Sakura Con...a bust...

Zerophite · Post by **Zerophite** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:56 pm

The AMV contest was disappointing, the con was very uptight, programming was really bad.

I'll post a field report tonight or tomorrow...I just left the con very disappointed in how it was ran.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:05 pm

Hmmm...Too bad.. So what made the AMV contest so disappointing... What it the entries or something else?

Vlad

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:28 pm

How sad... after I heard last year's Sakura con went really well.

I didn't have anything to enter this year.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:58 pm

A friend of mine who attends Sakura con never really enjoyed it, he says it was too small. It's sad that it has gone down hill though either way. I am not really sure what to say since I haven't attended Sakura con myself but from what I've heard it wasn't much to begin with.

Zerophite · Post by **Zerophite** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:02 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Hmmm...Too bad.. So what made the AMV contest so disappointing... What it the entries or something else?

Vlad

Well, the AMV contest was ticketed, which isn't a bad thing, I actually liked that better, so I didn't have to stand in line for an hour and a half before to get a good seat.

I don't know how Chris Arneson did this, but apparently the videos were ran through a panel of judges in order to be in the contest. Maybe it's me, but every video was the same. There were no videos that really stood out in action, in Drama, there were two, yours and Nicole's. But, both were beaten out by a Linkin Park "Crawling" to Escaflowne video...which, no offense to the creator, really pissed me off. Anyway, that's a different topic entirely.

When you went into the contest room, you were seated, and on the seat was a tiny, 3x4 inch piece of paper that had four categories on it (which were Action, Drama, Comedy, Orginal Animation). So I sat next to Furry Curry, NME, and Wuwu (now known as "That kind of Asian Guy). We all wondered how we were suppose to actually vote, since we weren't supplied a pen or pencil.

Supposidly it started out with Action, and some of those action videos should have been in Drama, unless action means "violence violence violence!!". There were no breaks between categories, so we all had no idea what was going on besides the fact that we were watching AMVs. In the end, he did a 10 second recap of each video, with a number which explained the balot.

There were technical difficulties, which can be expected, and didn't bother me. What bothered me was the quality of the sound and video. Being that only VHS and DVD-R were accepted, and not everyone has the money to spend on a DVD burner, the quality of the video was shot from a 10 to a 4 instantly, and the sound seemed as if it were ran through a cardboard tube (which PA was selling in the dealer room for 3 bucks *L*).

The opening intro was Mission Improbable with the bumper and credits cut out. NME told me that wasn't even submitted or allowed. I don't know how to go about that, but he seemed really pissed off because Chris went and edited it without permission.

Zerophite · Post by **Zerophite** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:09 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:A friend of mine who attends Sakura con never really enjoyed it, he says it was too small. It's sad that it has gone down hill though either way. I am not really sure what to say since I haven't attended Sakura con myself but from what I've heard it wasn't much to begin with.

SC has been great for the past 2 years I've attended. This year the staff was rude, everyone was uptight. The rules were extremely binding for being in the hall or just walking around. The Vice Chairmen seemed to be like the evil overlord wandering around, watching everyone. Everyone was just plain stuck up. The only thing I enjoyed was meeting up with friends and AMV buddies, buying stuff, and a couple of other things.

As for the AMV social...well...that's a funny story.

Furry Curry, NME, Wuwu, BigShotSpike and I were waiting for Columbia B to open up. We expected to see Chris in there (becuase he was the leader of what should have been going on in there, so said the schedulers upfront, and the schedule itself), but he never showed up...So FC and I took our laptops upfront, and formed a quasi panel

that was memorable...

....stupid Knives video...I hate all 4 of you

You choose Sam,the rest · Post by **You choose Sam,the rest** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:25 pm

1 - I have a new name. Its "kinda asian looking guy"

2 - Coplayers are cool to talk too.

3 - Zero has a cool knifes video. EVERYONE MUST GET IT SOMEHOW!

4 - Zero also looks like Edward Nortan.

Hakura · Post by **Hakura** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:51 pm

I've been hearing about how bad it was all night, makes me glad I didn't go ^^

Oh well there is Anime North next month, and I have never been let down before

Summanaro · Post by **Summanaro** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 12:04 am

I missed teh amv, but saw the cosplay contest, it would've been good if they would've had proper seating and proper lighting.. not to mention all them technical difficulties.. but it was all fun none of the less..

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 12:17 am

Wondering if my Blue Gender/"The Defense" video made the cut... I'd sure hate to be beat out by a "Crawling" AMV, though.