Otakon: Rules and Submission Form

TheSmokingMan · Post by **TheSmokingMan** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:00 pm

Ughh... That's going to be a crunch. I'm a senior in college and have no time to work on a video until after I graduate in mid May. Even an extra week would be extremely helpful.

tuathaanwarrior · Post by **tuathaanwarrior** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:50 pm

This does seem rather soon, but i have the good fortune of bein a senior in high school so that it doesnt really matter for me.

Anyway this is my first con and im still kind of noobish about technical things, so after reading the rules, i was a bit confused about the format. If I follow the section about conventions in EADFAG, will this be okay for otakon?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:15 pm

tuathaanwarrior wrote:If I follow the section about conventions in EADFAG, will this be okay for otakon?

Am I missing something? As far as I can see, that section still isn't up.

tuathaanwarrior · Post by **tuathaanwarrior** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:25 pm

Scintilla wrote:
tuathaanwarrior wrote:If I follow the section about conventions in EADFAG, will this be okay for otakon?
Am I missing something? As far as I can see, that section still isn't up.

Oh shit... I guess if I followed it Id be marginally magical...

Cybermat · Post by **Cybermat** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:33 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:3 months prior to the Con for the deadline... That's going to be tight for me to get things done... Why 12 weeks?

The AMV deadline was always around 12 weeks before Otakon... I think back in 2003 it was even 14 weeks before the convention.

The reasons why are that cataloging & timing around 200 AMVs takes time, making slates & mastering up half a dozen prescreening tapes takes time, selecting the finalists takes time, printing the ballots takes time, and mastering the contest tape takes time. And this year there's not going to be Otaku Video there to lean on for the heavy lifting.

Honestly, it's a big pile of work to do in twelve weeks without screwing it up royally, or burning yourself out in the process, or slacking off at the day job.

I agree though, that it would be more helpful if the rules could be posted before Christmas (rather than in February) but that just never seems to happen.

Cybermat · Post by **Cybermat** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:53 pm

Illia Sadri wrote:Um is there a possibility of having the forms and guidlines posted on the site directly anytime soon?

Looks like they're up there now at http://www.otakon.com/events_amv.asp

Woo hoo!