anime boston 2008

[nakanosan]

I was just asking Lou if he'd send me the info for the Ranger that requested their panel and see if she wanted to do it.

Then i figure we run it by Ada (since she's in charge of the regular catch-a-barrel) and see if it would be alright

i figure after that we can get the barrels made and have the little scorecards, two MSA's and two RRs, one for each group on each different barrel.

[fullflame]

OK. i think it's about time i use this sugar rush to my advantage (i get CRAZY ideas when this happens)

ok the blue and red buckets are good. what we do is POSSIBLY have red and blue tape of some sort and if it's possible put it on their nametags or something so we can tell if they're a ranger or skirt. and maybe not directly on the tags, like maybe on the string part of the tag.
OR
we could have it be if ur wearing blue or a skirt ur a skirt, and red or long black pants or something. (though my al cosplayer would be a skirt) or if they're basically a character that supports ed or something, like winry or alphonse or alfonse.. same for the skirts, cosplayers like hughes (then gracia and elysia by default there), havoc and hawkeye.

and an idea for the buckets. (oh gosh this is exciting)
i've seen funny warning signs on the buckets before and here's some ideas for that:
well here's a warning label for it, my friend's pic came out a little fuzzy actually, though you get the point. it was on both buckets:
s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc289/kronis18/aac07/random/?action=view¤t=bucket.jpg
it's basically the pic with the kid falling in the bucket, but with ed, the warning's something like "keep away from alchemists (or something) because they might drown" or SOMETHING like that. with ed falling in.and maybe that and/or a warning sign that says "flamable objects contained, keep flame alchemists away" possibly have the first one for the skirt barrel and the second for the ranger barrel.

then on the top of each barrel it has a drawn pic of either the leader or their character doing something.
i'll have it so like 1 of skirts would be with 1 of rangers type thing.
skirt possibilities:
1. travis/roy holding the bucket above vic/ed's head while vic/ed is reaching up for it and there's some skirts in the backround watching or something.
2. the mustang gang (hughes, havoc, hawkeye, fuery) with travis and roy back-to-back in the middle.
3. roy and travis chasing off vic and ed with flames while holding the bucket. (or having hughes/sonny or a skirt hold it)
4. travis and a buncha his characters: roy, ginko, ace

rangers:
1. ( i got nothing >.< no advantages to shortness!)
2. ed/vic and al/aaron both back-to-back with a few supporting characters around them. and some rangers too.
3. ed transmuting his arm into a blade and vic holding a light-saber chasing roy and travis while holding the bucket (or having al/aaron or a ranger hold it)
4. vic and some of his characters: ed, dark, fai

now. for the score keeping i have a simple idea:
on each bucket have 2 papers on opposate sides of the bucket. each bordered with either red or blue.
~now a little extra would be like in the middle or on the corners have the emblems for each team (red side have ranger's emblem, blue have skirt's emblem)
-and each paper is cut in half. top is where the names of everybody goes, bottom is where the points go. but make sure to have a little extra room on the top so people can put checks also next to their names for when they win so they can kee track of who got what points.
~also, each bucket has different colored markers, skirts- blue, rangers- red

now all that's left i think the the side opposate the warning sign, OR we could do both of those ideas i put up there and put them on opposate sides. though now that i think of it there needs to be space for the rules~

so there ya go everyone. skirt vs ranger capture the barrel.

OH and one last thing. IF we do do this. can we please end it before the masq. PLEASE! because i'll most likely be leaving before the masq. and last time i was part of the barrel, i had to leave before we got the prize.

so~ if anybody wants to add to it or whatever go ahead. i might nd just go find another place to put this so we can make it official or something. or at least easier to choose the different things and stuff and yeah~ i'm ranting.

[nakanosan]

if we stop it saturday, we'll have to make so someone's counting (prefferably not Gaara or I) during our panel... because we have one that ends right before the masq.

We'd also somehow have to get the rangers and skirts toghether in one place...

(I'll ask our Ranger buddy if we could possibly announce it during their panel... hopefully i'm not in the ADG at that time)

And if we're ending it so early Saturday, then would we be able to run it friday as well? just so both teams have a fighting chance to get some real points?

Lol to get all those things on the buckets, FullFlame, we're gonna have to get some BIIIIG buckets

[fullflame]

ok. that just made me go crazy again. >.< i can't type fast enough!!!!

ok general, the buckets at another anime con HAD all this stuff on it actually! (well maybe not TWO warnings) so i think it should be fine really. i could probobly make them IF somebody could do the art and stuff for me and send it to me via e-mail or something. trust me i know what size we'd need, and i'm pretty sure we have enough buckets around my house for it. (we have a pool that needs a lot of clorine [along with a hot-tub] and for some other stuff too.

so really if anybody could make the tops and the pics for the warning things then i could actually make the rest of it and be just fine! we just need the OK to do it.

and of course we can start it on friday, that'd make it even more fun. though we'd need somebody to hold onto them over night.

and don't worry about filling them, usually it's just candy so what we could do is get a big cheep-o bag of it (or maybe 2) and split them between the buckets.

wait. thought prosses- i can't make the buckets if we start it on friday actually. BUT! i can make kinda rough versions of it and take pics so we know what to do and stuff probobly.

i'm actually asking around for better pics of the bucket from aac. so maybe we'll have a better idea for it soon!
here's the best pic i've found so far of part of one of them.
s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc289/kronis18/aac07/random/?action=view¤t=civilionsvsmilitary.jpg
but this is how the points where basically set up really. next to the other side of the word military i think is the rules. and i think on the other side of the "civilian captures" is the warning thing, then the military captures.

i think there's a video on youtube that has some of the winners (actually some of my friends) skipping around looking for the person to officially do the bucket stuff. you get a better look at them actually at some point as well. also there's a video i put on youtube that shows the bucket for a bit as well. and i think hawkeye explains it a bit ass well.
here's my video. go about 10 seconds in adn i start talking about it: youtube.com/watch?v=lvLucAG_goc ((if you keep watching, you see me in my ed cosplay )
also, i found somebody on youtube who actually got some pics of last year's anime boston capture the barrel game stuff: s153.photobucket.com/albums/s203/ebiru666/anime%20boston/Barrel%20war/
and here's the winners (some of them) holding the buckets from AAC07: s153.photobucket.com/albums/s203/ebiru666/another%20anime%20con/?action=view¤t=acc2171.jpg

then last but not least SOMEBODY actually got the rules on one of the buckets: s153.photobucket.com/albums/s203/ebiru666/another%20anime%20con/?action=view¤t=acc2169.jpg

[nakanosan]

lol well, Raver did say she could put the buckets together, so no worries there... as long as we have the piccehs to put on them and the OK to do this, we're good I do believe.

^_^

looks like i may have to hunt up some big bags of candy...

when're you getting to AB again, Gaara?

[fullflame]

ok. I'll start working on some of the stuff asap!

if we can't get a pic for the tops, we'll just put the emblems on the top

and don't forget to look around for some blue tape of some sort (mainly for the bucket. maybe for the teams possibly to make sure who's on what team)

ok. i noticed something, we haven't even told anybody what it really is.
well it's basically 2 teams (i'll use us and the rangers as an example) are at the con. and somebody (usually staff, but in our case it's nakano-san) makes the buckets and puts them out for a day (but for us we're thinking of 2 days) and it's this:
2 buckets, each bucket is decorated for each team, like the msa would be blue and rangers- red.
and in the bucket is candy or something. to get points for each team it's a game of rock paper scissors. and the loser can't challange that same person for 10 minutes.
now the ownership of each bucket is basically whoever wins the match. only ONE person at a time can "own the bucket", but remeber there's two.
usually after the masq (in our case before the masq) the buckets are brought to the staff member (probobly nakano, or me possibly) who made the buckets ect. points are counted on both buckets and the team with the most points wins BOTH buckets.
usually there's like candy or something in the bucket for the winners btw.

[nakanosan]

i'lll look for some at the craft store when i go to get my yellow ribbon to finish Havoc this weekend

[ravergaara]

i am going to be at AB either thursday night or friday morning. early friday
i can do all the bucket stuff if someone sends me pics
([e-mail])

one thing i will say is, i dont think we should do indivduals names, just the two teams, otherwise peoples names takes up space etc.
and if we cant do buckets, then what about flags?
that might actually be better cuz you can see them from farther away and one can be blue and the other red, each with some white at the bottom for tallies
avoiding the bucket means that other people wont get confused thinking that its part of the cosplot, which means its more likely to be approved
i know that both the MSA and RR have there panles on saturday, and what time is both of those panels at?

[nakanosan]

ours was moved back to 11 i believe, and RR is slated for during the time of the general admission anime dating game

I dunno so much about the flags, because even with perminant marker, depending on the fabric the tallies could get smudged off or other such things...

[fullflame]

ok ok ok. there's a problem with it. sometimes people are on both buckets and it gets confusing. and just put the name on the name tag, but if there's isn't much room we can just do points. but i think MAYBE we could at least have a place to put the names down, not the points next to the names and the points.

and the flags, maybe, BUT the bucket/barrel is so we can put the prize inside of it. and the flag is kinda like a sign and i asked if we could brings signs to ab and they said no. of course there's some acceptions, but for this i'm pretty sure it'd be no. PLUS that'd break the point of th "capture the barrel" game.

and there has been buckets/barrel at anime boston before, i saw it A LOT. and i wasn't even cosplaying, though i was wondering what it was, i found out at AAC for it.

and we'll put some rules like "no hiding the bucket under costume" and stuff like that.

i'm going to be making some basic lay-outs for the buckets asap, and typing out the rules from a pic i put above. (trust me. i need something to do pretty badly)

and i think we go with the emblems actually, it would probobly be more simpler than having somebody draw some stuff for us.

[nakanosan]

I'd do it if i wasn't drowning in college work and cosplay stuffs right now...

but the emblems will be fine, I think

The barrels are at AB for cosplot purposes (i was asked to hold one as Alucard last year), but there barrels are white, where ours would be blue/red, so it wouldn't be as completely confusing... lol

[ravergaara]

forgot about the sign rule...
so should have it end prolly at the start of the MSA panel.
and was it the MSA panel that was pushed back till 11? or the Fullmetal Legal?

and isnt 11 the time of the FMA photoshoot?

i wouldnt mind sitting in the corner of the MSA panel and counting the tallies. it should only take about a minute or five.
it can be announced at somepoint during the panel, and then at the RR panel.
someone said they were checking to see if we could do it, right?
once we get approval, i can do everything. its not a big deal.

[fullflame]

it is? i wonder if we'll get a change again. -looks over to nakano- it is possible
but wait. isn't it at 11:30? we'll still have time for the fma photoshoot if it is then. >.< i didn't know about it, *begs* please panel, be at 11:30 *goes to check*

i've made rough scetches of the bucket lay-outs so far XD i'm THAT crazy, yes. i'll possibly have 2, but i think i can do one.

i just have a few questions~ where can we get blue and red ducktape, or really any kinda tape at all that sticks good. and is it expensive? because the ideas i have it where the bucket is mostly covered. and the papers are bordered with it to keep them there a little easier

also~ i might be able to get a digital copy of the warning from the AAC bucket actually. i luv friends with friends

[ravergaara]

i have some blue and red ducttape somewhere in my house, it will prolly take me a day to find it. ;D

i may have been wrong about the photoshoot time... dont trust what i said, i space out on things...

if you wanna send me the designs i can make them, and upload them hopefully by the end of the week, if not then hopefully next week

[fullflame]

ok. i think i've got everything. now all that's left is the typing out stuff. i'll send the blueprints to you asap.

i really have no life do i? XD