The Otakon 2010 Thread (OK now panic)

[VicBond007]

Sailor Death: I know I sent you a confirmation ages ago. Your entry worked fine.

Code: Which con did your video win at? (I also replied to your e-mail)

Brakus: The usual process for picking judges is we go "hey, you wanna be a judge? OK. finish your drink and go sit at the judge's table." If you want in, just show up. Having more former competitors on the panel will be great.

Dragon: Don't beat yourself up over letterboxing, color spaces, etc. Do what looks right to you, that way I have a better starting point to work with. This Windows guy will fix all of the things you Linux folk can't figure out.

[CodeZTM]

It won at Anime Mid Atlantic about a week and a 1/2 ago. But I already replied to you e-mail, I also just wanted to say thanks again for the swift reply.

[VicBond007]

Dragon: forgot to say earlier, but pre-screenings are in King of Prussia PA, about 15 mins from Philly if the people there knew how to drive. I'm sure Alan will post here shortly with more information.

I also wanted to say that as much of a hardass as I have been about the no-troll rule, I AM going to allow entries that won at AnimeNext to enter without penalty. I know this is going to tick a few of you off who held off entering ANext because of Otakon, and honestly I don't want the drama, but denying ANext entries would not be in the spirit of the rule, which I think is more important than the wording. The AMV contest deadline is 6/20, and ANext ends on 6/20. If one were to enter ANext, attend the con, not win, and then decide to enter Otakon, it would be extremely difficult for them to do so with the deadline being only hours from the close of the con. The SPIRIT of the rule was to stop people from entering somewhere, winning, then giving us a video that everyone already saw (and voted for) already. You got your win, go make something else. It was also meant to prevent people from sneaking around this rule by carpet-bombing every con in the country with their video as soon as it was finished, and then arguing that they didn't know it was going to be a success when they submitted it. I thought that I had timed the deadline to fall on a weekend with no cons, but nowadays I guess that's way tougher to do :\

Again, I'm sure someone is going to argue technicalities here, but this isn't the only place that I twist rules. If I disqualified everyone whose entry was in a wrong, or non-compliant format, I'd seriously only have 22 qualified entries so far. I do a lot to make sure that the contest is the best one possible, and that includes weeding out the trolls. Plus, i don't believe the official ANext results are even IN yet. I only know the winners because I know somebody who attended the con. This means that realistically, by the time the deadline passes, it's ENTIRELY possible that an entrant doesn't even KNOW they won somewhere else.

Don't hate me >.>

[CodeZTM]

That really doesn't seem too ridiculous to me. It makes perfect sense to me.

[irriadin]

Yea, I don't think anyone is going to have a problem with that. Granted, my entry was completed two days ago, so I had no chance to enter ANext anyway...

[XStylus]

The SPIRIT of the rule was to stop people from entering somewhere, winning, then giving us a video that everyone already saw (and voted for) already. You got your win, go make something else.

I'd love to argue that, but I'd rather not derail the thread, so...

[sigh]

[TheTsunami]

Is deadline tonight (t-minus 6 hrs 40 mins)?

[machina21]

Good lord, finally managed to get mai vid uploaded. Hopefully it works for ya'll and doesn't cause your computer to melt because it sucks so bad.

[Dragon/Roy]

I will try to get my entry in today , but im not even in my State right now O_O , I hope Im able to go home tonight - panics-

[CodeZTM]

Ok, my new entry should be uploaded and ready. Thanks for letting me swap them out.