On Sunday, the last day of the convention, I woke up early to say goodbye to JoeC and to go to a panel about game podcasts featuring hosts from various shows on the Gamercast Network. The theme was “Podcasting: The New Media.” It was pretty broad in topic. If I walked away from the panel with one thing, it is the feeling that we are on the right track with WTPT. If you have any interest in watching the panel for yourself you can check it out right here: http://blip.tv/file/1220939/

Because of waking up so early, though, I was fairly tired most of the day and ended up taking a nap at my friend’s apartment. I didn’t have the time to do much more than some last minute shopping at the convention and I ended up not having the opportunity to say goodbye to Dragoon, Arc and Justin. Let me say it here: I had a lot of fun meeting you guys and I hope we get to hang out again soon! more…

The second day of PAX has been an adventure. We ran into a lot more Pokémon fans and did a lot of advertising for the site. Although, it has still been a bit harder than I was expecting/hoping. The easiest way for us to find people was to actually walk around with people in Pokémon costumes and give fliers to the people that stopped them for photos. Arcanator and Dragoon Master brought cosplay outfits with them. Arc dressed as a Team Aqua grunt and Dragoon dressed as Professor Elm. Needless to say, that worked out well.

We were also able to get interviews with a few cosplayers and other interesting people at the con. For example, we happened to run into a few people who work for a little company called Pokémon USA. Yep! Justin made quite a catch by talking to a guy with one of the new Dialga and Palkia DS Lites, who happened to have worked for the company. I don’t want to give away too much here, but you will learn more about our experiences with them on the next podcast and in a few videos we recorded. I will start posting that stuff on Tuesday.

Speaking of the next podcast, we recorded it in Arc’s hotel room tonight. It is mostly a random jumble of PAX thoughts and impressions. In addition, we did an interesting impromptu live Blaine’s Gym segment. Overall it was really cool being able to have multiple staff members on the show to record a regular episode. (KC was sorely missed though!)

We were really productive today and I hope we get even more done tomorrow! JoeC is leaving early though, so he said his goodbyes as we left Arc’s room. I am not looking forward to having to say my goodbyes!

Today was the big day! It was the first time I’ve ever met up with someone in person that I met through The Pokémon Times. Only, today I met up with four people that I know from the site! That’s right, Arcanator, JoeC, JustinV and DragoonMaster are all here at PAX.

Friday has been a day of mostly getting settled. The convention activities didn’t start till 2pm, so the group and I had time to hang out, and get to know each other over some lunch and coffee. We also continued work on our newspaper page ad that we made to promote the site. 200 of them were printed in total and we folded them in half to make them look even more like newspapers.

When we finally made it to the convention, JoeC Dragoon and I accidentally got on the line for the Exhibition Hall, so we were among the first to check out all the industry booths. My favorite booth was probably Nintendo’s because I got to try a handful of games that didn’t come out yet, including Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii Music and Pokémon Ranger 2: Shadows of Almia. Look for some demo videos on WTPT-TV soon! more…