genestarwind21122 wrote:I e mailed otakon and asked them about the contest they sent me back a forum to fill out for the contest anyway. When they say the submitters will vote does that mean like some day before Otakon the submitters get to decide which one gets entered in the contest and which ones don't.
Well, as usual tapes are sent to staff and to submitters wishing to review the AMV's and for the first time last year Pre-screenings were held At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus for the Terripin Anime Society (the Universitys largest anime club) and for submitters that wished to be a part of the reviewing process.
The entire point of it all is to help thin out the submission into various ranks and then the top ranked submissions will be used on the contest tape. Since the contest only has specific time block in which it can run (otkaon is a big con and MANY things are going on aLL THE TIME!) so it is imperitive that the best of th ebest be picked for the contest. So basicly everyone who reviews be it my video cassett or live screening, if given a form that contains all the entries that will be shown on the tape the reviewer is watching.
The reviewing is pretty simple. All the submissions are devided into there catagories and have a check list for each containing all the relivant information on the video (name, creator name/studio, song, anime, etc) and a place to check if you believe the video should be compeating in a different catagory then the submitter intended it to be (this is what is ment by "video might end up compeating in a different catagory then it was origionally submitted for") and finally the grade list with ranges from a -2 to a +2 (-2,-1,0,+1,+2) with +2 being the best you can get.
Submitters are asked not to vote on there own submission and this, to my best knowlegde, is respected by everyone.
From there the papers are collected or mailed back to MAtt or whoever is receiving the stuff for review and the ratings are counted.
The submission with the highest ratings in there catagory will go on to the contest for as many submissions as will fit on the tape. The only problem with this system is that lets say you submit a serious/dramatic video that gets 152 as it's total rating, and lets say someone else submits a fun/upbeat video that gets only a 43. Well lets say that for this particular year there are a LOT of serious/dramatic videos and only a handfull of fun/ubbeat submissions. In order to balance out the number of submissions in each catagory that make the contest tape (to give each catogory fare time, otherwise it will look like the contest is bias to one or two types of videos) it may be nessasary to drop your video so that the top 5 serious/dramatic videos (lets say you were number 7) are in the contest to match the time and number of submissions to the fun/upbeat catagory (lets say that there were only 6 submissions total for that catagory and each vid is relitively short, like 3-4 minutes).
So with this system, a lower ranking video can make it to the contest over a higher ranking one. But in the long run everything is more fare this way because you are not compeating wiht EVERY submission at the con, only those in the catagory you submitted to.
Sorry if ythis it more then you wanted to know, but once I got started I was on a roll!
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