Idea for next years VCAs

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:17 pm

derobert wrote:I do not see any correlation between date premiered and number of nominations.

Really? It looks like the middle of the year is best time to get nominations. There were as many vids done in May as there were in January or December, but far more nominations.

Next up would be September, which is good for those "I recall that vid because I downloaded it recently" - without getting the December "I don't know that vid, did it come out recently?" problem.

Between January and December, I'd say early December is good for the "fresh in viewers' minds" vote, while January might have those "Oh, first great vid for the new year" viewers who remember the video right to the end of the season. Of the two, I'd vote early in December, or early in January. Late December is a bust (too late for people to download) and late January misses that "first great vid of the year" status.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:25 pm

Arigatomina wrote:Next up would be September, which is good for those "I recall that vid because I downloaded it recently" - without getting the December "I don't know that vid, did it come out recently?" problem.

I don't think it's a coincidence that that's the same month as Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Interesting about May, though; that's before most of the big cons of the summer. Hmmmm.

</being overly interested>

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:24 pm

Scintilla wrote:Interesting about May, though; that's before most of the big cons of the summer. Hmmmm.

I suspect there is a really popular video that came out in May causing that. I haven't checked (nor do I intend to, at least not until the VCA is over)

YouTube · Post by **derobert** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:32 pm

Arigatomina wrote:
derobert wrote:I do not see any correlation between date premiered and number of nominations.
Really? It looks like the middle of the year is best time to get nominations.

May and September are outliers --- I suspect strongly that if I repeated that for last year's VCA, I'd see different spikes. September could be AWA, but then where is Otakon, etc.?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:38 pm

derobert wrote:I suspect there is a really popular video that came out in May causing that.

Doh!

My money's on Shonen Bishidou - May 11th. ^_^;;

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:41 pm

Arigatomina wrote:
derobert wrote:I suspect there is a really popular video that came out in May causing that.
Doh!

My money's on Shonen Bishidou - May 11th. ^_^;;

I'm thinking AMV Hell also.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:10 pm

Premiered: 2004-05-14

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:00 pm

I agree with Scin in that May and September can't be coincidences. As most people realize September is AWA, given it's late AWA, but look at the announcement forums, almost all the creators release their vids a few days after.

As for May, although the summer cons are mainly in June July, I believe A-Kon, Anime Central, Fanime and Anime North were all in May. Three of those cons have 8000+ people in attedence and as a few of you have pointed out, three big videos premiered in May. I imagine a large % of those nominations were to just three videos.

Interesting stuff though dero

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pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:36 am

It's interesting how a few very popular videos can skew the numbers of an entire group, thanks for the interesting stats dero.

However, I must throw in a cautionary note. I have a video that has been nominated for 4 categories in this years VCA's. It was not uploaded till early January, 2005. Granted it premired at AWA pro, and the Instrumentality group saw it, but still...

There is only one statistic that really counts and that is the percent chance of someone nominating your video, given that they have seen it. If your video is only seen by 15-20 people, but they all nominate it, well, you probly have yourself a semi finnalist. (NOTE: I have no idea how many nominations it takes, and I'm sure it varies quite a bit by category.)

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:02 am

These are most of last year's contests, sorted by month:

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Ohayocon 4 (January 23)

Katsucon 10 (February 13)

MegaCon (March 5)
Tekkoshocon (March 12)

FITcon (April 2)
Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 4 (April 2)
Anime Boston (April 9)
Sakura-Con (April 23)

Anime Central (May 14)
Anime North (May 21)
JACON (May 21)
Animazement (May 28)
Anime Mid-Atlantic 4 (May 28)
FanimeCon (May 28)

A-Kon (June 4)
AnimeNEXT (June 18)

Anime Expo (July 2)
Animethon 11 (July 17)
AVCon (July 18)
Otakon (July 30)

Anime Festival Orlando 5 (August 6)
Yasumi Con (August 16)
Anime Evolution (August 20)

AnimeFest (September 3)
Connichi (September 10)
Nan Desu Kan (September 17)
Anime Weekend Atlanta 10 (September 24)

Ani-Magic (October 1)
Anime USA (October 29)
Yaoi-Con (October 29)

AC-Cubed (Ottawa) (November 5)
Nekocon 7 (November 5)
Con Ja Nai 11 (November 6)
Anime Destiny (November 14)
Sugoi Con (November 19)