A-Kon^® 19 Video Events

Welcome to the A-kon 19 VSE homepage.

Can I go ahead and submit/upload my contest entry for this year?

Yes you can. I have opened up this site for 2008 submissions. Please feel free to start submitting your video content.

I thought we were getting a new site design. What happened?

Ah the great question. Well the short answer is the last of the site code changes were located on my old PC which decided to bite the dust a couple of weeks ago. After $1000 of spending and a bunch of time, I still can't get it back up to finish what I started in time for this year.

So, when is the submission deadline for the 2008 events?

The submission deadline for all events will be Sunday, May 11th, 2008.

Are you going to have all of the same contests and events?

No, we are going to make a few minor changes this year. The events you can expect to see back again in 2008 are:

• Fans' Exhibition
• Experts' Exhibition
• Fanworks Exhibition
• The "H" Exhibition

Events that will no longer be conducted:

• Fans' Showcase

What, no showcase? I really liked having a venue where I didn't have to compete. Are you going to bring it back and why did you cancel it?

The short answer is, it jumped the shark. We just weren't getting enough submissions and every year the number of quality submissions has been dwindling. We will consider bringing it back if there is enough fan support and feedback to do so.

To give you guys an idea of what we would need: About 20 unique submissions. What I mean by unique is...not in any other event and not something that's been aired for the last 3 years somewhere else.

So are you going to replace it with something else?

Yes, we are in 2009. We're taking the 2008 year off so we can make sure what we want to do will be a quality event. At current, it is our intent to make a non-judged, exposition style event. I'm not going to say too much at this stage since we're still discussing it and it is very subject to change.

So are there any other changes we should be aware of?

Yes. We are changing prizes and how that works this year. We're probably going to do away with trophies since we have been getting more and more International submissions and it is costing us hundreds of dollars to ship them all out. We figured it would be better to take that money and spend it on the events and get some cool sponsors to help us out with the prizes. I'm not 100% sure what this year will look like yet on the prize front, but it will be cool.

Thanks,

Elgebar