MomoCon 2015 AMV Contest: Winners + Contest Stream Upload

[Rider4Z]

Threw a bunch at you

[PhoenixFeather]

Are manga music videos allowed? If so, which contest should we submit them to? Thanks!

[PhoenixFeather]

Sent some in!

[Kireblue]

It took almost 15 straight hours of confirming entries and then another hour and a half trying to find a starbucks with a decent enough wifi speed to finish all the senspace downloads once I hit the daily limit....but I'm finally done! Everyone that submitted to the contest should have received a confirmation e-mail by now. If you haven't, check your spam folder. If you still don't see a e-mail from MomoCon AMVs, feel free to message me.

Between the 2 contests, we received a total of 205 accepted entries from 115 different editors. 177 of them were accepted into the AMV contest, and 28 to the V-Mix Competition. I seriously have no idea what's making finals at this point. There are just so many amazing videos that were submitted to the contest, and there's simply not enough spots for all of them. And so on that note, every single video that doesn't make finals in the AMV contest will be moved to the V-Mix Competition and be eligible to win awards that will determined by the judges before the convention. Finalists for the AMV contest will be announced on Sunday, and I'm also happy to announce that the AMV contest will be Live Streamed along with many other MomoCon events on MomoCon's official Twitch channel

I'll also leave with you a pic of what our Director's Choice Award looks like this year. Every video accepted into the contest is eligible to win this (whether or not it makes finals). And for those of you that were at the con last year, its even bigger this time! This award and its winner is specially picked by the Co-Chair/ Founder of MomoCon “Jessica Merriman”, and she insists that it always be the most unnecessarily large and obnoxious award that she can find . And for the 2nd year in a row, she has picked out a trophy that's almost as tall as she is.....because YOLO!. But don't worry, we'll ship out this award to whoever wins it. I doubt that most people could fit it in their luggage or on a plane

[Rider4Z]

oy

[Kireblue]

Hello Everyone! It took our staff 22 hours (spread over 2 days) of watching videos and arguing over them, but the judging is now finally over, and the finalists have been selected! So I would like to thank you all for your interest and participation in MomoCon's 2015 AMV Contest. Between our AMV Contest and V-Mix Competition, We received 211 accepted entries from 118 different editors from all across the world. This was by far the most debated contest viewing that we have ever had, and so it was painfully hard to narrow our list down to just 30. But without further adieu, MomoCon proudly presents the AMVs that were selected to be finalists.

Trailer/ Parody Finalists
“Attack on Badassdom” by Maboroshi Studio
“Immortal Chimera” by l33tmeatwad
“Shafted” by Shin
“Shinsekai Yori” by BBSNYPUR
“The Little Prince Returns” by hamstar138

Action Finalists
“Boundless” by Straw Buggy
“Last Call” by Rider4Z
“Mahjong Banquet” by Magicflier
“THROWBACK” by BecauseImBored1
“Vintage Misery” by Shin

Drama/ Serious Finalists
“Aria of Perseverance” by Xophilarus
“Derelict” by irriadin
“Re-Written” by alchemymini
“Révolutionnaire” by Amaterasu
“You're All I Need” by ReggieSmalls

Romance/ Sentimental Finalists
“Awake to the Sky” by Rider4Z
“Lift Your Spirits” by LullabyLockdown
“Symphonia Cantabile” by Obsidian Zero
“Take a Leap” by MomtoCutiePia
“Tone Deaf” by JazzsVids

Fun/ Upbeat Finalists
“III Shades of Magic” by Warlike Cygnet
“Captain DandEo” by "LC"_Lapen
“Notice Me!” by Zazzle
“The Fangirl Chronicle” by Celia Phantomhive
“Young Forever” by Phlashbak

Comedy Finalists
“Re-Repeat Stuff” by DnubsPro
“A World Somebody Else Only Knows” by Nicolio1313
“Chi & The Not So Company” by MycathatesyouAMV
“Contest Trolling 101” by Mr. Pilkington
“Pay-Off!” by JazzsVids

All Finalists will receive a free 4 day pass to MomoCon 2015. If your video made finals, your name will be added to the comped badge list, and you will be able to pick it up from the "Will Call" desk (located next to the registration desk) during the convention. Entrants that attend MomoCon this year will also have the opportunity to vote on the winner of the "Editors' Choice" Award that will be given out at the end of the AMV Contest. Also, all the non-finalist videos that were accepted into the contest were moved to the V-Mix Competition and became eligible to win awards that have already been determined by our judges.

And lastly, for those of you unable to attend MomoCon, we encourage you to watch the LIVE stream of the contest on our official twitch channel. The contest will take place on Saturday, May 30th at 2:00pm EST, and streamed here: http://www.twitch.tv/momocontv3 . The Pre-Show will begin at 1:30pm and the winners will also be announced simultaneously through our twitter account https://twitter.com/MomoConAMVs

More info about MomoCon can be found here: http://www.momocon.com/

*I would also like to note how difficult it was for us to decide on the Finalists on Fun/ Upbeat. It took us about 2 hours to watch the videos in that category, and then it took us an additional hour and a half of arguing back and forth to decide the finalists for JUST that category. That was by far the strongest category in the contest, and caused the most intense debate that my staff has ever had. So for those of you that made the Fun/ Upbeat finals, or had your video moved from Fun/ Upbeat to a different category, just know that your video survived a absolute bloodbath LOL

*Also, I was very pleased with the number of entries that we received that matched our 2015 theme of Superheroes. Although we didn't even request people to send superhero videos, between the AMV contest and the V-Mix Competition, we received so many of them that we decided to make a "MomoCon 2015 Theme" Award. I would like to continue giving out this award in the future, and so I will make sure to tell you all the detail of our 2016 theme once it gets confirmed and officially announced

[Trenzilla]

Oh man. I didn't make it to the finals of this contest and the Otafest contest. Disappointment hurts lol. Congrats to all the Finalists and good luck guys.

[MaboroshiStudio]

will be getting our hotel res hopefully tonight! Congrats to the other finalists and I can't wait to see Contest Trolling on the big screen!

[Dragonrider1227]

Dang, another rejection.

BTW, on a lighter note I really like the idea of the live stream. I can't go to the con but I hear I should tune into the live stream so I'm totally gonna be there

[Gene Starwind 21122]

Oh man. I didn't make it to the finals of this contest and the Otafest contest. Disappointment hurts lol. Congrats to all the Finalists and good luck guys.

I feel your pain, it's the same here with me + Anime Next as well. sigh...

However it looks like a good line up of entries.

Good luck to all the finalist.

Gene