Marshal Duties: Cosplay Carnival 2018

Credits: Cosplay Carnival

Cosplay Carnival is the first event in the line up of  Cosplay.ph's series of conventions. Held last February 24-25 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay. It was two days of fun and costumes!

I was on marshal duties, hence I was able to take photos during short breaks only. This was my first time at Cosplay Carnival. It was surprising to see that they build a gazebo at the center of the function room.

On stage, they did the Yoshinoya eating contest, cosplay competitions, and item auctions. There was never a dull on the stage area. They even have a game that was similar to Family Feud.

Just like in a carnival, they have games for you to enjoy! Known online shops and artists have also joined for a complete carnival experience.

Event Booths

Lifestyle Zone

Fan Fair

Lifestyle Zone

Of course, it will not be called Cosplay Carnival if cosplayers did not show up!

Santa Thor

Mordred and Caster of Red (Fate/Apocrypha) Cosplayers

Hollowgast 

Edward (Full Metal Alchemist)

Snake (Metal Gear)

Kurapika and Leorio (HunterXHunter)

Wow! It has been a while since I did a post about being a marshal for an event. Thanks for reading this! Time to go off-air. XD

Marshal Duties: Cosmania 2016

Pic from Cosmania

I'm back for another round of marshal duties for Cosplay Mania. Check out what happened on the 2015 CosMania. This year's program is way bigger than the previous one! More guests and the collaboration with I♥Anisong®. Over all this was the hardest one yet. There was too many people, there was a number of petty crimes and missing wallets. We got to watch the concert, but the main concern was to be on the look out for people recording the event as it was prohibited. 

I was not able to roam around and take photos. Everyone was busy not time of checking out the booths! I was not able to take a photo of the Dream and Delirium cosplayers. This was tiring but it was still fun as heck! After all we were a group working together!

Here are some of the photo of the event:

Loot bags

It has a fan, map of the event and hair wax

This was taken on day two!

More loot bags

We were basically farming them

For day two: I guarded the escalators

Cosplayers:

Reminders not just for people going to CosMania's event but for any event
1. Don't leave your ticket with your friends, especially if you know that there is a strict rule of no tickets, no entry.
2. Always ask if you are not sure!
3. Watch your things. Lockers were available for you to rent and use!
4. Respect begets respect. Don't be rude if someone asked you politely to do something.

If you have more to add to these reminders let me know! :)

Marshal Duties: Cosmania 2015

Here is another long-overdue post. POS marshal moments at Cosmania. Last year only a few people from our group participated. So for this year we are back. Kel needed at least 30 people and we delivered. For this year Cosplay Mania occupied the functions rooms at the second floor of SMX.

There was a lot of things con goers can get; like for the first day there were Calbee freebies, all you have to do is take a photo and post it with a hashtag. This year was really jam packed. I can’t really say more than that, as we were busy with letting people and watching their bags.

Here are some highlights for me in photos: 

Look at how clean this place was. XD

Trese and the Kambal

The energetic crowd

Free food because we have watched over his R2D2

And last but not the least these crazy people!

Oh! This is just for me to remember in the future. We have to be more vigilant about pick pocket and we must not bring important documents to this kind of event. As part of the security team, as much as we want to watch you all the time to keep you and your things safe we can't so please watch over your things and we'll make sure that you'll enjoy your day with us. 

Marshal Duties: Another Great Day Tour - LiSa In Manila

image from a FB event

Last May a friend opened a chance for us to be Marshals for the Animax Carnival event. It was the same time that she opened the chance to help with the security for the LiSa’s Another Great Day Tour that at that time to be held in the Samsung Hall at SM Aura on June 27. This was something big, it felt like this concert will be a test if we can handle such and if we are successful more events like this might happen.

The call time was 8am, the concert was at 6pm. It was a long wait but it was worth it, it was fun making sure that we have everything ready and secured. By 10am, people were already outside the Samsung Hall in Sm Aura, not sure if that was announce the we will be giving 300 (200 for the premium ticket holders and 100 for the balcony ticket holders) queue number so that they do not have to stay in the hall and secure their place until 6pm. We cleared the lines before 11 or so, don’t really have the time to check time XD

I was asked to secure the food for everyone. It was fun at the same time a bit stressing as I do not want anyone missing their food but I can’t be at the table where it was set so from time to time I would ran to the table and check how many is still there if there was a pair eating, I asked them not to leave the food alone. I think I did a good job for lunch, for dinner though I was not the one that received the food. I was at door 2, welcoming people to the balcony. We were taking turns in eating dinner as it was showtime. I was almost done with my food, when music started playing… I finished it asap and ran to the post I was assigned to as we need to make sure that nobody will be taking photos, recording videos or even recording the audio.

To be honest I do not know who LiSa is (sign that I’m old), so I was surprise with the number of people that came to see her. The VIP or Premium section was almost full I think there were just a few sit not taken. So I was dead on my feet when I felt the floor bouncing. Yes it was it felt like there was an earthquake whenever the crowd would dance or cheer for LiSa. Haha at one point we were told to asked the audience not to jump to much XD

All in all it was definitely Another Great Day! The crowd is pretty much behave and cooperative. I do hope that this event as passed us so that LiSa can comeback with a full band ^_^

Photos here Yes it is just photos of our team and the crowd before the concert

the winner for the Early Bird Raffle

look at that crowd

down time break 

down time break 2

Some guys playing games while waiting for the doors to open 

view from door 2

Marshal Duties: Animax Carnival 2015

It has been two years since I have joined an event as a volunteer. It was a blast even if we had to stay at the entrance. It was nice to see that the venue was not crowed with cosplayers that do not really go in to the event proper. I have heard that if you are going to cosplay, you need to have a ticket for the event to be able to enter the mall or convention center where the event is being held.

On to the Marshal duties, as always we are the guardians of the gate, the front liners. We take your ticket take the half, stamp you and give you freebies. We are the ones that will greet you at the re entry door making sure that you are one of the people that we have greeted and stamped. ^_^

It was a great event in Hall 4, for 200 Php you can join the activities, check out the booths from sponsors and exhibitors. If you were there and you have tried the game and visited the booths, I’m sure that you got your 200 Php with the prizes that you got.

I think the other marshals are pretty much wondering why we still have the energy even after the event. It’s simple it was fun. It was fun working with the same people again, the same rowdiness and noisy. We had a few down times like with the food and that “Last Minute Media” on the first day but Day two was smooth as ever even if we had 2941 visitors it was I think 300++ more than day one. I was the one handling the clicker, I really wanted to get to 3000 but still 2941 was a good number.

If you were not there what did you miss?

1. Chance to see Alodia sing and dance
2. Glaiza De Castro judging the individual cosplay
3. The cosplay competitions both individual and group
4. Oo-Kun dancing
5. Junior New Systems’ live performance
6. Japanese guess like Gonzo and Triqstar;
7. Miss Nikki Veron Cruz entering this event
8. Lastly, you miss to see us bwhahha Just kidding

Thanks for reading this. Let me know how was your #ACPH experience.

the guardians for day one

Miss Nikki Veron Cruz

this are some of my souvenir