Daisho Con

Harleylocal605 wrote:

Langland wrote:

Alhon wrote: All the best comedians were duos.

And the best one is a foursome. And I think you might have a guess who I am referring too.

Hello langland. there are some of us here that you need to spell it out for. like asshats named harley. heh.

lol I put it on my sig here. Yeah but now I'm reminded that you didn't get my reference to the prison in Stanley claiming they have the best water pressure in town when the water tower was right there.

Langland wrote:

Harleylocal605 wrote:

Langland wrote:

Alhon wrote: All the best comedians were duos.

And the best one is a foursome. And I think you might have a guess who I am referring too.

Hello langland. there are some of us here that you need to spell it out for. like asshats named harley. heh.

lol I put it on my sig here. Yeah but now I'm reminded that you didn't get my reference to the prison in Stanley claiming they have the best water pressure in town when the water tower was right there.

yes i lack the ability to be observant whenever it has the potential to make me look stupid.

This was my first cosplay contest and I was throughly confused as to what i was doing. and extremely nervous! Partly cus I got misdirected to the wrong room and then I didnt know what I was being judged on. Is there a way to get comments/suggestions from them? feedback would be nice. also I didnt have a skit planned or anything specially since i was in the beginner catergory. But I saw so many others had a skit so I was racking my brain trying to think one on the spot. I think i just made a fool of myself.

nikou wrote:This was my first cosplay contest and I was throughly confused as to what i was doing. and extremely nervous! Partly cus I got misdirected to the wrong room and then I didnt know what I was being judged on. Is there a way to get comments/suggestions from them? feedback would be nice. also I didnt have a skit planned or anything specially since i was in the beginner catergory. But I saw so many others had a skit so I was racking my brain trying to think one on the spot. I think i just made a fool of myself.

I think you did just fine on stage, however, I will make sure the instructions are more clear.

Nick Izumi wrote:

nikou wrote:This was my first cosplay contest and I was throughly confused as to what i was doing. and extremely nervous! Partly cus I got misdirected to the wrong room and then I didnt know what I was being judged on. Is there a way to get comments/suggestions from them? feedback would be nice. also I didnt have a skit planned or anything specially since i was in the beginner catergory. But I saw so many others had a skit so I was racking my brain trying to think one on the spot. I think i just made a fool of myself.

I think you did just fine on stage, however, I will make sure the instructions are more clear.

I've often said that if you want the cosplayers to exit the stage in a certain direction, you should tape a big arrow onto the stage pointing at the stairway. It did seem like the cosplayers didn't know where to go once they left the stage, so maybe that should be stressed beforehand. You could reserve some seats for them, and have a staffer down there to direct them.

There weren't any problems with it that I recall, but cosplayers should remember that most of the audience beyond the first row can't see below your waist due to the rest of the audience being in the way. If you're doing doing something a knee level (such as crawling) and it's important to your skit, we won't see it happen.

nikou wrote:This was my first cosplay contest and I was throughly confused as to what i was doing. and extremely nervous! Partly cus I got misdirected to the wrong room and then I didnt know what I was being judged on. Is there a way to get comments/suggestions from them? feedback would be nice. also I didnt have a skit planned or anything specially since i was in the beginner catergory. But I saw so many others had a skit so I was racking my brain trying to think one on the spot. I think i just made a fool of myself.

Don' worry about it , I was just as confused and I have been in cosplay contests before.

For the love of all that is holy, pre-judge costumes for craftsmanship! Having pre-judging allows you to touch base with the participants before the contest itself, make certain they know what's going on, and gives you a nice, up close, "laurel handshake" kind of look at the costume, often with reference material to compare it to. As entrants, the participants will be happier and less confused. As staffers, you'll be happier and more prepared for what the participants will do. As someone who's been on both sides, I can't stress this one enough.

Impose a time-limit for being on stage and make sure the entrants know about it. Averages from convention to convention hover around 3-5 minutes.

Also, I would like to add my support for the afore-mentioned outlining of judging criteria and methods before hand.

I also wasn't wild about the whole putting the entrants on the spot with a question thing, though that was probably just personal taste.

Again. Prejudgeing will be done next year and we thank you for your feedback.

As for the time limit, there was an official time limit posted and we did everything in our power in the cases of skits running long. We will be a bit more proactive in removing them from stage in the future, however the decision I made in the feild was to do my best to make the skit end on time which admitedly didn't work. Improvements will be made I promise.