The Otakon 2012 Thread: AMV Contest Results All Up in Here

[Kireblue]

I'm curious why there are only 4 videos in trailer (especially since trailers are so short).

[VicBond007]

Very curious as to what the metric is for determining what gets in and what doesn't get in.

How far down the bottle the judges are when your video plays

All kidding aside, we have a semi-open screening each year (semi-open in the sense that if you try to bring 10 friends to stack the votes, you best make other plans) and this year we had 15 people watch all of the entries, even the trolls and DQs, and score each video from 1-5. Then I punch in all the numbers (nearly 2,000 unique votes), take the averages, and then start grabbing the highest rated entries. I then make personal decisions if a category is extremely stacked or barren, and that's sometimes why a video that could go in 2 or more categories, ends up where it does. Sometimes I also have to drop the lowest scoring (yet still qualifying) videos in a category if there is way too many, and drag up a few entries that just barely didn't make the cut, and place them in less populated categories. If a video scores way too low, I won't move it up into finals, no matter how badly the category needs it. Usually the "swing" videos only scored withing 0.1-0.2 points of making finals anyways, so it's not like I'm gaming the system and bumping some real bad videos for the sake of category balance.

And that's how Equestria was made.

[Brakus]

I don't believe I have ever seen NINE videos in one category at Otakon before.

VicBond told me Action was super-SUPERCRAZY competitive this year. If he'd determined the finalists by score alone (and filling up the 2-hour timeslot), there would have been FOURTEEN finalists in the Action category, among which I would have been one. Yeah, mine and four other videos unfortunately got bumped even though they would have scored high enough to be finalists. We five will have to settle for the overflow screenings this year.

But if it's anything like the Action category at AnimeNEXT was this year, then it won't be possible to say any one of them did not deserve to be a finalist.

Especially the EPIC MAH JONGG DEATHMATCH. It must be seen to be believed.

[Brakus]

Info about playlists deleted, per VicBond007's request.

[XStylus]

[snip]
Then I punch in all the numbers (nearly 2,000 unique votes), take the averages, and then start grabbing the highest rated entries. I then make personal decisions if a category is extremely stacked or barren, and that's sometimes why a video that could go in 2 or more categories, ends up where it does.

Interestingly, you and I are on similar pages insofar as that methodology, right down to the hell that is the data entry of the scores.

[zetaplex]

Hmm... I think there's an issue with making the order that predictable. Wouldn't that create a stigma for whoever is the second vid to play?

Can't be any worse than running videos that won in numerous contests a year beforehand.

[Scintilla]

Hmm... I think there's an issue with making the order that predictable. Wouldn't that create a stigma for whoever is the second vid to play?

Didn't stop "I Ain't Marrying No Friggin' Horse!!" from winning Best Upbeat in 2010. And besides, with a field as good as Otakon's, I consider making finals at all an honor, even if with the last one in.

(I still don't use this system myself though.)

[Warlike Swans]

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[Shin-AMV]

Some of those categories look stacked, its going to be crazy.

[snapxynith]

Oh, no, Shin. Now there's a big bullseye on me being first of the first. What is an editor to do?

Guess I have to hope my video is Di-oxygen Di-Floride in this contest.