World Cosplay Summit Philippines 2018 is on!

Get to know the dates for the qualifier legs Note: This post will be constantly updated, so bookmark this page. Updates shall also be announced on my Twitter @jayagonoy. It’s that time once again for the World Cosplay Summit Philippines Qualifiers season, and I proposed to the WCSPH Committee my concept of laying out the coverage of the different legs which will happen in the country. The result is the image in the right. ...

October 6, 2017 · 1 min

We have more than just three winners at the 2017 World Cosplay Summit Championship

Team China’s performance during the 1st Stage of the World Cosplay Summit 2017 Championship held last August 5 in Nagoya, Japan. [Photo: Mantan Web] Team China is 2017 World Cosplay Summit Champion Team China, composed of Xue Yan Xue and Tian Tian, has been selected as the Champion in the World Cosplay Summit 2017 Championship held at the Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya, Japan last Sunday, August 6th. Xue Yan Xue and Tian Tian performed a scene from the animated film “Blood: The Last Vampire.” Team China’s win is expected as they have won three awards, including the Laguna Ten Bosch Performance award, NicoNico Viewers’ Choice award, and the AirAsia Award in which its CEO Tony Fernandes was also present to give the award. ...

August 5, 2017 · 2 min

What it’s like to hold a World Cosplay Summit qualifier in Zamboanga?

Team Symphony of Swords, the Philippine representatives to the 2017 World Cosplay Summit, selected among seven teams during the National Finals at the 16th Philippine ToyCon inside SMX Manila last Sunday, July 2. [Interview] The WCS ZamPen qualifying round in the viewpoint of its event director Amidst all of the brouhaha happening in southern Philippines, one thing’s for sure: This year’s Philippine representatives to the World Cosplay Summit, for the 5th time since we first entered in 2013 as an observer nation, are from this part of the country. ...

July 4, 2017 · 4 min

Zamboanga Team selected as World Cosplay Summit 2017 PH representative

The Philippine representative to the 2017 World Cosplay Summit has been selected at ToyCon 2017 x PopLife FanXperience held last July 1 (Finals Night) and 2 (Awarding) at the SMX Convention Center Manila. Among the seven qualified pairs who hail from five cities in the country, Lara Florentes and John Daryl Pioquinto of Team Symphony of Swords from the Zamboanga Peninsula has been selected to represent the Philippines as a competitor in the World Cosplay Summit to be held from July 29 to August 6 in Nagoya, Japan. ...

July 2, 2017 · 3 min

World Cosplay Summit Philippines National Finals at ToyCon 2017 on July 1

World Cosplay Summit Philippines National Finals at ToyCon 2017 on July 1 A quick reminder to all — the World Cosplay Summit Philippines National Finals (#WCSPH) will be held at ToyCon 2017 this July 1, Saturday. Aside from the competitors from Manila, Bicol and Davao, we now have competitors from Bacolod (selected during the Ambox’s Visayas Cosplay Summit qualifiers). To recap — In Manila, two pairs are selected by default in December last year. [Read more: https://jayagonoy.com/team-reality-team-kanor-cubes-to-represent-ncr-in-wcsph-2017-ac95f158e0a3] ...

June 22, 2017 · 1 min

“Team Reality,” “Team Kanor Cubes” to represent NCR in WCSPH 2017

Part of the activities during the Toys and Collectibles Fair of the Asian Comics, Toys and Hobbies Collective at the Megatrade Hall 2 last December 18 is the NCR Qualifiers for World Cosplay Summit Philippines 2017. Team Reality (who did a skit from Sword Art Online) and Team Kanor Cubes (who did a Nintendo-inspired skit) were declared winners by default. According to WCSPH, there are supposed to be three pairs who will compete. ...

December 20, 2016 · 1 min

Team Philippines among 18 teams selected for WCS 2016 Second Stage

I think I’m liking Yukari of Team Starseeker more now this happened: Those shades, guys. Those shades with LED lights in it. Seven countries must be also hyped right now This has been a very hyper day for everyone watching the 2016 World Cosplay Summit Championships, as the Philippine team is selected in the second stage (which I refer to as the “Championship Finals”). This is the same case for South Korea, Germany, Denmark, France, Finland, Japan and Hong Kong as there has been some gaffes, whether in the side of these teams or in the side of WCS: ...

August 5, 2016 · 2 min

WCS 2016: 30 teams in 2 groups vie for 16 finals slots

We have yet to see our team’s profile on the World Cosplay Summit website, but that can wait. This year’s World Cosplay Summit must be the hardest so far. https://www.facebook.com/CPlayer/posts/10154091344480804:0 ust a quick update on World Cosplay Summit 2016— last year, the Championships was held on just one Saturday, but now, things have changed. Take a look at this photo shared by the World Cosplay Summit Philippines (WCSPH) on Facebook (above) — there are two groups, Group A and Group B. The Philippines is in Group B, #25 on the sequence. Each group has 15 country-teams. ...

July 14, 2016 · 2 min

Team Starseeker

Let’s take a look at our 2016 delegates to the World Cosplay Summit Sending this video here for everyone to see — this is a video from Davao, where Team Starseeker won the WCSPH National Finals for 2016 and will represent the country in the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Japan. I’ve taken a look at the Facebook profiles of the team, and based on their info, both of them are craftsmakers, who own their own respective cosplay craft shops. One of them, Yukari(who also posts under the name “Endlesseight Cosplay”), also served as co-host of the 7th Mindanao Toy Convention of Gaisano Mall Davao (not associated with ToyCon PH). ...

July 4, 2016 · 1 min

WCSPH National Finals in Davao this July 2

Hi everyone, Just in case you missed it, I wrote about the World Cosplay Summit Philippines’ National Finals which will be held this year in Davao. I took the move to chat with our teams from NCR, and I’ve posted it on the web log. I hope that by at least sharing this to you, we will have a trace of what’s WCSPH in the metro, as it’s mostly promoted proactively in Mindanao, and I want to do my share of promoting it here in Manila. ...

June 25, 2016 · 1 min