
TsunamiX wrote:Davis 51 wrote:Oh jeez. I'm leaving the country on July 4 at an ungodly early hour, and I won't have internet access until I return two weeks later.
The suspense is going to give me an aneurysm, I swear.
The finalists won't be announced much sooner than that anyway.
VicBond007, in the updated first post, wrote:After that, I mail a DVD of the potential finalists to our lawyer so that he can look them over and see if there's any good reason that we could get in trouble for showing something. Once I hear back from him, THEN the finalists will be announced.
MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?
Maybe he meant at the con?kireblue wrote:MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?
Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
drewaconclusion wrote:Maybe he meant at the con?kireblue wrote:MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?
Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
drewaconclusion wrote:Maybe he meant at the con?kireblue wrote:MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?
Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
VicBond007 wrote:If Alan gets an email from someone asking if they can bring 10 friends, he knows what you're doing and no, you can't bring your 10 friends
VicBond007 wrote:After that, I mail a DVD of the potential finalists to our lawyer so that he can look them over and see if there's any good reason that we could get in trouble for showing something. Once I hear back from him, THEN the finalists will be announced.
MisterFurious wrote:My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.
Jefferys wrote:MisterFurious wrote:My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.
PC is still an issue these days? Nobody told me it was the 1980s all over again... :-/
MisterFurious wrote:I guess I'm doomed, then. My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.
VicBond007 wrote:It's not half as controversial as some of the videos we got this yearI'm more concerned about corporations with more money, trying to sue corporations with less money (us) over something blatantly illegal. There's some racey and offensive stuff in the running this year, sure, but nothing that wouldn't be OK for AMV Hell insert-non-zero-number here, and cons play those to death! My position is that if you need to be of a certain age to even understand the content, you're probably old enough to understand that it's not meant to be harmful.

VicBond007 wrote:MisterFurious wrote:I guess I'm doomed, then. My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.
It's not half as controversial as some of the videos we got this yearI'm more concerned about corporations with more money, trying to sue corporations with less money (us) over something blatantly illegal. There's some racey and offensive stuff in the running this year, sure, but nothing that wouldn't be OK for AMV Hell insert-non-zero-number here, and cons play those to death! My position is that if you need to be of a certain age to even understand the content, you're probably old enough to understand that it's not meant to be harmful.
VicBond007 wrote:Everyone else should have gotten a confirmation e-mail by now. Check your spam folders. In addition to our @otakon.com addresses being managed by gmail servers, the automated e-mails are sent from my own server, so there's a high chance it can be flagged for spam![]()
godix wrote:Like this one amv. It was all like woosh, zoom with effects. And I was all like whoa awesome. Then that guitar thingies popped up and went dun dun DUN dun then those box thingies went zooming by and twirling around and shit. Oh god, then the hexagons popped up and I was like 'I just got a stiffie'. Then there was the circle with those thingies going around and I blew my load.

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