I understand this is a young con so I am ok with a few things going wrong here and there.. the Webcast they were advertising as I heard from the guy running the AMV competition could not get launched properly. and thats ok shit happens.
AMV comp falls behind an hour, also shit that just happens. but here is where i think things could have been handled differently. They delivered on the planned tribute to the "oldies" ( Kusoyaro/ Demoss/ Caldwell/ AD/ and i think a few others) in the main room pushing the AMV competition yet another hour behind. (no disrespect to the editors listed above) but The "tribute" could have been moved to the "looped videos Expo room" in order to put things closer to their original track. now because the AMV comp was now 2 hours late they showed only the first half of the judged entries (unfortunately some of the crowd doesn't like to see 2-3 vids to the same anime/ or by the same creator in a row a more diverse selection would have been more appropriate to keep the crowd into it) and then show the other half after the cosplay contest (which ran overtime which pushed the AMV competition out of saturday.. period)
now the only real "complaint" I would have is this:
It's great to have all of your staff on the same page. everyone i spoke with did have a great understanding of the printed schedule but because of typical con delays the printed schedule was no longer the correct information it seemed that nobody knew what was going on since the schedule was pretty much shot. unless 1 of 2 people who actually knew were in arms reach. if something that derails your con schedule happens some sort of re-group meeting should take some place to keep your staff upto date on what the new standard is.
so far there has been no winners posted for AMV and we still have the rest of sunday to find out. Hopefully you guys will be able to regroup tonight and get the rest of the con moving smoothly as the day goes by. so good luck to anyone who is still waiting on the results.
Again I'm writing this to be as constructive and positive about the situation as i can.
