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Contest description

This year we present you the contest of anonymity. It is important that your video does not contain anything that identifies you as an author. Your submitted entry will be anonymized throughout the contest, then authorship will be given at the end of contest.

Contest schedule

AMV News: Anon Con 2022 shall be held from November 1st till December 31st, 2022. Contest videos can be submitted starting from November 15th. Publication of videos starts when enough entries are submitted to release continuously 1-2 videos per day.

Video Requirements

Videos can be made of animation of any kind, video-games, manga or arts. Other footage can be used if it takes no more than 50% of the video. The length of contest video may not be less than 60 seconds (without credits). You can send up to 2 videos for the contest. The contest title (AMV News: Anon Con 2022) and the site address amvnews.ru must be mentioned in the video, how exactly to mention is to participant's choice. A line in credits should be enough.

Rules of premiere screening

1) The contest video should not be shown at any other websites (including YouTube and Vkontakte) until the end of contest at AMVNews.ru. In case the video is found in free access somewhere in the internet before the end of contest, it will be banned from participation and published on the site as a regular non-contest video.
2) Right after the end of Anon Con 2022, contest video can be uploaded to other video hosting services and sites, with obligatory link to this video page at AMVNews.ru.

A video won’t be accepted, if:

1) It does not correspond to its category
2) It contains unknown music/video source or plagiarism
3) There are significant compression artifacts
2) Footage is of poor quality
3) TV resolution of full version is far too low (320х240 or 352х288)
4) There are hard subtitles and/or logos not justified by artistic intent.
5) Broken aspect ratio or interlace is visible in most parts of the video.
6) There are violations of Russian Federation legislation.

Voting and judges

There will be two round of voting. All participants can take part in the voting (it is forbidden to vote for your own video) + invited judges from among well-known creators and active commentators.

Video format/encoding:

It is recommended to encode with AMVSimpleGUI or MeGUI, see the following articles:

http://amvnews.ru/index.php?go=Pages&in=view&id=34
http://amvnews.ru/index.php?go=Pages&in=view&id=7

- Full version is to be compressed at the rate of no more than 25 MB per minute of the video, no more than 50 MB per minute in case of HD-version. If the limit is exceeded, we shall re-encode your video to meet these requirements.

Prize fund:

1st place: 3000 rubles + statuette
2nd place: 2000 rubles + statuette
3rd place: 1000 rubles + statuette

Secondary nominations:

Secondary nominations will be announced when there are more than 30 videos that passed tech check.

How to enter your video:

1) Videos can be submitted from November 15th till December 31st, 2022.
2) Fill in the application form located here: http://amvnews.ru/index.php?go=Files&file=add
3) Choose "Anon Con 2022" as one of the categories. Make sure there was the website message "Thank you, your video has been added successfully" after the upload. Here you can see whether your video was added to the list for moderator check. Then you’ll either wait to see the video on site or you’ll get a private message from administrator requesting to correct the deficiencies found during the check. If any questions arise, contact the administrator the private message.

Registration of judges

1) You can sign up as a judge via special application form on site.
2) Entry application for a judge can be submitted up to the beginning of the vote.
3) A user can only be accepted as a judge either if he/she comments actively and in detail on contest videos or if he/she has authority within AMV community (on condition that he/she will watch the required amount of videos).
4) Any judge can be disqualified before the vote begins without giving reasons

Nota Bene

Contest organizers reserve the right to change the contest date, as well as to change/add some details owing to unforeseen circumstances.

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