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Tips for Masquerade Contestants
1. This is a science fiction and fantasy convention. Don't wear something that anyone could see on any mundane walking down the street. If you simply HAVE to wear that plain brown dress, at least stick a fucking antennae on your head and call yourself an alien!
2. No one except the workmanship judges will care that you used 3.48478 cm beading with a left-handed rawler and genuine alpaca-hide feathering. Make a costume that's interesting to look at, or show us some skin.
3. This is a costume contest, not a dance competition. Stop dancing. Show the damned costume and get off the stage.
4. Stop hurting our ears. Record your music at a reasonable level.
5. Don't bore us with your interminable narration. We don't give a shit about the history of Queen Aphasia, Empress of the Sixth Scrotumverse or whatever the hell she is. We know damned well that she's your LARP PC, and we don't care.
6. Have a sense of humor. One good laugh is worth ten thousand hand-crafted beads. On second thought, make that ten million.
7. Take it easy on Marty. Give your entry a pronouncable name. And if your own name is unusual, include a phonetic translation.
8. Speed it up! Any entry that takes more than ten seconds to present had damned well better be REALLY funny, feature an incredible special effect (and no, special beading doesn't count), or be modeled by someone seriously hot.
2. No one except the workmanship judges will care that you used 3.48478 cm beading with a left-handed rawler and genuine alpaca-hide feathering. Make a costume that's interesting to look at, or show us some skin.
3. This is a costume contest, not a dance competition. Stop dancing. Show the damned costume and get off the stage.
4. Stop hurting our ears. Record your music at a reasonable level.
5. Don't bore us with your interminable narration. We don't give a shit about the history of Queen Aphasia, Empress of the Sixth Scrotumverse or whatever the hell she is. We know damned well that she's your LARP PC, and we don't care.
6. Have a sense of humor. One good laugh is worth ten thousand hand-crafted beads. On second thought, make that ten million.
7. Take it easy on Marty. Give your entry a pronouncable name. And if your own name is unusual, include a phonetic translation.
8. Speed it up! Any entry that takes more than ten seconds to present had damned well better be REALLY funny, feature an incredible special effect (and no, special beading doesn't count), or be modeled by someone seriously hot.