/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8979983
You are really cute!!

>>8864769
i was at one this past weekend, friend invited me. Havent been to one since highschool back in 2006 for Otakon. Felt slightly old and out of my element with these people. but here we go!
>be me, successful 29yr old with good full-time job working part-time hours
>anime, japanese anything were my teen years, grown past that
>friend is like "hey we should go back to X"
>im like "yeah i hear they got like 100,000 people now, remember when it was just 11,000 and fucking crowded? how the fuck is it now?"
>friend mentions local con right in our backyard has been going on for a few yrs
>groupon FTW
>mentions video game tournaments
>MK8, sm4sh, persona, the works...
>sign up for MK8 because Ive grown up with that shit since '92
>round 1 = me, some kid in costume with mask, 2 others (one was a literal n00b by definition)
>race #1 ends and I already feel guilty for winning
>i move to round 2 after four races and I tell them "sorry" for making it unfair for them (i did cheer the girl because she somehow trolled the finish line and placed second in a few races)
>round 2, close races I once again handicap myself and pick base mario and base cart/wheel/glider
>red shell aggro all 4 races, somehow finish second. Number of players results in final right consisting of 1st and 2nd place in both heats. So i move to finals
>Final round: me, the guy who looks like he mains metaknight, luigi playing as luigi, and some guy who does all the local tournaments in my area cause everyone knew who he was...
>easy first win
>good come back in race 2 for 2nd
>fucked sideways for a 3rd place finish in race 3
>rainbow road, 4th place, final lap, final stretch to the finish
>item? bullet bill
>trolled my way to victory and the tournament win
>"GG" to my peers, and a grammys style thank you to RNG

outside of this tournament i participated in, I found myself kinda missing it all. The panels, the dealers, the art, the "hey! look! it's X!" moments.