SugoiCon AMV Contest

[RolltheStampede]

Felt bad for spamming up the AUSA post

Yeah there rules were a bit anal for me. i mean there where 16 pages of rules
Ill probobly just go for saturday cause i dont want to have to pay for a room. they havent put the schedule yet but im hoping they put the contest on saturday so i can check it out.

Their contest coordinator is a friend of mine and it's his first time handeling a contest as far as I know. He's a very thourough kind of guy. But from previous years I know the contest usually was on Friday night, which annoyed me because in years past I only went on Saturday (drove from Lexington). I can imagine it'll be the same this year.

I just check out there site today and it looks like the contest is gonna be on saturday evening. woot
http://www.sugoicon.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335

[ngsilver]

Well that's definetly cool. I'll hopefully get to see it after a good full nights sleep for once ^^ too bad I couldn't get anything into the contest this year. Sugoi has been like one of the only 2 cons I'd submit to in the past and it feels weird not to have a video in it this year.

I was kinda feeling bad about spamming up the other thread myself ^^()

[Ashyukun]

Felt bad for spamming up the AUSA post

I didn't. It seems like it had pretty much dropped to the point where it was mostly just joking and discussion and not that informative anymore.

I just check out there site today and it looks like the contest is gonna be on saturday evening. woot
http://www.sugoicon.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335

That is good news. I may end up just driving up on Saturday and Sunday instead of staying with my friend who lives in the suburbs of Cinci over the weekend. Kami knows I need all the time I can get to finish getting things cleaned up and set up after the move.

I assume that they usually do the AMV awards at the closing ceremonies? (Given neither of my videos fit well in either of their categories I don't expect to win, but would like to be there to see what does...)

[RolltheStampede]

With a no trolly rule and the contest being announced so late it will be interesting to see what wins. and i just got an email yesterday saying that they axed one of my videos because they had to combine the comedy and satire category together for lack of entries.

[Ashyukun]

With a no trolly rule and the contest being announced so late it will be interesting to see what wins. and i just got an email yesterday saying that they axed one of my videos because they had to combine the comedy and satire category together for lack of entries.

And furthermore- I don't believe it was ever announced here- I think this topic (effectively branched off another contest's) is the first mention of it this year. I only knew about it because of being halfway local.

I can't say I'm surprised at their having to combine the Comedy and Satire categories... the categories were set up rather strangely for what I would expect is a relatively small convention & contest. Normally you don't have a trailer/parody category unless you have an overabundance of them and plenty of entries elsewhere (like Tekkoshocon, for example). Personally I think Otakon's category split works the best by far: Drama, Romance, Action, Upbeat, and Comedy. There are still videos that don't fit well into any one category, but you get a lot better definition between them than the four that were planned for Sugoicon's contest.

[Ashyukun]

http://www.sugoicon.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335

Do we have any idea yet when the AMV panel/workshop will be? I'd kind of like to make it to that as well, but I'm hoping they don't have it on Friday sometime...

[ngsilver]

I don't think there wound up being a panel/workshop for AMVs there, and if there was I totaly missed it between DDR and ITG... meh...

Congrats to all you crazy creators who got your videos into the contest. It was difficult to judge, but I enjoyed it ^^

[RolltheStampede]

Where the heck where ya man! If you were at the contest you didnt make your presence know. Ashykun found me with my jersey on at the contest and we sat and chatted and watched the contest together.
Congrads on your win BTW.
Heck we even stayed outside the contest room and chatted with the coordinators for a bit.
Sorry we didnt get to seeya.

[ngsilver]

I actually didn't sit in on the AMV showing nor the Contest on Saturday. I was off playing DDR and ITG as well as entertaining my old roomate from when I lived in Lexington.

Aside from that I WAS there all weekend and did see the contest during the reshowing on Sunday. I was also on the panel of judges that basically chose the technical winner.

I was there, and I probably saw you guys, but didn't realize it. I was wearing an ACEN staff shirt (camo on friday, light blue ragland style on saturday) and had my denim over shit and stuff.