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Did any of you go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown?

They did a tea ceremony where they used the expensive tea and sweets for the first two people who entered, treating them as "special guests" and having everyone else sit outside the tatami in normal chairs...

People got to watch the ceremony proceed as a speaker explained what each step was. At the end, if you stuck around for 20 more minutes you would get to sample some not-quite-so-expensive sweets and tea.

Inu_Ranma: I'm putting you in charge of the board then. Use thy employee-discount well!

Deep-Six, we need to know what you'll be cosplaying before we can put you down as a piece.

The spots that are taken/available are in the first post.  (But yeah, I believe at least one Rook is still open)

Well, if all else fails, we go with duct-taping squares onto the ground... in some room with lotsa space. ^__^

Or, well, someone can go ahead and make squares in black and white... 64 of them, that we can just lay down next to each other.

[Battle Chess:]

YAY! alright, so I'm high mistress until Kris returns...

Hmmm... what to do... what to do?

~_^

Naah, alright, so, I suppose the question is, where do we want to do all the planning for this?

Anyone with questions/comments as far as this is concerned, feel free to contact me via AIM, PM, or MSN. I'll respond to any of them, but be prepared to tell me who you are.

So, Tabletop gaming'd be willing to host it? Awesome. ^__^ I'm thinking... I'll be making more complete lists and such later. Any more suggestions from people?

Battle Chess: Yes, some more pondering

Well, I think that not everyone's  going to be able to get weapons that are costume-appropriate, and still useable. For example, Meg from Burst Angel (who I'm cosplaying) always has a very large gun. That's hardly appropriate for a game of chess, so I'll be finding something different just for the game.

I'll probably also bring a few spare pieces, for the spur-of-the-moment players.

Prizes:
We keep talking of a tournament, and every good tournament has prizes. I need someone to take charge of figuring out what we're going to do as far as prizes are concerned... Food, Anime Stuff, Random Strange Stuff... suggestions, anyone? (Plausible, and either cheap, or with an explanation about where to get the money for it)

Location:
We've pretty much decided. Objections, or alternate suggestions?

[KindaRandomKris]

KindaRandomKris would you want to co-head this with me, maybe? I mean, since you started the thread, you're kinda the leader at this point...

Wirebrain, are you the head of Tabletop gaming, or just a staff-member involved?

Ummm anyhow...

I haven't got a clue where Santana Row is, but if we all went in a group, and had easy directions about how people could get there, it would be fine... a few comments, though.
- It will severely shrink our audience if we leave the Con. center for an event like that.
+ Nobody will have to make the chessboard.
+ Sushi sounds great, even if we don't do it there, somebody needs to give me directions.

Photos:
Sound great. $2/photo sounds alright, maybe $2/ea or 3/$5?

Battle Chess:
So we get a bunch of random weapons (battle royale style) and have someone with a bag, and you draw the name of the weapon out of the bag, and end up with that for the duration of the game. ^__^ Everything from a wooden spoon to a plushie guitar to an inflatable hammer... and people could whack each other anywhere that doesn't look fragile... or maybe, a game of rock-paper-scissors or something.

Losers:
Should definitely do something interesting on the sidelines, both for their own amusement, and the amusement of the audience. Ideas as far as that goes:
- Hopscotch
- Twister
- Tic-Tac-toe
- Spoons

Yaoi-Chess:
While it's a fun thought, I'd resigned myself a while back to the fact that it wasn't happening. There are just too many things to worry about. Besides, if we turn it into something like that, then it could make things weird. Y-Con has their events at Fanime, we don't need to add to the list. (no matter how fun that may be)

Announcer:
Sounds like a great idea. ^__^ They could get all into it, and make everything seem more dramatic. Do we have anyone that's got a flair for things like that? If not, we should find one. They can do it MXC style, perhaps.

Yeah, well, the advantage of this is that they can say "Hey, you, in the mini skirt, move to the square with the guy in the maid-outfit!"

^__^

We'd have to clear anything like Yaoi-Chess with the staff though... because, well, they're going to be involved somehow.

The other thing we could do is, we could duct-tape the squares onto the floor...  and the ones with X's on them are black, and the one with no X's are white, or something like that... though a board that's re-usable would be good... but at the same time, it's gotta be able to handle people walking on it, which rules-out paper. Someone could sink a lot of money & time into making a huge fabric chessboard... or something... >.>

Zagato: yeah, the notation's going to be important. Umm... I'll need to learn it to. Maybe we put the numbers on the squares?

E-Chan: =\ Ix-nay on the Yaoi Chess then. Me still underage. I don’t know what I was thinking earlier. =O

Or, I could run it in your honor, because... I'm 18. (it would be 17+, btw... just like Yaoi-bingo this year)

Glomp chess may be an out â€" fragile costumes and all. I do think we can at least try to get a hold of the dance room, if the scheduling is the same next year.

Well, we could allow glompage of the people who *aren't* fragile. Mine'll be safe.

The prize thingy is cool, too. Just have to be careful what people want to do (*flinch*) with their piece of choice. Maybe we can give imitation Pocky (I know where to buy it cheap) or a small cash prize. Or an “Otaku Lunch Spread” â€" Pocky, Ramune, a random sandwich, or some other foodstuffs.

I can make Onigiri, though it tastes nasty if you don't make it fresh... soo.. maybe, depending on the food vendors next year, we have someone running it buy them lunch or something. - and as far as the 'day with a piece' thing... they'd ultimately have the right to say no, provided they had good cause. And we'd have some ground rules: -no taking them back to your room, they get to initiate anything beyond a hug... (which means you can't kiss them unless htey're okay with it) things like that.

And for the cosplay checkers, I have one word â€" LEAPFROG!

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! Though some of the people that might wanna play could be scary. >.>

For the captured pieces, maybe they can engage in a rousing game of paper-scissors-rock! Or something. Can’t have them just standing around the whole time.

Hmmm... maybe we could come up with something for them to do... *ponders* Twister, maybe?

How did we get from Cosplay Chess to Yaoi Bingo?  

Eh, because I said Bingo when I meant chess.  :oops:

Because Yaoi is good, and good for you. (Despite the fact that it consumes your soul)  While hentai is just.... bleh. I durno... I'm not into the whole... schoolgirls getting molested by tentacles thing. (Whether or not that's ALL hentai, it's a large chunk of it.)

Well... hmm... I'd imagine that we could just have nametags that we stick on people's foreheads or something.

*was going to keep editing her post with every new idea, but decided to add a new post so things were easier*

I already said stuff right up there. *points UP*

But, alright,

Comments:
- We can't really do Yaoi-Chess unless people get carded... however we can do regular chess... perhaps with glompage, in a public place. The room where they held the dance this year was unoccupied during the day, and *plenty* large for a huge chessboard. {With Staff Approval, we could maybe get ahold of one of the live-programming rooms... depending.}
- The size of the squares we need will vary depending on how pieces get captured. (2'x2' would be fine for normal capture, while 3'x3' would be more reasonable for glompage)
- We'd need a player for each piece, plus at least 5 alternates, in case someone doesn't want to, chickens out, can't make it, or gets tired of playing.
- We need something to denote which team people are on. (Perhaps armbands of black & white for pawns, and armbands and some prop for the bigger pieces, a sword for the knights, a drapery thingie for the bishops, Collars for the Rooks, and Crowns for the King and Queen.)
- We would need some sort of prize for the winner... perhaps a day with the piece of their choice? It would have to be something simple, PG, and fun.

Geez this is long. -__-;

- We could maybe convert Chess into Checkers later in the day, as people got tired, or we wanted things to move faster.
- Captured pieces should have something entertaining to do in the meantime, I'm not really sure what.
- To make things more interesting, perhaps challenge squares, where people have to 'battle', through a challenge, and the winner gets to stay, and the loser goes to the loser pit.

IF we set up a game of Yaoi-Chess, where, for legal reasons, we really *would* have to card people, we could run things a bit differently.

- Bishies would be on one team, unless we have enough players to make two teams of bishies; Fangirls/boys would be on the other. (Players would be decided by a raffle? Or something vaguely random..)
- Every time a piece got captured, they'd have to take of an article of clothing. ('course, we couldn't go past undies, but ohwell, we can't have everything)
- The winning player would get to chose any piece of their choice and make them take off an extra piece.
- To stir things up, and make things fun, the squares each have numbers, well, we'd have a spinner with the different letters and numbers on it, and if anyone was on that square when someone spun, they'd have to either a) complete a challenge, or b) remove more clothes.

I think I was around for the initial mention of this in one of the insane AIM chats... but..

I live too far away to be much assistance in any pre-con tournaments or anything... but I'm willing to help out at the con.

*jumps around and waves*

I'd love to be a piece (White Queen, perhaps?), or someone who helps to run it. I'm terrible at actually playing the game, though I know the rules, I just... don't have the strategy... however, I wouldn't object to being moved around.

I'll be cosplaying next year: Meg from Burst Angel, and possibly a few others.

My AIM is Aelia314

Oh, and one other thing, assuming we get this cleared, I'd be willing to make the props and such that we could give to/put on the players so that you can tell which team, and what piece they are... I'm not really sure who's 'in charge' at this point... but yeah. ^__^

I've said this in other threads, and I'll say it again:

While it's probably very tempting for dealers to jump on the bandwagon and carry things from the most popular animes (Bleach and Naruto for example) it's nice when we get to see things from other series.

Umm... hmm. Yeah, I was actually pretty surprised with the amount of stuff that was imported, I was half-expecting cheap american crap. I don't know why, I've gone for 3 years now.

Good luck getting J-List.

And, while it's always tempting to buy the bootlegs because they're cheaper remember a few things:

- They tend to be of lower quality (dvd's will have bugs, or bad subs, or really bad dubs)
- What they're selling for $30, cost the bootlegger $2 prolly.
- It's illegal here in the states.
- The artists... well, they're not getting the money. (Yeah, same ol' internet-download thing... but really, consider, Miyazaki, he puts so much work into things, and you're not even letting money trickle through the company to him, personally? geez.)

You can find me on AIM, if I'm logged on, I'm up for chatting.

AIM: aelia314

Believe me, I can keep up with (and make worse) the weirdest of chats... my record so far is 15. >.>;; then AIM froze.