Delta H Con 2025 AMV Contest - WINNERS Announced!

[Harmadillo]

Hello fellow AMV lovers! I am happy and proud to announce that I have been selected as the Contest Coordinator for the AMV contest at Delta H Con in Houston this year! This contest will take place at the Delta H Con event at the Westchase Marriot on July 18-20th 2025 in Houston Texas.
Stream: https://m.twitch.tv/deltahcon/home
Contest streams Friday 7/18 at 6:30 CST (7:30 EST)
Awards streams Sunday 7/20 ay 4PM CST (5PM EST)

The submission deadline was 5/30/2025.

There will be 6 pre-defined Categories with 6 finalists per category:
Action
Dance / Upbeat
Drama
Romance / Sentimental
Comedy / Parody
Trailer

This will be year 15 for the convention and AMV competition, but it will be the first year I am running the contest, and I am aware that Bento and AnimeMusicVideos.Org exist, and I also will be switching it from a purely panel judged to an audience voted contest!

Rules and info:
https://deltahcon.com/a-m-v-contest/

Submission form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... form?pli=1

Details:

For 2025 Delta H Con AMV contest will adhere primarily to A-M-V.org CONGRSS Rules

Basic Rules & Guidelines

Keep it decent! Delta H Con strives to keep a fun, “Family Friendly” atmosphere, and entries will be disqualified if they do not maintain a certain level of decency (Easy Translation: No Hentai AMVs or songs with a lot of profanity). Videos should not contain excessive violence, language, or content that would either place it above a PG13 rating or is unsuitable for a general audience. This rule will be enforced on a case-by-case and contest-by-contest basis.
Videos should also refrain from having content that is derogatory, demeaning, or designed to insult others on the basis of race, gender, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation.
We reserve the right to disqualify any entry if we feel it is deemed inappropriate. If this happens to you and you feel it was unjust, you may appeal to the Contest Coordinator after the event.
Videos longer than 4 minutes 30 seconds are heavily discouraged. Preferred length is 3 minutes 30 seconds or less. We will have 2 hours for the competition show and 1 hour for the awards show. If videos are longer than the awards show or finals will allow, only a portion may be shown during the AMV Contest Event if at all.

There will be 6 pre-defined Categories with 5 finalists per category:
Action
Dance / Upbeat
Drama
Romance / Sentimental
Comedy / Parody
Trailer

Video & Audio Quality.
Entries should be of reasonable video and audio quality. Videos that have a resolution and frame rate of less than 480p and 23.976fps may be disqualified. All submissions must be made in MP4 AVC format. From Wikipedia: Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is … by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content …

Videos should not contain watermarks, TV logos, studio bumpers, credits, or references to other events/ competitions that are either not directly related to the video content, or unnecessary for the video concept. Videos should also not contain subtitles that were not created by the editor.
Videos should consist of clips edited solely by the entrant(s) or group listed on the entry form. Entries found to have been plagiarized from other Fandom Music Videos may result in disqualification and/or banishment from future events.
In the case of collabs, MEPs, or videos edited by multiple people, each participant or group name must be listed on the submission form. If the submission form doesn’t allow multiple editors to be listed, or if you forgot to include someone, please contact the contest coordinator to have the information added.

Entry Submission:
Registration for the contest will be handled via the google form linked on this page. Entrants will submit their videos in .mp4 format on digital media along with the above form containing the entrant’s name and e-mail, running time, the artist/name of the song(s) used, and the name of the anime(s) used, etc. YouTube or ”streaming only” links will not be accepted.
All entries must be received by the published submission deadline to allow time for the pre-judging and compilation of the finalists.
Entrants can submit multiple videos, but no more than two videos per category, and no more than 5 videos in total.
With the exception of Trailers and Parodies, your audio should be primarily music, and not contain excessive narration or dialog.

Freshness:
Freshness: Videos that have been submitted to Delta H in previous years are not allowed to be submitted.
Any video that was submitted to another contest and won an award more than 16 months prior to July 1 2025 is not eligible for the competition. (For ease of mathing this means before March 1 2024)

Competition:
Finalists will consist of 5 videos per category and will be selected during pre-judging. Finalists will be shown in a random order by category & voted on during the competition showing on Friday by the Delta H Con attendees and staff in attendance. A list of finalists will be posted on Animemusicvideos.org before the convention and as soon as the judges reach consensus.
Fan favorite winner and Runner up will also be selected by live audience vote during the contest.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday.
At their discretion, the judges may elect to bestow their own awards, such as judges choice, best in show, best storytelling etc. These categories are not pre-defined and are a way for the judges to recognize excellence and effort, and possibly recognize videos they may love that do not make the finals.

Prizes:
You are not required to be present for the AMV contest to enter or win.
It is highly recommended that the winners be present, but any winners who are not present will be contacted after the convention via the e-mail address given when they submitted their video.
Arrangements will be made for the winners to receive the associated prize(s) and/or awards. (In most cases the award is simply a certificate and recognition in the community). Awards certificates will be created for Winners, Runners Up, and any judges awards.

EDIT:
Source Material clarification:
This is intended as an "Anime" music video contest not a visual art contest so no live action please. Live action footage from the live action adaptation of an Anime (city hunter, One Piece, etc) would be allowed. Scoring of it would be a judges choice thing. Typically this crew of judges has not rated live action stuff that was non Anime derived highly in the past.

We will accept Animation of any sort as long as it was not AI produced. So Anime (of course) also Gaming footage and Manga based footage are totally fine. Western Animation is also allowed. 

Last minute amendment - we could use some more comedy and trailer submissions, so If you submit a comedy and/or a trailer AMV they will not count to wards your normal 5 video submission maximum.

For contact info you can message me on here, you can message me on discord (ID is Derbadger) or you can email: deltahamvs@gmail.com

Discord will be the fastest response by a good bit.

[Harmadillo]

FINALISTS!!!!!

The 2025 Delta H Con AMV Contest coordinator and judging staff are thrilled to announce the following list of talented editors as the creators of our finalist entries for this year's competition!

Editors Stream for Competition show:
https://youtu.be/zhzYtEo6DBs?si=ZAAX04aNgkOV7zAv

Youtube Playlist - Finalists:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6xi ... uU8gZ--iX8

Editor Names:
AegithZ
Complicated Muse
E_01
Elixir
EverAqua
Gina Nelson
HaloKami Productions
iangoh99
Ileia
JocoBesT
Link187
MarshmallowGoop
Nashironeko
Nekokitkat
PrincessMareep
Reinhart
Rider4Z
shorisquared
SilkAMV
SonsofKorhal9
Speedy180
SpuddStaaa
Takeshi
TehPhoenix
ThatOneGuy
Tyken
unaccetpable

Contest Livestream recording with audience reaction audio:
https://youtu.be/zhzYtEo6DBs

[Harmadillo]

Editors Stream for Awards Ceremony show:
https://youtu.be/z0b3zmVUFrc

Youtube Playlist - Awards Ceremony:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6xi ... zImwthhHTc

WINNERS!!!!

Judge’s Awards
Best Action: Mob's Tea Party - SilkAMV
Best Drama: Depression Reincarnation - SpuddStaaa
Best Comedy: I Can't Believe It's Not Kung Fu - SonsofKorhal9
Best Romance/ Sentimental: I Choose Us - Gina Nelson
Best Dance/ Upbeat: Dance The Night - E_01
Best Trailer: Mifune Nights: The Ballad of Speed Racer - IleiaBest in Show (runner up): Starry Eyed - Elixir
Best Premiere (runner up): Detective Twilight - MarshmallowGoop
Best Premiere: Check AMV Anime Mix - JocoBesT
Best in Show: Mifune Nights: The Ballad of Speed Racer - Ileia
Best in Show (runner up): Starry Eyed - Elixir

Judge’s Choice - Indivudual awards
Becca/ Kevra: Depression Reincarnation - SpuddStaaa
Chris / aWildPigeon: Dangerously Sweet - SeanPNG [Joker Troupe]
Carli / Onna Arts: Herp X Derp - AbyssBreakingStudios
Doug/ Draco: A Silent Reason - unaccetpable
Fernando: Stay - Rider4Z
John Ronald: Crisis of '87 - ZeonicFreakRaidan/ Isekai Cosplay: Totally Honest K-ON! Opening - Synæsthesia Productions
SliceofLife: Nebulous Purgatory - Kisanzi

Coordinator’s Choice
Dave/ Harmadillo: Dont Zombie Now - Speedy180

Voting results!!
Audience’s pick Awards
Best Action: Mob's Tea Party - SilkAMV
Best Action (Runner Up): Starry Eyed - Elixir
Best Drama: Miseries Smile - Speedy180 & Nekokitkat
Best Drama (Runner Up): A Silent Reason - unaccetpable
Best Comedy: Check AMV Anime Mix - JocoBesT
Best Comedy (Runner Up): Virgin Gojo - shorisquared
Best Romance/ Sentimental: I Choose Us - Gina Nelson
Best Romance/ Sentimental (Runner up): Imposter Syndrome - SpuddStaaa
Best Dance/ Upbeat: Dance The Night - E_01
Best Dance/ Upbeat (Runner Up): Black Dress - Takeshi
Best Trailer: Mifune Nights: The Ballad of Speed Racer - Ileia
Best Trailer (Runner Up): Veggietales - Reinhart

Best in Show / fan favorite
Best in Show: I Choose Us - Gina Nelson
Best in Show (Runner up): Virgin Gojo - shorisquared

[Harmadillo]

Special Recognition Awards:

Presenting the Delta H Con AMV Contest special Recognition Awards! These are AMVs that were (in most cases) not able to be featured in the contest or awards, but we wanted to share with y'all. In some cases they were in the contest or awards, but there was something about them that was super memorable and we felt they deserved an extra shout out for it.

Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6xi ... qHzlT3SwKh

Judge’s special recognition Awards

The “Ya ‘aight bruh? Do you need a hug?” Award:
Kyoko Hitaka - How are you?

The “God Made you Delicious / Best Singalong” Award:
Reinhart - Veggietales

The “I’m not crying, You’re crying” Award:
Nashironeko - Ephemeral Thread

The “Jellyfish / Jelly Fish” Award:
Link187 - Jelly Fish

The “Maid for Sweetness” Award:
Manic Monday - I Belong With You

The “Excellence in Mixed-Media Edits of Multiple Sources” Award:
TritioAFB - Dr Love

The “Most Honest AMV / its funny because its true ” Award:
Synæsthesia Productions - Totally Honest K-ON! Opening

The “Noblesse Obsessed” Award:
TritioAFB - Century Girls

The “Ultra Feels Activated” Award:
Rider4Z - Stay

The “Well that got dark” Award:
CreativityGoggles - Welcome To Hero Society

The “Why is there so much bread on my counter” Award:
HaloKami Productions - onlyBREADS

The “Why is this AMV still stuck in my head” Award:
HaloKami Productions - onlyBREADS

The “Ganbatte Kudasai Komi-chan / You can do it Komi - we believe in you” Award:
Violet Skies - Courage is not the Absence of Fear

[Harmadillo]

Just wanted to thank everyone that has submitted so far, and remind those still working on videos still that we have about 2.5 months left.

Also if you were considering attending, the competition will be held on Friday July 18, 2025 6:30pm to 8:30pm on the main stage
and the awards ceremony will be held Sunday July 20, 2025 4-5pm on the main stage.

[Harmadillo]

1.5 months to go - if you haven't started yet it is time to get to work!

I have started welding together the special trophy for the best AMV premiere award!

Anyone that has submitted should have received a reply by gmail from me. If you have not gotten a Gmail about your entries please reach out!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... form?pli=1

[twist58]

Submitted 1!

[Harmadillo]

Thank you!

[Harmadillo]

Only 22 days let! Get those entries in, or of you are still working on them, good luck! You got this!

[Harmadillo]

Only 2 weeks remaining! Deadline is 5/30. Get those entries in soon!

Reminder - we have a special (physical) prize for best premiere to honor the first year that this contest has been open to the broader public and not just attendees. So if you have something really cool that you can finish in 2 weeks, get it submitted!! You might just win an over the top monstrosity of a trophy! (Yes - welders have been involved and are still being involved - I am going to make sure it is heavily customized for the winner).