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OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:43 am

Pas1990 wrote:New Zealand will win the 2009 VCAs.

New Zealand is an Island detachment of Australia from prehistoric times, so you're basically saying Australia will.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:47 am

Sometimes I do wonder if people come here from other AMV sites around VCA time to form a voting bloc of sorts...

EDIT: I mean members who are primarily members of other AMV communities, who aren't really active around here but do put in votes for the VCAs every year. It's not against the rules as long as they joined the site before a specific date. Since they're not as active here, they're less likely to have already seen some of the American entries. And as we know, people voting for their favorite videos without having seen the competitors has always been a weakness of the VCAs.

Solution 1: level the playing field by making it easier for voters to watch ALL the entries

Solution 2: make better videos?

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:34 am

Chiikaboom wrote:Canadia will dominate.

/thread

Instead of the American style "FUCKYEAH"

I will go with the more Canadian enthusiastic agreement, "Yes please"

simofc90 · Post by **simofc90** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:04 am

I didn't know that a-m-v.org was only for american editors

NS · Post by NS » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:30 am

I live in minnesota most of the year, which is really close to canada. So if America or canada win I can be all like "Fuck yah, gooooo team"

Unlimited Rice · Post by **Unlimited Rice** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:01 am

Why not go even further? Florida should dominate next year.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:28 am

It's like Olympic basketball, we have lost our edge...Only 1 way to get it back...

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:30 am

Uhhh sorry?

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:17 am

mexicanjunior wrote:It's like Olympic basketball, we have lost our edge...Only 1 way to get it back...

http://www.digidave.org/adventures_in_f ... mteam.jpeg

By voting me for rookie!

*Hides in corner*

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:22 am

jasper-isis wrote:Sometimes I do wonder if people come here from other AMV sites around VCA time to form a voting bloc of sorts...

EDIT: I mean members who are primarily members of other AMV communities, who aren't really active around here but do put in votes for the VCAs every year. It's not against the rules as long as they joined the site before a specific date. Since they're not as active here, they're less likely to have already seen some of the American entries. And as we know, people voting for their favorite videos without having seen the competitors has always been a weakness of the VCAs.

Solution 1: level the playing field by making it easier for voters to watch ALL the entries

Solution 2: make better videos?

This might be too tight-fisted and tyrannical, illogical and unpalatable (not to mention unworkable), but there was discussion of making bittorrent packages available for download this/next year. If you started this at the semifinalist stage, that would at least ensure that anyone who intends to vote for a video in a certain category has ALL the videos in front of them. If they don't watch, then at least there would be almost no excuse for not doing so, the 'Org having made it abundantly clear that they are expected to watch everything if they choose to vote in a specific category.

This could be done again at the finalist stage, and as far as that goes, you'd be able to get a little data about how many people are ONLY dling the finalists vs. downloading the semifinalists. Not sure if you could keep track of who does both and sort them out further on your end, but it would be very interesting to look at that kind of thing (ok, I think it would be interesting...

).