If you wish to know what score your video got at prescreenings, email vboruta@otakon.org with your studio name and the video title.OMGWTFinalists in pretty much no particular order:
Action
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JMI Productions
Studio Hybrid
Lolicious Designs
Brakus Media
Fizziks
Miracle Falcon
Aaron Becker
Comedy
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SSGWNBTD
Doki Doki Productions
LeetStreet Boys
MysteriousRyder
Bad Omen
wurpess
Dramatic/Serious
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Meredith "Meri" Cantoni
Hidama Productions
Janzki
Scintilla
One-Winged Angel Productions
ArashinomeAMV
Dark Side Productions
Romance/Sentimental
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Scoob
Daniel Chang
Pwolf
Xiao
jasper-isis
Nessephanie
Dragon/Roy
Trailer
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Silk_Sk
-Reda-
Sweetdeily
Cyanna
HurQlez Productions
DPad Productions, LLC
Upbeat
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Lawrence Studios
Michael "VegettoEX" LaBrie
Phantasmagoriat Productions
Delicious Orange
jubjub2
The following studios have submitted videos that were disqualified from the competition. Disqualified videos will still be shown at overflow, with the exception of ones that were disqualified for inappropriate content as we could not secure a late-night time slot for an overflow screening.
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Avalon Blade Works - Major award winner: Sakura-con 2008
insubstance - Inappropriate content
StriderTol - Use of commercial english dub
Jesmaster - Exceeded the time limit
Legendary 86 Productionz - Visible fansubs
Vietnhien Production - Visible fansubs
Ryumikokun - Visible DivX logos
Rehdogg.Com - Not even a reference to anime footage
NightHawk - Major award winner: Fanime 2008
Random Destination Studios - Major award winner: ACen 2008
Vellure - Major award winner: A-Kon 2008
A quick reminder that "major award winner" only entails those videos that have won first place or "best in show" awards prior to the June 10th deadline. 2nd place doesn't count, nor do honorable mentions. Hopefully next year Otakon will get some more exclusive videos so that we don't have to cut so many great ones
Contest finalists will be able to sit in a special section for the contest screenings, and they do not have to wait in line for any AMV event. Finalists who wish to take advantage of these benefits will need to pick up a special AMV Finalist badge from the info desk at any time during the convention. This is not a substitute for your paid convention admission. When you pick up your badge, you will be given yours, as well as 2 badges that you can give to your friends. Each badge is pre-printed with your name so be sure to have some ID on you. As I have been told, this is different than the previous two years, however the previous two years received significantly fewer entries than we did this year. There is also a high percentage of creators who will be in attendance. As I mention later in this thread, it would be logistically insane of us to rope off 400 seats in a 760 seat venue when the con is expecting 23,000 attendees, and that's not counting staffers gophers and guests. Granted Video 1 seats something like 2,200 people, and we use it twice, but that's still 4,400 seats out of 23,000 attendees at a high-volume event. It's going to be tight as it is, and I still want to give back to the submitters, but I have to draw the line somewhere.
Here is a tentative schedule of AMV related events. I make no claims that it is 100% accurate. I don't have the program descriptions but most are self-explainatory. I believe that "Best of AMVs" showcases all of the previous Otakon winners from the last 15 years.
Friday Events
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11AM - 2PM :: AMV Overflow (Video 1)
3PM - 5PM :: Best of AMVs (Video 1)(There will be a room clear afterwards)
5:30PM - 6:30PM :: AMV Contest Seating (Video 1)
6:30PM - 9PM :: AMV Contest (Video 1)
Saturday Events
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9AM - 11AM :: AMV Overflow (Video 1)
1PM-1:30PM :: AMV Contest Seating (Video 1)(Room clear after the event ending at 1PM)
1:30PM - 4PM :: AMV Contest (Video 1)
4PM - 5PM :: AMVs from Concept to Planning (Panel 1)
5PM - 6PM :: AMVs In the Beginning... (Panel 3)
6PM - 7PM :: AMVs A Cross-Platform Primer (Panel 3)
7PM - 10PM :: Iron Editor (Panel 3)
10PM - ??? :: Vic drinks away the pain (Anywhere but here)
Sunday Events
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9AM - 11AM :: Best of AMVs (Video 6)
11AM - 12:30PM :: AMV Overflow (Video 6)
12:30PM - 3PM :: AMV Contest Encore (Video 6)(No room clear beforehand. Walk right in!)
AMV Overflow playlists are built in advance, however they are dynamic, so if you're the creator for a specific video that did not make finals, you may walk up to the board-op and request your video to be shown while you're there
Best of luck!
