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Your rules say that professional cosplayers are not allowed. Can you elaborate more on that subject please? What qualifies a person to be an amateur or a professional cosplayer by your standards?

She replied already, for everyone's reference

TokyoKitty: If you have a business/website in which you sell costumes or props you make (or other related cosplay materials) or you are industry (ie cosplay for money for companies). The definition that a number of cons abide by is this: If you make more than $600 dollars a year selling items that are cosplay related, it makes you a professional.

True or not, it's nice to know they are bringing it to the west coast. Wish they can have two participating teams from the US though, one for the east and west coast. I mean, they do have two Japanese teams competing, shouldn't they provide other countries with the same opportunity? Well, since they cleaned up any mishaps with sponsors messing up with the judging, it should hopefully give all countries a fair chance to win. Nevertheless, unless someone out there can organize another international cosplay competition here in the US, WCS is the only worldwide cosplay competition existing right now. Overall, imho it's going to be a great cultural experience for the representatives, whether they bring home the prize or not. And as a competing cosplayer myself, the experience alone is good enough for me, winning it would just be a great extra.^_^