AFA 2011 - my thoughts....

hmm...this is more of a OPINION blog rather than a rage one....
why did i say this?

well, first off....i didn't experience this myself, rather, i read this from misc blogs and notes around FB and the net.....
OKAY...
the whole issue with AFA 2011....and why the Malaysian Community is raging over it...

Apparently, in a video on youtube, when they were introducing the teams (i'm not sure if it's an official video though) there were only 4 Teams, when there should be 5...
BINGO~~ they left out good old Team Malaysia........

Apart from that, other countries were given at least 2 months to prepare for their regionals, but Malaysia only had..what..like..3 days?
Other countries had stages, halls, proper events for their prelims, Malaysia had.....a Shopping mall, and a SMALL connecting bridge at that...no bigger than a normal school classroom....
Stage? WHAT THAT?

Come AFA, ALL contestants were dumped aside at a corner of the hall where it is DARK and had NO LIGHTS...there was a toilet (DING DING!!!) but wait.....THAT TOILET WAS LOCKED!!! =_=

THEN, i came across an article that said Team Malaysia did an 'ORIGINAL COSPLAY'.......er...i thought that if it's original, wouldn't they be DISQUALIFIED in the first place?
And then, during the Q and A session, Usagi, one of the judges, mentioned that it'd be better that Team Malaysia's performance were longer.......

But they kept to the criteria, and that was a 3 minute skit.....i believe only Team Malaysia and Singapore followed the 3 minute criteria......
The rest of the finalist had more than 3 minutes, and no penalty points was taken....(or so i've heard)
So there might've been some miscommunication with the judging criteria? no?

But no doubt about it, Team Philippines was AWESOME with their performance.....but truth be told, Malaysia did their fare share of fighting too....it's not always Armory cosplays that require more work...sometimes, props that aren't armor based has LOTS to do too.....
It's good that one of the judges noticed the hieroglyphs on Team Malaysian's props....GOOD JOB JUDGE!! (lol..i dunno his name..hahahah..)

but all in all, there were lots of miscommunication from what i've read from the wallpost of FBs here and there..

HOWEVER, i still did not regret going down to AFA 11....in fact, i feel even more proud now because i was there, giving support to our fellow Malaysian team.....(though, i was sitting WAAAAAAAYYYY behind...i couldn't move around easily because i was wearing heels..><;;;)
I just wanted to say....TEAM MALAYSIA.....you guys RAWKED THE HOUSE..!!!! awesome awesome awesome performance from you guys.....
*standing ovation*

Listening to : Brave Story - Ketsui no Asa ni
Mood : - _-