How do you feel about how the Autodesk award winners were decided?

[Mike200]

Concerning AVA,

I'm a little tired of the voting system changing every year. Our team has submitted into the AVA for three years now, and each year we've had to submit or judge the awards differently. Last year, Autodesk turned to online voting, which ended up as a disaster in the regionals we attended, with teams being called to vote at the event and many not voting at all. This year, we had to submit the animation via firstbase, which ended in another batch of problems. Our school server blocks all upload sites, and when we tried uploading from different locations, the upload would frequently fail.

Personally, I believe the best way to decide would be a combination of last year and '05. Teams would only be able to submit to one regional, the teams would vote on these animations during the competition, the winners of the regionals, along with a handful of other team animations would then move on to the finals, which will be judged solely by Autodesk.

The reason why I feel this way is because I think that online voting just doesn't work. Most people and teams don't know that Firstbase exists and when they try to register, they have to go through a long and arduous process to join and vote.