Brisbane Gen Con 09 Review

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Warning: Azer is a chronic swearer.

This is gonna be one outrageously long journal. With a bunch-o-pics.

OK SO. I only went to Gen Con Brisbane for Saturday. Oh how I wanted to go both, but alas I'm too shit poor.  So this time I went to a con with :iconrachotamer:. I stayed at her place from Thursday till Sunday, OH BOY IT WAS MAGICAL.

We decided to get up at 6am so we could get into our cosplays and arrive at around 9am. So I wake up and I jump on top of Rachos' bed to wake her up. I then think 'ok I'm struggling to open my eyes here. I'll go to the bathroom and wash my face.' And as I try to walk out of the bedroom I whack the side of my leg against a wooden bed end corner. In pain I fall back onto my bed, only to whack the back of my head on a slab of wood. So I'm rolling around on the mattress with a hand on the back of my head and a hand on my upper thigh and Rachos is there in bed still giving me the Joker clap.
THANKS YOU WERE A REAL HELP. You dick.

Here's the bruise I got on my leg. I still have a large bump on the back of my head too.

The camera makes it look much nicer than it actually is.

Rough start but we then get to Gen Con about 15 mins early so we just hang around out the doors, which oh yeah baby, TF2 COSPLAYERS THERE. I was very pleased. The people actually had something against wearing balaclavas outside the hall but inside you could. Thankfully the security allowed us to take a quick Spy photo.


I'm a little bawww'd about the lighting. But this was the only one I had.
I really loved the BLU Scout, Engineer and Spy. FFFF. They were all so great.

Inside the con was pretty awesome. I guess personally I would say that it was a con for entering contests and playing games rather than buying things (though I suppose that's also because I'm shit poor). Rachos and I went to find :iconmittenkitten: and Daya (who were so lovely and had an awesome cosplay. IT WAS AWESOME MEETING YOU GUYS! And again CONGRATS ON WINNING THE BEST SKIT. I wish I could've seen it but I was stuck in line to go up ;;)
Followed by a round of giant Jenga.


It was actually getting so tall that my tiny little self was having a lot of trouble putting the pieces on the top. But in the end I came out the victor!!


Lol it looks like I pushed it over but I swear to god I won an honest match.


I ALSO HAVE GOOD SPORTSMAN SHIP... well... I was Scout... So that was kinda in character? /lame excuse

After that we decided to look around the con. See if there was anything nice to buy or look at. As we were walking I saw a guy with a beard, glasses and hat and I was all 'lol. He looks like Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation...' I then look down at his name tag that had 'YAHTZEE' written on it.
I then officially freaked out. I know he kinda hates that but FFFF I COULDN'T KEEP CALM. IT WAS FUCKING YAHTZEE.  
He looked at me funny because of the way I was acting lol. Rachos who was especially slow was also looking at me funny because she had no idea what I was gawking over.

Racho: What are you gasping over? –looks at Yahtzee for about 5 seconds- ... OMG!!! –GASP-

I was all 'OMG. FFFF. Sorry for acting this way. But I'm a big fan  :iconufufuplz: -SHAKES HIS HAND- Can I have a photo please!?"


JESUS CHRIST HE'S SO TALL. –looks at that height difference-
Ahhh... I did my best to remain calm until he was out of earshot for me to be all 'OMGGGGG' again.

I ALSO MET ANOTHER FAMOUS PERSON. HIS NAME IS DARTH VADER.



Apparently you can't insult his friends ):

I kept running into the TF2 guys. Eventually the BLU Scout and I did a Scout DDR dance off. I'm not really sure who won... it's hard to tell since I was on Standard mode and he was on Beginner. That and I didn't look at the final score. There was a video of it that was taken but it's far too embarrassing that I'm not going to show it. BUT HERE HAVE SOME SCREENSHOTS.




After that we needed to look for our plastic bags that we lost. Generally I wouldn't care about a showbag that was handed to me at the door but I put my ball in there OTL and Racho's put her weekend tickets in hers. DUUUUURRRRR. We did find them again, I lost my bag twice. Then I gave it to the BLU scout to hold which I stupidly forgot to get back at the end of the day LOL. Oh well there wasn't anything valuable in them by that time.

I wanted to enter the cosplay chess, cause I've never been in one before. I was rather cut though cause I was put up for first reserve and they ended up using OTHER reserves. WTF!? URGHHH. IT'S ALRIGHT. I had a thing to do anyways D'8<

Which I actually did, see some of the people at the lan section wanted all the TF2 cosplayers to come around and play some TF2 for them DA HUR HUR. It was actually pretty sweet. All the reds were on one side and all the blus were on the other. But we played in arena FFFF I do TERRIBLE in arena haha. But when I switched to Soldier I started doing better. Oh god at one point it was 3 against 1 (I was the only one left on my team lol) I somehow managed to beat them all!?!
In the end our team lost but it was still shit loads of fun.


HUMILATION.

And I saw an amazing RED Sniper UNFFFFFF ;;



I try to contain myself around cosplayers that dress up as character I really enjoy at the current moment but FFFF. I really liked this sniper.

After that it was time for the cosplay competition. I actually wasn't even going to enter cause I hadn't registered but the guys offered me to join them and I was all 'OK!' Then while we were waiting in line the staff thought it would be a good idea of the TF2 girls joined our group.
Which, btw I think they did an awesome job on doing TF2 girls. Generally I'm not big on it, but woah. They were good. HERE'S SOME PROOF.


JESUS CHRIST THAT MINI GUN KICKS ASS.

And here was the whole group.

I hate myself in that photo, but it was the only good shot that my camera had. Hopefully there are better ones somewhere else.



God... the male RED scout was shorter than the female. OTL
ANYWAYS. WITH OUR POWERS COMBINEEEEDDDD

GROUP TF2 WON THE GROUP COSPLAY
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think the guys and I expected to win, because there was a FANTASTIC pokemon group (I'm actually shocked that they didn't even get a mention). We were expecting them to win but they said our group, we all pretty much jumped out of our seats at the same time and cheered lol. (And I say 'cheer' it was a great big 'FUCK YEAH!') - humps RED sniper again in celebration even though he wasn't in the group- It was sad cause the girls apparently left early so they weren't around to claim a prize with us D:
The prizes were a certificate, $50 madman voucher and a well stroked ego –shot-

Also while I was in line for the cosplay contest I got kissed by a girl ):
The TF2 guys approved....

And took photos.


HORRAY SCOUT GOT ACTION?

I was also part of the Game Show hurhur. Poor :iconzerebin: he got continually abused by everyone lol. Tis the life of a host I suppose. As a consolation prize I won an elixir drink which is actually concentrated energy drink (cause a normal energy drink just isn't fucking enough) it tastes god awful but I keep taking sips for some retarded reason. Honestly it's like concentrated cordial w/ extra concentrated syrup... and not the good kind. Cause the good kind would taste nice.

There wasn't really anything else after that. A bunch of the people planned to go to a restaurant in the city as an after party so Rachos and I left to go there. On our way there though we took some epic photos under the bridge because this light there was just AWESOME for photos. Here was the best one.



OH RACHOS. YOU'RE SUCH A FRANKEN FINE.

In the city a fair people were staring at us cause we were still in our cosplays haha. Maybe it was also cause I was lagging a bat over my shoulder and could possibly hit someone if they tried to touch us :iconufufuplz:

Dinner was alright. After eating I generally get bored and tired rather quickly though. So a bunch of us went to go grab some ice cream. HEEE. Yeah.

THE ENTIRE THING WAS AWESOME. I'm glad I went.

And here's some misc photos, I didn't know where to put them in this review.


Zoey looks like she's enjoying being ripped up by a hunter... but I know... I couldn't stop smiling myself C:


HA. IT'S YOUR MOTHER, NOT MINE :D

That about sums it up... I'm pretty sure that was the last con for the year too... it saddens me. But I don't have enough money for cons now anyways.

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Korethi's avatar
dA approves of that shot too.