Please accept my apologies for taking so long to get back to you
regarding your award being shipped out. Shortly after the convention
last year I had a heart attack and then while recovering from that I had
to deal with Alzheimer dieses striking my family again. This has caused
6 months of my life to become rather in turmoil, and in turn put a lot
of things on hold.
I have your award trophy packed and ready to ship out. Please let me
know what address you would like it shipped to, and it will be on its
way this week. In addition due to the way things went last year and our
total lack of prize ceremony, I will be shipping you your prizes as
well. What they are I'll leave as a surprise.
I would like to apologize for how your video was presented on screen
last year. It was one of the few that no matter what I did Friday night
I couldn't seem to get it to re-render clean. I'm also sorry that the
fan dispute over the judging for the action category has happened,
although personally I'm glad your video ended up winning as the
Bebop/Dragonball Z video would have won for its comedy aspects, and not
really as an action video. If you are curious, your video did register
the loudest response from the audience during the review, and that was
what Michael called the winner from. We are completely re-doing the
judging system to work from ballots this year as opposed to the
"audience meter" in an attempt to raise the accuracy and fairness of the
judging process this year.
Thank you for entering the contest last year, and congratulations on
winning the award. I hope to see you this year to congratulate you in
person. =)
Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you
have regarding the contest.
Sincerely,
James Dodd
with that said....
Anime Expo is a great convention.
