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Does anyone know who won? I had to leave before they could announce the winners but that EVA cosplayer was effin' amazing! ^___^

AXMasqGENERAL

>> No.6959632

The EVA cosplayer was robbed

>> No.6959825

>>6959461
I think the sonic people won?

>> No.6959855

The kamen rider group won best in show

>> No.6961100

>>6959632
Eh. While impressive from a distance, if you look closely at his costume it's kind of sloppy. Needs more sanding. The other mecha that won second(iirc?) looked much cleaner.

>> No.6961116
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>>6959632

Kamen Rider got BiS

My favorite group were the judges from FFXII, up close their craftsmanship was fucking amazing and were all really awesome to work with

I'm a proud den mother. pic related

>> No.6961144

>>6961116
I was fangirling over their costumes so hard in the main entrance. I think it's sad they didn't get anything more than judges award, because their costumes were immaculate. That being said, their skit was pretty mediocre. Still wish they had gotten something better, because dat armor. Hnnnnng.

>> No.6961325

>>6961144
The costumes are actually pretty inaccurate (for instance, Zargabath's horns should be much longer, and they all have some sort of like, blunt edge near the chest). They look nice, but they could be way better.

>> No.6961340

The EVA cosplayer was a sore fucking loser.
He stormed out of the contest bitching that he lost and throwing a tantrum.

Just because your costume is big or a mech suit/armor doesn't automatically qualify you for an award. Sure, it was impressive from a distance and the stilts looked cool, but when you get up close and see the sloppy painting and craftsmanship, it suddenly becomes clear why he didn't win.

>> No.6961451

The Pokemon skit with the Elite 4 was great

>> No.6961477
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>> No.6961609

>>6961451

no they stole that skit

>> No.6961878

Are there videos somewhere?

>> No.6961960

>>6961878
acparadise has them all up.

>> No.6962165

can't believe the Touhou group didn't win anything. also wtf Pinkie Pie...

>> No.6962260

>>6962165
Alodia rigged the whole thing. She wasn't even watching the masquerade, and suddenly goes up and say Pinkie Pie won her special award.

Had to be rigged.

>> No.6962598

I can't believe the group that won Best Performance won what they did.

The runner up was pretty good and well thought-out, but they weren't funny or pandering to the audience. Probably why they didn't win.

Why do I even bother with Masq anymore?

>> No.6963231

>>6962598
What did best win??

>> No.6963645

>>6963231
$3000

>> No.6963664

>>6962260
>> GOH rigging the portion of masquerade

welp, AX has sunk to new low.

>> No.6963730

It's ridiculous that the skit with the vending machine won an award. Take away the Chun Li cosplayer (who was unnecessary anyway) and there is no cosplay content in there. Funny concept but I hear masquerades are meant to be about cosplay, not dudes in plainclothes.

>> No.6963806

>>6961609

????????

>> No.6963913

This year's masq started off so well, but when it came to showtime it all fell apart. Tony was hands-on and gracious with registration process, so I had good vibe about it. Then it all went down the shithole. Contestants were not allowed to step outside, not even for bathroom. Hell, all they gave us is a single sandwich and bottle of water, THAT WAS IT! And then there was the Alodia bullshit and how some of the awards were distributed weirdly. I have no idea how all of these could come apart so quick. Although considering how I've read from other threads about McKnight firing him on spot, it's safe to assume that McKnight fucked up the masq in the end.

>> No.6963919

>>6963913

>sandwich and water

You ungrateful fucker, that is way more than most other convention masquerades do for their participants

>> No.6963926

>>6963919
Hey Allison, at least other masquerades let the contestants go to bathroom.

>> No.6963925

Quote from the fat fucking beaner himself via cosplay.com
>I'm not quite sure of all of what happened. I know that prizing was messed up for masquerade this year, but I don't know if it was him that did that. Allison McKnight found out about this prizing issue and fixed it. Something about only 2 old cosmode books..

>Prizing was suppose to be 2 years of cosmode, a pass for next years AX, for the top winners a $4k sewing machine(We had 2 of these to give away), and some other stuff.

>He also yelled rude commends backstage at Sarah, IE Division Manager.

>I do know of 3 other things, he was taking personal donations in the cosplay office.

>He asked me if he could spy on Japan Expo for us (I said no thanks) & when he quit, he asked all of his staff if they wanted jobs at JX, that he would be over there, or something along those lines. Honestly, it was the second one that had me upset.

>While I might not get along with the US Japan Expo ConChair, I am friends with the founders in France.

>He will be missed and I wish him the best of luck.

>> No.6963932

>>6963919
Hahaha ALA has catering if I recall.

>> No.6963991

>>6963932
Yep, AND they let people in and out for bathroom

>> No.6963997

>>6962165
Was the touhou group good? My friend made one of the costumes.

>> No.6964005

>>6962165
>awarding pony cosplay at an anime convention

Yep, either Alodia is dumb as a brick or she was paid off.

>> No.6964006

Tony has said he is going to respond in detail

That is if Perez can't get his account banned from coscom first.

>> No.6964008
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6964008

I think I was the winner.

>> No.6964014

>>6964005
Alodia doesn't even make her costumes, the fact she was a guest and judging others is a fucking joke.

>> No.6964021

>>6964014
She's like Danny Choo, rich but famous for no apparent reason.

>> No.6964030

>>6964014
The worst part is, she didn't even do any actual judging. She was nowhere near masq dept room when craftsmanship judging was going on.

>> No.6964041

>>6963925

No one was taking personal donations in the cosplay office. There was an empty coffee jar that had arts and crafts supplies like scissors that people started putting money into. By the time staff noticed it had some 15 bucks in it that nobody knew who it belonged to, since it had to have been attendees. The coffee mug did NOT have anything on it to suggest any tips either.

Sorry but that story is bullshit and is one of the excuses upper management used to fire Tony. It's strange enough to make up a story to get him fired, but it wasn't Tony's fault nor was it solicited.

>> No.6964052

>>6964041
well, Perez can't say that "My mistress had massive PMS and she gets off on firing people"

>> No.6964058
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6964058

>yfw allison mcknight takes over the ax masquerade next year

will you still participate in it?

>> No.6964196

>>6964058
Hell no! I can do without masquerade if that useless bitch's running it.

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6964214

>>6964058

You know it's going to happen

>> No.6964261

>>6963913
>all they gave us is a single sandwich and bottle of water

Wow, I thought they weren't allowed to provide food or drink to attendees because the LACC would charge them ridiculous "portage fees," according to the AX forums.

>> No.6964283

>>6964261

Damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation. Masquerade manager took a risk and ran with it, or would it have been more prudent to not give people a chance??

That is a judgment call that the less empathetic would be more draconian about. The type of scumbags that shouldn't be staff, in my opinion.

>> No.6964300

>>6964283
Yeah, maybe someone paid for the food out of their own pocket. In the face of all the crap going on, that was a nice gesture.

>> No.6964396

>>6964261
I was in masq, and I didn't know they had sandwiches. They just told me they had water, and they ran out before everyone in my group could get one. Thank goodness we brought snacks backstage.

Tech rehearsals were so unorganized this year, too. None of the staff backstage knew what was going on, or who to talk to. I had issues getting all of our props backstage, too, because there was no room for anyone's props. We were originally told "oh yeah, you can have a dress rehearsal on stage", then they decided to let the two halftime shows rehearse in the middle of Masquerade contestant time. So then they told us "can you just put your props on and off stage?" After that, they messed up the order and forgot that we were going to go on stage; when I asked them when we were up, they said "just go on now, I don't care". So we went on, and they let us actually do a dress rehearsal. It was disorganized as fuck.

They did let us go in and out for bathroom during the show. I didn't really ask, though. I just went.

We couldn't hear anything backstage either. It sounded like that Charlie Brown "wahwahwah" with the echo from the huge room. It was so bad that when they called us up on stage for our award, we had no idea what the award was for, because the staff wouldn't tell us. We had to text our friends to ask what the hell was going on on stage.

>> No.6964409

>>6964396
cont

Then there was the prizing fiasco. First they were going to give us our prizes on stage, then they couldn't get their shit together. After Masq ended, they told contestants to stick around for another half hour to get their prize bags. So we stuck around waiting while getting our things organized to leave. After a half hour they said "aaaactually just come by tomorrow to get your stuff". Some people weren't happy with that, since they were only there for Saturday, or had to fly out the next day, but there wasn't anything the staff could do.

And then there was the contents of the prize bags themselves. We got a cosmode book, a bunch of plastic glasses, some promotional art thing, a poster, a little anime patch, and a bunch of advertising cards. Then, when we got our certificate, it had the wrong award on it - apparently AX decided not to give out a "best individual presentation", but was too lazy to print out another award, so they told us "just pretend it's your award".

I love performing in Masquerade, and our group's been doing it for about three years now, but this is the last time I do AX. The last AX I enjoyed was back in 2009, when we had all that room backstage, could pull up with our car backstage, and actually had some semblance of organization. (And we could hear what was going on.)

We're definitely only doing ALA from now on. At least there they've got things organized.

>> No.6964427

>>6964396
Charlie Brown is the best Mylo Xyloto song though.

>> No.6964547

>>6964427
Anon is talking about the actual Snoopy Charlie Brown I think.You know how all the adults sound like that droning annoying noise?

Off topic but goddamn I hate Mylo Xyloto in comparison to their other albums. Fucking Chris Martin, get your shit together. I didn't particularly like Viva la Vida either. They were okay, and sounded nice, but aren't nearly as musically wow-worthy as their other albums.

>> No.6964559

They essentially completely bit off a much better done katsucon skit from 2010 or 2011 called to be a master but faster. Pissed me off so much when I saw it, and they didn't even do it well.

>> No.6964576

>>6964559
I know! I saw that and knew it was a rip-off of that other one! It wasn't the same group, right? I figured it was the same group so it'd be okay. Did they win anything?

I'll be fucking mad if they won something.

>> No.6964582

>>6964559

Fuck, that was in reference to

>>6963806
>>6961609
>>6961451

Fuck phone posting, anyway here's a link to the original skit at katsucon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdl3-A1q0d4

>> No.6964585

>>6964576

Not even remotely the same group, you can tell just by looking

>> No.6964590

>>6964585
Oh, fuck me.

Someone should bring this to Masq's attention. How did that get past screening? I thought that Katsucon skit was relatively famous.

Or maybe that's because I'm well-versed in Masq stuff.

>> No.6965003

>>6963913
can someone explain to me the Alodia drama? I thought she was perfect in every way and most people loved her..

>> No.6965007

>>6965003
she gave her special award to MLP cosplay without even looking at other contestants. So there's a speculation that it was all rigged with favoritism.

>> No.6965033

>>6965007
Personally I think it wasn't favoritism but just "oh, that looks nice. Award for you!" Maybe it was the first thing she saw once she decided to give an award. There's definitely more than a few people miffed about it though.

>> No.6965106

>>6965033
the fact that she was any kind of judge at masq itself is a fucking joke

>> No.6965121

>>6965106
That is all Marc. He has this insane idea that having "famous" cosplayers as judges will make people want to bring better stuff to masquerade and make the show better.

>> No.6965133

>>6965121
i'd rather watch the "famous" cosplayers on stage.

>> No.6965692

>>6963925
>beaner
>but he's asian

okay. but you still know nothing, jon snow

>> No.6965694

>>6964008

aw hell no

>> No.6965700

>>6964396
>"just go on now, I don't care"
fat ass lie. bitch, i watched you from my chair

>> No.6965716

>>6965700
If you say so, broseph. Not sure how you could hear everything backstage, but if that's how you wanna call it, go ahead.

I'm just glad we had some semblance of a dress rehearsal. Would've been nice if it were more organized.

>> No.6965718

>>6965007
Alodia's award was to okane ga nai. she just presented the industry award to pinky pie

>> No.6965724

>>6965716

Besides giving your group a hard time for no reason? Some jesus people you are

>> No.6965735

>>6965724
>implying they gave our group SPECIFICALLY a hard time for no reason

Wasn't trying to imply they were "picking on us". Just pointing out their lack of organization, to the point where they were just shoving people on stage without any real order to it. I'm sure we're not the only ones who were given twenty different sets of directions for tech rehearsal.

I know some people signed up for slots, then got told that "if you don't NEED to be on stage, then please take yourself off the list". So they did. Their choice, of course, but it still kind of sucks.

>> No.6965741

we are temporarily without masq drama as the posts have been edited "to be updated"

I say temporarily because if they never come back, I've still got screenshots sitting around as it was first posted...

>> No.6965765

>>6965718
still doesn't change the fact that she had no reason at all to be a judge.

>> No.6965797

http://pastebin.com/50AfmnMs
in case any of you missed it

>> No.6965936

>>6965797
holy shit, McKnight's gotta be the biggest bitch of all time

>> No.6966011

>>6965936
Her name is mud throughout the entire entertainment division which includes av tech and iteractive events. Dpts had to get in lockstep cus it was very clear that if you gave ANY pushback she would make your life hell or get rid of you. Life for mgrs was miserable under her.

>> No.6966022

this one has non-truncated image links.

http://pastebin.com/R8b3vpma

>> No.6966034

>>6966011
and as we're getting the picture, she has no fucking clue what she's talking about. ALL GATHERINGS MUST BE INSIDE

whoa nigger I don't know if she's going to take a gander at some of the gathering photos taken by the staff photographers but Homestuck, League of Legends being inside? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

>> No.6966041

>>6961116
Those guys seriously made me wish there was a huge FFXII group this year.

>> No.6966357

This drama is the most delicious I've seen in months

>> No.6966712

>>6964590
that skit is incredibly famous, the AX group was not any of the original people from katsu they just stole the skit

>> No.6966833

>>6966712
>>6964590
That skit gets passed around to non masq viewers. I'd say it even got as far as "Required Viewing" tier

>> No.6966835

>>6961325
But were the groups that took second and third better than that? I thought the FF group should have placed better

>> No.6967150

>>6966712
why doesn't anyone ask the new group if they meant any offense before man-hunting their award for "stealing" a 4 year old skit. Maybe they were just paying homage to it, since it's so "famous" and all.

>> No.6967152

>>6967150
fuck yeah, pay homage, win money

>> No.6967251

>>6963997
I saw pictures of them later, but I never got to see the actual skit, so I too am wondering how it went.

>> No.6967418

>>6967150

There's a difference between homage and plagerism

>> No.6971847

>>6963997
>>6967251
There was no skit, it was just a walk on. Or rather, a shuffle-on since the Remilia's wings were falling off, she had 2 stage ninjas on either side holding them up lol.

Costumes looked ok but they were DQ'd because they lied about making the costumes themselves. I sure hope your friend got paid for their work, too bad they got no credit for making it.

>> No.6976616

Anyone know if the winners ever got a better prize from AX? I never saw any update on the facebook page

>> No.6976911

>>6976616
what they got is what they got
if you read the saga of the cosplay coordinator you will see why prizes sucked in the first place