DragonCon 2008 AMV COntest

Squancho · Post by **Squancho** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:59 pm

The links and info for my two entries should be reaching your email by...NOW!

Enjoy...

Squancho · Post by **Squancho** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:02 am

When will we know who made the finals?

Squancho · Post by **Squancho** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:25 pm

...hello?

*crickets*

Hello?

*echo*

How about those finalists..?

Squancho · Post by **Squancho** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:31 pm

If anyone is still on this thread, there was news.

Apparently, the AMV contest screening has been canceled due to pressure from ASCAP. What their interest in AMVs is would be anyone's guess.

Anyway, the judges will decide the winners, who will be announced after DC...hopefully.

Ghet · Post by **Ghet** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:32 pm

screw the amv contest, MSI ftw >=3

too bad i wont be going ;.;

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:53 pm

deuceloosely wrote:If anyone is still on this thread, there was news.

Apparently, the AMV contest screening has been canceled due to pressure from ASCAP. What their interest in AMVs is would be anyone's guess.

Anyway, the judges will decide the winners, who will be announced after DC...hopefully.

If this is true, then that's a real shame. Source?

Squancho · Post by **Squancho** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:45 pm

Angelic_Sabyne wrote:
deuceloosely wrote:If anyone is still on this thread, there was news.

Apparently, the AMV contest screening has been canceled due to pressure from ASCAP. What their interest in AMVs is would be anyone's guess.

Anyway, the judges will decide the winners, who will be announced after DC...hopefully.
If this is true, then that's a real shame. Source?

I went to the DC web site link provided on this thread and tried to find a list of finalists there. I saw nothing in the news or on the updates but followed the "blog" link, which led to a LiveJournal. The announcement was placed there several days ago, although I don't know how anyone would have noticed it.

Honestly, this convention is already overtaxed without trying to host a AMV contest which (as I hear) few people even get to see because of bad scheduling. The anime track there is probably going to be crushed by everything else on the schedule (especially the autograph sessions and such).

I'd never attend DC anyway. From what I've heard, attendance is ridiculously overcrowded, the programming schedule is overwrought, and the event (when you factor in all expenses) is insanely expensive if you come from out of town.

*ahem*

Anyway, that's where I got the news from.

Bongu-san · Post by **Bongu-san** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:55 pm

deuceloosely wrote:Apparently, the AMV contest screening has been canceled due to pressure from ASCAP.

From what I remember, the AMV contest was canceled last year. Then it was uncanceled, but the director lost the room the contest was originally suppose to run in (something about a battle between stormtroopers and klingons). So the director had to show it in the small anime video room.

So, they might get uncanceled, again. It would be best to wait on an official announcement

deuceloosely also wrote:What [ASCAP's] interest in AMVs is would be anyone's guess.

Their interest are simliar to the MPAA and RIAA. They have sued before.

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:19 pm

Thanks for clarifying, Deuce. I had been poking around on the internet, but couldn't find anything that told me the contest was cancelled, hence why I asked.

I agree, let's wait and see how things go from here. If they are able to uncancel it, great. If not, well, I won't lose any sleep over it.

Tono_Fyr · Post by **Tono_Fyr** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:46 pm

D*Con's fun sometimes, but for the most part, it's overcrowded by trendy mallgoths who like to suck on Rogue's cock.

And beyond that, it's so fucking expensive. Entry shouldn't be over TWICE what AWA costs at its most expensive, no matter how fucking big the con is.