Round 1 Team Warfare Judging

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3	Virtual Reality - Haruhi Suzumiya Parodie	While I think some scenes in the very opening weren't that fitting, most of the video was spot-on and amusing. It's easily recognizable as a parody and that's the most important part of something being a parody. You can tell you put time into finding accurate scenes to match.
4	Virtual Reality - For The Hope of Humanity	This was a pretty decent video overall but it needed a little more variation in the synch and choice of scenes. A lot of it started to melt together and when the song is about something so powerful, you want to let some of those scenes get enough screen time to be meaningful. This is why I feel like the first half of the video was a lot stronger than the latter. Those scenes had weight to them and you could feel it.
5	Virtual Reality - Hello Stranger	This was a fairly solid video but I think it falls short in a few areas. I can appreciate the extra work you put into some of the effects, but I think it needed to actually ease up on some of them (like the zooms.) I also think the video would've benefited from not even including the text at all, it didn't seem to add anything.
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7	IAS - Unbreakable Spirit	I wasn't familiar with the Shaman King opening, so I synched up the two videos to see the similarities and I was impressed with how well you did the scene matching. There were little parts here and there that could use improvement (tighter synch in a few places and video quality in general), but they were small nitpicks at best.
8	IAS - It's Alright	The synch here had some parts that made me think, "Ohh that's cool." but the text was either integrated smoothly or ridiculously cheesy and that sort of ruined it for me. I also wasn't a fan of the end, it just seemed a little rushed.
9	IAS - Medicated Insantiy	This was a very confusing video to watch. I would almost get the story, then it would veer off somewhere else and I'd be left wondering what I was looking at. I can /sorta/ get where you were going with certain ideas but it needed to be fleshed out more effectively. The end was particularly jarring and abrupt.
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11	Chicken Cult - Norabop - PantherMarie1988 & LullabyLockdown	The parts where you did put in the effort to match with the Bebop opening were pretty decent, but it doesn't stay consistent. It goes back and forth between being pretty close to the original and barely being recognizable. The end is much stronger than the beginning, but I think both could use a little more effort and attention to detail.
12	Chicken Cult - We Ship It - tonina1981 & xAmberMelodies	I like the concept here and the scene selection is great but it needed more polishing, particularly on the lip synch. When you're relying on the lip synch for a lot of scenes it becomes that much more important to make sure that it's well-executed.
13	Chicken Cult - Beating Heart - tonina1981, PantherMarie1988, LullabyLockdown & xAmberMelodies	Each segment was actually pretty good on their own, but they weren't cohesive with each other. There was too much of a disparity between the parts and it felt more like it excerpts from other videos than it was part of the same video.
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15	Psundercyan - Stalker's Diary - Pauratagashi22	I like how close this was to the original. I found it interesting that you added a little story of your own to the video but the fonts chosen didn't really suit the material and needed better integrating. It seems small, but the way the text was used really threw off the video for me.
16	Psundercyan - Normal Everyday Girls - HiikariAMV & Keiichiface	This was super cute. Some of the scene selection made me giggle, but other parts were maybe a little too "filler"-ish. I also think it needed more attention to the lyrics and a better ending (it was a little anti-climactic) In general, though, it was a fun video.
17	Psundercyan - How It Feels to Chew 5 Gum	A well-balanced great video. Basically "Gurren Lagann in a nutshell" but there's nothing wrong with that. It was easy to follow, with pretty good flow and synch. There are some parts where I think you got a little lazy, but the video as a whole didn't suffer.
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19	TM - Gunpla Sucessor - Drango	Many of the scenes in the first part of the video overstayed their welcome. I like that you added the company names and such to make it a more apparent opening parody, but I think it needed to more closely scene-match the original to be truly effective.
20	TM - Price of Ambition - SVProductions	I would've liked this a lot better if you'd picked one anime or the other. The two were a little disjointed and didn't mesh well. A lot of the mood synch you did in this is great and I enjoyed the way you knew how to pace it, but the synch suffered when there was a lot of potential for it during some parts of the song
21	TM - Write Your Story - Janikachan	I liked the story here and it was easy to follow, but the video's editing was confusing. The times when you chose to synch or when you were focusing on something (for instance, when you were zooming in on empty spaces like the floor and the sky) were strange and didn't flow well. Some of the big swells in the song were completely ignored and it was disappointing to be lead up to nothing happening.
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23	Unresponsive - Ship Will Carry On - Mentalprodigy	The opening text dragged on but the video/audio source was perfect. I would've liked to see more obvious synching to the music, what you'd done was a little to subtle to really be effective. You knew how to use the music's contrasting parts to your advantage, though, and this made the end of the video very satisfying.
24	Unresponsive - Smile - Phlashbak & Rice	I liked that this video lacked all pretense, it was just an adorable montage. I didn't care for how much time was spent on the fishing scene in comparison to how much video time was given to other scenes and I wish the video didn't end so abruptly, but I otherwise found it to be a very enjoyable video.
25	Unresponsive- Rise and Conquer - Kimberly & slimed	I liked the set-up of this video. We get an obvious introduction to each character before moving into the meat of their stories/action sequences. Other than in a few places where there were some missed opportunities, the synch was spot-on and engaging to me as a viewer. I was disappointed by the end of the video, but the rest was great overall.
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27	TableFlip - Magic Men - AquaSky	I was very glad to see a non-anime opening parody. I was very amused by how closely this followed the original opening. My main nit-pick, though, is that I wish you would've used a silhouette with obvious arms and legs for the falling scene. It's the most iconic part!
28	TableFlip - Nano Ha Ha Ha - Fall_Child42	Man, you gotta warn people if you're gonna do gory eye stuff. I'm not kidding! A very creepy, nails-on-chalkboard-esque video. Some of the parts seemed a little lazy, like using the same image flashes in the beginning. It would've been a lot more effective if you'd used different images (Like alternating cute/horror-ish)
29	TableFlip - How We Went Wrong - Brozard	I can see what you're doing, but it almost seems like the arrangement of scenes would've went a lot better if it were chronological. The way it was, it looked like two different pairs were fighting for video time and it wasn't apparent who was who. The synch needed more attention, too, I felt that certain parts of the video didn't match well with the pacing of the song itself.
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31	Æon - Rumble In The School Yard - Replay & Luna	It was cute and well-edited (synch-wise), but weak concept-wise. I can appreciate the work put into the masking of the different characters, but I don't see the reason behind it. I wasn't sure if I was watching for a story (which was not apparent) or if it's just fun
32	Æon - Sinners - [madaraXD]	You did a great job of expressing the story here and most of the synch was well-executed. Sometimes, though, I feel like you needed to tone down the over-synching, like with the static and the flashes.
33	Æon - ULTRA(VIO)LENCE 3.33 - gabberMD	The beginning had excellent internal synch (my favorite part of editing), but it seemed like this became less tight as the video progressed. The build-up was great but it kind of petered at the end.
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35	Dondé esta la baguette - Fighting Stars - Tricky	Another video with great flow. I think it needed a little more dynamic range . When it's all OMG INTENSE ACTION, when you get to the chorus, it has no "hit", so to speak, so it's robbing that chorus of the potential to be really awesome.
36	Dondé esta la baguette - Forbidden Love - Bloosomangel10 & Shayles	One of the most important things for me is matching the mood of a video with that of the song and this one does an amazing job with that. It's not very strong in the synch department but (even though I would've preferred that in some areas) it doesn't absolutely need to be when the mood is established and executed that well. The end was a little abrupt for my taste, though.
37	Dondé esta la baguette - Space Cowboy - Raitei	I found this one amusing and had a lot of character. The synch went back and forth between being loose and tight, though. When it was spot-on, I loved it, but when it fell short, I was disappointed and I would've liked to see more consistency there.
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39	DangoWaffles - O.U.R.A.N. - Snowflakes1515& Chikasole	Pretty cute. The montage aspect kinda works in your favor here, but I think you could've done more with it to make it recognizable as the Friends opening (aside from the the title screen and character names). Even just adding and tightening up synch could make it much more effective
40	DangoWaffles - Six Degrees of Separation - Anicsi	I really love the concept here, telling so many stories in the same video (six degrees, I get it!). Some of the stories could maybe use a little more visual aids to see WHY it is that things aren't working out, but it wasn't detrimental to the video.
41	DangoWaffles - Volatile Charm - Chikasole, xGeminii, Magicflier, Snowflakes1515 & Anicsi	This video's biggest strongpoint is its flow. It's very visually interesting to watch and feel. There was no disconnect from anime to anime like there can be in multi-editor videos, each flowed well into the next. I do wish there was a narrative of some variety (it felt a little empty), but I still enjoyed the video.
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