Episode 85: The exquisite eighty-fifth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight, we have a special guest! Anne Brown is here to tell us about the awesomeness of the GenCon Costume Contest. GenCon is Thursday August 17 - Sunday August 20, in Indianapolis. The costume contest is Saturday, August 19, 2017 starting at 4pm in the 500 Ballroom of the Convention Center. This year's awesome judges will include Michelle Nephew of Atlas Games, the creator of Ren Faire and Witches of the Revolution, and DragonLance author Laura Hickman! Anne tells about her start at TSR, editing Dragon magazine, and then working on games like Spelljammer and Masque of the Red Death. Anne started running the GenCon Costume Contest in 1997, and has been loving it ever since. She's even run the costume contests at Star Wars Celebration for a few years, too! She gives us the details of the costume contest, including the appearances by the awesome entertainer The Great Luke Ski, the categories, some of the most memorable costumes through the years! Anne Brown is also one of the authors of The Storyteller's Thesaurus, find it on Amazon! After we lock Anne back in the closet, we talk news! Zapdos is available as a legendary raid in Pokemon Go until Monday August 14th. The end dates for Lugia have not been announced, so get out there too!Make sure you stop by GameStop on August 14th to pick up a code card for Salazzle for your Pokémon Sun and Moon game! There are also new Salazzle items do dress up your trainer in the Pokémon TCG online! Overwatch Summer Games 2017 are on until August 29th. There are new skins like Mercy's Nike Skin, and Lucio Ball which is like Rocket League ONLY LUCIO! Boston Comic Con is this weekend, August 11th - 13th at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center! This is a different convention center than last year, so don't go to the wrong place!!! Stop by booth #1207 for a free comic book from Drive-In Horror Show. Nintendo World Championships are happening! The finals are in New York City, Oct. 7, 2017 at Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom. Qualifiers are August 19th - September 10th, the details are on the website! Mario Kart 7 is the game that you will be playing at the qualifiers, details on the stages for the two age groups and the giveaways at the events are on the website. There's a new Kirby 25th Anniversary 3DS Theme in My Nintendo Rewards! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Do you love cosplay? What about wizards in space? Any questions for our amazing special guest Anne Brown??? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');