next year and the year after..."
Now does that mean I get an extension indefinitely for the next few years of my Ph.D?
As I've said before (and I certainly can't argue that people WILL get their entries in), year after year, the same problems arise with the deadline and the time of year it lands. Look at the statistical consistency and the most named problem for the contest. *To me* (maybe not you), that says to me that maybe it's time to perhaps rethink this and take a different approach to the problem.
Actually if you wanna get technical, I'd say AWA Expo is the largest "contest" having far more entries, and they have a "prescreening" beforehand and while not havinga deadline that is 3 months prior to the convention.hackerzc wrote:It's also because Otakon is the largest AMV contest in the US if you are counting number of submitters (yes AX has had more videos, but they allow multiple submissions per person).
Now I will of course agree that the two contests are not the same (they don't do multiple prescreenings throughout the summer), but at the same time as I've said earlier, Otakon is the ONLY Contest I know of that has a deadline THAT far in advance.
To be frank, I have no real solution. I realize it's to plan and prepare for things and by moving the deadline, you in turn create a harsher deadline for the staffers. It's a Catch-22. You can't win. At the same time, given the consistency of the problem, the least we can do is discuss it and try to come up with a better solution than the current one.
Nah wasn't the dramatic malarchy (which no doubt will happen later) about the actual finalists? As it is every year?AtomX wrote:It's kind of unbelievable how we seem to go through this same dramatic malarchy every year with this contest. Kind of makes me glad I didn't end up submitting.
And yeah I'm kinda glad too since it means people won't yell at me for ya know...getting in. How dare I?