Otafest 2009 - AMV Contest - Playlist & Finalists!

[jen-chan]

Ladies and Gentleman,

It is my great pleasure to announce the finalists of the Otafest 2009 AMV Contest! Out of 79 entries received, these are the top 35 entries that we will be able to show, announced in alphabetical order by Creator name!

CREATOR -AMV

Aggressor - De:Light
ArashinomeAMV - The Game
buma - JAADV - Just another Azumanga Daioh Video
Chiikaboom - Bellicose
Cody McEwen - Soul Resonance - Break the Silence?
Dragon/Roy - Dying without Your Love
Drew Brisco - Return of the Japanese Idiot
Drew Brisco - The Monolith Monsters
Eryn Dearden -Ikuhara's Experimental Film
Farm - Break the unbreakable
HalOfBorg - Wrong Way, Anime
jade_eyed_angel - Clarity
Jeroen Wolf - Entangled Destiny
Karen Covington - S-O-S-DAN
Katie Carson - Wherever You Will Go
Kitsuner - Megaframe
Luggeriano - Pirates of the One Piece: At Grand Line's End
Marek "Derudo" Chalek - Brothers Fairytale
Megan Edwards - Memories from the Heart
Moonlight Soldider - Dirty Soul
mtarzaim - Always Ulquiorr
Mystyk - Kaede's Pain
Namida Naoru - The Haunting
Nicole Parker - Chidzini
Nicole Parker - Six and a half men
Nya-chan production - Tegami
Otaku Lounge Productions - It's Tough to be a Host
Otaku Lounge Productions - Curtain Call
Peter Vad (Kyssifur) - The Heroes of El Hazard
Radical Yue - Incubus
Rolfyboy8 - Look at it, It's Ugly
Rory Mahood - Stand my Ground
Ryvannis - Heart of an Angel
Shana (Sakura Zuka Studios) - Fight or Fall
Yusf - Endosky


This year's contest was very difficult to judge, as the great majority of entries scored very closely together - an unsurprising development perhaps, given that the average level of quality to our AMV contest just keeps getting higher and higher! Because of this, we had to use a lot of other qualitative considerations in banging out this year's playlist, and to that tend, I'm still not altogether happy with the final outcome, as we will ultimately not be able to play many deserving entries.

The decision on which entries to show was made with reference to the following factors:

1) The score of the video. This was the primary factor.

2) The number of videos you submitted. With limited exception (3), we decided to show only 1 video per creator, in order to showcase as many creators as possible. Those limited exceptions were allowed for the sake of audience entertainment; there really wasn't very many fun or upbeat videos this year, and so we really wanted to include those where we reasonably and fairly could.

3) Whether you were attending Otafest. Because Otafest is a smaller convention based in Calgary attended mostly be locals (around 4000 people almost exclusively from Alberta), we wanted to have a balance of locally created videos in order to encourage local talent, and to let creators actually see their work on the big screen. Therefore, as roughly 17% of contest entrants were local creators, 17% of the entries showing are from local creators as well.

Thank you very much to everyone for entering our contest this year; the AMV contest is one of Otafest's best highlights, only because of you folks! The show will happen on Sunday, May 17th at 12:30pm - 2:30pm in our main events room - ST148! Winner will be announced during this time! Winner of the Fan Favourite Award based on audience vote will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 17th at 6:30pm in the main events room! Finally, on Monday, May 18th, I will also announce via email, on the Otafest Forums, and the a-m-v.org forums, the Otafest 2009 AMV Contest Winners!

Thank you very much once again, and good luck to everyone!

Cheers,

Jenny Chan
Otafest 2009 - Special Events Co-Coordinator
special-events@otafest.com
http://www.otafest.com

[HalOfBorg]

Yay - I made the cut!

Now another room full of unsuspecting victims will be subjected once again to my work!

Bwaahaaahahahahahhahaaaahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Yay - I made the cut!

Now another room full of unsuspecting victims will be subjected once again to my work!

Bwaahaaahahahahahhahaaaahahaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

Sure.. you just can't imagine how many times I have to watch all these videos..

Vlad

[Kyssifur]

Wow.

Btw, Bellicose and De:Light are very enjoyable!

[Rider4Z]

sweet

[HalOfBorg]

Sure.. you just can't imagine how many times I have to watch all these videos..
Vlad

Probably a lot like how many times we had to watch our own. watch our own. watch our own. watch watch watch our our our our our our our our wat wat wat watc ownownownown,

And then have Vegas crash before you hit the save button.

[dreamawake]

Nice.

[Moonlight Soldier]

Hooray lookin' forward to the contest

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Well.. I'll be there for sure.. sort of have to be... Also got several hours of AMV blocks there...

Vlad

[Nya-chan Production]

Yay, one got in \o/

Well... it's a little pity that Vlad doesn't have to see Just Passing By many times, I am sure he'd be going crazy glad! ;x