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Postby moooooo » Thu Jul 11, 2002 1:16 am

I've read a lot of posts all over saying how bad AX was. I read that there was no AMV contest, but other than that, why'd it suck so much?
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Thu Jul 11, 2002 1:35 am

To make a long story short (has been discussed to death on the AMV yahoo dicussion group), the Music video contest was not shown on Friday night to a full crowd as scheduled due to rendering problems. This seamed to occur Becasue of the late deadline and the organizers wearing lots of hats. The contest was shown at 8:00 am on Saturday and still had a lot of technical problems.

In the end, the AMV coordinators appoligized but it still left a lot of people upset. They did however promise to totaly overhall the contest and hopefully it will be back and much better next year...

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Postby Machine » Thu Jul 11, 2002 2:56 am

A cold in hell when that will happen :P
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Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:33 am

I heard the Anaheim Convention Center is 5x bigger than Long Beach and AX was only held in Long Beach for 2 years because the Anaheim Convention Center was under renovation.

Hopefully this means there's a slight possibility of extra *COUGH*video rooms for you know...*COUGH*....
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Postby Machine » Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:09 pm

I didn't mind the Video rooms.

They shoudl hire more Techs damnit! :twisted:
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Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:23 pm

Since AX is the largest attended con in the country according to their statistics and now that they have a 5x larger area.... Maybe they could look into handling the AMV contest more like Otakon's with the overflows and such.... although that would probably never happen :?
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Postby Sub0 » Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:04 pm

ya know what would rock? if you could put intermittant anime charachters/ backgrounds like Excel walking the halls or Lina crashing the party or somthin lol
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Postby SpPANDA » Thu Jul 11, 2002 10:59 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Sorry I couldn't hang out longer but here's what I remember...

Machine: Cool guy who dresses up well and carries a camera.

Vlad: Very wise and informative, he and I chatted about after effects a bit.

Eric Kobet: Very nice guy who I had the greatest honor of meeting. A bit nervous but he's still cool.

Anneke: Nice person who's a yaoi fangirl

Julie: Nice person who reminded me to pick up her vcd :wink:

Brad: Looks like he came back from Bowling. Nice guy.

Troy: Wacky guy.... :shock:

Peter Stoll: Shook hands with him.

Tim Park: Saw him occasionally around the convention center and dealers room but didn't meet him since he looked kinda busy.

TommyRude: Looking at his size, he could clobber Ermac... wish I got to talk to him.

Wired Knight: Cool guy with long hair.

Charles Bethel: Cool guy who talked with me and EvilVegettoZ at the contest.

People at table 3 gave me a "Who the hell are you?" look. :shock:


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Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:02 pm

SpPanda: Cool little guy who wears a panda on his head.
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Postby SpPANDA » Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:03 pm

im loved.

HURRAH!
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Postby The Wired Knight » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:47 am

Brad: Cool and fun guy, I'm taking that quote of his with me now, "As long as I'm still erect, I havn't drunk enough."

Vlad: I agree with Machine, great and wise guy, always seems to have something intelligent to say.

Tim: Very mellow, more so than I imagined him, a nice guy who makes the funniest AMVs I've seen.

Castor: Great guy who seems to fear Joe, course that might be with fair reason.

Tony: Hillarious and very dedicated to his work.

Anneke: Cool and interesting to talk to and have a discussion with.

Ermac: Honestly I agree that I think he is misunderstood, a fanboy at heart who I've heard loves to rave. (If that's incorrect go shoot my friend who says he saw you raving at the party)

Nic: Great guy who is very friendly and approachable.

Ben: Fun guy to hang around and talk to.

K, now that I have realized that I have left more reciews of people than I have of AMVs, I'm going to stop this list.
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Postby Spyral » Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:03 pm

Kazz and I were there! We are rather quiet so we are easy to miss.... ;)
So many people there, we didn't get to meet all of you, but you all were pretty cool. Now when I read your posts I'm hearing your voices in my head so that is pretty scary.

Congrats to everyone who made the finalists, there were some really great videos - even a lot of great ones that didn't make it. Thanks for all the CDs and DVDs too.... we haven't gotten through all of them yet but I have to say that you all are really talented and hope to see you all again soon at some future con. :)

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Postby TokyoU15 » Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:17 pm

Anneke - cool girl and has a very nasty yaoi habit. I chatted with her alot and everything was really cool between us.

Ermac - He?s not mean, hes just misunderstood. Man justin is nothing like what people think he is online. A really great guy to talk to and very helpful. I think I?m turning into an Ermac Fanboy =P. PS, Justin does not Lack Integrity.

Vlad - The wisest AMV creator of them all. Now here is an AMV Guru who everyone should listen too. Very useful advice and a War veteran who has been through it all. A wise one that I learned alot from.

Brad DeMoss - Wacky guy who brings a smile to anyones face. A rather disturbing laugh though. Hahaha still a really cool guy.

Andre - nice guy who hung around with me and kept my sanity through most of the Con.

Castor Troy - Funny ass guy who is a coward before the Almighty Joe Maborishi. Haha. Still a cool guy to hang with.

Alpha Omega - The young Edward Norton of our time. Hahah this guy was awesome. I hung out with him most of the time as well. Really great guy.

Tim Park - really mellow guy who should be known more as Dorky Dorky instead of Doki Doki. Haha joke from Anneke there. Still Tim is an awesome guy.

Eric Kobet - This guy brought the house down at the AMV panel. One of the coolest guys in the world. I wish he wasnt so hard on himself. Hand down Eric Kobet is one guy everyone has to meet one day in their lives. This guy lives as a very cool guy in my book!

Charles Bathal - Also someone was really cool with me and kept my Sanity throughout the Con. One of my co-hosts during the Anime Expo Documentary. Mad props to him. He knows how to have a good time.


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Postby Machine » Sat Jul 13, 2002 12:04 am

He has no respect for Ermac what so ever.

Personaly I thought his comments were funny at the AX AMV panel....lol I thought they were actually gonna fight right then and there.

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Postby Castor Troy » Sat Jul 13, 2002 12:07 am

Machine wrote:He has no respect for Ermac what so ever.

Personaly I thought his comments were funny at the AX AMV panel....lol I thought they were actually gonna fight right then and there.


That would have been priceless :P
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