Did you ever wake up and say to yourself “How many Saturday’s are trumped by just this one Saturday?” And then proceed to answer yourself with a “What! Its Saturday already?” Well Indeed Saturday the main event, the meat of the Convention, the Apex of events. It was a long and busy day for everyone, and that’s a very good thing. This is the Day that Champions will be crowned, Rock and roll will be had, and Chris Patten will Share to much for the Last time. It is also the day that we animeroot have several really cool interviews and no doubt will be covering all the events we can. Kick it!
This year’s Artist Ally was satisfactory but was missing some of my favorite booths from years past; but that wasn’t a deal breaker. The biggest issue I keep hearing about is how artist table spaces were dived out, in the past it was handled by selection much like panels are now and from what I’ve heard its now handled using the random button. By random button, I mean take 50 artists and put them in a hat and draw out 15 for tables. This year I saw a few tables that were completely glomp and a few others tables that were AFK much of the time, kind of waste of a table if you want my opinion. We also poked our heads into the Dealers room to see if the selection changed up, and here and there new items had made their way onto the shelves. Funimation was giving away some really nice mini posters and cards, High quality products overall.
This Years AMV was amazing I laughed, I cried, I felt engaged, and did I mention it was fantastic! A huge thanks to the team handling the AMV’s and the editors for putting it all together it was great this year. Here is the Link to our Complete Winners list and videos Click HERE
We did Interviews with Patrick Seitz and Ian Cox, I must say the entire staff had fun with these. The videos are currently in editing and are set to be released sometime later this week. We are old school believers in DV and call me weird but I still believe in film over hard drives for recording. A big thanks to the guests and NDK for giving us the opportunity to speak to these great talented individuals. All we can say for now is “Eat the fruit!”
Hallway cosplay explosion, extravaganza, mega overload, dance harder again! Plenty of fun energy and tons of cosplay, Friday was amazing Saturday was just as action packed. Again the costumes were all over the place in 
both physical location and variety. When you go to Wendys and the people in line for food have more uniforms on than the workers you know its NDK time. It is not quite up to Anime Expo of L.A. scale of an entire city but for our region its huge. I Also have to mention the Balcony art was off the chain this year!
At this years C&C contest there was a lot of great cosplay entry’s. In addition, I thought that the skits this year were really well put together. There was a bit of technical difficulty as the accompanying sounds for many of the last cosplayers as well as the first few skits had their audio interrupted or mangled. One of the skits had this happen and caused an early ending to their skit and one group actually performed their entire skit without their audio aide or any amplification equipment and they did a superb job. At halftime during the judging echostream did a live performance and it was entertaining, a great half time show. After this the C&C winners were announced and then the C&C contest was over. Software for judging was faster and better than last year mad props for trying something new.
Go check out Our Full Coverage in the AnimeRoot Gallery for NDK 2010! Link here
Chris patten shares too much panel, yeah always over the top. AnimeRoot respects Chris’s request for no picturesvideoaudio recording of this panel. Press or otherwise I believe in respect to a fellow man and panelist. That said the Panel was awesome and my brother will be doing a much longer more in depth reflection about this panel, also we will be posting some of our lost tapes footage later this week, keep your eyes open.
Immediately following the contest was the “Chris Patton shares too much” panel so the main events hall was immediately cleared. This is where things got a bit hairy. The post-C&C photo shoot was held in the Conifer 1,2, & 3 meeting rooms. Together these parts make a long narrow meeting room. This filled up immediately and at the beginning there wasn’t much in the way of order as people just blobbed together.
This room did not make a good shooting area as everyone at the front literally piled up in order to try getting a shot of whichever cosplayer was on display. Basically there was a single line of people standing that could get a good shot and then a line standing on the chairs behind them. Anyone else further back clearly did not have a chance at ever getting a clear shot if they were getting photos. I really think they need to keep at least an hour after the C&C contest in the main events room dedicated to a post-contest picture session. This would allow ample time for anyone who wants photos to meet, greet, take a picture, and applaud any cosplayer they want. Overall the contest was superb this year, I just think that they need the additional time afterwords for photos.
Hanging out late night with friends and guests we ran into some cool people late night. We sat down and chatted with several of them and later this week FatsoBob will release a write up for these late night musings. And oh yeah Patrick Seitz Loves his video games a lot.
Rave Time! Dance your booty till 4 am cause thats when the ball room closed, man Sunday is going to hurt. Which brings me to my last note for Saturday and that is that it merges into Sunday like two semi-trucks going 70 mph head on. Insanely fun day for us and I hope it was good your you too.
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