/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9033403
Oh, where to begin?

They are, effectively, a collective who believe that they are the only authority when it comes to anything weeb-related. 'Collective' meaning their 5 cons, their smaller meet-ups, some poorly-organised pub crawls, even more poorly-organised park meetings, as well as their retard forum.

Their CEO/Chairman of the Board, Michael Towers, has a sordid history of pissing just about everyone off, be it badgering on about AL at other cons, to getting banned from all MCM events altogether (happened in 2010 when he somehow managed to get every MCM forum user's email address and advertise his own Scientology religion/AL). The man/little boy is constantly paranoid and takes any and every form of criticism personally.

I worked for them briefly in con registrations about 10 years ago when I was in my uni's anime and manga society, before I even realised what kind of fuck-stick Towers really was. He and his 'crew' were totally clueless on how a con is supposed to operate; when they weren't moving boxes around or whatever, they just went straight to the bar or on the DDR machines.

Someone else who worked for them for longer put up something on LJ like years ago, detailing more:

http://miss-pixels.livejournal.com/1366.html

So yeah, despite how much they love to dress themselves up, the rest of the anime community actually look out for each other (or try to), while AL seem to think that only they can be the savior of the UK anime community (despite the fact that like 60-70% or their forum users aren't even British!). Avoid. Alcon is a waste, LAGC will be worse...their other shitty ones that I don't remember where are just as worse...