AnimeNEXT 2017 AMV Contest (Winners Announced!)

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And here is the schedule of all the AMV department events happening at the convention:

FRIDAY
1:45 - 2:45 P.M., Panel 301: AMVs: The State of the Art (a panel by me)
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., Video 322: AMV Overflow
6:30 - 8:30 P.M., Main Events (Hall A): AMV Contest Screening (seating up to 15 minutes prior)

SATURDAY
12:00 - 2:00 P.M., Panel 303: AMV Contest Screening (seating up to 15 minutes prior)
3:00 P.M.: Deadline to turn in AMV ballots at the Info Desk
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., Video 322: AMV Overflow
8:00 - 9:00 P.M., KARAOKE 401: AMV Contest Awards Show

SUNDAY
10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., Panel 318: AMV Contest Encore Screening (no voting)
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., KARAOKE 401: AMV Sing-Along!
3:45 - 4:30 P.M., Panel 302: AMV Contest Winners Replay for anyone who missed the Saturday awards show

We hope to see you there! Feel free to come say hello after any of the events.

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Edited my previous post to reflect a room change. Video 317 and Video 322 are to have their programming swapped for the entire weekend, therefore our Overflow blocks will now be in 322, not 317 as stated on the print schedule.

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Friday panel: AMVs: The State of the Art

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Here's the quick post with just the winners (long detailed post will not come until after the con is over):

Coordinator's Choice: "La Vida Madoka" by shorisquared
Best Trailer: "Yuri on Ice - The Honest Trailer" by Maboroshi Studio
Best Dramatic/Serious: "Beast Heart" by [key]Scarlet
Best Romance/Sentimental (by four votes!): "Wolf Children Rockabye" by Paige Venta
Best Action: "Numinous" by MrNosec
Best Artistic: "Singularity" by Buggy
Best Fun/Upbeat: "Timeless" by hamstar138
Best Comedy: "One Horn Man" by King Redeem

Congratulations to all!

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AMV Sing-Along!








"Twitterpated" by The Wired Knight (song: "Shut Up + Dance" by Walk the Moon)



"You Wanna" by SenshiMamoru (song: "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls)

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While I can't ship them out until this weekend at the earliest, here's what this year's winners' medals look like:

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And here we go with the big Post-Con Post of Everything™, with links to as many videos as I could find:


Friday Preshow
Hika Yagami - Unhealthy Obsession - "Stalker" by Tim Hawkins - Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power)
KeiichiFace (Tsunderbird Studio) - C.T.F.O. - "Aloha" by Møme feat. Merryn Jeann - Various
Gina Nelson - #TalkSkatingToMe - "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo - Yuri!!! on Ice
Aquiline Studios (Scintilla) - CSI: Tokyo-3 - "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who - Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion

Saturday Preshow
ProjectTwinsAMV - Titans RESURGENCE - Independence Day: Resurgence trailer - Attack on Titan
MadMegatax - Hunger of the Bear - "Hunger of the Pine" by Alt-J - Yurikuma Arashi
NoglasticNinja - Desu Standing - Death Stranding VGA 2016 Trailer by Kojima Productions - Original animation

Awards Show Retrospective (Saturday)
(2007 winner:) Aquiline Studios (Scintilla) - Restless - "Everytime We Touch" by Lacara - Loveless
(2012 winner:) Melichan923 - Evil Island - Shutter Island trailer - Resident Evil 4
(2012 winner:) l33tmeatwad - Sorry for Being Hercule, Sincerely Mr. Satan - "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO - Dragon Ball Z

Winners Replay Filler (Sunday)
hamstar138 - Riceball and the Cat - Disney's Beauty and the Beast (2017) trailer - Fruits Basket
Kyci - Twintails and Music Clubs - "First of The Year (Equinox)" by Skrillex - Various


CONTEST FINALISTS

Trailers
BecauseImBored1 - Blades of Yuri - Blades of Glory trailer - Yuri!!! on Ice
Kireblue & SerenityAMV - NerveGear Online - Nerve (trailer audio) - Sword Art Online
Maboroshi Studio - Yuri on Ice - The Honest Trailer - "History Maker" by Dean Fujioka (Yuri!!! on Ice OP), original voiceover - Yuri!!! on Ice

Dramatic/Serious
BecauseImBored1 - Fowl Play - "Be Like You" by Fall Out Boy - Princess Tutu
[key]Scarlet - Beast Heart - "Warriors" by Imagine Dragons - The Boy and the Beast
SliceofLife - Never Give Up! - "Never Give Up" by Extreme Music (Tony Stafford, Michael Smith) - Gurren Lagann
Sephirothskr - Heathens - "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots - Death Note
Trenzilla - Broken Butterfly - "Fix You" by Coldplay - Erased
Mysunsai - Delusions of Grandeur - "Gasoline" by Halsey - Psycho-Pass
UnluckyArtist - Galileo - "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen - Gurren Lagann

Romance/Sentimental
Andrea Kuiper - Dreaming Alone - "Dreaming Alone" by Against the Current - Yuri!!! on Ice
AMV-X - Stay With Me - "Stay" by Poets of the Fall - The Garden of Words
Paige Venta - Wolf Children Rockabye - "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit - Wolf Children
Studio le Croc - A Better Place - "Better Place" by Rachel Platten - Ponyo
MinetChan - Hearts On Ice - "Silent Hearts" by BT - Yuri!!! on Ice

Action
[key]Scarlet - Vertical Limit - "Aura" by Sergey Fisun - Redline
MrNosec - Numinous - "Take It All" by Modestep & Koven, "Guardians at the Gate (Access Denied Remix)" by Audiomachine - Various incarnations of Evangelion
MoonieAMV - An Instrumental Butt Whoopin - "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV 'Cowabunga!' OC ReMix" by Sixto Sounds, WillRock - Various
Trenzilla - Data Overload - "Delta" by C2C - Summer Wars
Rider4Z - Gloria Fortis Miles - "Resist and Bite" by Sabaton - Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

Artistic
MinetChan - Deep End - "Deep End" by Ruelle - Various
Buggy - Singularity - "Triumphant" by Röyksopp - Grave of the Fireflies
Noelle Mazurek - Flames of the Labyrinth - "Oh My My" by Ruelle - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Fun/Upbeat
AntaresHeart07 - DeCake - "Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE - Tamako Market, Tamako Love Story
Glitzer - Make Love, Not Explosions - "Somebody to Love" by Queen - Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!
AntaresHeart07 - Ansia - "My Way" by Royal Republic - Nisekoi
shorisquared - La Vida Madoka - "Livin' la Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin - Puella Magi Madoka Magica films
hamstar138 - Timeless - "Wake Me Up" by Aviici ft. Aloe Blacc - Various

Comedy
King Redeem - One Horn Man - "Unicorn Wizard" by Ninja Sex Party - One Punch Man, various
drewaconclusion - Infectious Affections - "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell - MM!
Cirera - Levi Boitano - "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" from South Park (by Trey Parker and Matt Stone) - Attack on Titan, Yuri!!! on Ice
drewaconclusion - In Digestion - "Eat It" by "Weird Al" Yankovic - Various
Celia Phantomhive - The Fujoshi Chronicle - "My Way" by Royal Republic - Kiss Him, Not Me, Keijo!!!!!!!, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya


CONTEST RESULTS

Coordinator's Choice: "La Vida Madoka" by shorisquared

Runner-up, Trailers: "Blades of Yuri" by BecauseImBored1
Winner, Trailers, with 65.9% of the vote: "Yuri on Ice - The Honest Trailer" by Maboroshi Studio

Runner-up, Dramatic/Serious: "Galileo" by UnluckyArtist
Winner, Dramatic/Serious, with 27.4% of the vote: "Beast Heart" by [key]Scarlet

Runner-up, Romance/Sentimental: "A Better Place" by Studio le Croc
Winner, Romance/Sentimental (by FOUR votes!), with 29.1% of the vote: "Wolf Children Rockabye" by Paige Venta

Runner-up, Action: "Gloria Fortis Miles" by Rider4Z
Winner, Action, with 39.6% of the vote: "Numinous" by MrNosec

Runner-up, Artistic (ahead of 3rd by TWO votes!): "Flames of the Labyrinth" by Noelle Mazurek
Winner, Artistic, with 40.9% of the vote: "Singularity" by Buggy

Runner-up, Fun/Upbeat: "Make Love, Not Explosions" by Glitzer
Winner, Fun/Upbeat, with 61.9% of the vote: "Timeless" by hamstar138

Runner-up, Comedy: "The Fujoshi Chronicle" by Celia Phantomhive
Winner, Comedy, with 64.1% of the vote: "One Horn Man" by King Redeem

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That's not my amv:)) Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hAl07D5SDk

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That's not my amv:)) Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hAl07D5SDk

Sorry about that -- don't know how I made that mistake. Fixed!

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Sorry about that -- don't know how I made that mistake. Fixed!

No problem Thanks!