SMASH!ing

This is late but SMASH! last week was pretty enjoyable (and made Animania look so bad...), though it was only afterwards that I heard some of you Anons were there as well. I went with some forum friends, and we were there for the ripoff merch, cosplay comp and the trivia. Trivia just had to be at the same time as their MK64 tournament <.<



Ignore the name, that was me >.>. Our team ended up 2nd and were given a Madman voucher. The winning team (who were a bunch of fat white gaijin) were 1 point ahead and went home with $200+ worth of DVDs (the voucher was $50) <.<.

I thought cosplay was great - even though some outfits caused eyes to bleed (namely anything involving fat people). It was nice to see a variety of outfits from some not so generic/common/mainstream anime/games. Those who go to Animania will have seen the hoards of Narutos and Ichigos that keep appearing every freaking year. But it was serious business for the high level cosplayers here. The contest was interesting enough for us to stay around for the full 2.5 hours.

One thing to keep in mind for next year is NOT to buy an advance ticket. We showed up at 8am on the dot and were greeted by a monstrous line, and ended up standing around for an hour. Also to bring a camera for stalking purposes...

Also will need to post about snow trip v4. 7 skiiers/boarders, 0 sick people... this was probably the best one yet. I will write more tomorrow after some rest, but check out some of the photos on FB.