32 contest participants and 9 members of specially selected jury are eligible for voting in the finals. Voting in second round is obligatory for contestants. If a contestant fails to vote in the category where his/her video is nominated, then the total amount of points that this video gets shall be decreased by a maximum number of points possible for this category. It can affect final rating substantially. You must fill in all slots when filling in the voting form. Voting deadline is June 2nd, 15.00 Moscow time (UTC+3)
Finalists of Big Contest 2024
Friday, 31 May 2024
Big Contest 2024 first round voting is over. 27 persons took part in the voting, 29 videos passed to the second round in main nomination. To pass to the finals a video should have gathered no less than 5 votes. Details about second tour voting will be available soon. This year all finalists must vote in second round to avoid penalty points! See below the list of finalists in all nominations, ranged by publication date.
We begin first round voting of AMVNews: Big Contest 2024. 54 videos took part in the contest. 6 contest videos rated lower than 2.74 points were excluded from voting. All 32 contest participants whose AMVs are eligible for the first round can take part in the voting now, as well as 9 jury members. Voting in first round is totally voluntary.
There are 14 contest nominations to vote in. Some of those include all videos, others include only the videos which match the nomination thematically. Finalists in each nomination will be chosen during first round voting. First round voting ends May 31nd, 15-00 Moscow time (UTC+3). Link for voting form can be found in "Authorization" block, right upper corner of the webpage. You can fill in the form, add and change anything as much as you want till the end of voting period. Contest participants and co-authors do not see their own videos in the list and can't vote for them.
We announce that it is now possible to send videos after the deadline before the end of the demonstration phase, but with the following conditions:
1) They will not be eligible for prizes.
2) Will be published with other competition clips on the same day.
Video that have not passed technical check within 3 days after the deadline will also fall under these conditions.
We are glad to announce that we will include new nomination - Best Commentator in Big Contest 2024. Finding the winner uses methodology of Shannon's Entropy, which is commonly used by analysts to measure information content in texts.
We have put a link to the leaderboard of Shannon's methodology on demonstation section.
Here you can see the detailed explanation about this methodology:
Soul's Team welcomes you to the annual Iron Chef contest, the most well-know and expected online Iron Chef of all. Compose a team of three, choose one of the 7 genre categories and make an AMV in 96 hours. The contest starts on February 28th. Check the complete rules below and get ready!
The 2024 Viewer's Choice Awards is announced! For many years it has been the largest online contest of the kind. Аny video released in 2023 is eligiblefor participation, as long as it can be watched online. Videos will be nominated by both audience and jury, and anyone can vote for the nominees.
AMVNews.ru announces the annual spring AMV competition - Big Contest 2024. We welcome creators from all over the world to join us with any kind of AMVs. Remember that contest entries should be exclusive, i.e the contest video can't be released online before the premiere at AMVNews. Participants can register via on-line form, registration is opened till the submission deadline for those who have the site account. Videos can be submitted from February 1st till April 15th, 2024. This year we have rule which allows to use any animation and send 2 individual videos.
Prize fund 1 place – 5000 roubles + statuette
2 place – 4000 roubles + statuette
3 place – 3000 roubles + statuette
4 place – 2000 roubles + statuette
5 place – 1000 roubles + statuette
We have the contest rules translated to several languages. We used last years' translations made by community volunteers with some minor changes so if you find any mistakes in any of the rules please let us know. Also, if you are a foreign creator and are willing to help us with more translations please write a PM to Turbo or okhostok. AMVNews won't forget you! )
