The Masquarave!

Agree that was cool when the music juat changed... i heard they where two proposal. I think that is the most romantic thing. i would love to be proposed to at a con. The con was great.

the masq was fun. lots of awesome cosplay out there. we left in the middle to catch a glimpse of the concert

I never made it to the concert... How was it?
Also... the Chocobo Remix was awesome!

Okay, since I've gotten a few questions on why the music changed, I just wanted to explain our Masquerade coordinator's motivation, and why I approved of the music getting faster.

We all decided to end up playing classical and fun ball music for the first 2 to 3 hours, with a few techno songs that had piano or violin under-themes to it on the rare occasion just to wake everyone up, since let's face it...listening to classical music for three hours just doesn't work. After the masquerade ball's costume contest happened around eleven, the people with costumes on mostly left save for..one or two, so we decided to turn it into a dance.

Again, though. All of the techno was either trancy-piano-violin-undertoned, or it was composed by the Masquerade Ball coordinator, Phaorah, including the Chocobo rave mix. There were also a few random songs that got tossed in for fun. Like Thriller. (We all desperately WANT to know the whole dance, but the truth is that none of us do.)

Also, we realize that the costume contest was a shamble because of the "Secret judge" thing that ended up being a bit messed up due to our lack of marking the contestants. Next year we're either numbering people, or we're going to do a small mini-stage show contest.

Anyway, besides that honestly I had a blast at the rave, and the room always was at least somewhat full, and Pharoah hosted a good show.

Though god, do I wish that guys wouldn't have come SO DRUNK to it that they ended up making jerks of themselves. The guys popping the balloons and trying to grab on girls that we had to throw out really almost dampered the evening, but the staff pulled it out at the end. Specifically our cosplay staff sound/video technician Drew and Pharoah, the masquerade ball coordinator, and the guy who really did ALL of the work on the event.

Special thanks goes out to Amaya Demorte, Jonobi, Visual Antagonis, Eternal Serenity, Bill, and everyone else who helped with set up.

*Also posting this to masquerade section of forums under events*

All in all the entire weekend kicked major arsenal! If I could relive that weekend for the rest of my life I would! Best weekend ever!