I wrote to the address given-
first.entries@autodesk.com if you have another NON-PUBLISHED address then good for you!
If the published address doesn't get answers then what good is it?
Sunny still failed to get the question answered though.
Is there one winner at the nationals or are their winners for each of the five conferences(or how ever many there are)? This is never clearly stated. (even in Sunny's responce) If there are five winners then that answers the question. If not then there still seems to be no point in the setup of conferences. Each regional votes for and awards animations from that regional not the entire conference (according to the rules I read)
So then what's the point. if they want 5-first place winners then just award that. If there are the two best animations comming from Florida and they are in the same conferentce then one would get second place and the other first- yet the second place winner will be better than all the other first place winners from the other conferences (assuming that these were the two best animation as stated above) So I think it dilutes it to not giving the proper credit to the proper teams.
The two runner-ups get submitted as well (according to the rules) so whoever answered Sunny's email didn't seem to know whats going on either.