#blizzcon 2016

darin de paul tossing candy from a cosplayer’s reinhardt helmet

darin doing the Proud Drama Teacher clap whenever andrea toyias (overwatch’s voice director) was introducing anyone that came after him, and then again when the panel talk got to matt mercer (mccree) and she did a critical role shout-out

zhang yu, mei’s va, being the most precious human being ever

INITIATING THE HACK

charlet chung (d.va)’s later account of how fred tatasciore (soldier 76) was quietly but consistently encouraging her through first panel jitters 

also everyone had country flags for their characters next to their name plaques, and paul nakauchi (hanzo) gave charlet his flag when she said that she was korean-japanese!

“We love you, daddy!” “Love you too, son.”

also zhang actually studied to get a master’s degree on chemical technology and is also a giant frozen fan like what the hhhecckkk

crispin freeman as the biggest winston/overwatch/tracer fanboy

carolina ravassa (sombra) and charlet emphasizing that they wanted their characters to be carefully attuned to their home cultures and female representation in gaming like even if you’re not into overwatch you gotta respect that

AYSHA SELIM’S VIDEO MESSAGE. ANA AMARI IS REAL.

VENTI CHAI LATTE

also as a tangent to this panel, jonny cruz (lucio)’s blizzard campus video from the next day that set off this chain of videos where even cross-country-stationed actors like carolina and anjali bhimani (symmetra) and actors who weren’t in either event like lucie pohl (mercy) meet up and film little bits for the fans like really.

There was an interesting Reddit post today about Hero 27 perhaps having the ability to create Jump Pads. Seeing just the title made me think about a hero concept just like that that was mentioned by Geoff Goodman at BlizzCon 2016. I have “Jump Pad hero” recorded in my character tracker spreadsheet because of this. So, I was surprised to find that the post didn’t mention this! I had to comment about it, even though I was at work and couldn’t get the source saved on my PC. Fortunately, I found it during my breaks and posted it. Thank goodness for Blizzplanet’s transcripts. Here’s the excerpt in question:

Geoff: Originally, we had talked about a character that could build jump pads. It still might be possible somewhere. It is a little tricky. It is kind of hard. It is just like a core ability like build jumppad, and it is like: “Okay, what do I do with that?” like it really in certain maps, it has to be more like an inclusive kit involved in the whole character.

(Source)

Looking into this, I discovered that the YouTube uploads of the Q&A panel this tidbit came from have been seemingly removed. Now I can’t find anything BlizzCon 2016 Overwatch related on YouTube anymore. Seems suspicious, but eh, it’s happened before.

Fallece Mike Biasi, ganador del concurso de cosplay de la Blizzcon 2016

Empezamos la semana con una triste noticia. Mike Biasi, ganador del concurso de cosplay de la Blizzcon 2016 con su excelente traje de Grommash Hellscream, falleció el día de ayer producto de un ataque cerebral que lo tuvo en coma durante algunos días. Así lo confirmó Little Sparkz, su colega y amiga, mediante su Twitter.

Mike Biasi cayó en coma hace algunos días luego de un ataque cerebral, tanto su familia como Little Sparkz abrieron una petición en gofundme para que la gente pueda donar en los gastos de su recuperación. Sin embargo, luego de su fallecimiento Sparkz twitteo de que la página se mantendría abierta para los gastos que llevó su estadía en la clínica, así como los funerarios. Si tienes la oportunidad de donar, puedes hacerlo mediante este enlace, estamos seguros que la familia de Mike te lo agradecerá eternamente.

The gofundme will remain active to help Mike's son with the medical and funeral expenses. https://t.co/M0INuNebWr

— 🌟Little Sparkz🌟 (@LittleSparkzLFG) January 16, 2018

Mike Biasi fue un escultor gracias a su padre. Él era un artesano hábil que le heredó sus conocimientos a Mike. Gracias a esto, Mike pudo hacer aquel cosplay perfecto de Grommash Hellscream que fue el ganador en la Blizzcon del 2016. Hace algunos años tuvimos la oportunidad de entrevistarlo, en donde caracterizó su humildad, puedes ver la entrevista haciendo click aquí.

Mike fue un jugador como nosotros, apasionado fan de Blizzard y amante de su trabajo. Puedes ver parte de sus artesanías en su página web o Facebook. Se está especulando un momento especial en la Blizzcon de éste año en honor a él, pero sea como sea, en donde quiera que esté Mike Biasi, esperemos que esté descansando en paz.