Hi there readers, it is about time I wrote a little about my experience at rAge this year which was held on the weekend of 30 September - 2 October at the Cocal-Cola Dome in Johannesburg.
As you can see from my previous blog post, I had a mission to complete at this event.
My objectives were as follows:
- Find all the hottest nerd girls (as well as nerd girl fans) I could and to photograph them holding the sign I am holding in the picture above. More info on this objective in my previous blog post.
- Enter the cosplay competition hosted by Legion Ink on the Saturday 1 Oct.
- Have loads of fun experiencing the event with friends.
The mission was a raging success! See below some photos and a vid of my time there. Do note that the photos may seem a little mixed up, it was pretty chaotic and packed at the dome!
One of a few drawing competitions hosted by Legion Ink.
Me playing Just Dance 3 on kinect, tons of fun!
The Coca-Cola dome from the inside.
Soldiers, not sure if they are cosplaying something like counter strike possibly.
A shy kitten and I.
Nerd girl fans. (Arn3 on the left - local Team Fortress 2 player among other games)
Bubbles from Mixed Chicks playing in her competitive COD4 team (SuperNova) at the Do Gaming league. She kicked some serious ass!
More bubbles!
Chun Li from Street Fighter and Lara Croft from Tomb Raider cosplay.
A little blurry but worth uploading!
Promo girls. I know what you are thinking when it comes to promo girls and gaming, they're just in it for the money right? Well I asked people about their love for nerd girls and gaming and the answers they gave me qualified them for my photographic mission. These chicks mentioned liking sports games.
My first time ever playing a kinect dance game. Fun overdose!
Bleach cosplay.
Moar bleach cosplay.
Nerd girl!
My good friend and nerd girl fan Tristan. He plays DotA and StarCraft 2 like a baws!
The Expo area was packed with loads of competitions and give away's happening all over!
Cosplay.
More cosplay.
More cosplay.
More Cosplay - Chi from Chobits.
Hot gamer girl found!
Nerd girl hotties!
Gamer girls from the Mixed Chicks MGO, Scorpie and Flantasy_Flan.
Promo girls.
Promo hottie.
Another promo hottie!
Moar promo hotties, each of them interested in at least some kind of game or nerdy activity!
Nerd girl fans.
Cosplayers.
Sexy semi up-skirt shot kindly allowed to me by this lady.
Miku cosplay from Vocaloid.
Babydoll cosplay from Sucker Punch.
Alcardu and I in the Do Gaming LAN competition area, supporting our favorite players and teams!
One of the winning cosplays by Nancy Kim Li.
Group cosplay photo.
Sasuke and Sakura from Naruto.
X-Men Mistique and her man meat.
Cute cosplay.
Deathnote cosplay.
Nerd girl fan.
Bleach cosplay.
V for Vendetta cosplay.
Sith cosplay.
Trigun cosplay.
Trigun with Portal 2 photobomb.
Homer from The Simpsons.
Full Metal Alchemist cosplay.
Trigun cosplay.
Trigun cosplay again.
Suiseki cosplay from Rozen Maiden.
Full Metal Alchemist cosplay.
Deadman Wonderland cosplay.
Derpinas.
Naruto group cosplay.
Female joker.
Female gamer babe.
Lucy from Elfen Lied and Lara Croft from Tomb Raider.
Full Metal Alchemist cosplay.
Final Fantasy cosplay.
Dragon Age cosplay.
Lady Mario.
Bleach cosplay.
Nerds!
ShazzChckL - awesome female Counter Strike 1.6 player for the miNt team.
Pippa Tshabalala from The Verge (TV show on gaming)
Republic of Gamers representatives.
Play that tennis!
Some gaming related shirts for sale at the expo. I got my 'Kitt Vader' shirt at the expo as rAge memorabilia.
These LARPERS really spiced things up for me! Loved seeing them around.
Vash the Stampede cosplay from Trigun.
Portal 2 cosplay.
Battlefield 3 promo girls.
Gamer nerd girl.
So that was a nice load of pics covering some of my experiences at rAge.
I am going to blog a separate post now covering my Nyu cosplay there.
All in all rAge was an absolute blast! Am definitely going to attend again next year!
