FrankCastleAZ

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated as I’ve been extremely busy, but it’s time to catch up with what’s happened in the past and look at some things in the short term and long term future.

List of things I’ll be writing about:
(This will likely be edited with more material as it comes to me)

Personal Life-

Living Situation (From house in South Phoenix to Apartment in Tempe)
Girlfriend Update
New Years Resolutions

Personal Media-

Video Games acquired recently
Video Games I’ve beat in 2009
Video Games I’ve beat in 2010
Mentions on Cheap Ass Gamer Podcasts
Anime I’ve seen recently
Comics I’ve read recently
TV Shows I’ve seen recently
Thoughts on recent writing of Punisher comics
Recent success of my NFL team New Orleans Saints in Regular Season and entrance in Playoffs

Business AZHP-

Conventions and Events Past
Photography and Video at Conventions and Events
Video Game Equipment and Games acquired for AZHP
Video Game Equipment and Games acquired for resale
Arcade Machine Restoration and Customization
Connnections with Others

Business Misc-

Webhosting for NyuNyuCosplay
Webhosting for AIComics

Business Project X-

Minor Filming Details
Website Building/Finalizing
Connections with Others

I have a lot of catching up to do!

-FrankCastleAZ

I’m attending Animeland TuCon this weekend on Saturday and Sunday with my girlfriend and helping AZHP and the Con Gaming Staff. It should be much bigger than it was last year  considering they had 150+ people at the most recent official meet and greet (attendance barely over 100 in 2008 not including staff and volunteers).

AZHP Convention Gaming Tournament Schedule for Animeland TuCon 2009:

Friday
3PM to 5PM Dr. Mario (Wii)
5PM to 7PM Mario Kart (Wii)
7PM to close Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii)

Saturday
Noon to 2PM BlazBlue (PS3)
2PM to 4PM Super Puzzle Fighter (PS3)
6PM to 8PM Street Fighter IV (PS3)
8PM to 10PM Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection (PS3)

Sunday
11AM to 1PM Call of Duty 4 (360)
1PM to 3PM King of Fighters XII (360)
3PM to 5PM Soul Calibur 4 (360)

Besides helping occasionally with the gaming tournaments, I might have a panel with a few of the other community leaders informing people of year round options to get involved with the Anime/Cosplay/Gaming community as a whole. Not entirely sure who will be involved, but I’m fairly certain there’s TASS (Tucson Animation Screening Society), Aftercon, AZHP, SunaCosu and maybe some recently formed Tucson Cosplay group. I’m not sure how many would attend, or whether they’d actually join the communities after the convention, but it’s worth a try. Most attendees to conventions only give a shit about the once a year event(s) and don’t bother with anything else, which is unfortunate. We’ll see what happens.

I will primarily be taking a lot of video at the convention (not just gaming tournaments), as that’s the #1 thing people like to see after a convention is over. Hopefully it will bring people into AZHP and they can become more active in year round events.

See you there!

-FrankCastleAZ

On Wednesday, I took the tour of the hotel for SabotenCon 2009. It’s a nice hotel although it seems quite small for a convention expecting 800-1000 attendees.

Rather than attendees complaining about a lot of people in a bunch of small hallways like last year, they’ll be complaining about a lot of people in the main hotel lobby.  Oh well, people will ALWAYS complain.

AZHP’s Gaming Room at SabotenCon 2009 will be the Kachina Room A+B which is a combined 1200 square feet. It’s the second smallest space we’ve had in all of our convention gaming rooms but I guess that will make it easier on a staff level. I’m worried about us breaking fire code though and it means we may not be able to run tournaments if any at all.

Here’s the layout and some pics

We’ll see what we can do

-FrankCastleAZ