Anime Expo 2010 Iron Chef AMV Contest

[Ryvannis]

I'll be honest, every hour or so I kept looking back behind to see if people were still there. To my surprise hardly anyone left the panel, it was real surprising. In a way, this looked like a extended AMV 101 (102?) panel but with an actual competition as the main presentation. I only noticed people leaving after the completed AMVs were shown. Numbers speak for themselves really and this even put's other panels to shame in terms of actual interest. And that's pretty great considering it's all last minute.

Aside from the obvious technical issues, I enjoyed it. You know what you guys could do now that I thought of it. Have a extended panel in the Iron Chef so you can answer people's questions more thoroughly with a nice visual explanation, like using your PCs/Macs.

[dokidoki]

My review of the event...Don't worry, I won't be Hitler this time around

[Scintilla]

massive multi anime amv

My term's catching on!

[MisterFurious]

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Will the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings! We are only seeing singing Hitlers.

[Rider4Z]

Obscurity was the idea. If you've ever been to other conventions that hold such an event, they choose ridiculous sources such as the DBZ live-action movie.....

you can kiss my booty mr. stylus

WE ARE NEVER GOING AWAY

Spoiler :

besides, our very own iron chef made the most awesomeness of awesomes with that very source XD >>>

[Kitsuner]

Something I forgot to mention in my last post that you might consider for next year: having the judges critique the videos before the winner is announced almost spells out who's going to win (or it did this time anyway). If the explanation followed the victory announcement, the suspense might last longer.

As for prizes, if you aren't able to get a sponsor for some reason, have someone hit up a dollar store and grab a bunch of awesomecore toys, like sticker books and bubble wands. That's what Dr. Dinosaur and I did for our amv showing at Anime North (also a first time event), and the crowd loved it!

[Castor Troy]

Obscurity was the idea. If you've ever been to other conventions that hold such an event, they choose ridiculous sources such as the DBZ live-action movie.....

you can kiss my booty mr. stylus

WE ARE NEVER GOING AWAY

Spoiler :

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besides, our very own iron chef made the most awesomeness of awesomes with that very source XD >>>

Hey, I saw those guys walking around the con!

[Sephiroth]

Lets see one suggestion for next year. The judges, while yes its good to have the iron editors judge I do remember AWA having some of the industry or guests as judges also. Now not saying that was feasible this year but next year assuming there isn't some weird legal issue that comes up, one industry (someone who produces/makes anime or one of the staff) one Celebrity(VA/artist) and of course one amv editor this will diversify the judging. Kind of like how there's mutable favorite categories for the AMV contest.

[Tearx]

Lets see one suggestion for next year. The judges, while yes its good to have the iron editors judge I do remember AWA having some of the industry or guests as judges also. Now not saying that was feasible this year but next year assuming there isn't some weird legal issue that comes up, one industry (someone who produces/makes anime or one of the staff) one Celebrity(VA/artist) and of course one amv editor this will diversify the judging. Kind of like how there's mutable favorite categories for the AMV contest.

This sounds like a awesome idea.

[MisterFurious]

Lets see one suggestion for next year. The judges, while yes its good to have the iron editors judge I do remember AWA having some of the industry or guests as judges also. Now not saying that was feasible this year but next year assuming there isn't some weird legal issue that comes up, one industry (someone who produces/makes anime or one of the staff) one Celebrity(VA/artist) and of course one amv editor this will diversify the judging. Kind of like how there's mutable favorite categories for the AMV contest.

Oh, yeah. I remember the second year of Iron Chef at AWA, when Dave from ADVision emphatically announced to all the attendees that speaking as an anime distributor, he loved AMV's. Should we get a representative from another company next year, I wonder what they would say.