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NoBrandCon 2006! | |
Posted Apr 24, 2006 - 20:03:54
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 NoBrandCon was this weekend, and it rocked. Rocked the friggin' house! I've posted my NoBrandCon Report, which gives you a good amount of highlights, and links to a decent photo gallery. Again, it was a ton of fun. I won't rehash the whole thing here, but I will provide you with the highlights:- Getting to hang out with Derek was awesome!
- Seeing Cap'n Kellin & Taelic.
- Seeing (and getting humped by) Damien, along with the little time I got to see June, the Joe, and the rest of the Genesis Mindworks crew.
- Knowing Foam Swords will always be a part of No Brand Con
- RANDOM ENCOUNTER!
- HANZO! And all of the people who made it through to Hanzo 3. Especially people who sit in the front row, and people who give me hats!
- Every person who came to an event I was in!
- Having people show up to my panel, which was weird.
- Sweating my arse off during the dance!
- Seeing some great guests!
- POCKY! Mmmmm.... pocky. I lived on it for two of the three days - that's not healthy, but really... who cares?
- A Hotel with a great layout - I mean, I officially love the Ramada. Everything was easy to find for our attendees for the most part.
- Not having to run around like a chicken with my head cut off -- it was refreshing.
We had a record setting attendance of 605 this year, which is absolutely incredible. I once said "We'll never break 600 since we're in Eau Claire." I am more than happy to be forced to eat those words. That's not a bad place to be. Hehe, hopefully next time we'll be bigger. Yessss.... bigger. It also looks like we'll have a budget three times that of this year for next, so look out for us making NoBrandCon even better -- and it shows we'll be here for years go come.
It was weird having an actual budget this year. What's weirder is thinking that we'll have a DECENT budget for next. Yeah, trippy, ain't it?
Damn, I love this con. It's so weird to see this thing, this thing that has been my baby since day one, become something this big. I read things like this from my blog archives, and I just sit in amazement as to how things have changed so much - it really is absolutely incredible.
I say Gardening, you say...
- Traegorn
NINJA! I was in the front row and like people who host Hanzo the Razor. My livejournal is grissom500 btw. No Brand Con was my first anime con ever, and I will be coming back, if only to watch vinnk dance in a skirt again.
Good job to you and all your friends who run that monster.
And remember, I was born sometime between 1977-83, so I may have helped with Hanzo!
Elise
dude, 605 people! Good gods, what has this thing become? That's more than 5x our first year's attendance. Damn. I am one dumbfounded meep.
Meep (the dumbfounded)
PS somehow, my email and password were either changed or I screwed it up when I entered them. My password didn't work, and it says it's the wrong email addy for the account when I try to gett a reminder. it's user: meep and email: trclark81@gmail.com
Meep - I've corrected your account. You had mistyped "gmail" in your profile.
Elise - All I'm saying is that nothing clears a room like a documentary on Teen Depression.
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