Cosplay for me is quite a big thing. For one it’s an enjoyable hobby and something which brings out both the creative and roleplaying side of me that for various reasons due to social ineptitude I just don’t share with many people outside in the world. The main issue is that I am a shy person, specifically so when talking to new people but by thrusting myself into the positions I found myself in over the weekend I am one step closer to overcoming my flaws, and it was great fun.
The last weekend of May 2010 saw the return of the London MCM Expo and event which has now run seventeen times over the course of six years and attendance is at an all time high, with figures reaching beyond forty thousand people over the two day period. That is an incredibly large number but one which may rise for the October MCM Expo, slated for the 30th – 31st because the Eurocosplay Competition will be taking place on the Saturday.
The Eurocosplay event is just what you would expect it to be, a European cosplay competition much like the World Cosplay Summit held in Japan, which attracts attendees from all over the world and while the WCS has only a select few countries under its belt while the Eurocosplay event has nineteen participating countries against the fifteen from the WCS. This MCM Expo we chose one of our finalists to represent England in the competition, one Liz Murphy in her Ectvarr from the game Ninety Nine Nights released in 2006 for the Xbox 360.
The costume seen above has proven to be a major winner for Liz, winning both the expert category and the Eurocosplay representative role this MCM Expo but it also won her the Best Cosplay Award at Kitacon 2009 back in March but now she has a grand task of trying to outdo herself.
I am proud to have Liz be our first representative, not only because she is a friend but also because that she has improved to such a high standard in such a short period of time and I am sure that she will do fantastically well along with our second representative due to be chosen in August at Amecon.
As for the rest of the cosplay/convention calendar the gaps are starting to get larger. On July 10th the first Cosplay Cruise will take shape on the Dixie Queen in London, boasting a non-stop party from seven til eleven and one week later one hundred and twenty miles south west in Bristol, my own event is scheduled to bring the noise on the 17th of July.
Outgoing links:
Eurocosplay – http://www.eurocosplay.com
Cosplay Cruise – http://www.cosplaycruise.co.uk
Michael Hirst
Michael is a Media Practice Graduate where he spent his time Producing Documentaries, Video Editing, Podcasting and now dabbles in a bit of nonsensical writing about anything and everything that takes his fancy.
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