Running at between 200 and 500 people, ALCL is London's little anime convention. It's just £5 for all day from midday to midnight. We have cosplayers, dealers, video gaming, anime screening, an Artist Alley, DDRing, roleplaying, card-gaming, along with many events such as a masquerade, pub-quiz, parties, special guests (UK Otaku for the parties, DS:London for the gaming and MasakoX of DBZ/Naruto Abridged, and Akemi Solloway for J-Culture are all announced with more to come!) and much more!

THE BASICS

Date: November 14th
Venue: The Slug and Lettuce, 1 America Square, London, EC3N 2LS
Tube: Five minutes from Tower Gateway & Tower Hill tube stations

It costs £5 to get in, and you need to be 18 years or older. Accommodation is available at just £17.50 a night.

You can read all about ALCL on it's official website at http://www.alclublondon.com

Register for ALCL at http://www.animeleague.com/london/registration.php
Check out the Animeleague forums at http://www.animeleague.net/forums
ALCL is also on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127960793948

[u]ACTIVITIES[/u]

Special Events - Pub Quiz, Cosplay Masquerade, DDR Tournament, Dub That Anime, Drunken Artist, AMV Evening (And Contest), Cosplay Showdown, The Club London Party!

Video Gaming - We will be running tournaments throughout the day! We will also have a variety of up to date games, as well as retro-gaming! Guitar Hero Tournament, Mario Kart Tournament, Tetris DS Tournament, Bomberman DS Tournament, DDR and more!

Artists Alley - We will have a mini-artists alley for artists to chill out with a drink or three. We will be putting on panels to teach aspiring artists, and there will be the infamous Drunken Artist (also known as P*ss Artist) making it's debut! Artists will also be drawing commissions as well for you!

Cosplay Masquerade - There will be a £50 cash prize for the winner of this! A panel of judges will decide. Please note that to be eligible for the grand prize your costume must have been made by you - if you bought it then you won't be eligible for the prize (but you'll still be allowed to enter the masquerade, of course!) So, get making those costumes, cosplayers!

The Cosplay Showdown - The winning team will be rewarded a prize of £50 between them! Prepare to gather your team of cosplayers to do a series of comedy skits for everyone to watch round by round. Round 1 will be the freeform skit (basically your choice). Round by round teams get knocked out (There are three rounds in all and the ultimate showdown final!). Start getting those teams together now folks! Enter your team HERE.

Anime Screening - Not one, but two giant screens showing your favourite anime goodness!

And More! Roleplaying, Card Gaming, Partying, Cosplaying, Dealers to buy your favourite merchandise, something for everyone! And that's not even counting our top-notch guests!

Pre-Registrations for ALCL close on 6th November, but you can still come along and pay on the day. Pre-Reg have been very good, with almost TWO HUNDRED people registering. To make sure you won't be queuing and to guarantee you'll get in, make sure to register and pre-pay on http://www.animeleague.com/london/registration.php We allow fast payment via paypal. ^_^ Not just that, but you get freebies (ie: AL Posters/badges) if you pre-pay too. Remember that it's just £5!

First piece of news! The timetable for ALCL is now announced! Go check that out here!

Next! Cosplay Showdown details are up and the signups are open! Go check out this topic here. There is a prize of £50 to the winning team for this, so make sure to enter!

On Sunday 15th November at Hyde Park between midday and 4pm will be the AL London Cosplay Picnic! Bring all your friends along! ^^ We anticipate roughly 100 people for this GIANT PICNIC! This event is the sister event to AL Club London. Be sure to come along!

We will have a Cosplay of the Day Award, Giant Twister, Musical Statues, Pokemon Easter hunt, Music, Food & Drink, Three Legged Races and MANY MORE Party Games!

Interested? You can read more information about this and signup in this topic here!

We're pleased to inform everyone that we're still taking prepayments for ALCL. We currently have 185 people pre-paid so there's still space!

You can pre-pay at http://www.animeleague.com/london/registration.php upon registering you will receive an email saying the email to paypal the money to.

We'll take your registration and paypal payment until Friday (ie: up to the day before the event!). NOTE WE WILL NOT TAKE PAYMENTS VIA POST SINCE ITS TOO LATE TO DO THAT.

Of course, you can still just turn up and pay on the day, but benefits to pre-paying include -

1. You get £2 worth of tokens toward AL merchandise (giant pinbadges are £1 each, posters are £2 each, a set of giant stickers are £1 and t-shirts are £9).
2. You get a free conbooklet.
3. You are guaranteed to get in. Since the venue is capped at 350 people, if you are turning up later than about 1pm, you really should make sure you prepay to ensure you can 100% get in.
4. Prepaid members can get in at 11am, one hour earlier than everyone else!

Any questions? Message me back! ^_^

Or other means of contacts are -

Email: info@animeleague.com
Phone: 07786 246049
Msn: mtowers1982@yahoo.co.uk