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Another Year, Another Karaoke Coverage...

For anyone reading this RIGHT NOW... GO AWAY... it's under construction


Welcome back for those who actually follow this event at Anime-Expo. "Hao" to all the contestants checking in to see what evil picture I have of them posted. For those who just wandered in... check out all three years of coverage from 2000-2002! There are lots of talent and much otaku-ness within. Enjoy your stay.

Anyway, I am very brain-dead this year so I'm just gonna skip right on over to the staff and sponsor list so you can get on with the rest of the actual contest coverage!

p.s. This year I actually have pics of most of the staff, so if you want to put faces to the hard working people who brings you karaoke at Anime-Expo, this year's coverage is the one to read.


THE SPONSORS

Um... I'll fill it in later... I know Konami sponsored the prelims -_-


THE STAFF

Hank Wong
- AX Karaoke Coordinator

Luke Gottlieb & Dominic Nguyen
- Masters of Ceremony

Karen & Stephanie
- Contest Check-in and Scoring (Prelims)

Tanzy, Karen & Stephanie
- Contest Check-in and Scoring (Semis/Finals)

Rob Pereyda
- Prelims tech

Rob & two "nameless" LP2 VTech Staff
- Semis/Finals tech



SPECIAL THANKS TO...

  • "Athena" and "Naveed", for once again helping me run the camera... without them I'd probably be seriously sore and cranky... (cranky Duo = bad)
  • Serena El-Farra aka SadSiren and Mark "Chocoboy" Thorne (Anrui's friend) who were drafted to help me with the contestant information slips during the preliminary round...
  • ... and Maho-shoujo Davon-chan! for doing the same during the semi-finals and finals

  • Luke for the design assistance and production of the buttons and mic trophies...
  • Kirsten Chan who actually drew that lovely singing angel...
  • Lena Kao who actually built the Golden Mic trophies...

  • Eileen for translating for the Japanese judges

    I put Hank's special thanks post on the rants page... (READ ME!)


    THE JUDGES

    Preliminary Round:
  • Tanzy (of Strange Candy), Tommy Pedrini & Evelyn Yu (of Cats on Mars), Mandy Lee (AX2001 Individual Winner) and Van Nguyen (part of Otagen, AX2001 Group Winner)

    Semi-Finals
  • Tommy and Evelyn again, Jon Shin (head of Otagen, AX2001 Group Winner), Joey Carbone (music composer/producer), Jonathan Osborne (American voice actor) and Kumiko Hakibara (Japanese voice acting student)

    Additional Judge for the Finals
  • Ryuji Mizuki (Japanese stage and voice actor)


    Okay, FINALLY! The AX2002 Karaoke Contest!!

    • The Preliminaries
      Same-o same-o format...
      41 contest entries, 55 contestants, 62 itty bitty screenshots...
    • The Semi-Finals
      The top 17 entries this year (12 individuals and 5 groups)
    • The Finals!!
      The final ? groups and ? individuals...
    If you have any comments, please mail me at:
    duo_kun_2000@yahoo.com