Judges Choice Awards (JCA) results

[Kevmaster]

Gratz and nice results. I hope you hold the contest next year too. Thank you.

With 3 Editors that deserved a win in their category, this is at least better than the VCA results. But Project Elysium as best mep? Come on.

Regarding your last journal entry and this post. Seriously.

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maybe you get next year into JCA judge staff and can vote for YOUR subjective opinion. Now get over it. Thx.

How about letting people express their opinion?

[dokidoki]

Thanks to godix, koop, and the judges. Here's a clickable list:

Judges Choice Awards 2009
Best Action Video: Ileia - Never Gonna Stop Me
Best Character Profile: Castor Troy - Go the distance
Best Collaborative Video: A Guide to Dada
Best Comedy Video: DriftRoot - Takeout
Best Dance Video: Nostromo_vx - Running Man
Best Dramatic Video: dokidoki - Choices
Best First Video: Artofeel - The Conspiracy of Law
Best Fun Video: Bonefixer - Clarissa
Best Horror Video: Ingow - What's He Building?
Best Multi-Editor Project: Chiikaboom - Project Elysium
Best No-Effects Video: MeriC - One Guitar
Best Parody Video: Tsunami Jones - Cockpit Love
Best Romantic Video: Moonlight Soldier - Still Love
Best Sentimental Video: Kitsuner - A Little Retrospect
Best Trailer or Commercial: Silk_SK - Eureka Transformers v2
Best Use of Instrumental Music: Cross/fade - Festival of Life
Best Use of Lip Synch: Hige-san - Drill of Destiny
Best Use of Multiple Anime: Gaurry - Muse
Best Use of Special Effects: Koopiskeva - Twilight
Most Artistic Video: Gaurry - Muse
Most Original Video: piiiiii - End
Video of the Year: Kitsuner - A Little Retrospect

I can do one of those "queue pack" things, but not right now.

[Kitsuner]

Holy crap, that was a surprise. Thanks guys.

(I totally chose half the judges!)

[Otohiko]

Just to illustrate a point in terms of differing tastes and ultimately different choices -

Out of 26 VCA/JCA categories this year,
-8 JCA winners were my top picks. That's less than a third.
-A further 11, however, were in my top 5 picks. That means 7 categories that I totally didn't agree on with other judges, it seems.
-5 VCA winners this year were my top JCA picks. Not a gigantic difference if you think about it.

However I thoroughly enjoyed my 9 hours of watching videos this year and would like to thank all the editors. Thanks for the good show!

Some videos I rated highly that didn't get recognition which I thought should get a nod at least, in no particular order:
Gidrasan - Ramble in New York
Beowulf - Black Sabbath
Zarxrax - Smashing it Old School
qyll - Everything: A Tribute To Kaname Chidori
Darush - Afrikaans Accent Institute
NightPunisher - Memento Mori
inCluDe - These Small Hours
Rider4Z - One-Eyed Fish
Omikami_Amaterasu - Trinity Rising
Nessephanie - Sunset

..actually there's a whole bunch of others I'd like to list, but I gotta go to work
I thoroughly enjoyed my viewing time regardless. Honestly, this was great. If other people have that much time - go queue all the semi-finalists and watch. It's worth it.

[dokidoki]

If other people have that much time - go queue all the semi-finalists and watch. It's worth it.

(The link is gone, but the page is there)

[godix]

Were there any close calls on any of the categories?

I served as tie breaker in 3 categories. A few of the other categories were very close. Most of them had a clear winner though.

Gratz and nice results. I hope you hold the contest next year too. Thank you.

Personally I'm hoping Koop is able to do it next year. Either way, I certainly want JCA to continue and will do what I can to make sure it does.

Here's a clickable list:

Already pushing for Most Helpful in the 2010 JCA I see. Thanks, I should have made those clickable to begin with but for some reason it just didn't occur to me.


As for the results, personally I'm fairly evenly split in agreement between VCA and JCA. There are winners on both lists that make me think 'WTF are these people thinking?' and there are winners on both lists that make me think 'Wow, I didn't expect anyone except me to make that pick'. Which is fine, the JCAs provide a different perspective on deserving videos and as we all should know no one agrees with other peoples opinions all the time. It was clear to me that the judges put thought and consideration into their choices and I can't ask for more than that. Because of that I'm happy with the results even as I disagree with some of them.

[dreamawake]

Congrats on best trailer Silk. You definitely deserved that.


Oh, and bauzi, I don't think the guy with a 3-4 paragraph long journal entry crying about how he didn't make finals in the VCA's has any right to tell Kevfag not to bitch about them |:

[Douggie]

Congrats to the winners!

After the electing the judges phase there was a tie for fifth place. Rather than bias results by picking between them I decided to use six judges instead of the originally planned five.

Man, if you just had asked me (if I were one for the tie), I probably would've said "no". (at least, that is what I'm saying now )

(I totally chose half the judges!)

I'm gonna kill anybody who chose me! Approx. ten hours of watching was a real hell. At least I now know I never gonna do this again. About your vid, it totally deserved the win(s)!

[Ingow]

Great honor to have worked alongside that kind of an interesting team of judges even though everyone seems to disagree with the results quite a bit. Woulndn't have thought that considering that I love the winner list and almost every choice.

It was definately a hard time to go through all of those videos but in the end a cool experience since now I know that lots of the underdog videos were actually the most impressive ones.

I also learned that I can enjoy Chii videos when I watch them more than once, who would've thought.

tl;dr love the results and would enjoy judging again.

[Niotex]

Yup =|

I feel the need to post my personal votes. As the current results as I feel don't represent my votes proper. People have to realize my votes only count for one sixth of the total votes. But I hope that this will soften some of the "боль" I've been reading about on some of the boards. If people feel the need to comment on my ratings I'm available for discussions through my contact info and irc.

I made a list on how many points each video gets rather then their position.

Action
5- Smashing it Old School
4- Sport Jam
3- Utsu
2- Resonant Discort
1- Never Gonna Stop Me

Collaborative
5- I can haz marzipain
4- Certified Samurai
3- A Guide to Dada
2- Run Shoot Slash Kill Repeat
1- The Art of Murder

Dance
5- Auriga
4- Running Man
3- Attack of the Otaku
2- Lovestruck Radiance
1- Now Or Never

First
5- Childern Loaf
4- The Conspiracy Of Law
3- Trinity Rising
2- Traverse
1- Ink

Horror
5- What's He Building
4- The Perfect Human
3- Mirrors
2- The Box
1- The Art of Murder

No FX
5- Choices
4- One Guitar
3- Smashing it Old School
2- Festival of Life
1- Paper Image

Romantic
5- Sunset
4- Our Farewell
3- Still Love
2- Paper Image
1- Corazon

Trailer
5- Ironic Man
4- D for Darker then BLACK
3- Mirrors
2- Utawarehero
1- Kouzumi vs Kyon - Porn In Phone

Lip Sync
5- Ouran Pop
4- Phobia
3- Drill of Destiny
2- Afrikaans Accent Institude
1- C o c k t a i l

FX
5- Remains of Oblivion: Intraday Dereliction
4- Code Ecchi
3- Twilight
2- Midnight Carnival
1- Go the distance

Artistic
5- Muse
4- C o c k t a i l
3- Twilight
2- Festival of Life
1- Remains of oblivion intraday dereliction

Improved
5- Megamom
4- ~Aggressor~
3- mirkosp
2- Radical_Yue
1- ZetZu

Rookie
5- Nya-chan Production
4- Catastrophe Clash
3- neko lover
2- Archivist
1- Vax

Character Profile
5- Everything
4- One Guitar
3- One-Eyed Fish
2- Paper Image
1- Go the distance

Comedy
5- Code Ecchi
4- Clarissa
3- The Harrassment of Kyon
2- Falcon Pan
1- Clan Warfare Pwnage

Dramatic
5- With one touch
4- Phobia
3- Twilight
2- Choices
1- Memento Mori

Fun
5- Clarissa
4- Attack of the Otaku
3- Cookies
2- Ouran POP
1- Hold on

MEP
5- Alive
4- Gothik
3- Through the Distance
2- Memory Flash
1- Chocolate Star Fish

Parody
5- Code Ecchi
4- 'Bustin
3- Afrikaans Accent Institute
2- BOOM DE AH DAH! BOOM DE AH DAH! BOOM DE AH DAH! BOOOM DEEE AH DAAH!
1- Fangirl Frenzy

Sentimental
5- One Guitar
4- A Little Retrospect
3- Twilight
2- C o c k t a i l
1- Chimera

Instrumental
5- Itadakimasu!
4- Festival of Life
3- Seimei no Sakazuki
2- One-Eyed Fish
1- The Art of Murder

Multisource
5- Muse
4- Jam Sports
3- Auriga
2- Remains of Oblivion: Intraday Dereliction
1- A Little Retrospect

Editor of the Year
5- ~Aggressor~
4- » AceMan
3- Chiikaboom
2- Koopiskeva
1- Megamom

Most Helpful
5- dokidoki
4- Zarxrax
3- Scintilla
2- JaddziaDax
1- mirkosp

Original
5- Muse
4- Jam Sports
3- Go the distance
2- Twilight
1- Code Ecchi

Video of the Year
5- One Guitar
4- C o c k t a i l
3- A Little Retrospect
2- Auriga
1- Twilight