The Otakon 2012 Thread: AMV Contest Results All Up in Here

[VicBond007]

Bump for true finalist list. Nothing has changed. Ya'll are safe.

[XStylus]

Or perhaps you mean AX's loss, Otakon's gain?

Touche. Of course that's what I meant.

[kiarrens]

Bump for true finalist list. Nothing has changed. Ya'll are safe.

[Shin-AMV]

Just to give a headsup We're having an Editor's Dinner on Thursday, the night before the con, so don't forget to sign up if you haven't heard about it yet:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... 8&t=108731

[VicBond007]

Bump for Iron Editor info

[Warlike Swans]

So for those of us who submitted to the "undecided" category, will we find out in advance what category our videos ended up in?

Also: Yay!

Yes, once the list is approved, I will break it up into categories (though I still won't reveal the video titles, in case the creators want to keep them secret). For the non-finalists, it doesn't matter what category you were placed in since they are played "whenever" anyways.

::nudge::

[VicBond007]

::nudge::

fix'd

[Scintilla]

I don't believe I have ever seen NINE videos in one category at Otakon before.

But if it's anything like the Action category at AnimeNEXT was this year, then it won't be possible to say any one of them did not deserve to be a finalist.

[RAWdangers]

Drama? I was completely not expecting that O.O

[XStylus]

Drama? I was completely not expecting that O.O

Drama is generally one of the most prolific AMV categories, second only to action. I always felt bad about the really exceptional entries that didn't make the cut into our own competition year after year.

Since Otakon's number of videos per category varies each year, it's not too surprising to see there be a heavy amount of entries in drama and action. It is kinda surprising to see it vary so much though. I think it's a positive statement on the level of quality coming from the AMV community this year. Very curious as to what the metric is for determining what gets in and what doesn't get in though.