MinnieMoose wrote:This year's nekocon. It was bad.
Big Big Truck wrote:Oh, later we found out and a baby was conceived on the dancefloor, in the middle of the con dance. The lovely couple wore specially altered pants so this could happen. And bragged about it. LAME.
</a>Illia Sadri wrote:Kazecon 2003
Well I was staffing that convention whcih just had so many things go wrong.
First of all, the hotel was like a prison maze to get around. The rooms were in terminals that you had to navigate with dreadful brick walls. The hotel staff screwed up everything imaginable including changing the entire dealer room layout and well..... forgetting to set up our STAGE! (however they said the con chair approved the room as is so um... yeah he was an idiot.)
About 300 people showed total. Mostly due to the fact con chair insisted on everything being done at the last minute. So we had next to no publicity and thus nobody cared about coming.
I was shoved with our AMV contest less than 10 days before the con... well this was encoding 23 videos from various file formats as the other guy kinda did not know certain things on encoding like how some formats simply are a pain to handle. This was fine and all except our mail in submissions were in suburban Chicago and I lived near Madison WI. Last staff meeting a week before the con I get our final videos and well.... my car decided to more or less blow up. So I was stranded in Chicago for three of these days. My encodes was finally finished 45 minutes before the contest started and I needed to make the ballots. lol I love amv's but goodness that killed me.
Dealers room was quickly addressed with the problem of bootlegs.... lots of them. Our contract did state this and well.... there were varying amounts of clarity. Lots of hassle with this. We lost a couple dealers, one on the first day and another after Saturday. Most of the dealers made next to nothing as everyone was savign up for Anime Reactor, another Chciago con taking place two weeks after. (the con chair for our con WANTED to compete with them) As a result much of the spending was by staffers sadly.
Let's see...... masquerade started late as is common.... yet for an interesting reason. Vice con chair, who well..... he was about to get lynched as he spent most the con threatening to yank peoples' badges, one of which for our reg head gettign sick and sleeping for much of Friday afternoon. He and the masquerade head got into it and he screamed at her in front of the audience and she ran out..... and she had all the information.
Let's see.... intermission of masquerade was supposed to be the winners of the amv contest. I was supposed to do that and I was told everything was set up. Turns out vice con chair decided this was not important as nobody cares about amv's (only the second largest event for a con.... but whatever) and moves everything and makes it difficult. Well, it is about to be public masquerade feud number two so I call him outside into a nearly empty hallway. I complain about how basically he screwed up majorly. He goes on and on about how I had done nothing (fact was only a couple of departmetn heads ever me the vice con chair all of ONCE at a meeting and well.... he was nto involved in much if any of the planning) and thus threatens my badge. I start walking away, he yanks my badge from me, ripping my shirt. I snap back to grab it back and well I get a fist to the face.... not a whole lot more to say on that.
Let's see then that night we lost a good portion of our staff for varying reasons, myself included. We lost almost all of our security and reg staff as it was handled by this one anime club and they had an indicent with one girl getting incredibly drunk to the point we had to call an ambulance. Combine that with the other nonsense mentioned above and they felt they had to leave. It was entirely understandable. A few others here and there also kinda were not with the con staff.
Oh and despite me not being on staff... my computer was still in fucking live events for the rest of the con as was some TV's and VCR and other nonsense.
Oh and our con booklet...... well...... I think a 4th grader could have done better. Admitedly it was handled at the last minute liek everything else, but it is so bad the pages were not in order in places and other places just the layout was hideous.
I laugh about all of it now..... and while a lot of the con attendees had fun.... it was quite possibly the most disorganized.... cracked up con experience ever.
Vale wrote:Yeah, I was there. Will was going to wreck Jeff or whatever his name is brother. The near rioting was kind of fun though. Also sleeping in an abandoned pannel room was cool. The best part of Kazecon was stray radio hijacking a pannel to do stuff. They gave away ramen.
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