Matsuricon 2023 V.E.S. AMV Contest - Winners Announced; Contest Set List and Rules are Archived

[ahinton]

The Matsuricon 2023 V.E.S. AMV Contest is officially in the books. Here's our winners from this past contest:

Best of Trailer/Commercial
Typhoon - A Trigun / DUNE Trailer by silvercoat; Trigun Stampede; DUNE Official Trailer

Second Place:
Sorcerers 0 by Enitz; Jujutsu Kaisen; Avengers Infinity War Trailer Audio

Best of Action:
EVOLUTIONS by Elixir of CrowsAMV Team; Pokémon; Blackout by Zebrahead

Second Place:
Pray by SliceofLife; Castlevania; Pray by ILLENIUM feat. Kameron Alexander

Best of Drama:
Follow Me by Silent Hero; Wolfwalkers; Wolves Without Teeth by Of Monsters and Men

Second Place:
_l0st clarity by Gomibako Team; Various; For A Moment by Omri

Best of Upbeat/Dance:
Uma Gait by Nashironeko; Uma Musume; Ready To Go by Louis II

Second Place:
Welcome to the DCC by Takuroo! w/ Kuroo; Various; Welcome to the DCC by Nothing but Thieves

Best of Romance:
Radiant by CrowsAMVTeam; Weathering With You, Honkai Impact, & My Dress Up Darling; Everything Goes On by Porter Robinson

Second Place:
A Goldfish Wouldn't Love You Twice by DopplerDo; Re:zero - Starting Life in Another World; Jumpstarted by Jukebox the Ghost

Best of Comedy:
The Neckst Episode by Sayoria; Welcome To The Ballroom; Break Ya Neck (Clean) by Busta Rhymes

Second Place:
True Facts by Kireblue; Various; True Facts by Dan Bull

Audience Choice:
The S.O.S. by AllyKatAVR; Belle; Can You Hear Me by Unsecret ft Young Summer

Runner Up:
Rider's Joy by SilkAMV; Various; Blooming by BAND-MAID

Runner Up for Best of Show:
Follow Me by Silent Hero; Wolfwalkers; Wolves Without Teeth by Of Monsters and Men

Winner of Best of Show:
Life is An Existential Crisis for Overthinkers by Pablo Shoe; Various; Overthinker by INZO, Life is an Existential Crisis by ...&more...

Congratulations to all our winners. I'll be reaching out via email to let you know the next steps so that you can get your awards. I'll post in this same thread once we have all the playlists up on the YouTube channel. Once again, thank you to all the editors that submitted to this year's contest. If anyone wants to reach out to me to provide any feedback, please do so at amv@matsuricon.org or you can DM me in the forums.

For transparency purposes, I'm leaving up the following information for the entire animemusicvideos.org forums:

Matsuricon 2023 VES AMV Contest Set List:

Trailer/Commercial

• Dungeons & Dimwits by The_McLaughlin

• Sorcerers 0 by Enitz

• Southern Fried Telenovela by drewaconclusion

• Ultimate High School Jury Duty by SpuddStaaa

• Typhoon - A Trigun / DUNE Trailer by silvercoat

• Wings Out by Gestalt

Action

• Battle of the Sexes by Lelani

• Dancing with Blades by Speedy180 & Neko Kitkat

• EVOLUTIONS by Elixir of CrowsAMV Team

• Pack A Punch by Nashironeko

• Pray by SliceofLife

• Rider's Joy by SilkAMV

Drama

• Follow Me by Silent Hero

• Life is An Existential Crisis for Overthinkers by Pablo Shoe

• Love is not a Victory March by DopplerDo

• Sad Trombone Noises by Troubleclef and SeanPNG

• The S.O.S. by AllyKatAVR

• Waving Through by Opner

• _l0st clarity by Gomibako Team

Upbeat/Dance

• An Eggcellent Adventure by silvercoat

• Food P*rn by Speedy180

• I Went to the Aquarium and All I Got Was This Beautiful Girlfriend by Troubleclef

• Uma Gait by Nashironeko

• Welcome to the DCC by Takuroo! w/ Kuroo

Romance

• A Goldfish Wouldn't Love You Twice by DopplerDo

• Marjorie by xValeChii

• Radiant by CrowsAMVTeam

• Unmiss You by xValeChii & Eimi

Comedy

• The Neckst Episode by Sayoria

• True Facts by Kireblue

2023 Contest Rules:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10df ... sp=sharing

[ahinton]

Something else I'd like to add. We're trying out a different method for screening submitted videos. As such it'll be a week or two before I can respond letting any submittees know if the video passed the screening test or not. If of course you have any questions or concerns beyond that, you know where to reach me.

[Zeonic Freak]

Put in two videos.

[ahinton]

Put in two videos.

Thank you sir

[ahinton]

Got a promo video for everyone. Thank you to DistantMelodies and xElle for editing it.

[SilkAMV]

Got a promo video for everyone. Thank you to DistantMelodies and xElle for editing it.

Damn, that was nice. Makes me want to submit (again).

[ahinton]

Damn, that was nice. Makes me want to submit (again).

I would say thank you, but I wasn't involved with the promo video. DistantMelodies and xElle, who are two-fifths of our judging panel, created this for us.

I left the full link below if anyone would like to leave a comment or hit the like button.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnDAUVJXY0M&t=2s

[ahinton]

I just wanted to update that we have a month before we close registration. If you have a video, you'd like to submit we're welcoming all categories. Though I'd like to encourage any Comedy and Trailer videos as well.

Finally, for those that have submitted but have not been informed as to your status, I promise I'll get your response as soon as possible. And don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

[animefan1]

Submitted 2 videos.

[ahinton]

Submitted 2 videos.

Thank you very much.