The AnimeUSA 2010 Thread (Results all up in here)

[Rider4Z]

My logic here, and it's ever-changing, is that the audience is the ultimate authority. If we bump "better" videos to make room for a wider selection of editors, then yes, we might make a few editors happy, maybe 5 or even 10 people, but then I have to deal with hundreds upon hundreds of audience members whining about how bad the contest was. I'll get that anyways, it happens at every con, but I do what I can to dial it down If you're making art for art's sake, then you can't complain if it doesn't get shown. If you're making something to entertain an audience, and the pre-screening team has determined that the audience would PROBABLY rather sit through something else, then you also can't complain because then you're basically saying "LOOK AT MY VIDEO, I DON'T CARE IF YOU LIKE IT, YOU'RE GONNA WATCH IT ANYWAYS" and I don't think that's the message that you want to send

Again, I can gear the contest towards the creators' interests and make 35 people happier, or I can gear it towards the audience's interests and make hundreds-to-thousands of people happier. I still treat every entry with the utmost respect in that I encode everything with care, fix technical problems (and BOY are there plenty!) and screen the overflow in the same room as the AMV contest (hell, this year we're doing it twice), but at the end of the day, the final contest is put together for the audience.

can i get this engraved in stone somewhere? i'd like to whip it out when AX comes back around.

[Kosmit]

CONTEST FINALISTS
Kosmit (Don't worry kids, this one's safe!)

[Doomimus]

How was the contest? Who was featured?

[Castor Troy]

My logic here, and it's ever-changing, is that the audience is the ultimate authority. If we bump "better" videos to make room for a wider selection of editors, then yes, we might make a few editors happy, maybe 5 or even 10 people, but then I have to deal with hundreds upon hundreds of audience members whining about how bad the contest was. I'll get that anyways, it happens at every con, but I do what I can to dial it down If you're making art for art's sake, then you can't complain if it doesn't get shown. If you're making something to entertain an audience, and the pre-screening team has determined that the audience would PROBABLY rather sit through something else, then you also can't complain because then you're basically saying "LOOK AT MY VIDEO, I DON'T CARE IF YOU LIKE IT, YOU'RE GONNA WATCH IT ANYWAYS" and I don't think that's the message that you want to send

Again, I can gear the contest towards the creators' interests and make 35 people happier, or I can gear it towards the audience's interests and make hundreds-to-thousands of people happier. I still treat every entry with the utmost respect in that I encode everything with care, fix technical problems (and BOY are there plenty!) and screen the overflow in the same room as the AMV contest (hell, this year we're doing it twice), but at the end of the day, the final contest is put together for the audience.

can i get this engraved in stone somewhere? i'd like to whip it out when AX comes back around.

Only when AX stops choosing crap.

Who won the AUSA iron chef? Jeff's intro was awesome like always.

[Squancho]

Vic fell to his challenger this year.
I gotta admit, though...it was an awesome piece for being thrown together in under two hours.
I hope it's uploaded soon...

[Rider4Z]

Only when AX stops choosing crap.

crap is mightier than a vuvuzela

[HalOfBorg]

Is there official word about the contest? I've been told I have some reason to be happy. It'd be nice to be happy. What's it feel like?

[Squancho]

Is there official word about the contest? I've been told I have some reason to be happy. It'd be nice to be happy. What's it feel like?

Your video, "Me, Myself, and Me" won its category (if I remember correctly).
It at least made runner-up because it was playing as I came into the AMV Award spotlight.

[HalOfBorg]

Thank you very much!

[TheLongshot]

Is there official word about the contest? I've been told I have some reason to be happy. It'd be nice to be happy. What's it feel like?

Your video, "Me, Myself, and Me" won its category (if I remember correctly).
It at least made runner-up because it was playing as I came into the AMV Award spotlight.

It did indeed win.

Since I'm posting, I will offer one complaint about the contest: if you didn't turn in your ballot after the contest, it was impossible to find the ballot box. At the end of the contest, they said that the box was going to be by the AMV room and I had until 2PM Saturday. Unfortuantely, I saw no sign of it and no one I could really ask. (since Iron Editor was going on at the time) I tried asking at the info desk, but they didn't know.

So, I didn't get to vote.