Road to Singapore and Cosfest VIII (2009)
Filipino Cosplayer, Ice Artificio competes in Cosfest VIII 2009 in Singapore as Talim from Soul Calibur IV. Here’s a snippet of the article.
We’ve been planning the trip to Singapore for many months now. I have often told my friend Sese that I wanted to be able to experience a convention outside the country as I have often found conventions and events here to be disappointing. Often our local events focus more on ticket prices and sponsorships than actually creating an event that would really cater to their audience.
We finally decided to attend Cosfest VIII (2009). Cosfest is Singapore’s largest cosplay event held every year in July. It also hosts the Regional Qualifiers for the World Cosplay Summit held in Nagoya, Japan. There have been attempts to hold regional qualifiers for the Philippines, but as we have not been recognized as a participating country, we can’t really send our own delegation.
To read the rest of the article, head on over to the dot hacker review here.
