There actually isn't any cutoff date for when the CREATOR made the AMV.
The only time-oriented cut-offs are for concentrating on newer animes for SOME (but not all) categories.**
Best of luck to ALL entrants and creators!
- G
** (OK, technically that's a time-oriented cut-off because you could not have made an AMV in say 1998, which uses a series which aired in 2002. Unless you have a time-travel device, in which case - what the heck are you doing making AMV's instead of making a killing on the stock market?? Placing 'shorts' on certain insurance companies right before certain disasters, and perhaps verifying religious phenomona and legendary feats, or driving a Deloran through the American West - NO!!! Auugh!!! - I have to stop now ... )