OTAKON AMV Contest Deadline/ Online Contest Announcement

hackerzc · Post by **hackerzc** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:38 am

Yeah it's REALLY helpful. Especially for people like me who can't type for crap and often don't notice mistakes until AFTER we post.

hackerzc · Post by **hackerzc** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:03 pm

The final entry numbers are in and a winner in the contest to guess how many entries we've received has been announced.
Final count and winner can be seen here: http://board.otakon.com/viewtopic.php?p=147931#147931

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:30 am

Ah, congrats on getting more entries than last year. Good to see there isn't a negative trend here.

hackerzc · Post by **hackerzc** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:58 pm

Yeah but honestly having more submissions doesn't mean the contest is going to be any better or anything. That's something everyone should keep in mind while they are obsessing over entry numbers (as is often the case).
All it means is there was a bit more interest this year from creators who wanted to submit. I think it had a lot to do with having FTP back though, as 56% of the submissions came in that way.

I know it sounds odd for me to be saying that. You would think I'd be all happy and boasting about how we did better this year and how it's all because I'm doing such a good job as head or whatever, but in the back of my mind I know that if we ended up with fewer entries everyone would be going on about that and asking what went wrong. I figure I'd put this years good fortune to better use and point out how more entries dose not a better contest make (it doesn't sound like a spin, saying that when you have MORE entries).
That being said, we do have some REALLY good stuff this year (in my opinion at least). For example, I typically don't care to watch Serious/Dramatic videos (not if I have the choice between that and comedy or action), but I REALLY like a number of the serious entries this year.

ReligionX · Post by **ReligionX** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:46 am

hackerzc wrote:I know it sounds odd for me to be saying that...

...That being said, we do have some REALLY good stuff this year (in my opinion at least). For example, I typically don't care to watch Serious/Dramatic videos (not if I have the choice between that and comedy or action), but I REALLY like a number of the serious entries this year.

I know it might sound odd for me to be saying this, but you saying that has made my day. HAH! Haha ha! I'm excited.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:21 pm

hackerzc wrote:stuffs.

Kewl, glad it didn;t turn out to be a weak contest as some was worying it might be. Especially since I'm actually going this year :O

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:42 pm

Bakadeshi wrote:
hackerzc wrote:stuffs.
Kewl, glad it didn;t turn out to be a weak contest as some was worying it might be. Especially since I'm actually going this year :O

I shall see you there!

wurpess · Post by **wurpess** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:14 pm

I was sad that I didn't have time to finish an entry in time, since I'm actually going this year. But my bf said we'll probably go next year too, so I'll probably submit to that one. But good luck to everyone who did submit. I look forward to watching the awesomeness!! And I'll see those of you who are going there. *^_^*

kiarrens · Post by **kiarrens** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:56 pm

See ya there. ^^

ANTDrakko · Post by **ANTDrakko** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:41 pm

dwchang wrote:
Bakadeshi wrote:
hackerzc wrote:stuffs.
Kewl, glad it didn;t turn out to be a weak contest as some was worying it might be. Especially since I'm actually going this year :O
I shall see you there!

Heh, glad to know that some familiar people are still going to Otakon ^_^.

See you all there, of course.

~Seen