AFO3 AMV Contest Results

Legionair · Post by **Legionair** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 7:00 pm

Hello all,

I just stumbled home and it's been a long weekend, but I wanted
to make sure I posted the AMV Contest results as soon as possible.

First of all, I want to thank everyone who participated, everyone
who watched the contest, and everyone who took the time to vote.

I will be posting a more detailed con report (since there was
so many different AMV related things going on). But right now,
I just want to finally get some sleep. Between running the 24
hour AMV Room, organizing the party, setting up the contest,
running two different AMV Panels (and helping to run one Robotech
panel), counting the contest ballots, etc. etc. Well, to put
it simply, I'm totally drained, mentally and physically.

I will also be contacting all of the winners who needed t-shirt
size changes or had to leave early. Just give me a couple of
days to do that.

I also want to send a thanks out to Jared, Ken, and Tom who helped
judge the contest with me. Each judge presented one award and
we had an audience vote for each category.

On Saturday, we screened the contest, the playlist going like
this:

Opening: AFO3 Fan Service Video

DRAMA CATEGORY
1. e vol ve, Boys Be…, Skyland by Solar Signs
2. Dorothy, The Big O, When I Grow Up by Garbage
3. Harvest of Thorns, Rurouni Kenshin OAV, Killing Me Killing
You by Sentenced
4. Something for Someone, Outlaw Star, Trough The Night by Arimachi
Masahiko
5. Iris, Vision of Escaflowne, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
6. Shinobu in the Middle, Love Hina, The Middle by Jimmy Eat
World
7. heroes, The Cockpit, Broken Heroes by Saxon
8. Everything You Want, Yami no Matsuei, Everything you Want
by Vertical Horizon
9. Kenshin's Dilemma, Rurouni Kenshin, Children by Robert Miles
10. A Tribute to Ryoko, Tenchi Universe, He Doesn't See Me by
Sarah Brightman

ACTION CATEGORY
1. Youth of the Nation, Gundam Wing, Youth of the Nation by P.O.D.
2. A Shot in the Dark, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, The Vampire
Strikes Back by Die Krupps
3. Street Fighter Alpha, The Hulk Trailer
4. Chivalry, The Big O, How Many People Want to Kick Some @$$?
by Stroke 9
5. The Soul's Nightmare, Soultaker, Down and Out by KMFDM
6. FLCL, Chop Suey by System of a Down
7. Ordinary World, Final Fantasy X, Ordinary World by Aurora
8. Open Wide, Blood: The Last Vampire, Mouth by Bush
9. Armitage, Matrix Reloaded Trailer

COMEDY CATEGORY
1. Samurai Pizza Club, Magic Users Club, Samurai Pizza Cats Theme
2. Session#00 – Behind the Bebop, Cowboy Bebop, Rush, by The
Seatbelts
3. C'Ya Later Space Cowboy, Cowboy Bebop & Outlaw Star, Space
Cowboy by N*Sync
4. Bitch Hina, Love Hina, Bitch by Meredith Brooks
5. Behind the Pirate: Captain Hampton, One Piece, Captain Hampton
and the Midget Pirates! by The Aquabats
6. Rinoa's Got Issues, Final Fantasy VIII, She's Got Issues,
by The Offspring
7. Kane wo Kase, Cowboy Bebop, Kane wo Kase by Ben Folds Five

And on Sunday we announced the winners by playing them:

"Your Video Smoked Cloves" Award
- A Shot in the Dark, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, The Vampire
Strikes Back by Die Krupps

"The Wandering Gaijin" Award
- Kenshin's Dilemma, Rurouni Kenshin, Children by Robert Miles

"More Snack For the Buck" Award
- Kane wo Kase, Cowboy Bebop, Kane wo Kase by Ben Folds Five

"Hot Like Wasabi" Award
- Shinobu in the Middle, Love Hina, The Middle by Jimmy Eat
World

Audience Choice: Drama
- Iris, Vision of Escaflowne, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls

Audience Choice: Action
- FLCL, Chop Suey by System of a Down

Audience Choice: Comedy
- Behind the Pirate: Captain Hampton, One Piece, Captain Hampton
and the Midget Pirates! by The Aquabats

And there you have it. As I said earlier in this email, a more
details report will be coming. But it's going to take a few
days for me to recover first.

Thanks,
Jason

Marlex · Post by **Marlex** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:00 pm

Legionair, let me thank you for a great contest.
It started on time (first time I've seen that).
I liked how the videos were seperated into categories.
I'm not the biggest fan of audience votes, but you ran it very well, with bumpers at the beginning and end of each video and the recap at the end.

On a side note, this was the first time any of my vids won an award, and that was cool. Thanks to the judge who voted for my video.

slimepaul · Post by **slimepaul** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:04 pm

The contest was very good. Of course, it was my first one so I am not the the best judge of these things. It was good except for the screaming girls. In the back we were thinking about screaming for something non-sailormoon or gundam related.

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:18 pm

Your Video Smoked Cloves" Award

"The Wandering Gaijin" Award

"More Snack For the Buck" Award

"Hot Like Wasabi" Award

Well, I could always make assumptions, but what exactly was the criteria for these particular catagories? Just curious

slimepaul · Post by **slimepaul** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:19 pm

I was just about to ask that myself. I wasn't there when they anounced the winners.

Marlex · Post by **Marlex** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:05 pm

slimepaul wrote:I was just about to ask that myself. I wasn't there when they anounced the winners.

According to what they said, aside from the audience voting, each of the four judges chose one video to give an award to, and they made up the names.

tetsuo93108 · Post by **tetsuo93108** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 12:57 am

it was a great little con and i hope to come back nest year

oh and also .....YAY me i won FLCL athough my second vid and pretty old but i am very happy.

Legionair · Post by **Legionair** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 4:28 am

The "Your Video Smoked Cloves" award was presented by Jared Silva.

The "Wandering Gaijin" award was presented by Jason Galterio (myself).

The "More Snack for the Buck" award was presented by Ken Nabbe.

The "Hot Like Wasabi" award was presented by Tom Croom.

These were judge's awards, so the criteria was pretty much whatever each judge thought the best video in the contest was. We decided to do it this way instead of having the "Best Editing" or "Best Concept" awards that were given out in year's passed.

When each judge presented their award, they did explain why they picked their video, but I can't remember the reasons at the moment. And I don't want to put words in their mouths either.

I know I picked the Kenshin video because it was a very well done video, for a long form presentation. It also narrowly missed winning the drama category (we're talking less than 8 votes difference).

Jason

slimepaul · Post by **slimepaul** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 8:01 pm

I thought the first Kenshin one was better.

Legionair · Post by **Legionair** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 8:40 pm

A feedback form has been set up at: http://www.afo-con.org/feedback.htm

I look forward to seeing your comments about the contest, the AMV room, and anything else.

Thanks,
Jason