WCS2010, Team Singapore's Official video

I have no idea why they feel the need to do all those fancy music dubbing. Doesn't that takes away the essential performance?

Anyway, enjoy this video while you guys wait for me to churn out my Hong Kong entry! XD I'm almoooost done...except the videos

WCS 2010: Final videos !

Am late in pimping. But thanks to Laurie and World-Cosplay-Summit DA group, I found links to the video upload of the WCS performances.

Credits to Juno for filming and uploading the videos to share with us all! Go visit her blog now =)

Singapore

Mexico

Australia

Brazil

China

Thailand

Spain

Germany

Italy

Finland

Japan

France

Korea

USA

Denmark

WCS 2010: Results out!!

Photo by Damien, Animania Festival

The highly anticipated Cosplay event of the year has finally drawn the red curtains. Below are the results taken from World-Cosplay-Summit Group. Much thanks to Wakaleo for his prompt ENGLISH updates! Following the official WCS tweeter on erm, twitter was an annoying torture of trying to guess/figure out what was going on based on the visual uploads (read: I DUN UNDERSTAND JAPANESE OKAYZ?!)

1st Italy 98

2nd/3rd places Brazil 97 and Thailand 97

4th/5th Places France 90 and Korea 90

6th China 83

7th Spain 81

8th Japan 80

9th Denmark 79

10th Australia 78

11th USA 77

12th Singapore 75

13th Mexico 74

14th Germany 67

15th Finland 61

Apparently, this year, they have some sort of point judging system. Very harsh imho but definitely a fairer and more transparent system. Maybe Singapore Cosplay Competition organisers can learn a thing or two from them?

Kudos to all the representatives and especially team Singapore =) Each and everyone of you are winners and should hold your head high in pride! Banzai to all and till the excitement come again next year!

WCS 2010: Live stream!!!

Much thanks to the folks at World-Cosplay-Summit (Deviantart Group) for the information. Apparently WCS organisers this year is FINALLY opening up their media coverage to the non Japanese demographics! Smart move imho :D

Anyway, we can watch the Osu Parade Live here at Ustream tomorrow!!! How awesome is that xD?



While you're at WCS's Ustream Channel, also check out the interview videos of the representatives !

World Cosplay Summit: Representative’s performance

OMG! WCS 2010 Kicks off this Sunday!!! How time lies! Before we anticipate the final battle of the nations, let’s have a recap of their preliminary performance!

A little rant first, seriously tell me, am i the only one who finds the official WCS website somewhat annoying and slow in reflecting updates? Singapore and Thailand’s representatives have been selected for near a month before it has been officially stated on their website.

Anyway, because I was annoyed with the official website, I decided to do an entry for people like me, who are keen to poke more into the happenings of the World Cosplay Summit, but aren’t keen to stalk the blog or website everyday.

Last year they had some awesome video coverage of the entire event with exclusive interviews with each representatives. But they choose to restrict the video to a speciifc Japanese flash player. And none of us could watch the video despite installing the plugin multiple tiimes @_@ Was very annoyed.

Picture by ~alsquall.

Most people I’m sure, are like me, just wanna know who was selected, what were they cosplaying as and how entertaining were their skit. Simple.

So I’ve searched high and low to put together this video compilation entry that has skit performance of all the countries I can find. I’m lacking links to Korea, Italy and China. Does anyone know if there’s any videos of their performance online?  Without further ado, scroll down for the alphabetically organised videos =)

 

Australia

Brazil

 

China

 

Denmark 

 

Germany

 

 Finland

France   

 

Mexico

Singapore

Spain

Thailand

United States of America 

 

 

*Phew* Hope you guys enjoyed the performance, was pretty troublesome to gather these videos ^^;;;

As I mentioned, World Cosplay Summit kicks off this weekend.  Go to the official website for the full event schedule and guides. Also check out fan groups like World-Cosplay-Summit on deviantart for eye candies!

World Cosplay Championship 2010
August 1(sun),2010
Open Gate 16:00 / Start 19:00 , Area Map (PDF)
Official Website: http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs/2010/e/event/index.php

World Cosplay Summit 2010: Singapore representatives Interview

Rushing to have this video up first ^_^ Actually finished editing last night but didn't have time to blog about it until now.

Picture taken from pinky_fish

And yes, as the title implies, its an interview with the WCS Singapore winners! Sorry I only have videos to show as my pathetic camera can’t really justify their awesomeness in that pitch dark dome. So video it is.

A lot of you voted to have video interviews of the WCS contestants but as luck would have it, I didn't get the chance to interview ANY of them except the Final Fantasy 13 team....and they became the final winners! What coincidence hehehe.

My sincere congratulations to them and may they level up even more for the final competitions!!! Maybe for once, Singapore can ace the competition :D:D

Congratulations to both pinky-fish and liberi Fatalis for the win and thank you for the short interview ^_^!!!  Am very honoured!

World Cosplay Summit Singapore Finals 2010

Videos of the 5 WCS teams  are up!!! Congratulations to the Final Fantasy 13 Team for acing the competition and winning the rights to represent Singapore!!! Do us proud over at Japan okays!!!

 Final Fantasy 13

Guuren Lagann

Beatmania

Peace Maker Kurogane

Blaz Blue

World Cosplau Summit Tour Package (USA only)

God always seem to have a weird and cruel way of playing pranks on me.

So, I’ve been toying with the idea of a Japan trip since forever. And might even really be going this end of the year. But my friends and I are still sorting our itineraries and stuffs out now and we can’t seemed to get to a conclusion. To explain our(or rather just mine-_-) dilemma simply, I wanna go Japan to experience all things Otaku, visit Akihabara, go to Maid cafes, butler cafes and attend Cosplay events. My friends want ………………… NONE OF THOSE |||oTL

So I then toyed with the idea of maybe going for a short cosplay oriented one myself. And thought, hey, might as well go to the prestigious World Cosplay Summit at Nagoya right??? I don’t even mind being some sort of ‘saikang’ (do it all, caretaker, nanny) to the WCS Singapore representatives. And so yesterday, I emailed Singapore Cosplay Club to inquire if they provided such services but alas, they do not T_T.

And then just 10minutes ago, while checking my Gmail, I saw something. Look at how Google MOCKED ME!

 Do you spot it?

Argh, I swear those annoying Google bots and Spiders are in conspiracy with someone or something to remind me of my misfortune=_= !!!!

ARGH YES i know they are some intelligent ‘content relevant’ generated ads. But i still feel irked=_=  

Apparently a 7 day package tour to Tokyo and Nagoya. Highlight of the trip , of course, is the joining of the World Cosplay Summit.

Itinerary

 

“ Destination Japan is a package tour service that takes you to Japan and gives you a one-of-a-kind experience you won’t find anywhere else.  Our tours are specially tailored to show you Japan’s deep world of pop culture and tradition, and do it better than any other tour service out there for an even better price.  Designed to be your window to whatever aspect of Japan you love, and to expose you to new and fascinating things you might not have known about, Destination Japan has everything you could want in a tour.  We’re here to make going to Japan easy, exciting, and unique, and we think that’s just the kind of trip to Japan you’re looking for!

Organized and managed by H.I.S. International Tours (L.A.), Inc., the US-Japan travel agency that is second to none, Destination Japan is poised to provide you with a professionally run tour service to Japan that still gives you the excitement and freedom that you yearn for on traditional sightseeing tours.  Destination Japan understands what it takes to make a tour fun and interesting no matter where your interests lay.  With experienced and friendly staff to accommodate you any way possible, you can count on a relaxed yet unique experience on a Destination Japan tour. “

And no, this is not an advertorial. I just thought some of you guys (USA citizens only) might be interested in it and figures maybe someone can benefit from my misfortune.

Click on the pictures above of visit the website here to learn more.

WCS Singapore Semi Final (Korea WCF 2010)

Finally found the video uploads of our Singaporean team’s  performance in Korea! Much thanks to maria for the link.

No commentaries from me because I haven’t watched them yet. But too excited so pimping to you guys first *_*!!

Monster Hunter

Vocaloid - Canterella

Blaz Blue

Team Tower Of Druaga

Clover

Vocaloid – Synchronicity