Where: Town Hall, Sydney
When: 28^th – 29^th of September 

Town hall in general was a pretty good place for cosplayers. It gave them the opportunity to get some wonderful photos with some very historic looking buildings in the background. The temperature inside was fairly well controlled as well which was fortunate as it was a very hot day. If the hall ways were crowded though it was very hard to move around and there were lots of steps! Also the policy of making cosplayers check in there weapons into the cloak room then CHARGING them for it is a bit of a low blow. The stage and the runway were very good and gave a good opportunity for photographers (if they held the pose long enough). 

The comp was fairly well organised and even ran on time on Saturday with a large amount of entries able to enter. They also had a lot of categories so people had lots of opportunities to get a prize. The level of cosplay was pretty good but nothing the stood super duper out in my mind. Generally all the skits on both days were excellent (except I am sick of every Kingdom Hearts skit being yaoi). 

The winners of the competition (as found on the Animania forums) are:

Saturday:

Best Female:
1) Simone cosplaying as Ammy from Okami
2) Bonnie cosplaying as Ichigo Mew from Tokyo Mew Mew

Best Male:

1) Ronald cosplaying as Zero from Shining Tears X Wind
2) Greg cosplaying as Nova from Bleach

Best Group:
1) Rozen Maiden
2) Hitsuzen

Best Skit:
1) One Piece Group
2) The Legendary Birds group

Best Technical:
Helen cosplaying as Link Wolf from Zelda Twilight Princess

Award for Skills:
Cicus Homunculus

Sunday

Best Female:
1) Vanessa cosplaying as Saber from Fate/Stay Night
2) Cristy cosplaying as Rai from Lamento

Best Male:

1)Joshua cosplaying as Jaster Rogue from Rogue Galaxy
2)Liam cosplaying as Sora final form from Kingdom Hearts 2

Best Group:
1) .Hack//Reunion
2) Milasu: Naruto Shippuden (Time skip)

Best Skit:
1) Love & Peace Movement
2) Chaos Century

Best Technical:
Justin cosplaying as Farlap and Son (chocobo)

Best Impression:
Lana as Yuna, wedding dress from Final Fantasy X

Widya Santoso special week-end Award:
Anita and Ailee as the Gundam Wing cosplayers (Mecha and pilots)

Two personal favourites that didn’t get a prize are:

[link] - It takes a lot of courage to do a hentai cosplay and she pulled it off well.

The large bleach group from Saturday. Sadly no good photos but they were fantastic. 

A well attended and well run event they will have a challenge to keep it up as they shift locations and hold the Australian preliminary finals of the WCS next year.