Was it a nice evening? Sounded like a pretty sweet time, just watchin AMV's and bbq, good stuff (Though I don't envy your positions on having to weed them out, heh).
The siege is over. For whatever reason, more than half the judges 'shined' on us. But I had invited a surfeit of alternates, and so a determined skeleton crew worked through the night. By 2AM they had trimmed 52 entries (I had counted wrong above) down to a 100 minute show. I needed a 1 hour minimum and 90 minutes max, so they crashed (stayed over,) and started up at 9am today (I cooked then a modest breakfast) and they mercilessly set to it again. All done before noon.
Many of the entries that they cut are still very good works, and I will move those into the after-contest show and the late show.**
The judges' result is the following, 86-minute show of 29 entries:
Drama I (dark/serious): [4]
Japanese Music: [6]
Drama II (upbeat/romance) [6]
Trailers (Serious) [4]
Comedy/Fun [3]
Action/Effects [6]
You are correct - they made some DIFFICULT cuts. They also shifted a few AMVs into new categories, (such as moving some FUNNY trailers into Comedy/Fun) and like last year I believe they did a great job in presenting all finalist entries in their best light. I believe that this is going to be the best Kumoricon AMV show yet. And I want to keep growing it from here forward. Thank you everyone, for your support. Thank all you AMV makers out there - you did a spectacular job.
The judges also selected their Judges' Choice. [1]
A couple of REAL SUBTLE bits of visual trickery in that one!
PS - I will show a number of worthy runner-ups in the AMV show following the contest. I will also show some more 'mature' AMVs during a late evening slot as well. If time permits, and the punchy, 130am crowd is interested, we might show the rest of the entries too.
PPS: The finalists hail from [7] states and [6] foreign countries as well. Also, [5] finalist AMVs are from Oregon and [2] are from Washington State.
