Again we woke up at 8am to grab free breakfast. Then we slowly wear our costumes, getting ready in our hotel room, before heading to the venue roughly 1 hour earlier than competition time. We wanted to test-drive our wings (after that disaster at Hari Belia Comp) before other contestants come.
Everyone helped attaching the giant wings on my back, we did a silent reenactment of our skit, swing here n there...and then a LOUD CRACK!! ooops.... a quarter of my back plate (that is holding the wings) broke! So we took off the wings and prayed real hard the wings will remain standing till at least after the real competition skit.... Q^Q
Ikki holding on to my wings.
Miss Fab (my mannequin) cosplaying as Amiya.
This is a 'buugeng'. It is not straight! Yes... it is not straight!
Woah~ Rules of WCS written on a shirt!
A peek at the scoring sheet. Ohh lala~
The Judges for WCS! Again The Gamehub organizer, The Japanese ambassador, and Stephanie from SCC. Onwards to the competition!! Which started around 2pm.
Team #1 Rockman/Megaman (red n blue? Megaman & Zero?)
Team #2 Alichino (Myoubi & Ryouko) ... Yuan as Ryoko and Sky as Myoubi
Team #3 Bleach (Ichigo & Ulquiorra?)
Team #4 Black Rock Shooter (Black Rock Shooter & White Rock Shooter)
Team #5 Dynasty Warriors (Xhao Yu & Xiao Cao)
Ayase did a special solo performance at the end. Very pretty chinese fan n umbrella dance!
Personally i wanna give a shoutout I'M SO GLAD THE WINGS DID NOT /GG ON ME ON STAGE!!!! Yay!!! My movements were restricted because i was balancing the (half broken) wings and the too small stage.... but i'm happy our skit went smoothly. And 'Master' was so sexy with his buugeng eheheheh~ *Q*
Cappy came to Johor to support us. Team SS is not complete without you, beb!
My 'son' Yukito also came... and abused by girls AGAIN it seems.
Captain Allen also came down to support us!
I find the Blue Megaman really funny!! Looking forward to our cosfest trip n together. Don't give up, tau!
After the skits, we had a huge gap in time till result announcement... so most of us just lie down on the carpeted floor and...
SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. (We're severely lacking it)
RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT
So the announcement of our individual marks for WCS M'sia Round A were announced at 5pm. The results are as follows (edited based on Video evidence):
- Team Alichino (Amethyst) = 75%
- Team Dynasty Warriors = 71.33%
- Team Bleach = 69%
- Team Black Rock Shooter = 63.66%
- Team Rockman = 60%
These marks will be added to the marks we will get in WCS M'sia Round B (going to be held in Cosfest Singapore) later on. The highest combined marks will represent Malaysia. For now the competition is still hot n the winning title is still equally up for grabs. ><
So... Ganbatte everyone in all teams!!! Let's have an awsm fair fight in Cosfest!
AFTER EVENT
As the event ended, it was time to let loose and have fun. Time to enjoy time with friends... old friends and new friends. Time to share our joy and love for cosplay.... for cosplay was the thing that brought us together in the first place.
Language barrier's a bitch (i cannot speak Chinese like most) but we all had fun nonetheless. Cosplay is our common connector. And we had THE TIME OF OUR LIVES during this weekend.
JOURNEY BACK FROM JOHOR TO KL
After freshening up, quick mamak session n hotel checkout, we left Johor at around 10pm. The journey was tiring n uneventful, aside from the quick pitstop at Melaka.
We dump all our costumes at Yuan's house, so we can fix it at a later time.
Then everybody went back to their respective home, tired but satisfied, and very much BROKE. We reached home around 4 am.
SUMMARY
Overall we spent RM300 on hotel, about RM400 on petrol+toll (there were 2 cars, toll is RM41 for one way, petrol about RM50 for one way), and RM150 on food (for 5 person 3 days in the cheapest restaurant available). Overall prepare about RM250 per person for a weekend trip to Johor. Yep...That's a very large sum of money! We somehow managed to survive since we worked part-time and also we got lucky and won some $$ the week before at another cosplay competition. BUT I hope in the future, the organizer would at least sponsor the hotel, so that there would be more contestant able to travel to Johor n join ACM/WCS.
It takes about 5 hours of driving time from KL to Johor.
Thank you to Amos our babysitter for ur hard work n diligence! Thank you SCC, Japanese embassy n Gamehub for organizing this event. Thank you and hope to see u all at Cosfest later!
As stated by some, yes... me n my team severely lack experience (compared to other teams) and we fight along blindly with whatever noob skills we have. Forgive our lack of skills, everyone! We're trying our best! Everything we do, we take everything as a new learning experience, and hope to pass these knowledge to others in the future. We shall continue to ganbatte real hard!! I heard that the venue/stage at Cosfest is big, dark, and has video projector functions. I'm excited to try these new things which never existed in Malaysia cosplay scene!
Till cosfest~ See u all there!! MALAYSIA BOLEHLAH!!!
Picture credits to Weiss n Ezli from Cosplay-Fun.
You can find more pictures of WCS over HERE!
You can also find more pictures of WCS over HERE!
You can find video performance of contestants (recorded by SCC) over HERE!
