October 4 2008 11:00AM - 9PM!!!
Best Western Parkway Center Inn
875 Greentree Road,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15220
This year promises to be bigger than ever. Come join us for 12 hours of fun! Panels, cosplay, video games, dealers, anime showings and RPG/CCG's. It's not something to be missed!!
Admission is $10 at the door.
If you pre-register for Tekkoshocon VII at 1/2 you get $5 off of your pre-registration!
Guests!
This year Tekko 1/2 has guests!!!
Carrie Savage is very happy to finally be coming to Tekko 1/2!
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Carrie has had the awesome privilege of voicing characters such as "Rakka" in Haibane Renmei, "Maromi" in Paranoia Agent, and "Shima" in Stellvia. More recently she can be heard as "Solty" in Solty Rei, "Asta" in Trinity Blood, "Haruka" in Rumbling Hearts, "Penny" in Shin Chan and "Priscilla" in Gunxsword. She's currently having tons of fun voicing cute, cuddly "Mokona" in Tsubasa Chronicles and even recently got to voice a My Little Pony Toy! She has also had a fun time voicing characters in video games and more anime shows such as Suikoden 5, Tales of Legendia, Romancing Saga, Gankutsuo, Dear.S, and more!
Carrie also has a heavy background in Theater and is very small time film actress. She also loves traveling around the world helping struggling children and adults in 3rd world countries such as Africa and the Philippines, and feels very lucky to have been able to do so! She absolutely loves voice acting for Anime and is looking forward to recording more shows in the future. She is very much looking forward to seeing everyone at 1/2! |
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Tekko 1/2 would like to welcome Comedian Uncle Yo!
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Since first emerging , Uncle Yo has appeared at numerous conventions to perform his unique stand-up comedy aimed exclusively at the geek community. Armed with his giant D20, Uncle Yo celebrates all brands of geekery: anime, comic books, video games, LARPing, Star Wars, RPG's and manga. www.uncleyo.com |
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Tekko 1/2 would like to welcome its musical guest Battlecake.
Battlecake is a five-piece instrumental band from Carnegie Mellon University that mainly plays covers of popular video game music. The band is comprised of Sam Chien (Guitar), John Lee (Guitar), Adam Lederer (keyboard), Eugene Kang (Bass), and Tedo Salim (Drums). The band was originally formed in the spring of 2008 by John and Eugene, the other members joining over the following summer. Since that time, Battlecake has built an extensive repetoire of songs from games such as Final Fantasy V, Chrono Trigger, Tetris, and, of course, Super Mario Bros.
Cosplay!
Come show off your cosplay in the halls of Tekko 1/2! If you think you got mad cosupray skillz then compete in our Craftsmanship Contest as well!!
Video Games!
Tekko 1/2 will have a dedicated gaming room featuring several favorites and tournaments. Always something happening!
P.S. - How many exclamation points can we use on one website? Not enough to show how awesome Tekko 1/2 will be in 2008!!!!!!1111