General opinion about AMV viewing at con's

[BasharOfTheAges]

Most conventions in the US are audience vote for the majority of awards. Sometimes there are judged awards as well.

[TritioAFB]

Most conventions in the US are audience vote for the majority of awards. Sometimes there are judged awards as well.

I'll like to go to one convention in US to see the difference between the fests here and the way they hold votings there.

[ngsilver]

Really it kind of depends on the con. I've seen judges vote based on their own opinion of what video was best, then I've seen others where the judges were held to a scoring system that separates the different segments of a video out and makes a composite score between them. I've seen audience voting based on simple crowd reaction and others where they passed out a sheet of paper and had the audience vote by circling the winner.

AWA is one of the cons that has different voting depending on the contest. For the masters contest it's basically 1 person choosing the winner. For Pro the winners and awards are all chosen based on what the entrants want since the entrants are also the judges. For expo it's basically the VAT staff getting together and watching all of the videos and then coming up with categories and awards for them, I'm not sure how they decide since I've never been involved with it.

I've tried a number of different judging approaches throughout the years and at least for Youmacon I find that a mixture of Judges, Staff Picks, and Audience voting works best. Basically, the judges choose the category awards and the Best of Show. The audience chooses the staff competition winner and the Fan Favorite. The staff chooses the special awards like Staff Pick and Most Original. The judges are given criteria they have to base their choices on, the audience is given numbers to circle, and the staff basically vote on their own volition after having seen all of the entries multiple times.

[JaddziaDax]

at the local tiny con i went to, they had people place tickets in a bag... each video was given a number and the audience put their ticket in the corresponding bag that had the same number... which ever bad had the most tickets was the winner... i donno how they picked the categories though.

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Pretty much similar to what ngsilver mentioned, I have found that having the judges choose the category winners and any technical awards is the best way and then having a Audience best award by ballots seem to work the best.

The other this does is since the categories are pre-judged, the video can be played in a much better order then having all the categories clumped into one area. The problem with most con contests where the audience votes for the category is that it's hard on the audience to show say 7-8 or so drama in a row as most just talk or not pay attention during various segments until such time as comedy, etc. When you can make the play list mixed, it keep the audience a lot more interested as the fun and comedy video can be put in between the action and drama ones...

Vlad

[Kawatta-kun]

Sooo what's the best option, for you, about audience voting.
All of them having paper and righting down a number, or even a "form paper" with all of them and all you have to do is crossing the ones you liked best while watching the cvompetition on screen?

[Nya-chan Production]

If you can get SMS voting to be implemented, it's easier, or some other form...

Papers have to be counted up, which can be baffling when more than 500 voters vote...

[hasteroth]

Hey I saw someone throwing a shit fit, that thread was also where I made my first posts lol.
Though let's not get into that too deeply.

[Kawatta-kun]

How about, former papers for everyone at the audience (given at the entrance) e for the contestants. Then, a few minutes to countdown everything (i guess we can manage to do it in half an hour?) ...?

[TritioAFB]

But what about the risk that friends from the participants may influence the audience? One time that happened in an anime fest here