
Hi Dave! |

Jerry! |

Tossing a ball around? |

The huge stack of wireless routers! |

Configuring them is hard |

New backup equipment! |

Sweet floppy disk.. |

Hard at work, Dave? |

Back in Baltimore! |

Vic and Amanda! |

Tough Guy Albert |

Jeff and Joy |

I approve of this shirt |

Otakon staff badge pickup! |

OtaStaffers! |

Waiting for my badge to be printed |

Vic had to get a new picture taken too |

More staffers trickle in |

Hey, I know that guy! |

Putting my picture on the badge |

Laminating! |

My badge! |

Ooo, chain lanyard things |

This guy got stuck half way into the intersection |

The good ol' Baltimore Convention Center! |

Now that we have our badges, it's time to head to Con Ops |

Waiting to find out the situation in Video 1 |

Amanda sitting around |

Alan, Omar, and Jeff |

Alan makes a funny face |

Ooo, how do I join? |

Mike Lee, Anime Boston's Tech Director! |

A lot of AB staffers also work Otakon |

Carl on the phone |

An army of staffers assembling badges |

The empty BCC |

This'll be cram packed within 24 hours |

I don't think I've ever seen the floor on this area.. |

Down the escaltor! |

Alan! |

So empty! |

Last year's Video 1, this year's game room! |

Alan is following us! |

Con center staffer? |

Jessie from Toy Story! |

Proj365 picture! |

Hey, it's Bryce and Albert! |

They go to the BCC faster on foot than we did in the van! |

Albert looks like he's falling horizontally! |

Hey, it's that place where we are |

This is one lazy engineer |

Congoers! |

Baltimore loves us |

Seen in the back of a car |

Vic's infamous server |

Fork Lift Hero |

Nights! |

Mmm, pizza |

Burger place? |

Jeff waiting for his burger |

Amanda opts for the chicken place |

Pretty Baltimore sky |

Golden hour? |

Amanda opens the new Render-chan art |

Tadaaa |

Vic works with the DSL guys to get his equipment hooked up |

Video 1! All 2,312 seats of it |

There I am! |

The AMV crew |

In con mode |

Vic wearing normal glasses.. weird |

The Otakon mascots! |

Vic gets to work on calibrating his equipment |

Calibrating video! |

Hey, cool, I get an |

And of course, an |

The empty third floor.. |

Heading back to the hotel |

Lights near the harbor |

Lit up skyscraper |

I drank a bucket of booze with Jeff and Omar! |

Omar seems excited |

Jeff and Joy! |

Bryce talked me into going to Howl at the Moon |

So many straws |

Omar is a man of many faces |

Mike is excited |

..and singing |

Bryce checks his phone |

Oof, this is pretty creepy, even for Bryce |

Watching the band |

Hi Joy! |

Omar sure is excited about something |

The Rainbow War begins! |

The rainbow made it to the other bucket! |

Go, Omar, go! |

It's beautiful! |

Ahh, it's not that stable! |

Oh, it's OK |

The rainbow's even bigger! |

You've done it, Omar! |

Ah, the tragic end of the rainbow |

Heading down to the convention center on Friday |

Waiting for the light.. |

Bryce want donut! |

Amanda ended up recycling that cup holder several times throughout the weekend |

Bryce went with the best badge.. the crab badge! |

Magnet man! |

A Reki cosplayer! Hoorraaay, there are still Haibane cosplayers! |

A great TF2 troupe! |

Spiffy costume, Peter! |

Vic's mixer.. Vixer.. |

Time to play the Overflow! Well.. some of it |

A fan asked Vic for his autograph! |

Vic was happy to oblige |

Amanda was thoroughly amused |

Final Fantasy cosplayers! |

Sniper wolf! |

The crowd thickens |

Look how many people are in line for the AMV contest! |

A great Chise from Saikano |

Here they come.. |

We had a lot of ballots |

Vic rushes to direct the line |

Go that way! |

Go THAT way! |

Omar joins in |

Look how many people came to the first showing! |

We really packed them in |

This is Amanda's |

The view from the back of the room |

We got over 1,000 ballots after the first showing! |

Power equipment |

Mr. Desmond Wooten! |

A great Yoko cosplayer! |

The audience for the show that killed AMV Overflow. As you can see, it was standing room only |

Moving the equipment back upstairs |

Don't bump it! |

Opening the ballot box |

Impressive Iron Man cosplayer! |

Counting ballots! |

Sometimes people draw us cool things |

This guy really liked.. whatever category that is |

Oh come on, I like Smash Mouth! |

What is this guy even trying to vote for? |

More cool artwork! |

Counting is fun! |

Jeff loves it |

More awesome ballot artwork |

This guy voted for every video except 29.. and then gave 29 his best in show vote |

Aww, bye bye! |

Wow, this guy went all out! |

I took a bunch of ballot counting pictures on Friday when we weren't up against a hard deadline |

Reading off vote numbers |

Amanda types away. Note the coin flip app on the G1 |

Nearly done, Jeff! |

The last little pile |

I think this guy is a combination of Protoman and John Conner.. |

Bryce and Amanda on the elevator |

Bryce rants about this thing that Tokyopop gave him.. a |

It's that time of the con.. hentai time! |

Vic and Amanda were pretty wiped from the hard day of work |

Heading back down on Saturday morning |

Oregon Trail cosplayer! |

This is the last photo my Canon Powershot S2 IS ever took. It served me well. And now it's in *sniff* camera heaven! |