Past AX AMV events had been horrible. Post your complaints.

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Postby mexicanjunior » Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:37 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
Nappy wrote:AX wouldn't know about it.


Not true - AX promised to send it out. It never happened. I believe my award was actually stolen.


Yeah, I remember reading on the mailist list that AX had promised Anthony that they would send the awards for him. I don't think it ever happened. :\
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Re: Past AX AMV events had been horrible. Post your complain

Postby dokool » Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:04 pm

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narcted wrote:I've never been to AX (and never plan on going), but from what I've been told about '02, it'll (unfortunately) go down as being one of the most laughable contests of all time (right up there with Katsucon 2001's "Linking in the Park").


I thought "Linking in the Park" happened at Katsucon 2002.

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What <i>was</i> "Linking in the Park," for the uninitiated?

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Postby Nappy » Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:36 pm

mexicanjunior wrote:
AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
Nappy wrote:AX wouldn't know about it.


Not true - AX promised to send it out. It never happened. I believe my award was actually stolen.


Yeah, I remember reading on the mailist list that AX had promised Anthony that they would send the awards for him. I don't think it ever happened. :\


Bleh :\

Anthony's trophies were pretty nice too...
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Postby VicBond007 » Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:47 pm

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Postby VegettoEX » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:28 pm

Jesus Christ, that brings back far too many horrible, horrible memories...

We've still got our ballott :D It's such a great... horrible... memory.
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Postby dokool » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:39 pm

...

my god.

Please tell me that's a joke. And that there was a profuse apology from Katsucon after the fact.

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Postby Nappy » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:59 pm

:shock:
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Postby Castor Troy » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:05 pm

If only AX's ballots provided that level of comedy. :lol:

I still have my crayon!
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Postby ProphetDK » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:06 pm

:shock:
Katsucon: there are no words.... About the paper air plane... me and my freind that went to AX 2003 were wondering about that when it was mentioned during the opening of the AMV contest....
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Postby ProphetDK » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:12 pm

The crayon... hehe.. well AX did do the... "well this number 5 is actually numer 7 and number 6 is actually number five..." but they got the names right.

remember a guy yelling out "How about the cieling? " when we were told not to write on the chairs, the walls, ect...

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Postby Machine » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:24 am

I remember that ballot, Victor showed it to me after Katsucon....

I didn't know that some Cons had such un-educated staff members :shock:
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Re: Past AX AMV events had been horrible. Post your complain

Postby narcted » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:36 am

VegettoEX wrote:
narcted wrote:AX02: Technical difficulties. Many videos were sent in videos in formats different from what was specified. It was nearly impossible to get them all to play together.


I'm no tech master, but I still can't even fathom how this was a problem. Don't most contest coordinators finish this stuff AHEAD of time before the convention? I understand if they were under-staffed, but compiling an AMV contest is work you do behind-the-scenes long before the hour of the contest AT the con... :/


Yeah, they probably should. This year they had all of the entry finals on a DVD so it was just menu selection. AX02 what I understand is that they attempted to load all of the entries on a computer, as a continious video. The end result was the video would go forward a frame and then back about 6 frames.

Yeah, there are always problems with ballots, I guess.

This guy is only going to be a volunteer. Believe me, volunteers have nothing to do with the tech or the ballot aspects. It's something we are not involved with. We just show up when the con starts and then do what the staffers say. Griping about such things on this thread doesn't help this guy deal with crowds as a volunteer.

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Postby narcted » Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:44 am

Oh, I almost forgot. You do know staffing or volunteering for Anime Expo disqualifies you from entering any of contests as a contestant? Like The AMV contest and the cosplay. Another reason why I don't staff or volunteer anyomore. Just making sure.
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Re: Past AX AMV events had been horrible. Post your complain

Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:20 am

narcted wrote: AX02 what I understand is that they attempted to load all of the entries on a computer, as a continious video. The end result was the video would go forward a frame and then back about 6 frames.


Nah that wasn't it.

The videos were judged on a PC monitor using the format the person submitted with. Then all the videos were encoded to DV to be played at the con using DV.

Of course they didnt do this the very last minute. They forgot that DV and DVD regularly have opposite field orders. So it's all fucked and the reschedule for the next morning.

So what do they do? The deinterlaced all the videos. In premiere.

Worst. tech. ever.

Last year they had it all sussed though, so as I say it should no longer be a concern.
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Postby Nappy » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:44 am

narcted wrote:Oh, I almost forgot. You do know staffing or volunteering for Anime Expo disqualifies you from entering any of contests as a contestant? Like The AMV contest and the cosplay. Another reason why I don't staff or volunteer anyomore. Just making sure.


That a new rule? Cuz comedy winner of 02 was staff (just not the amv staff, I guess) Maybe that issue last year was the reason of that rule hehe.
Course this year, if staff (any staff) was allowed to submit, it would be wrong. Mostly because there was a staff award, and even them not voting still means all your coworkers still do. And staff award was 1/4 the deciding vote on best of show.
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