Anime Expo Report and Documentary

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 1:16 am

I've read a lot of posts all over saying how bad AX was. I read that there was no AMV contest, but other than that, why'd it suck so much?

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 1:35 am

To make a long story short (has been discussed to death on the AMV yahoo dicussion group), the Music video contest was not shown on Friday night to a full crowd as scheduled due to rendering problems. This seamed to occur Becasue of the late deadline and the organizers wearing lots of hats. The contest was shown at 8:00 am on Saturday and still had a lot of technical problems.

In the end, the AMV coordinators appoligized but it still left a lot of people upset. They did however promise to totaly overhall the contest and hopefully it will be back and much better next year...

Vlad

Machine · Post by **Machine** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 2:56 am

A cold in hell when that will happen

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:33 am

I heard the Anaheim Convention Center is 5x bigger than Long Beach and AX was only held in Long Beach for 2 years because the Anaheim Convention Center was under renovation.

Hopefully this means there's a slight possibility of extra *COUGH*video rooms for you know...*COUGH*....

Machine · Post by **Machine** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:09 pm

I didn't mind the Video rooms.

They shoudl hire more Techs damnit!

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:23 pm

Since AX is the largest attended con in the country according to their statistics and now that they have a 5x larger area.... Maybe they could look into handling the AMV contest more like Otakon's with the overflows and such.... although that would probably never happen

Sub0 · Post by **Sub0** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:04 pm

ya know what would rock? if you could put intermittant anime charachters/ backgrounds like Excel walking the halls or Lina crashing the party or somthin lol

SpPANDA · Post by **SpPANDA** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 10:59 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Sorry I couldn't hang out longer but here's what I remember...

Machine: Cool guy who dresses up well and carries a camera.

Vlad: Very wise and informative, he and I chatted about after effects a bit.

Eric Kobet: Very nice guy who I had the greatest honor of meeting. A bit nervous but he's still cool.

Anneke: Nice person who's a yaoi fangirl

Julie: Nice person who reminded me to pick up her vcd

Brad: Looks like he came back from Bowling. Nice guy.

Troy: Wacky guy....

Peter Stoll: Shook hands with him.

Tim Park: Saw him occasionally around the convention center and dealers room but didn't meet him since he looked kinda busy.

TommyRude: Looking at his size, he could clobber Ermac... wish I got to talk to him.

Wired Knight: Cool guy with long hair.

Charles Bethel: Cool guy who talked with me and EvilVegettoZ at the contest.

People at table 3 gave me a "Who the hell are you?" look.

no love for the panda.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:02 pm

SpPanda: Cool little guy who wears a panda on his head.

SpPANDA · Post by **SpPANDA** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:03 pm

im loved.

HURRAH!