Otafest 2017 AMV Contest - With Winners

[Vlad G Pohnert]

WINNERS:
Here is the list of Winners, the contest was well attended and the audience had a great time.
I will be contacting all the winners and confirming their address so the awards and prizes can be send out.

The "I Can’t Believe Evil can be so Cute" Award
The Greatest Evil Hero by Maboroshi Studio
Believe it or Not by Joey Scarbury to Saga of Tanya the Evil

The Seton I. Miller Award For AMV Excellence
Pete's Dragon Maid by Toon Addict Productions
Boo Bop Bop Bop Bop (I Love You, Too) by Sean Marshall and Charlie Callas to Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

The "Now That's What I Call Beat Sync" Award
Infectious Affections by drewaconclusion
Tainted Love by Soft Cell to MM!

The Visually Intense Powerhouse Award
VIP by MadMegatax
VIP by Ke$ha to Danganronpa & Danganronpa 2

The "Hail to our New Saviors" Award
Anime is Saved by PaNTSU of d00m
Strength of a Thousand Men by Two Steps from Hell to Keijo!!!!!!!! & Prison School

Audiences' 3rd Place
#TalkSkatingToMe by Gina Nelson
Talk Dirty by Jason Derulo to Yuri On Ice!!!

Judges’ 2nd Place & The Safe Snacks Award
Eat Me by SOGESNAKE
Candy Shop by The Baseballs to Dagashi Kashi

Judges’ 1st Place & Audiences' 2nd Place & The Nostagia Trip Award
Timeless by hamstar138
Wake Me Up by Avicii ft Aloe Blacc to Various

Audiences' 1st Place & Judges’ 3rd Place & The "Unicorns make it more awesome!" Award
One Horn Man by King Redeem
Unicorn Wizard by Ninja Sex Party to One Punch Man + Various

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FINALISTS
Here is a list of the Finalists. in alphabetical order.
Only the credit names appear and I'll send out a separate e-mail to all those that entered with the video title so they know which one made it in.
Thanks to everyone this year, it was especially hard for the judges I was told.
All accepted non-finalists will be shown in the AMV room on Sunday.

[key]Scarlet
AmethystRarity
AngelMaeVictory
Anime Mashup
Cirera
drewaconclusion
Gina Nelson
hamstar138
HanZh
Ileia
James Blond
KeiichiFace (Tsunderbird Studios)
King Redeem
Kyci
Maboroshi Studio
MadMegatax (2x)
MrNosec
MrShmucker
MycathatesyouAMV
ngsilver (Chaotic Bad-Raptor)
SliceofLife
PaNTSU of d00m (2X)
Pysh
Rider4Z (2x)
Rybicka
ShadowCore89 AMVs
Shin
shorisquared
SOGESNAKE
Toon Addict Productions
UnluckyArtist
xDieguitoAMV

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Back again for this year is Otafest's 2017 AMV Contest. Every year we get some great Submissions and we look forward to this year's ones.

This year Otafest is back in Calgary's Convention Center on June 30 to July 2, 2017.

Rules and submission forms can be found HERE
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Saturday, May 6, 2017

Quick Rules Summary:
• AMVs: Must be longer than 74 sec., shorter than 6 min.
Trailers, Commercials or Intros: Must be longer than 29 sec., shorter than 3.5 min.
• No more than 2 entries per person/group.
• No subtitles, watermarks, logos, text, or credits.
• Must not have premiered before November 1, 2016.
• The majority of your entry’s video content must consist of anime-styled or manga-styled content.
• Audio for all AMV entries (except Trailer/Commercial/Intro) must be majority music. No excessive dialogue.
• Must be age 14+ appropriate.
• AMV-Hell style entries will not be accepted.
• Must satisfy our technical requirements.

THIS Contest has no categories and awards are as follows:

Special Awards
• Up to a total of 8 special awards (with "special" titles) will be given out.

Judges’ Top Awards
• 1st Place (Best in Show), 2nd Place, and 3rd Place

Audience Favorite Awards
• 1st Place, 2nd Place, and 3rd Place

Vlad G Pohnert
Otafest 2017 AMV Coordinator

[ranmaman]

well hopefully i'll have something newer for a second entry, if can get the right idea in motion

[ShadowCore89]

Just made my submission, I missed out last year but I'm super excited for this year!

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Just over a month left before the deadline.. Keep them coming!

Vlad

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Just under two weeks to go, keep them coming!

Vlad

[MadMegatax]

As a heads up, when I tried to look at the contest rules I could only see a huge chunk of unreadable text. Is there something wrong with the PDF?

And I was just wondering, what do you mean by "anime-styled or manga-styled content"?

[Vlad G Pohnert]

As a heads up, when I tried to look at the contest rules I could only see a huge chunk of unreadable text. Is there something wrong with the PDF?

And I was just wondering, what do you mean by "anime-styled or manga-styled content"?

Hmmm.. I see it fine.. let me know if you still have issues and I can send you the PDF version...

As for "anime-styled or manga-styled content", that we will accept footage that is based on Anime based animation even if not from Japan (this includes things like RUBY, etc. i.e. footage that fits the spirit of typical anime)

Vlad

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Just over 1 week to go!

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Only now two days to go before the deadline (Sat 11:59 MST)... Last chance to get those AMV gems in!

Vlad

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Thanks to everyone who entered... Record year again for entries, and a lot of great stuff!

Vlad