Fanime?

COP-Tim · Post by **COP-Tim** » Sun May 08, 2011 4:56 pm

Hi everyone!

I was just contacted by one of the Division Heads for the San Jose Anime Convention (Fanime).

Friday night is the night of Fanime's Swap Meet that usually ends around 1:00am. Fanime is offering the use of the Exhibition Hall after the Swap Meet to us. The conditions are they need an approximate headcount and anyone who participates must have a valid Fanime badge.

Reactions? Responses? I made no commitment (not my place to do so) but did say I would get the word out and get responses from everyone.

EDIT: Fanime is the last weekend of May.

Post by **Zaage** » Sun May 08, 2011 7:43 pm

...wait, use it for what?

COP-Tim · Post by **COP-Tim** » Sun May 08, 2011 8:03 pm

They will leave it up to us...a friend of mine who shadowed a while back is Staff for Fanime and heard a few of us from Game also go to Fanime. They are not going to use the space after the Swap Meet and offered it to us for PR (or something like that).

If I sound vague...it is because I do not know much myself. The Division Head is talking to my friend who is relaying the information to me.

Post by **MrMacabee** » Sun May 08, 2011 9:00 pm

I'm going to be in Madison, Winsconsin, for a feminist science-fiction convention that Friday, myself.

But it would be funny to phone into game for a little while from there.

TeganAdams · Post by **TeganAdams** » Mon May 09, 2011 9:47 pm

I'll be herding hapless Troubleshooters at BayCon.

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Hamish MacNeil · Post by **Hamish MacNeil** » Mon May 09, 2011 10:24 pm

I'll be running the gaming department for BayCon, and thus, not likely to be able to be at Fanime.

Post by **Ralph** » Mon May 09, 2011 10:44 pm

Flare at Baycon, myself.

Isabella · Post by **Isabella** » Mon May 09, 2011 10:52 pm

I'll be at fanime but i don't know if i'll want to go to game or not or game at fanime or not. It's one of those sorts of things where I usually do it as a whim.

Verdi · Post by **Verdi** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:11 am

Would we need a friday or saturday badge?

hmm, it might be interesting to have an event there, but it would be 1am, and I think a lot of people might be tuckered out for RP at that point. I know by midnight i'm usually dragging my feet.

Unless we were doing some awesome IC event I think i'd probably pass just because of how late it is.

Cynthia L. · Post by **Cynthia L.** » Tue May 10, 2011 10:40 pm

I will be going to fanime. And will probably have a pass, but i don't know what I'll do for game...

MaxisG · Post by **MaxisG** » Thu May 12, 2011 3:35 pm

I will be attending Fanime, and I still curse those who decide to hold BayCon and KhublaCon on the same weekend. As for gaming, I would see (given the time) that it would be unlikely to be used for this as I doubt most will want to shift the normal 8-12 gaming time to like 1-5 am if thats what I'm hearing.

Another question is whether there will be game that week as it seems by the response to this, there will be a lot people going to Fanime and BayCon (do we have any KhublaCon'ers here?) so I'm not sure how many people will be at game.

Cynthia L. · Post by **Cynthia L.** » Thu May 12, 2011 4:15 pm

MaxisG wrote: and I still curse those who decide to hold BayCon and KhublaCon on the same weekend.

From what I've heard, fanime was originally a part of BayCon... And that it branched off due to what ever reason they had.

MaxisG · Post by **MaxisG** » Thu May 12, 2011 7:35 pm

Cynthia: Still annoying as...well..I like sci-fi, gaming, and anime! I want it all, but they have them all on the same weekend. Doh.

Hamish MacNeil · Post by **Hamish MacNeil** » Thu May 12, 2011 8:27 pm

Fanime did in fact branch off of BayCon, and before it moved on to BayCon's weekend, about 90% of Fanime's staff also worked BayCon.

Unfortunately, due to a bit of a pissing match between certain persons within the two organizations, Fanime moved to BayCon's weekend, and in the process lost the vast majority of their experienced staff.

As one who used to work both conventions, I could go in to more detail on things, but I don't really think that anybody here would want to read it.

Post by **Lindsay** » Thu May 12, 2011 9:48 pm

Yes - there will be game that week.
I know that we will be a smaller game - but I always hold game on con weeks if for no other reason than so that those of us who DON'T do cons - still have something to do!

Post by **Calixte Peregrine** » Thu May 12, 2011 10:20 pm

MaxisG wrote:I will be attending Fanime, and I still curse those who decide to hold BayCon and KhublaCon on the same weekend. As for gaming, I would see (given the time) that it would be unlikely to be used for this as I doubt most will want to shift the normal 8-12 gaming time to like 1-5 am if thats what I'm hearing.

Another question is whether there will be game that week as it seems by the response to this, there will be a lot people going to Fanime and BayCon (do we have any KhublaCon'ers here?) so I'm not sure how many people will be at game.

To be fair, Fanime is the con that decided to do the same weekend as Khubla and BayCon. I don't know how long Khubla has been running, but BayCon has been around for almost 30 years and has been on that weekend since 1985.

Post by **Calixte Peregrine** » Thu May 12, 2011 10:22 pm

Hamish MacNeil wrote:Fanime did in fact branch off of BayCon, and before it moved on to BayCon's weekend, about 90% of Fanime's staff also worked BayCon.

Unfortunately, due to a bit of a pissing match between certain persons within the two organizations, Fanime moved to BayCon's weekend, and in the process lost the vast majority of their experienced staff.

As one who used to work both conventions, I could go in to more detail on things, but I don't really think that anybody here would want to read it.

Famine started as a very little con at college, I believe, with a lot of its staff also being BayCon staff, but it didn't split off from the BayCon anime room or anything.

Hamish MacNeil · Post by **Hamish MacNeil** » Fri May 13, 2011 12:04 am

Calixte Peregrine wrote:
Hamish MacNeil wrote:Fanime did in fact branch off of BayCon, and before it moved on to BayCon's weekend, about 90% of Fanime's staff also worked BayCon.

Unfortunately, due to a bit of a pissing match between certain persons within the two organizations, Fanime moved to BayCon's weekend, and in the process lost the vast majority of their experienced staff.

As one who used to work both conventions, I could go in to more detail on things, but I don't really think that anybody here would want to read it.
Famine started as a very little con at college, I believe, with a lot of its staff also being BayCon staff, but it didn't split off from the BayCon anime room or anything.

You're right... it was a different anime con that branched off of BayCon, it wasn't Fanime.

Isabella · Post by **Isabella** » Fri May 13, 2011 1:40 am

regardless of it's origins I will be at Fanime as will Tom. If we decide we need gameage we will drive to Mountainview. But we haven't decided yet.

ClawOfBastet · Post by **ClawOfBastet** » Fri May 13, 2011 1:04 pm

Just gonna say I'm going. And I'm cosplaying. :3

Post by **Calixte Peregrine** » Fri May 13, 2011 4:38 pm

Hamish MacNeil wrote:
Calixte Peregrine wrote:
Hamish MacNeil wrote:Fanime did in fact branch off of BayCon, and before it moved on to BayCon's weekend, about 90% of Fanime's staff also worked BayCon.

Unfortunately, due to a bit of a pissing match between certain persons within the two organizations, Fanime moved to BayCon's weekend, and in the process lost the vast majority of their experienced staff.

As one who used to work both conventions, I could go in to more detail on things, but I don't really think that anybody here would want to read it.
Famine started as a very little con at college, I believe, with a lot of its staff also being BayCon staff, but it didn't split off from the BayCon anime room or anything.
You're right... it was a different anime con that branched off of BayCon, it wasn't Fanime.

Not to hijack the thread (much)... was that anime america?

MaxisG · Post by **MaxisG** » Sun May 15, 2011 6:57 pm

Thank you guys for the history guys. As for game, I'm gonna have to figure things out a bit. I will probably end up at game.

Post by **FawnBusko** » Sun May 15, 2011 10:12 pm

If I read this right, the invite is past 1am... that'll be too late for me to remain coherent and drivable.

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