A-Kon 20: Video Events Winners!!!

[rubyeye]

The Awards Listing on our main VSE Homepage will be updated with this year's winners, shortly. Until then, I made notes during the Awards Ceremony so I could post them here .....


Fans' Exhibition Winners:

Best In Show / Audience Choice:
Title: S-O-S-DAN (The Baseball Game)
Song: T-E-A-M (The Baseball Game)
Aritst: Clark Gesner
Footage: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Creator: Skye-chan


Runner Up:
Title: Near-Death Happenis
Song: Gay Bar
Aritst: Electric Six
Footage: Busou Renkin
Creator: SolMan


Best Action/Horror:
Title: Metal Drill Solid
Song: Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty Main Theme
Aritst: Harry Gregson-Williams
Footage: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Creator: jamespenguin


Best Drama/Romance:
Title: Scatter
Song: Gravity
Aritst: Sara Bareilles
Footage: 5 Centimeters Per Second
Creator Jellybelly


Best Comedy/Fun:
Title: The Significant Other
Song: What is this Feeling
Aritst: Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel
Footage: Bleach
Creator: TheTreeAMV






Experts' Exhibition Winners:

Best In Show:
Title: Sungazing
Song: Unwritten
Aritst: Natasha Bedingfield
Footage: Kiki's Delivery Service
Creator: jubjub2


Runner Up:
Title: The Ballad of Kyo and Kagura
Song: The More You Ruv Someone
Aritst: Avenue Q
Footage: Fruits Basket
Creator: Ashnak


Best Action/Horror:
Title: Eviscerated Butterfly
Song: This Town Your Grave
Aritst: Inner Party System
Footage: Various
Creator: Yaaku


Best Drama/Romance:
Title: Chained to the Sun
Song: Who Knew
Aritst: Pink
Footage: Ef - A Tale of Memories
Creator: jade_eyed_angel


Best Comedy/Fun:
Title: Transylvania Host Club
Song: Sweet Transvestite
Aritst: Tim Curry
Footage: Ouran High School Host Club & FMA
Creator: Kichigai


Audience Choice:
Title: Wings of a Dream
Song: Through the Fire and Flames
Aritst: Dragonforce
Footage: Various
Creator: noelle675






FanWorks Exhibition Winners:

Best In Show:
Title: Dragonball Z: The Silent Movie
Song: Chibi Moon Piano Suite
Aritst: Sailor Moon Soundtrack
Footage: Dragonball Z
Creator: Element


Runner Up:
Title: Cons
Song: Cons
Aritst: Desiree Damon
Footage: Live Action
Creator: Omega19x






Hentai Exhibition Winner: ** UPDATE **

Best In Show:
Title: Untitled
Song: Tunak Tunak Tun
Aritst: Daler Mehndi
Footage: Various
Creator: Roll the Stampede





That's it for A-Kon's 20th Anniversary AMV Contests. I think the changes we made in mixing the videos up and the short intermissions worked well for the presentation. There were some playback issues because of the different audio/video formats we had to contend with and depending on which player was used. But we found ways to work around them. Any comments or suggestions for next year, let me know and I will share them with the staff.

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the editors who entered, and to those of you who came to see the shows!

'til next year.

~ Dann

[HalOfBorg]

Oh well, down in flames again!

congrats to the winners

(I'm getting good at losing. Is that a good thing?)

[Beowulf]

Oh well, down in flames again!

congrats to the winners

(I'm getting good at losing. Is that a good thing?)

x2.

Did random videos play without sound or video like all the previous AKONs? I hope my video played through properly

[jubjub2]

Wow. Just. Wow. Totally wasn't expecting that (I needed the squee, though).

Congrats to all the winners!

Yay! Rina's back!

[rubyeye]

x2.

Did random videos play without sound or video like all the previous AKONs? I hope my video played through properly

For the most part, all videos played. We just had a few that didn't immediately display video as it transitioned from the title card to the AMV. We had to start the video player in normal size and then double-click to full screen mode for proper playback. But everyone's video played completely.

During the Awards Ceremony we had some audio issues with the channel loosing volume (right after that "Dragonforce" video) which I was afraid had blown one of the speakers or output cables. But we managed to get through it.

We're hoping next year to finally upgrade to an editing suite, if we can get a sponsor for the events.

[JudgeHolden]

Wow, This is the first year I didn't win anything ....



oh, wait ... I didn't send anything.


Gratz to the Jubbers! We love you Jubs!

[Ashnak]

Grats to everyone! It was a good show all round!

As for the H-Fest winners, I think one of Roll's videos won it, with a video I entered coming in second (I think? not sure myself, really lol)....and the pre-show was something special, to be sure...

Congrats jubjub on the win!! always like seeing your stuff!

[TheTreeAMV]

Best Comedy/Fun:
Title: The Significant Other
Song: What is this Feeling
Aritst: Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel
Footage: Bleach
Creator: TheTreeAMV

Whoa, totally didn't expect to win anything o_O But thanks!

... what are the odds of videos set to songs from "Wicked" winning comedy two years in a row? I mean, seriously

[Kyssifur]

Congrats to all the winners!

[mexicanjunior]

Video 1
Title: River of Shit - Shaddup You Face
Song: River of Shit - Shaddup You face
Aritst: The Fugs - Joe Dolce
Footage: Unknown - Cool Devices 5
Creator: LyingBastard

That title is genius!