Tora-Con 2023 AMV Contest - Deadline Feb 4th

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Tora-Con 2023 AMV Contest - Deadline Feb 4th

Post by Tora-Con AMV Contest » Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:59 pm

Hello everyone!

The Tora-Con AMV Contest is finally back after a multi-year hiatus!

We are opening a bit late this year, and our deadline for submissions is just one month away. Sorry for the short notice! But if anyone has some AMVs already created and ready to go, I hope you will consider sending it in. The contest will close on February 4th.

Important notice!
Part of the reason we did not have a contest last year, and are opening so late this year, is due to some new restrictions we had to write into the contest rules. Tora-Con is a convention run by students at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and these changes were required by the university. The biggest change is that we can now only accept AMVs created by editors 18 years old or older. Another thing that tends to throw people off is that our contest must be "family-friendly", and as such, our content guidelines are quite strict. Please read over our contest rules carefully before submitting!

With all that in mind, if anyone would like to participate, we would love to see what you got!
https://toracon.org/contests/amv-contest/

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Re: Tora-Con 2023 AMV Contest - Deadline Feb 4th

Post by TritioAFB » Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:22 pm

My favorite contest. Just something quickie: at least for this year I dont consider necessary to let videos from 2021 to participate. There are already several good videos from 2022. The community has been pretty active enough this year
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Re: Tora-Con 2023 AMV Contest - Deadline Feb 4th

Post by Tora-Con AMV Contest » Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:39 pm

Hello! I'm sure what you've said is correct. We typically just set the contest rules to say "within the last 2 years" every year by default though. In addition, we did not have a contest last year, so even 2021 videos would likely be fresh for our audience. Regardless, any changes to the rules (even dates) would require another review from the university which we definitely don't want to go through again this year!

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Post by BladEra123 » Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:56 am

Sent one in action, let me know if all is well. Thank you. :)
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Post by Tora-Con AMV Contest » Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:20 pm

The first wave of AMVs has been received, reviewed, and acceptance emails sent out!

We need a lot more! Send in those AMVs! :D

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Re: Tora-Con 2023 AMV Contest - Deadline Feb 4th

Post by Tora-Con AMV Contest » Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:08 pm

I apologize to any editors who have been waiting for their contest acceptance emails. I ended up with more work to do over the past weekend than expected, and have been working through the backlog of entries for the past two evenings. I should have emails sent out for all videos submitted before February 1st by tonight, and hope to get through videos from yesterday and today done by tomorrow evening.

Accepted AMVs, as of right now:
Action - 9
Drama - 8
Upbeat - 7
Romance - 5
Trailers - 3
Parody/Comedy - Only 1! Send us your funny videos! :D

The deadline is this Saturday! Entries are coming in fast and thick now!

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Post by Tyken12 » Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:15 pm

I just sent two, last minute as usual, including a Comedy entry!

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Post by SynaesthesiaVideos » Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:40 pm

just sent you a comedy vid and a romance vid 8-)

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Re: Tora-Con 2023 AMV Contest - Deadline Feb 4th

Post by Rider4Z » Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:22 pm

● Submissions containing copyrighted material (e.g., music, dramatic works, etc.) may require
permission from the copyright owner(s). In the event permission is not obtained for a
submission prior to March 4, 2023, the submission may not be included in the event.
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Post by Tora-Con AMV Contest » Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:03 am

Did I mention that our college's legal team had to review and approve all of our contest's rules?

They require that section to be in there so that if for some reason, a music or production/distribution studio were to sue the convention (and therefore, the college) over the AMV Contest, they could point to this and say "Oh, but the editors claimed they had permission and we took them at their word". I personally don't believe that would hold up in court, but I am Not a Lawyer. Realistically, no one cares about AMV Contests and no one is going to ask you to actually do this.

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