The official meet up convention is going to be the Anime Festival Wichita 5 (AFW5).http://afwcon.org/ Dates: July 10-12, 2009
Admission: $31 for full weekend pass, $20 per day otherwise
Location: Hyatt Regency Wichita
400 West Waterman,
Wichita, Kansas, USA 67202
316-293-1234
There is apparently a lower rate for people attending the convention. Ask to get a room on the "Anime Block" for the lower rate. I don't know what the rate is exactly but I'll look for other near by hotels to see if there are any other rates we could get.
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Check out their site and get familiar with what is going to happen there. It looks like they will have some cool contests and stuff.
Some events of interest:
Pokemon Tournament - Bring your DS and enter into the tourney and see how you do. It looks like it is going to be a PBR tourney so bring a doubles team and a singles team because they aren't specific with the details.
AMV Contest - If any AnyTrades member that can't go and wants to turn one in. You can send it to me and I'll turn it in for you. (Looks at Mimi and Ness) =P
Cosplay Contest - This includes a single contest as well as a skit style contest. If you want to dress up and enter that would be cool. I was thinking if everyone really wanted to try a skit we could have a scripted pokemon battle with lame little cardboard attacks (like T-bolt painted on a peice of cardboard). I'd need some other people's input first though.
That's about all the info I have right now. If I find out more stuff I'll edit this post and bump the thread.