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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby outlawed » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:21 pm

Screw the hats. I'm wearin' ma judgin' belt.

I recommend we all cover AMVs like this from now on:
http://www.hiphopgamershow.com/new/micr ... hgs-62010/
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby KagatoAMV » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:25 pm

What kind of Tshirt goes with a Top Hat?
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby Rider4Z » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:39 pm

Studio Hybrid wrote:What kind of Tshirt goes with a Top Hat?

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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby NightHawk » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:41 pm

Studio Hybrid wrote:What kind of Tshirt goes with a Top Hat?

Image :awesome: EDIT - Damn you Rider! lol beat me to it.

As for the new list, congrats to Rider and GTC. It's great to see how well BTaing acted in this situation and that everything is pretty much good now.

I'm still very interested in seeing Castor's and Niotex's vids, though.
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby Rider4Z » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:43 pm

NightHawk wrote: EDIT - Damn you Rider! lol beat me to it.

that's cuz i'm a ninja pirate.

OH and Castor's vid will be debuted right after the Quiz, so be there!! |:>
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby NightHawk » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:45 pm

I was busy typing up the rest of my message in between co-workers walking by. I'm not supposed to be doing this at work! hahaha
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby XStylus » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:49 pm

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Vlad G Pohnert wrote:I think we should create a secret society that meets deep in the bowels of the Earth whose members do nothing but judge AMVs for contests... In between they can put their minds together and work on world domination or else eliminate all those that argue the judges results.... and if you want, Xstylus, you can be the societies minister of quality control as you'll get to torture those that get out of line... Oh, and all members can also wear those cool anime hats too and Rider4Z can be the appointed social coordinator… so there |:>

..note to self ...don't deviate off topic or else... :uhoh:

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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby Ileia » Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:44 pm

My backpedal sense is tingling....
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby Radical_Yue » Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:21 pm

Ileia wrote:My backpedal sense is tingling....


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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby DigitalPanther » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:15 pm

Ileia wrote:
That being said, I do agree with cutting videos that don't stand up to the quality standards. If you did something wrong, learn how to fix it. I see a lot of people posting in contest threads when they have videos disqualified for the technical aspect of it, so there is an obvious willingness to learn how to correct it. I have seen a few contest rules that link to the guides here and I think that is an awesome idea that I'd like to see more often. Just add a little link to the DQ e-mail. "Your video was disqualified due to _____. Here is a guide that can help you fix the problem so that you can resubmit."* It'll help them help themselves and keep the quality of the contest higher.

I think that is a great idea. Part of the problem is that 98% if not 99% of all the entries don't get mailed till the very last possible minute.So resubmission is impossible. Most entrants wait down to the wire to send. be it procrastination, lazieness, anxiety, whatever. If you wait till the last possible minute to submit and get DQ'd for tech the you are sol till next year. I sincerely wish more people would submit early enough to have resubmit time. I think that would have helped a couple of the vids this year.

For the record...4 days before the deadline is not what I would consider in enough time. I am thinking more like a month before.
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby DigitalPanther » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:26 pm

Rider4Z wrote:
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Oh, and all members can also wear those cool anime hats too and Rider4Z can be the appointed social coordinator… so there |:>

my first act as social coordinator would be to provide t-shirts to match the hats :awesome:

ooooo T-shirts AND Hats? AWESOME!!! Make mine 2X and hat size el skullo de hyuggeo

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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby The Wired Knight » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:37 pm

DigitalPanther wrote:
Ileia wrote:
That being said, I do agree with cutting videos that don't stand up to the quality standards. If you did something wrong, learn how to fix it. I see a lot of people posting in contest threads when they have videos disqualified for the technical aspect of it, so there is an obvious willingness to learn how to correct it. I have seen a few contest rules that link to the guides here and I think that is an awesome idea that I'd like to see more often. Just add a little link to the DQ e-mail. "Your video was disqualified due to _____. Here is a guide that can help you fix the problem so that you can resubmit."* It'll help them help themselves and keep the quality of the contest higher.

I think that is a great idea. Part of the problem is that 98% if not 99% of all the entries don't get mailed till the very last possible minute.So resubmission is impossible. Most entrants wait down to the wire to send. be it procrastination, lazieness, anxiety, whatever. If you wait till the last possible minute to submit and get DQ'd for tech the you are sol till next year. I sincerely wish more people would submit early enough to have resubmit time. I think that would have helped a couple of the vids this year.

For the record...4 days before the deadline is not what I would consider in enough time. I am thinking more like a month before.
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Michael you may want to try this, it served me well for Yaoicon for a number of years.

Set two deadlines for submissions, an early deadline and a late deadline. Mark the early deadline as for those who are uncertain about the technical aspects of their video and that if a video submitted BEFORE the early deadline sufferes from certain issues that would otherwise DQ it, that you will notify them and they have until the late deadline to get the video back in with the appropriate fix.

The late deadline recieves no leeway and videos submitted by that one run the risk of being DQed for the problem. You just have to leave yourself enough time between the two to know that you will have sufficient time to review whatever videos get submitted before the early submission deadline.

I stopped doing this only because I found not enough entries were taking advantage of it but frankly yaoicon has so few entries on average I never worried about it too much. However for AX I think the early deadline will not only improve quality of entires but also give you more flexibility on the ability to disqualify videos for technical reasons without having to worry about being too nitpicky.
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby Rider4Z » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:40 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:Michael you may want to try this, it served me well for Yaoicon for a number of years.

Set two deadlines for submissions, an early deadline and a late deadline. Mark the early deadline as for those who are uncertain about the technical aspects of their video and that if a video submitted BEFORE the early deadline sufferes from certain issues that would otherwise DQ it, that you will notify them and they have until the late deadline to get the video back in with the appropriate fix.

The late deadline recieves no leeway and videos submitted by that one run the risk of being DQed for the problem. You just have to leave yourself enough time between the two to know that you will have sufficient time to review whatever videos get submitted before the early submission deadline.

I stopped doing this only because I found not enough entries were taking advantage of it but frankly yaoicon has so few entries on average I never worried about it too much. However for AX I think the early deadline will not only improve quality of entires but also give you more flexibility on the ability to disqualify videos for technical reasons without having to worry about being too nitpicky.

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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby Niotex » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:50 pm

I don't want to sound rude or anything. But given how early the deadline was this year compared to the actual con date. I always assumed this was in place already. There was no excuse to not open the files real quick as you got them in, scrub through them looking for any major issues. And then if something was wrong getting back to the editor. Shooting them a non personal automated message to fix said problem. This honestly takes less then 5 minutes per faulty video. 20 seconds top's for a problem-less video. Given the sheer volume of entries for AX one should expect 2 afternoons/evenings tops going through this. Then having people resubmit within a week. If entry doesn't comply then, then too bad. Doesn't sound unreasonable or hard if you ask me. A system like this is used at contests like an Acen etc. I've personally used this system for all the contests I've run in the past 3/4 years now. I think you'd be surprised with how small the workload really is.

Trust me, at the end of the day everyone is happy.

Also people really need to read their PM's.
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Re: Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

Postby XStylus » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:21 pm

Niotex wrote:I don't want to sound rude or anything. But given how early the deadline was this year compared to the actual con date. I always assumed this was in place already. There was no excuse to not open the files real quick as you got them in, scrub through them looking for any major issues. And then if something was wrong getting back to the editor. Shooting them a non personal automated message to fix said problem. This honestly takes less then 5 minutes per faulty video. 20 seconds top's for a problem-less video. Given the sheer volume of entries for AX one should expect 2 afternoons/evenings tops going through this. Then having people resubmit within a week. If entry doesn't comply then, then too bad. Doesn't sound unreasonable or hard if you ask me. A system like this is used at contests like an Acen etc. I've personally used this system for all the contests I've run in the past 3/4 years now. I think you'd be surprised with how small the workload really is.


Yeah, you do sound rude. It is not a coordinator's responsibility to check and notify the editor of fuck-ups that the editor is supposed to have checked prior to sending.

If a contest coordinator of any convention provides such a courtesy notice, it is just that -- a courtesy. If the coordinator wants to be a hard-ass and let the creator reap the consequences of their shoddy proofing, that's his or her prerogative.

Relying on the coordinator to do what is the most basic responsibility of the editor is a total lack of professionalism.
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