BlizzCon 2009: WoW.com meet-up, The Aftermath
by Michael Sacco 
Aug 21st 2009 at 11:00AM
What a night! Last night, the Anabella Hotel in Anaheim, CA played host to the WoW.com BlizzCon Meetup, and WoW.com readers turned out for the festivities. And festivities there certainly were!
Master of ceremonies Mike Schramm ran some great giveaways with gear from Creative and other WoW-themed items, Daniel Whitcomb drank too much and confessed his undying love for me, 1400 readers joined in on our live Ustream show ... and then the cast of The Guild showed up and the place exploded. Not literally, but metaphorically.
Oh, and over 1200 of you showed up at the meetup throughout the entire evening. There was that too. (And the WoW.com crew out there were beyond thrilled to see so many of you.)
Felicia Day (pictured above with our very own Zach Yonzon) and pals seemed to enjoy themselves quite a bit as they hung out with fans and fellow gamers, posing for photos and poundin' brews with the WoW.com crew. Thanks to everyone who came out, and I'm glad you enjoyed yourselves despite my conspicuous absence.
A special, 25-man-sized thank you to our own Mike Gray for working tirelessly in the weeks leading up to BlizzCon to make this meetup happen.
Check out our shots of the meetup in our gallery below!
BlizzCon 2009 is here! WoW.com has continuing coverage, bringing you the latest in Cataclysm news, live blogs, galleries, and reports right from the convention floor. Check out WoW.com's Guide to BlizzCon for the latest!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Randal Aug 21st 2009 11:08AM
Where's Amy? /sad
nieboh Aug 21st 2009 11:08AM
Looks like a fun time (if you're into crowds). Can you explain what's happening in pic#20? To the untrained eye, it looks like Anabelle is getting to 2nd base with Felicia. (I probably mixed character name with real name in that sentence but I don't really know which is which).
nieboh Aug 21st 2009 12:52PM
Clearly I meant Clara (Robin)...the one copping a feel on Felicity. Don't know what happened to my brain there. Sorry.
Evelinda Aug 21st 2009 1:06PM
gosh, it really does...
Everybody Aug 21st 2009 11:12AM
If you take only one thing away from this gallery, make sure you notice the three cats T-shirt.
That is all.
snowleopard233 Aug 21st 2009 11:21AM
LOL I noticed that too. This shirt brings overdone giant black t-shirts to a whole new level of awesomeness. I love it.
Braundo Aug 21st 2009 11:32AM
Three Keyboard Cat Moon.
Amazing.
Dragundam Aug 21st 2009 1:10PM
I didn't even realize that meme was big enough to warrant a t-shirt.
At any rate. http://www.threadless.com/submission/222011/Three_Keyboard_Cat_Moon
Laynne Aug 21st 2009 11:15AM
Look like so much fun. Wish I could have been there. I love the 3 cat shirt :-P And is it just me, or does Zach look a little scared in that picture?
fellina Aug 21st 2009 11:23AM
And now we know who the culprit was who kept moving the laptop and crashing the feed (Zach!), lol.
Big thanks to all the WoW.com staff and the cast of The Guild who took a minute to chat with us poor disembodied souls trapped in said laptop. ^.^
auftrag Aug 22nd 2009 12:02PM
i wish the pics had comments so we know who or what we are looking at =)
Nim Aug 21st 2009 11:26AM
The pics seem like good fun. Any chance we can in future get notes with names next to them? Only people from wow.com that I personally can recognize there are Mike and the T. =/
Ailian Aug 21st 2009 11:33AM
You dare only have 7 pictures with Turpster? >:O
6 If you don't count one of his arm. :p
paul Aug 21st 2009 12:20PM
This.
You can never have enough Turpster. More Turp, More Turp!
I didnt watch on the night, I sadly missed it, but it looked awesome, wish i was there.
Would have been even more awesome with More Turp! though.
More Turp!
Issac Aug 21st 2009 11:35AM
That Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt is the stuff of legends.
Stormdragon Aug 21st 2009 11:34AM
I miss things like this a lot more than the con itself, my wife and I was at last years meetup and even though it's wasn't nearly as packed it was still a good time.
/sigh maybe next year.
Venyo Aug 21st 2009 11:37AM
"and they're hotter than reality by far" XD
Murmel Aug 21st 2009 11:49AM
There's a lot of pics in there of similiar people that I can only assume are writers from wow.com, but I can't recognize any of you. You guys put up a guide with name to faces for blizzard people, can you also do that with the writers that are at blizzcon?
Complex Things Aug 21st 2009 12:23PM
Get rid of the live feed window from last night it keeps freezing all my browsers (chromium,firefox,safari).
Elmo Aug 21st 2009 11:58AM
She still has a pretty face but her song didn't get any better.