MomoCon 2015 AMV Contest: Winners + Contest Stream Upload

[Tigrin]

Congrats to the finalists!

So, what's the deal with the V-Mix competition? Are you just showing the winners of awards at the con? Are those going to be announced the day of?

[BasharOfTheAges]

Was so confused by the "arguing over finalists" statement. Didn't realize there were prescreenings done by jury rather than blind scoring. Interesting.

[Kireblue]

Congrats to the finalists!

So, what's the deal with the V-Mix competition? Are you just showing the winners of awards at the con? Are those going to be announced the day of?

Me and my staff have already decided on winners for specific awards that will be announced during the V-Mix Awards ceremony that will take place a few hours after the AMV contest. During that time slot, we will play all the winners in the AMV room (that seats a total of 381 people btw ), and give out the awards to the winners that are present.

Was so confused by the "arguing over finalists" statement. Didn't realize there were prescreenings done by jury rather than blind scoring. Interesting.

Yep We don't do a ranking system or a tally of votes. After we watch the videos in each category, we have a discussion about what were the best videos, and we all make a collective decision about what makes finals. This causes our judging party to be really long. And for the very first time, we were unable to judge all the videos in a single day. We spent 11 hours judging them on Saturday and another 11 hours on Sunday. The combined running length for all the videos that we watched is about 12 hours (not including the ones we replayed a few times), and so that means we spent about 10 hours just talking and mostly arguing among ourselves about which videos should make finals. Me and the convention director were damn near ready to fight over some of the vids

[BasharOfTheAges]

Was so confused by the "arguing over finalists" statement. Didn't realize there were prescreenings done by jury rather than blind scoring. Interesting.

... Me and the convention director were damn near ready to fight over some of the vids

Yea, that tends to be the problem. Open debate juries can lead to all sorts of fun things when you have aggressive and passive folks together in a group, like coercion bias, echo chambers, deal making, etc. Ultimately, some people have more of a say than others.

[Kireblue]

Was so confused by the "arguing over finalists" statement. Didn't realize there were prescreenings done by jury rather than blind scoring. Interesting.

... Me and the convention director were damn near ready to fight over some of the vids

Yea, that tends to be the problem. Open debate juries can lead to all sorts of fun things when you have aggressive and passive folks together in a group, like coercion bias, echo chambers, deal making, etc. Ultimately, some people have more of a say than others.

Nah. It wasn't a problem. I was being a little facetious. I actually enjoy this type of judging and prefer it over anything else. Everyone in our group was allowed to express their opinion and fight for the vids that they felt strongly about. All of us are actually friends . We have known and worked with each other for years, and are more than comfortable with voicing disagreements. And if someone failed to voice their opinion about a video, we directly asked them.

[Dragonrider1227]

Me and the convention director were damn near ready to fight over some of the vids

That had to have been a show XD

[Rider4Z]

I recommend using a "talking stick" for heated debates like this

[shorisquared]

I recommend using a "talking stick" for heated debates like this

Yeah! Just beat each other over the head with the stick for the back "talking", haha.

[Dragonrider1227]

I recommend using a "talking stick" for heated debates like this

Nah, everyone knows there's only one way to settle any dispute;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0bClUp9I6w
XD

[Mr Pilkington]

Was so confused by the "arguing over finalists" statement. Didn't realize there were prescreenings done by jury rather than blind scoring. Interesting.

... Me and the convention director were damn near ready to fight over some of the vids

Yea, that tends to be the problem. Open debate juries can lead to all sorts of fun things when you have aggressive and passive folks together in a group, like coercion bias, echo chambers, deal making, etc. Ultimately, some people have more of a say than others.

Nah. It wasn't a problem. I was being a little facetious. I actually enjoy this type of judging and prefer it over anything else. Everyone in our group was allowed to express their opinion and fight for the vids that they felt strongly about. All of us are actually friends . We have known and worked with each other for years, and are more than comfortable with voicing disagreements. And if someone failed to voice their opinion about a video, we directly asked them.

I don't go to Momo voting because I like to enter and frankly that would be a conflict of interests. That said I've been around this crew for years and other events of this sort. The Momo format is not dissimilar to most other judgings I have attended and I will attest it's the most "fun" (if that's an appropriate term.) Doing the vote in that kind of less formal setting allows for a lot of open discussion and tends to result in some great decisions. And trust me, no one in that group is soft spoke about their opinions.... for better or worse.