How many cons do you usually submit to?

[Ileia]

Bit of a tangent, yes, but cons that do a terrible job at things and show no willingness to change or fix things should be allowed (or even encouraged) to fail.

Just ask Anime Central how their AMV contest is going these days.

[ShodanKid]

Yallz are cray. ^_^

I'll answer this question! I submit to contests...rarely. I will target competitions if I or a friend will be in attendance, but usually I just do it on a whim.

[MaboroshiStudio]

We tried to mix things up this year at MTAC and I am happy with the result... next year I think it will be even better. I wanted to have the best of both worlds and I think with the 2 contests we have this was accomplished.

[Dragonrider1227]

yeesh, looks like I started a rather heated debate, didn't I?
For the record, for me it's less about winning lots of trophies with one video. It's simply my first competitive video that I was really proud of and basically want to show it to everyone. Plus, it's like what Pieandbeer says. It's hard to limit yourself when you see other videos win at some cons, but not even make it to others so it makes you want to send it to as many as you want just to see where it goes. But if you con hop (unfortunately, I don't. I only go to one every year) I can see the irritation of seeing the same videos play over and over at different cons. Especially those that have already won a couple. In theory you could avoid this but spreading out. Like, the people who saw your video at Boston are most likely not going to be the same people who see it at California. Fortunately I've yet to win anything with my video. If I do then I'll probably retire it and try something new.

[l33tmeatwad]

At the end of the day it's really up to you and no matter what you choose someone will be upset/offended/annoyed, that's just the nature of the people in most online communities. If you have a video that you are proud of and want to send it around, the fact of the matter is that to most people in the audience probably haven't seen it before unless it became a viral video.