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It's that time of the year again. Time to reflect on AMVs in 2009 ... and vote for our favorites! Hi, everyone. I'm GloryQuestor, your 2010 MOE (that's "master of events" ) for the Viewer's Choice Awards this year.

So what's different from our 2009 VCAs? Well, not a lot. But one key difference this year is that you'll notice we're accepting almost everything for the VCAs. This year is the year you tell us what you don't want to compete in the VCAs, otherwise everything is going in (as long as you're eligible, of course). So, it's a lot to wade through this year for the nominations, but maybe you'll rediscover some old videos and find some great new ones you haven't even considered watching before.

Also, we would like to take the time out to ask for your help. There's a lot of you that give us what they can to keep us running. We really appreciate the support year to year. But, if you've watched the donations page (you know, the one you quickly click through to get to the video download ), you'll notice that we always could use more. After all, file servers, website servers, keeping the servers powered up every month and in good working order ... all of your money goes to these costly services. So, whether you are a casual visitor here for the VCAs, or a long-time member who may have that extra $12 somewhere, we need your continued support. And yes, the perks you get are actually quite nice.

.. but now it's time for some fun (and videos).

- Check each individual category thread to suggest favorites from around the Org (other than your own videos, see below).
- For your own videos, yes, there is a Shameless Pl... er, "Self Promotion" topic for you to show off the videos you want others to check out.
- Here's where you go to vote.

Current Schedule of Events

- Last day for entries: January 7
- Qualifying videos listed: January 8
- Video nominations: January 8 - January 22
- Semi-final voting: January 23 - January 29
- Final voting: January 31 - February 6
- Winners announced: February 7

Since there are a lot of promo posters going to being posted, I should mention that, effective immediately, we will be following the AMV Screencap Thread Rules for picture posting.

If you upload a compressed poster that fits the filesize limit, however, just PM me and I'll add the link with IMG tags back in.

Thanks

The Nominations are now open! Head over to the VCA page to start!

Also, the new category is...

Best Storytelling!

Go go go!

(Also, if you find any errors in classification when it comes to MEP, Collaboration, or First Video, please PM me so we can get that correctly ASAP. )

Due to constraints with the system, the following videos have been added so that the respective editors may qualify for the VCA "Most Helpful Member" nomination only:

- Niotex's "Eva Reloaded".
- -Reda-'s "Karas-X".

To clarify, these videos are inelligible for 2010 VCA nomination and all votes entered towards them will not count. Also, Niotex and -Reda- do not qualify for any nomination for "Editor of the Year" or "Most Improved Editor", as they did not enter any qualifying 2009 videos.

If there are any questions, please review the "Most Helpful Member" thread and post all responses there.

Party on.

Semi-Final Voting is live.

A day late, but we are now live! Finals are ready, so go here to vote and good luck to all of our finalists this year.

The winners have been announced. Click here to see the final results.

In closing, it was a great contest this year. There were some issues brought up that we will definitely review and make sure to work on for next year's VCA contest. Overall, however, it seems like everything went well.

I would like to also take this time to thank Helen (Jasper), for giving me the opportunity to manage the contest this year, and to Tim (dokidoki), who was my silent partner in getting things done and deserves a lot of credit for making sure it ran smoothly.

So, the thread is now open for feedback. How did you like the contest this year? What do you suggest could be improved for next year? Let us know.

Before starting the semi-final round, let's check that the semi-finalist are fit for the category: that way we don't end up with effectsy vids in the no-effects category final.

I think any user with a join date of the VCA year or earlier should be eligible for Most Helpful and not just those that have made a video that year.

While I can think of other user's more deserving than myself, I was kind of curious to see if I would make it to the semi-finals for adding streaming stuff this year. I had a wtf moment when I saw Koop made semi-finals and I didn't. Then I remembered I didn't actually make a video this year even though I collab'ed on same video that made Jay eligible (Since he was the one that entered our video into the org database.)

I can think of other users in the past that I would have nominated for their activity in the video help forums but they didn't edit a video that year also.

Corran wrote:While I can think of other user's more deserving than myself, I was kind of curious to see if I would make it to the semi-finals for adding streaming stuff this year. I had a wtf moment when I saw Koop made semi-finals and I didn't. Then I remembered I didn't actually make a video this year even though I collab'ed on same video that made Jay eligible (Since he was the one that entered our video into the org database.)

I would have thought that everyone in the video would achieve eligibility through it.