Anime Festival Asia Regional Cosplay Championship 2009

What

AFA09 will host the first ever Regional Cosplay Championship in Asia. The top cosplay team from each participating South East Asian country will be sponsored by AFA09 to compete in the Regional Cosplay Championship during the two-day anime festival where they will perform and be judged by a panel of distinguished guests from Japan including internationally renowned cosplayer Kaname☆ who is best known for portraying Cloud Strife from “Final Fantasy VIl: Advent Children” and Ichigo Kurosaki from “Bleach”.

At AFA 2009 Kaname☆ will also conduct a close-door panel session for cosplayers keen to learn more about how to improve their cosplay techniques.

How 

All you have to do to participate is to sign up on figure.fm and submit a post based on the guidelines below. Please post multiple photos in a single post. Categorize your entry under "Cosplay" and tag your entry "afa_cosplay." Please also include the following details in the post for each team member.
A good example is this entry.

Simply copy and paste the following into your Figure FM post / submission and fill up the details:   

Team Member 1:

 
Name of team member:
 Age: 
Gender:  
Nationality:  
Current country of residence:  
Representative Country:  

Cosplay Details:

Title of the Anime/Manga/Game you are Cosplaying from
(If you’re cosplaying a robot/mecha, please put N.A in this section): Name of character you are cosplaying. 
Post a reference picture of the character  
Post either a photo of the completed costume being worn by the above applicant or an in-progress shot of the costume with the above applicant in the shot. (Note that this is to prevent fraudulent entries whom may just take the photo off various sites) 
Post a picture of a previous cosplay, if applicable. 
Title of the series and name of the character the previous cosplay is from: 

Team Member 2:

Name of team member: 
Age: Gender:  
Nationality:  
Current country of residence:  
Representative Country:  

Cosplay Details:

Title of the Anime/Manga/Game you are Cosplaying from (If you’re cosplaying a robot/mecha, please put N.A in this section): 
Name of character you are cosplaying. Name and gender of character you are Cosplaying:  
Post a picture of the character being cosplayed. 
Post either a photo of the completed costume being worn by the above applicant or an in-progress shot of the costume with the above applicant in the shot. (Note that this is to prevent fraudulent entries that may just take the photo off various sites)
 Post a picture of a previous cosplay, if applicable. 
Title of the series and name of the character the previous cosplay is from: 

Prepare brief description of the performance including any unexpected or surprising elements in the event that your entry gets selected. It is in your best interest to give an honest description of your performance, especially if you wish to include unexpected elements.

Rules

For the full low-down on the rules and regulations, do check out the official AFA site at: http://www.afa09.com/afa_cosplay_championship_09.html

Once you have posted your entry, it may take a few hours to appear on the top page. To make sure we know who you are, and will be able to contact you if you are selected, do also email the following to cosplay@afa09.com

Title of Submission (Same as indicated in Figure FM)
Real name (in full):
Contact number (Include Country and Area Code):
Alternative E-mail address (If Any):

Prizes

Not only do you get the prestigious award of being SE Asia’s best, the top winner will also get a pair of Air Tickets to Japan + many other goodies!

More details on this to be announced.

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