As far as conventions go, this year's Sakuracon was not my best experience. On the bright side, it's given me the opportunity to reconsider how I want to spend my conventions and the kind of attitude I want to bring to these events. On the other hand, it's really disappointing to spend money to go out of state and have a bad experience on what is supposed to be one of the best weekends of the year.
Personal drama aside, the costume contest this year was very poorly run and extremely disorganized. My group arrived in the green room at 8:30 AM to rehearse our walk-on, and we were told we could go on at 9:30. We did not get to go on, and instead waited 5 hours while skits rehearsed, only to be told to go back to the green room for the main event. We were annoyed, but we had rehearsed in the hallways, so we felt that we would be fine.
Unfortunately, when we came up and prepared to go onstage, the wrong music started up. Despite having sent the cosplay head our music 3 times, one for each registration of our group, they had lost our music, and made us go on with music that we had not choreographed our routine to. We were the only group that had this happen, and it would have been avoidable or fixable if we had been allowed to rehearse when we were originally told we could that morning.
Craftsmanship judging was odd, as well, in the fact that the judges asked us no question about our work besides "did you make everything yourself?". It took them five minutes to judge our group of 3, and they did not use up the half hour allotted to ask us about the detailing on our costumes, etc., which was extremely disappointing.
I will likely not be competing at this convention again, simply because there is no excuse for the chaos that passed for running the cosplay contest and the silent judging system.
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