Then there are some people seem to go out of their way to cause trouble for their own amusement. I don't appreciate that. (No, I'm again not refering to anybody in particular)
The *other* Orlando based anime convention typically has a panel on anime clubs, I don't think AFO is running one, we're typically refered to as a "tasked based organization", because Anime Gaijin America (the organization behind the convention), doesn't do anything but events. Strangely we're just a bunch of people who get off on throwing big parties for other people.
But they run that panel at a sucky time (IIRC 10am Sat), because who wants to listen to a bunch of BS history?
Did you read down this far? Hah, then I'll tell you a secret. There were *two* screwups on the announcement last year.
1) The interruption was planned. I knew it was going to happen. I don't know why Jason didn't know. I can certainly see why it would have bothered him.
2) They were only supposed to announce the cosplay winners, which would have taken a couple of minutes at most. But the MC was just told to announce the winners, and his sheet had every winner at the convention so far on it. Whupps.
All I can say is that during a convention, mistakes *will* be made. We do our best, and I promise we will never make either of those mistakes again.
