Delta H Con 2025 AMV Contest - Now Accepting Entries - submission deadline 5/30/2025

[Harmadillo]

Hello fellow AMV lovers! I am happy and proud to announce that I have been selected as the Contest Coordinator for the AMV contest at Delta H Con in Houston this year! This contest will take place at the Delta H Con event at the Westchase Marriot on July 18-20th 2025 in Houston Texas.

The submission deadline is 5/30/2025.

There will be 6 pre-defined Categories with 5 finalists per category:
Action
Dance / Upbeat
Drama
Romance / Sentimental
Comedy / Parody
Trailer
Video & Audio Quality.

This will be year 15 for the convention and AMV competition, but it will be the first year I am running the contest, and I am aware that Bento and AnimeMusicVideos.Org exist, and I also will be switching it from a purely panel judged to an audience voted contest!

Rules and info:
https://deltahcon.com/a-m-v-contest/

Submission form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... form?pli=1

Details:

For 2025 Delta H Con AMV contest will adhere primarily to A-M-V.org CONGRSS Rules

Basic Rules & Guidelines

Keep it decent! Delta H Con strives to keep a fun, “Family Friendly” atmosphere, and entries will be disqualified if they do not maintain a certain level of decency (Easy Translation: No Hentai AMVs or songs with a lot of profanity). Videos should not contain excessive violence, language, or content that would either place it above a PG13 rating or is unsuitable for a general audience. This rule will be enforced on a case-by-case and contest-by-contest basis.
Videos should also refrain from having content that is derogatory, demeaning, or designed to insult others on the basis of race, gender, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation.
We reserve the right to disqualify any entry if we feel it is deemed inappropriate. If this happens to you and you feel it was unjust, you may appeal to the Contest Coordinator after the event.
Videos longer than 4 minutes 30 seconds are heavily discouraged. Preferred length is 3 minutes 30 seconds or less. We will have 2 hours for the competition show and 1 hour for the awards show. If videos are longer than the awards show or finals will allow, only a portion may be shown during the AMV Contest Event if at all.
There will be 6 pre-defined Categories with 5 finalists per category:
Action
Dance / Upbeat
Drama
Romance / Sentimental
Comedy / Parody
Trailer
Video & Audio Quality.
Entries should be of reasonable video and audio quality. Videos that have a resolution and frame rate of less than 480p and 23.976fps may be disqualified. All submissions must be made in MP4 AVC format. From Wikipedia: Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is … by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content …

Videos should not contain watermarks, TV logos, studio bumpers, credits, or references to other events/ competitions that are either not directly related to the video content, or unnecessary for the video concept. Videos should also not contain subtitles that were not created by the editor.
Videos should consist of clips edited solely by the entrant(s) or group listed on the entry form. Entries found to have been plagiarized from other Fandom Music Videos may result in disqualification and/or banishment from future events.
In the case of collabs, MEPs, or videos edited by multiple people, each participant or group name must be listed on the submission form. If the submission form doesn’t allow multiple editors to be listed, or if you forgot to include someone, please contact the contest coordinator to have the information added.

Entry Submission:
Registration for the contest will be handled via the google form linked on this page. Entrants will submit their videos in .mp4 format on digital media along with the above form containing the entrant’s name and e-mail, running time, the artist/name of the song(s) used, and the name of the anime(s) used, etc. YouTube or ”streaming only” links will not be accepted.
All entries must be received by the published submission deadline to allow time for the pre-judging and compilation of the finalists.
Entrants can submit multiple videos, but no more than two videos per category, and no more than 5 videos in total.
With the exception of Trailers and Parodies, your audio should be primarily music, and not contain excessive narration or dialog.

Freshness:
Freshness: Videos that have been submitted to Delta H in previous years are not allowed to be submitted.
Any video that was submitted to another contest and won an award more than 16 months prior to July 1 2025 is not eligible for the competition. (For ease of mathing this means before March 1 2024)

Competition:
Finalists will consist of 5 videos per category and will be selected during pre-judging. Finalists will be shown in a random order by category & voted on during the competition showing on Friday by the Delta H Con attendees and staff in attendance. A list of finalists will be posted on Animemusicvideos.org before the convention and as soon as the judges reach consensus.
Fan favorite winner and Runner up will also be selected by live audience vote during the contest.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday.
At their discretion, the judges may elect to bestow their own awards, such as judges choice, best in show, best storytelling etc. These categories are not pre-defined and are a way for the judges to recognize excellence and effort, and possibly recognize videos they may love that do not make the finals.

Prizes:
You are not required to be present for the AMV contest to enter or win.
It is highly recommended that the winners be present, but any winners who are not present will be contacted after the convention via the e-mail address given when they submitted their video.
Arrangements will be made for the winners to receive the associated prize(s) and/or awards. (In most cases the award is simply a certificate and recognition in the community). Awards certificates will be created for Winners, Runners Up, and any judges awards.

[Harmadillo]

Oh - for contact info you can message me on here, you can message me on discord (ID is Derbadger) or you can email: deltahamvs@gmail.com

Discord will be the fastest response by a good bit.

[Harmadillo]

So I will be adding a special award for this contest. It will be presented to the best video to premiere at Delta H. The video can be entered in any category, but it may not have been shown at any other contest prior to Delta H to qualify. The Trophy is going to be pretty big, and custom fabricated by yours truly. I will see if I can get additional awards as well.