ReligionX wrote:Scintilla wrote:/me has baaaaaad flashbacks to Otakon 2004...
Not quite sure what that means. There is no bias in the order that AMVs are played.
The Otakon 2004 contest ended with a Humorous/Satirical category that clearly did not have its play order thought through very carefully. The last comedy video was too long by half, as it ran out of funny about halfway through and never recovered; the end result was that you had a fair number of people
walking out before the end.
It was quite distressing, and I can't imagine how the editor would have taken it if he'd been there.
All this could have been avoided if they'd ended the contest with one of the videos judged strongest in the prescreenings, one they knew would keep the audience entertained the whole way through. (There were at least two other videos that would have been much better choices, one of which was the original "AMV Hell" for crying out loud!)
They also could have approached the problem from the angle of: which video would be the
toughest act to follow? Because nobody wants to have to follow that video, so putting it last makes sense.
Oh, and I should add that putting a video last in any category does not mean it will win (there's plenty of experience to bear this out).
i didn't say that
Grats to all finalists.
