Where does /cgl/ hang? Went by myself, cuz my friends ditch me at the last minutes. So lonely.

Theres a clg meetup today i think its at 8. Go there if ur alone to make new friends. Its outside west hall. I might be wrong though.

Personally, I'd put Taylor on blast for being a terrible manager and a liar to his face, but I've got actual work I'm doing this weekend.

I'm sure someone else will show up though. With all the staff/volunteer accounts of what happened, I'm sure some anon or anons will show up.

Con gripe is an excuse. No one gets to say anything criticizing since the goons shut people up.

Someone please visit us in the West Hall weapons check booth. We're bored out of our mind. At least we got to laugh at Magumas gyno.

Let's get everyone up to speed
>Long ass hours at reg
>Taylor fires someone for breaking a TV
>Corruption everywhere

What else did I miss?

>>6953117
Fire Marshall warnings, canceled events.

>>6953115
I've been passing you guys a lot
Maybe I'll say hi sometime this weekend

>>6953115
I'll be there tomorrow.

>>6952642 (OP)
is clark cheating on his gf again this year?

So the Weapons Policy table has moved to the foyer in West Hall near the info booth.

Oh god the boredom. ;____;

>>6952642 (OP)
Hey post how they fucked dealers on load in a couple years back. It was the year with vuvuzelas. That's why a lot dealers wont do that show. Ever since they left Anaheim, we make less money. LACC is a terrible location for a show as small as AX. Might as well suck dick to get into SDCC.

also thanks for posting this.

>Got tired of being lonely at AX
>Bought 12 can of beers
>Drink alone in hotel room

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>>6953265
why not invite a gril

>>6953249

I remember that year it was well over $1500 for a spot or some ridiculous amount.

>>6953249
What the hell are you talking about? The Dealer's Hall is really huge this year. Everyone is present and accounted for.

>>6953272
But I'm a fat neckbeard.

>>6953330
why not invite a fat gril?

>>6953361
Fat gril. Glorious slip.

>>6953249
yeah LACC sucks. i hope they go back to LBCC just to troll whiny congoers

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>>6953325
Again this is not me posting. Pic for proof.

Also, again, the offer still stands. you are all welcome to come to room 509B. You can even take off your badge before coming in if you don't want me to know your name.

I'm offering you a chance to talk with me face to face. No arguments, no yelling, no immaturity, just a straight up, calm talk between adults.

I'm here til 12AM tonight.

>>6953579
this idiot just wants to find out who the whistleblower is so he can fire him

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>>6953579
>Having to register a trip

>>6953579
When does Pre-reg for next year start. I moved my badge but I want to upgrade to Premiere Pass.

Don't be a faggot Taylor and let people pre-reg for Premiere already during con. That's unfair to those who want to do Premiere and are not present.

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What's up with all the extra security everywhere? My badge was being practically torn from my neck today to make sure it was legit down every hallway. Are there fake badges abound this year?

>>6953700
I was wondering the same thing. Every time I walked into the dealers hall they inspected both sides of my badge. Didnt just glace, actually took my badge and took a good look on each side.

I haven't heard any reports for fake badges.

I have heard that lots of cons have been changing their security policies ever since the Boston Marathon bombing, so maybe AX is following suit?

That's speculation on my part.

>>6953763

That's understandable, but why are they focusing so much attention on badges in particular? That's what I want to know. I asked a girl on staff outside the "cosplay is consent" panel today and she said "they just told us to check the badges more closely".

Staff was being incredibly bitchy over at last comic standing. They even were bitching at one of the DJ's for the dance in that line.

Ok, this is me guessing again because for the record I'm a low tier staffer / non manager.

If you wanted to hurt an event you wouldn't want to pay to get into an event.

I'll try asking higher up the chain tomorrow.

Staffer here. The bage checking thing came up because of a lady who was hosting a panel. I was at the door checking badges and she told me she overheard a lot of people on a bus (im guessing the shuttles) boasting about having fake badges and they were saying someone was giving them away for free. So i brought it to the attention of my superiors. Im on a shitty phone so excuse shit spelling or grammer if theres any.

>>6953781

Oh, true.

I guess no one knows about the free exhibit-hall only badges after 4:30pm?

>>6953788

Interesting, I haven't seen anyone get escorted out for fake badges yet, but I'll camp out by the main gates and take pictures if it happens.

>>6953790
Not like it's advertised much. It's really easy to miss on the reg. form.

>>6952861
ax is still screwing up internally

>>6953700
>>6953704
Strange, I just flash my badge and it's okay for them

>>6953117
Don't forget: Marc Perez is a cheating manwhore.

>>6953781
>low tier staff/non manager
>helps organize/run conji

fuck you man, your con was shit this year. i heard you were going to jump ship after conji this year, i'm surprised you're still hanging around.

I don't plan to be management.

Finally! a direct attack, I can take that off my bucket list.

I'm not happy about Conji either but anytime someone quits because changes or lack of changes they're eventually forgotten. Can't change the system without contact with the system.

No plans to be management during 2014 for SPJA events though. I need a break. I became a div head in January so I had 4 months to do my job. After people were fired / quit I stepped up into the gap. That was fucking painful lol.

>>6954227

I respect folks that don't actively pursue management positions aggressively. I look forward to the next power vacuum, sadly. My path has me going upward, but I've been making good friends along the way. Win or lose, it's been one hell of a ride seeing people come and go, crash and burn occassionally, as well as the wonderful people I've met along the way.

The badges this year are a joke. They do have a security strip on the side but it only there to prevent photo copying. But sadly if you have some skill with a camera you can photograph it and it will look real. Who ever decided that a piece of paper would be super secure should not be creating badges.

The bag check today is a joke as well. There is many places that are not guarded at all thus defeating the check. I am not sure if they are calling it security or just a pain in the ass.

We're about halfway through con, how much sphagetti has been spilled so far.

>>6954227
I think you should let Conji go. I know that's your con, but as long as the SPJA has a firm grip on it, it's just going suck ass.

Tell me, whose bright idea was it to raise one day badges during con? Was it you?

In a span of one year, Anime Conji overall just sucked.

Again, I'm feel sorry how the SPJA treating it.

what's the deal with the djs at the dance? can they not afford good ones now or something because one of the better things at ax is now one of the worst.

also the amount of weebs doing the fucking conga line during the dance has increased

>>6954145
i still find it crazy that there is even one woman out there willing to sleep with him. he's not even that rich.

>>6954348
Offensive, indeed.

>>6954337
The DJs were hit & miss. But the new fan base is pretty retarded. Too much yoloswag bullshit. Another reason why nothing gets changed either. Fuckung idiots are only worried about 'dem feels'.

I gave my suggestions months in advance for badge prices. All the last minute changes were made higher than me.


I'm now in con ops. I'm going to lodge the security complaints in our suggestion database.

>>6954379
you'd think that with all the yolo swag bullshit they'd play more music than just electro non stop. I don't mind it but variety when it comes to music would be really nice

Why the fuck do they keep letting that Magic Macabre shit back every year?

>>6953117
well there's also the long lines, but I'm guessing that's more of a symptom than a root cause.

>>6953704
>>6953700

they just looked at the front of my badge for most places. one lady at the south hall escalators reached out and flipped my badge over to see the front, but i didn't mind, just didn't expect it.

>>6954411
>I'm now in con ops.
Do you suck dicks?

>>6954434
I agree, for street magicians, these guys suck.

>>6953763
>changing their security policies ever since the Boston Marathon bombing

day 2 they were checking handbags, purses, and backpacks at the west hall main entrance. They waved me by since I just had the plastic swag bag, even though it was weighed down with a water bottle and snacks.

AX 2013 is the best one so far in downtown LA.

You Seagull bitches will argue bout anything

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>MFW hotel reservation is now available onsite for AX 2014
>MFW Premiere pass is now sold out

FUCK YOU SPJA!

>>6954918
taylor, pls.

>>6954941
>Premiere pass is now sold out

oh wow. the ride never ends.

>>6954941
how much of those premiere passes are the turnovers of people who didn't go this year?

>>6955042
>>6955051

It's $175, but I transferred over next year and I wanted to upgrade to Premiere for once.

>>6955138
$175?! You could go to Comic Con WITH PREVIEW NIGHT for that price....and get a shitload more than you would at AX. What the fuck warrants that price?!

>>6955364
premiere pass lets you go to the front of many lines, including badge pickup and many panels, plus you get one or two free concert tickets. im not sure if it comes with anything else.

>>6955411
This year and last year had some mediocre guests that is hardly enough to warrant to buy any. People buy them now and hold on to it, only to be dissapointed at the end.

>>6955411
I'm not sure if they did it this year but you get to go in one hour early into the Exhibit Hall on Day 1 while everyone else has to wait.

Premiere's best strength is that it lets you skip lines. The free ticket is a bonus. At $100 it was no brainer. $175 and you have to think about it, or maybe not, considering all the goddamn lines this year. You're basically paying $100 extra for the perk (figuring $45 for the cheapest 4-day, $30 for a main event ticket, leaving the rest as extra). For some people this is well worth the price especially if you want to go to multiple panels. If you don't do panels, it's not worth it. If you want autographs it might be worth it as you get to go in early on Day 1 and on the other days not too much earlier but early enough that you can zoom on over to the autograph area.

You can bet if SDCC had a premier badge that let you skip lines for $400 or some shit people would buy it. Hall H? Ballroom 20? Fuck those lines.

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To all you BULLIES AND HATERS...

Bump

AX is pretty much finished for many. How was your overall con experience?

>>6955886

Panel lines and autograph lines were managed pretty poorly, and a decent amount of staff could rarely answer my questions, there was always a "maybe" or "I think" somewhere in the sentence. One of the translators at a guest panel also butchered my question, which I figured after receiving a random response from her that had nothing to do with what I asked. She seemed to stumble with other questions too and projected poorly.

I honestly think the best part of the trip was the JW, great hotel and a good price with the convention deal. I may be skipping out on AX for Otakon next year, I think it may be time to try something else big for summer, AX just isn't what it used to be as far as I'm concerned.

>>6955886
As of now, the exhibit hall closes in 3 and a half hours. I think I can still make it in time to find a good wallscroll or something. I feel disappointing with the merch i'm seeing... I might as well stop by Anime Jungle tomorrow or something and see how the prices change overnight, hah.

seriously? What is wrong with AX staff lately? I'm reading the thread and all I see are comments about harassment, verbal fights, yelling, cursing happening and pending lawsuits upon staff? this is the most fucked up thing I have read and no matter if stress is at all all time high, problems happened with other people or what not...LEAVE THEM AT HOME AND BE RESPECTFUL OF EVERYONE. Staff lacked fucking manners and went full on rude is causing people to not attend anymore. People are treating this more like nothing rather than a PROFESSIONAL organization

>>6956381
>pending lawsuits

Really? Sauce?

Also, got word from someone at con that Premiere has been sold out.

>>6956381
LEL

You're probably one of those assholes that were giving Staff a hard time.

>All this bitching
>/cgl/

No shit, you're the minority here. Everyone I talked to during AX had a blast.

>>6956417
Check the ax fb page, dumbfuck

Bet y'all would be miserable if you had to work for mcknight too. Add that to staff having to be 4 per 1 bed rooms at the radisson, can u really blame them? Id be pissy as fuck too

>>6955511
A face you can trust to munch some fat girl coochie.

>>6956449
All those comments make up 1% of the AX attendees.

61,000 unique attendees

Eat shit /cgl/

>>6954145
Men cant be whores tho, it's just us spreading our superior genes.

Con is officially over. Here's what is up right now going into 2014
>Premiere pass sold out
>Hotels are taking in registration for next year already
>AX staying in downtown LA until 2019
>Allison McKnight fired someone on the spot on the last day and that person was publicly humiliated by being escorted by Staff out the LACC
>Spaghetti at the masquerade
>Pending lawsuits
>AEG now owns the LACC
>With transfer of ownership to a private company, many are speculating increase badge prices


Holy shit, the next 52 weeks for AX is going to be interesting.

>>6956896
>pending lawsuits
>Allison-chan
>spaghetti

Anon, give me all your sweet dramu

>>6956903
>pending lawsuits
It seems someone on AX's FB page has said that their friend is looking to sue AX because the Staffers banned her from con due to her cosplay
>Allison-chan
Fired the Manager of Cosplay Events because the two could not agree on how the Masquerade should be runned. Thus, the Masquerade was full of spaghetti

Need photo of that cunt Allison McKnight.

Bitch outta control.

Thought I post this before good ol' face book deletes a thread

Joe - my friend, the Manager of cosplay events at AX, was fired in front of his staff by Allison McKnight, Director of Entertainment, and escorted out of the con by security in front of fellow staff and attendees alike. The reason being is that they could not agree on how masquerade and cosplay should be run. Regardless of the reason, there is no excuse for that show of force and embarrassment. This is how AX is now run. I'm saddened and horrified this has happened but from what I'm starting to hear, this is only the beginning. Needless to stay, Tony's staff quit in protest, which shows their character. I thought I would never say this, but AX has gotten even worse since Lattanzio left, which says a lot. I know this will get deleted soon but I thought people should know.

Brent - this is sad.... well who ever this "Allison McKnight" is she's now on the the AX Fans SHIT LIST!! Hey Joe you should repost this on the message boards/ or there other Facebook AX related threads.... this is totally unfair, and yes it seems that ax has been "unprepared" on certain panels\activities\events, and seem to make it up as they go.... they have a whole year to plan this stuff out.....

Daniel - Arent most of the ax people volunteers? How do you fire a volunteer?

Joseph - They give out more prizes after the manager is fired? Sounds like a manager was messing up.

Chris- I DONT KNOW THE WHOLE STORY BUT THAT PERSON OBVIOUSLY WRONGED THE OTHER PERSON SO IM GOING TO GRAB MY TORCH AND PITCHFORK!! Seriously? This isnt the place for that kind of con drama bull shit.
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Luis - Firing someone like that is wrong and unethical. People like that always let the power go to their heads.

Emily - Yeah, too bad you guys fucked up and my friend didn't get to do her masquerade skit. Seriously, get your shit together, AX.

>>6956814
People don't attend cons to bask in the presence of the Moral Paragons that run them.

They attend cons for pretty much every reason except who is running the show.

>>6956896
When are the dates for next year? July 3 - 6?

>>6956945
>People don't attend cons to bask in the presence of the Moral Paragons that run them.
Many of them do numbnuts.

>They attend cons for pretty much every reason except who is running the show.
Well, that's just your opinion.

>>6956952
I've been attending cons for like.. 15 years now.
Only in one situation has the person running the show ever been even a remote consideration, and that's because it was Anime Reactor and the guy running it was a notorious drunk who fucked with con programming and scheduling whenever he felt like it because he was drunk off his ass.

Missed the closing ceremonies. What was the big announcement?

Mcknight scaled back prizing and
Micromanaged. She is the source of the prizing issues and the masq problem because masq team called her out on her shit

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>>6956952
>people go to cons just because of the people who run them, and not the substance of the con itself

>>6956990
Unprofessional fuckers.

>>6956941
This is what you get from a woman with only 1.5 years of experience in GR and no previous con experience. Hard to believe that she gets paid for doing a shit job

COSPLAYERS BOYCOTT AX 2014!!!!

>Had serious problems with the rude, and abusive security. I was physically assaulted by your rude security for going in the wrong way on accident and my arm was bruised. When I asked for his name he refused to give it to me for obvious reasons. I highly doubt I'll go next year after the way i was treated.

>>6956952
>Many of them do numbnuts.
Are you fucking stupid?

>>6956459
serves those dumbasses right for working for AX to begin with. seriously who the fuck is dumb enough to volunteer or work for any anime con?

>>6957062
Without staff or volunteers, how would you expect to have a con? Asshole.

>>6957076
He's saying the con shouldn't exist, since it's sort of run by corrupt, embezzling, petty children who think that their con is some sort of high school popularity contest.

>>6957076
hey shit for brains, if you already know that AX is terrible why the fuck would you bother working for them? thats the real question. all of these cumbuckets keep talking about how bad Alison McKnight and Perez and Locke are yet they still work for AX. go fucking quit already and get a real job you bootlickers.

>>6956930
The staff was nuts this year. I heard there were hundreds of bans.

My group was threatened with being taken to con ops 3 times in one night by staff that just felt like being dicks. One kept craning his neck and getting in my face like he was the tough guy of anime cons.

I heard the complaints discussions over at AX's site is massive, and just loaded with staff complaints as well.

They just fired the cosplay department head? Really???

Looks like McBitch is on her personal little warpath.