Well... both are official now...
Fanime has been official for a while... and ACen just confirmed with me
I will be running the Iron Chef Video Editing Challenge at both cons...
I mainly do the back of house stuff with it... maintain the contest its self... keeping the rules and actuall competition consitant... its up to the con to add its own flavor to the presentation...
so far...
Fanime (Sponsoered by Manga Entertainment)
Theme (tenative) - guns
Iron Chef - ErMaC
Challenger - Doki Doki Production
ACen
Theme - no idea yet
Iron Chef - Outlaw Production
Challenger - no idea yet
When i first started doing the iron chef at AWA i had lots of peopel ask me if they could be on the contest... well... now that other cons are also running it will be easier for me to add more people...
please note that this is not AWA taking over other cons... I run OtakuVideo which is me and a couple other people who help out convnetions with AMV and video services... AWA happens to be my home con... so it gets the royal treatment... I don't force the anythign on any con I help out... in fact i don't want to.... i want each con to have its own flavor... its own spin on things... i am here only to keep the technical aspects consitant, and to maintain a level playing field....
so... everybody who is goign to those conventions.... i hope to see you at the contest....
btw... Manga Entertainment is sponsoring the Fanime iron chef (I don't know if anybody is sponsoring the ACen one... i can get back to everybody about that) but they are being wonderfull about it. They are not forcing my hand in anything, not demanding any footage be used... there own words was to make it the best contest possible, not to use it soley to push manga products
and I do know about the Iron chef contest done at Ushicon and think that was wonderfull... but... this contest is done a little bit different... i will only have two contestants... and the two computers are identical... for my contest to be fair... everythign must be identical for the two editors...

