Anime Boston's AMV contest report?

Skrasis · Post by **Skrasis** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:25 pm

Since I didn't get to boston this year seeing as how im from So Cal I was wondering if anyone had any information on the amv contest that happend? Who were the finalists, how many vids were shown? how many people watched it? etc etc And were the winners announced yet or not till the end of the convention?

Thanks,

Skrasis

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:31 pm

32 videos were shown. The first showing was last night, and a second showing took place this morning. Winners will be announced tonight, in about 30 minutes from the time of this post.

There was a noticeable problem with the videos' playback - the contest was shown from a single DVD, and the DVD slowly desynchronized more and more as the contest went on, so much so that not a single cue in the last video appeared to have been synchronized at all.

turboneko · Post by **turboneko** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:32 pm

Drum roll.... and the winners are:

Novice: Animescopes by kayko4578
Journeyman: Dueling Videos: Under Ice by Scintilla
Master & Best Action: Y.A.B.V by Jbone
Best Drama: Utena video by Alberto Gonzales (sorry, can't remember the title

)
Best of Show & Best Comedy: There's No Need to Feel Down by Tom the Fish

It was a nice contest in the overall. Congratulations to all the winners!

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:34 pm

turboneko wrote:Master & Best Action: Y.A.B.V by Jbone

Holy fu

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:16 am

turboneko wrote:Novice: Animescopes by kayko4578

According to the video info, kayko4578 didn't actually do that video; s/he's just hosting it by proxy for a friend.

turboneko wrote:Journeyman: Dueling Videos: Under Ice by Scintilla

Whoo! Finally an audience vote victory!

turboneko wrote:Master & Best Action: Y.A.B.V by Jbone

*gets*

Congrats to all the winners, and can't wait for next year when Anime Boston won't have to worry about capping attendance.

Fungie½ · Post by **Fungie½** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:50 am

I thought Songbird21 would snag some of the awards with her good stuff. Ah well.

Bote · Post by **Bote** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:21 pm

Who else entered in "Masters"?

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:10 pm

bote wrote: Who else entered in "Masters"?

TaranT had a Porco Rosso video, and Tom the Fish had two videos (No Need To Feel Down and another FLCL vid I can't remember)

Hmm, Tom winning Best Comedy and Best in Show. Sounds familiar...

In any case, congrats to ALL the finalists AND all the winners.

Also, there were TWO, count'm, TWO Iron Chef events between myself and OtakuForLife:

Round One (late Friday night)
Song: The Pillows - Hybrid Rainbow
DOKool: Teknolize Vol 1
OFL: Kino's Journey Vol 1

Winner: OFL by a margin of .4 (Note: These were both purchased the same day in the dealer's room. OFL watched his disc once beforehand, I didn't watch mine at all)

Round Two (Sunday afternoon)
Song: Bjork - Hunter
DOKool: Azumanga Daioh Episode 1
OFL: Abenobashi Episode 11 (first episode on Disc 4)

Winner: DOKool by a margin of 1.3 (Note: Neither of us had seen the shows at all)

For something that was thrown together in a matter of hours, both events were damned fun, and next year we hope to do it right! Check out the AMV Announcements section for our vids soon...

-DOKool

Skrasis · Post by **Skrasis** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:31 pm

So how many people attended the event on friday night? And what exactly was the problem with the DVD synching? was it really bad?

Skrasis

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:50 pm

Skrasis wrote:So how many people attended the event on friday night? And what exactly was the problem with the DVD synching? was it really bad?

Skrasis

Main Events was *FULL* on both Friday Night and Saturday Morning.

As far as the problem with the DVD synching, that was a problem with the DVD itself, in my opinion. At the Behind the AMVs Panel, Patrick said that it was most likely a problem with the mixing board. Which would make sense, except that the delay was VERY much present in the videos off the AB2004 disc that were shown.

-DOKool