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Postby rurouni_trelane » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:47 pm

Ok, I keep hearing the same thing over and over again, and frankly, I agree:
A-kon ruled! Except for the AMV stuff, that was completely shitty.
Now, through my connections, I have the ear of Meri Hazelwood, the con's organizer and director. If you would all list your complaints here, I can make sure she hears about them and we can do something to get it fixed for next year. Meri has friends who make AMVs, so I don't think she blew us off intentionally. But organizing a con is a huge thing, and it's easy for simple things to get overlooked. We bring these things to her attention, and I'm sure they'll be taken care of.
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Postby jbone » Mon Jun 02, 2003 5:50 pm

It almost attracted some of the good people away from JACON.

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Postby Castor Troy » Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:14 pm

1. Akon needs staff members that actually reply to emails for once.

2. Too damn hot in the hotel due to a busted Air cond.

3. Give the guest speakers on the amv panel a chance to speak for once. I barely said anything on the panel because I didn't want to be rude and interrupt but wouldn't it be convenient for your vocal chords to take a rest and let some other people talk for a change?

4. Microphones, microphones, microphones. None of the panels had a microphone and espcially an amv room that large was in desperate need of it. If I had to talk in that big AMV room, there would be no way the people in the back would hear me even if I screamed my loudest.

5. Speaker Control: The amv contest started off way too damn loud especially for anyone sitting in the front.

Things I did like...

1. Easy to find everything

2. Water EVERYWHERE

3. Decently priced food

4. Not too many lines for anything

5. No bootleg stuff

6. Nice non-industrial additude
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:30 pm

meh, i thought food was pricey. Me and my friends got entire pizzas for 5 bucks driving out of the airport.

Realy NOTHING impressed me about A-Kon. I only had fun thanks to a hotel full of alcohal. Tho Game stop will never run a videog ames room like the ones before them tho, i must say the video game room this year was far better than last years.
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Postby mexicanjunior » Tue Jun 03, 2003 2:13 am

Castor Troy wrote:4. Microphones, microphones, microphones. None of the panels had a microphone and espcially an amv room that large was in desperate need of it. If I had to talk in that big AMV room, there would be no way the people in the back would hear me even if I screamed my loudest.



Ditto! Also, mix in some digital submissions. Hell, just make it all MPEG-1 if you have to. Anything to keep people from submitting VHS which then gets transfered to another VHS, hence making the vids look terrible. It would also be nice if the AMV Advanced Panel was not scheduled to run when the AMV Awards ceremony was being done. The same thing happened last year, worst scheduling ever! :x
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Postby dwchang » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:01 am

mexicanjunior wrote:Ditto! Also, mix in some digital submissions. Hell, just make it all MPEG-1 if you have to. Anything to keep people from submitting VHS which then gets transfered to another VHS, hence making the vids look terrible. It would also be nice if the AMV Advanced Panel was not scheduled to run when the AMV Awards ceremony was being done. The same thing happened last year, worst scheduling ever! :x


Wow, so they make you submit tape (knew that) and then transfer (EP) to another? That's like 2 levels of compression (analog) added on to your already compressed file. And those two levels (VHS) are probably the worst possible. I'm glad I didn't submit...

Funny how I've been bugging them about the submissions and overall contest for about a year and still haven't received a single e-mail back.
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Postby iserlohn » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:39 am

If you don't want your contest to explode in entries, don't take digital submissions if you don't already. Quu implied in his LJ that both Otakon and Fanime got more submissions than ACen, which means that Otakon's submissions are on the rise again, probably because of the ease of uploading....

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Postby rurouni_trelane » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:53 am

Akon already had 6 hours of submissions. It can't explode much more than that (at least, I hope not, for the reviewers' sakes).
Besides, the higher quality would be worth it.
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Postby Quu » Tue Jun 03, 2003 1:33 pm

I bet I could make A-Kon's submissions explode far more than 6 hours

Acen was "only" 9 hours of entries.... and A-Kon is a larger and older con that Acen (I think)

at least its not AWa's which had 300+ entries last year
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Postby Dannywilson » Tue Jun 03, 2003 1:39 pm

Quu wrote:I bet I could make A-Kon's submissions explode far more than 6 hours

Acen was "only" 9 hours of entries.... and A-Kon is a larger and older con that Acen (I think)

at least its not AWa's which had 300+ entries last year


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Postby dwchang » Tue Jun 03, 2003 1:58 pm

Quu wrote:I bet I could make A-Kon's submissions explode far more than 6 hours

Acen was "only" 9 hours of entries.... and A-Kon is a larger and older con that Acen (I think)

at least its not AWa's which had 300+ entries last year


Only 9 hours?!? 9 hours of madness that ended at 4 A.M. Given...you did tell me to sleep around 1 A.M. since I had Iron Chef, so I can only blame myself and the "random" algorithm that chose to show my videos dead last :(.

Oh and A-kon is WAY older than ACen. Probably more than twice as old since they're on 14 and I don't think ACen has even reached 7.
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Postby BigDave1310 » Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:10 pm

Quu wrote:I bet I could make A-Kon's submissions explode far more than 6 hours

Acen was "only" 9 hours of entries.... and A-Kon is a larger and older con that Acen (I think)

at least its not AWa's which had 300+ entries last year


I really wish they would do some changes to Akon seeing it is right smack in the middle of everything. Dallas is a great location for a con I think gives people from the East and West coast less travel time. DFW is a great airport. We have tons of hotels and cool things to do in dallas. Plus I am in the top 10 of AMV makes in the area, sadly there are only 8 editors. :roll: :( :o Burn on myself there.
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Postby dwchang » Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:15 pm

BigDave1310 wrote:I really wish they would do some changes to Akon seeing it is right smack in the middle of everything. Dallas is a great location for a con I think gives people from the East and West coast less travel time. DFW is a great airport. We have tons of hotels and cool things to do in dallas. Plus I am in the top 10 of AMV makes in the area, sadly there are only 8 editors. :roll: :( :o Burn on myself there.


I agree. Actually IIRC A-kon is the 3rd biggest con in the United States (next to AX and Otakon) and it's unfortunate that such status doesn't extrapolate into their actual events and coordination (or lack thereof).

3rd biggest, but one of the worst run in terms of AMVs (i.e. no digital submission, not replying to e-mails, etc.)...basically no respect for creators.

Oh well there's always Animefest and Ushicon which run their contests very well.
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Postby BigDave1310 » Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:29 pm

dwchang wrote:
BigDave1310 wrote:I really wish they would do some changes to Akon seeing it is right smack in the middle of everything. Dallas is a great location for a con I think gives people from the East and West coast less travel time. DFW is a great airport. We have tons of hotels and cool things to do in dallas. Plus I am in the top 10 of AMV makes in the area, sadly there are only 8 editors. :roll: :( :o Burn on myself there.


I agree. Actually IIRC A-kon is the 3rd biggest con in the United States (next to AX and Otakon) and it's unfortunate that such status doesn't extrapolate into their actual events and coordination (or lack thereof).

3rd biggest, but one of the worst run in terms of AMVs (i.e. no digital submission, not replying to e-mails, etc.)...basically no respect for creators.

Oh well there's always Animefest and Ushicon which run their contests very well.


Speaking of Ushicon they need a contest PERIOD. THey only do that showcase which is well done. Animefest is the best of all Texas cons at this point WOW. I can't wait until September for AWA.
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Postby dwchang » Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:33 pm

BigDave1310 wrote:Speaking of Ushicon they need a contest PERIOD. THey only do that showcase which is well done. Animefest is the best of all Texas cons at this point WOW. I can't wait until September for AWA.


I know some of the people who run Ushicon and I don't think they're going to go to a contest within the next few years. They like having just an expo for both the AMV contest *and* the costume contest. They like it since people won't be in a competitive spirit. Given, I think most of us are mature enough for a contest, but it is their con and they like that "feel"...whatever that means.

As for AnimeFest...surprisingly it probably is the best Texas con despite it's size. I think they do a great job AMV-wise as was demonstrated last year.
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