AX2000 Karaoke Contest

-- A coverage by Duo-kun...

Hey everybody, this is my little tribute to all the people involved with the Karaoke Contest at Anime-Expo. Here, I'll provide information regarding the staff and the contestant as best as I can.

A little history:

The karaoke contest has been held at the Anime-Expo for the past three years now (starting in AX98 - duh! I wasn't at that one...)

AX98 Karaoke - Pioneered by Luke Gottlieb
Winner -- Hong Kwon
AX99 Karaoke - New management by Hong Kwon & Hank Wong
Judges -- Luke Gottlieb, Ryan Omega, Lesley Tanaka & Hiroki ???
Winners -- TJ Zhao and Nick Balleza

AX2000 Karaoke has the largest staff yet with both new and old faces. Hopefully they will continue their work along with more new faces (maybe even me) for the coming years. The picture to the right is Hank Wong, The Grand Admiral of AX2000 Karaoke!

The staff: (who'd I miss??)

Hong Kwon - Karaoke Czar

- Overall head guy and did tech stuff... :b

Hank Wong - Grand Admiral of AX Karaoke

- Contest guidelines/scoring and did some tech stuff

Stella Kim - Karaoke Nazi

- Breeder of killer bunnies and registration & procurement

Stanley Chen - Chief Technical Officer

- Tech guy & head of Open Mic

Luke Gottlieb - Lord High Executioner

- Master of Ceremony

Ryan Omega - Hey, he didn't get a "Stella-badge"??

- Judge, some tech & some MC'ing

Phillip Yee - Yeoman Purser

- Judge & some MC'ing

Tommy Pedrini - Junior Boy-toy

- Judge & some MC'ing (you have to see his costume)

Lesley Tanaka - Karaoke Dominatrix

- The sign-up & lyrics girl

Judy Wang - Pathfinder Extraordinaire

- Another sign-up & lyrics girl & procurement

AX Staff:
Brant Pellett - LP3 Room, supervisor
Dennis Carr - LP3 Room, technical staff

- "Please do not yell into the mics..."

Maria Fe Chaparro - Volunteer
Jennie Vonguith - Volunteer

- (Thank you for helping me pass out the info sheets!)

The Judges:
Preliminary Round:

Erin Frost, Jennifer Lau, Ryan Omega, Chow Suchintamai, Phillip Yee

Semi-Finals/Finals:

Stephanie Gonzalez, Ryan Omega, Tommy Pedrini, Emily Roh, Phillip Yee

And a bunch of other people who just helped out... thank you all!!

Without further ado...
... The AX2000 Karaoke Contest!!

The Preliminaries
Pics and info of the FOUR hour event...
45 contest entries, 55 contestants, 59 screenshots... this is one long page :b
The Semi-Finals
Another HOUR AND A HALF...
Bigger and better screen captures of the 15 semi-finalists plus intermission scenes...
The Finals!!
And the FINAL HOUR...
All done! Pics, ~~AVI's!!~~ and contestant profiles of the Finals...

If you have any comments, please mail me at:
duo_kun_2000@yahoo.com