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Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 
Genre Japanese animation and culture Venue Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Nashville Hotel Location Nashville, Tennessee Country United States First held 1999 Organizer MTAC Attendance 5,640 as of 2011 Official website http://www.mtac.net The Middle Tennessee Anime Convention (MTAC) is the first anime convention in Tennessee. Based in Nashville, TN, MTAC is also known as Music City's Anime Convention.
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Programming
MTAC has many popular recurring events, including a cosplay contest, a risque cosplay contest, a ramen eating contest, an AMV contest, and a rave. Other popular panels and events include concerts, martial arts lessons and demonstrations, ParaPara lessons and performances, art workshops and yaoi and yuri panels.
History
Founded in 1999, MTAC set forth to deliver rich[citation needed] anime and Japanese related content to fans in Tennessee and the southeast US on an annual basis. A small event was held with great success and an attempt was made a second event the following year. However, difficulties forced the convention into a temporary stasis that was relieved in 2001 when "MTAC 2.5" was held. 2002 saw MTAC continue its course with "MTAC Pi" (drawing from the mathematical statement of Pi being equal to 3.14159265).
2004 saw a rebirth of the convention after a year long hiatus in 2003. With record setting attendance, the 2004 event dubbed "MTAC 4.01beta" was a celebration not only of anime fandom, but of MTAC's establishment in the anime community and development of its own identity. In 2005 the convention returned dubbing itself "MTAC GO" (references being drawn from the Japanese term for the number 5 as well as the board game originating in China also known as Go). This event again saw record highs in attendance as well as business success.
Event history
Convention Dates Location Atten. Guests MTAC December 10–11, 1999 Days Inn Nashville Airport 300 [1] MTAC 2-1/2 November 2–4, 2001 Clarion Hotel Nashville, Tennessee
400 Tiffany Grant, Sonny Strait, Bill Timoney, and Kira Vincent-Davis.[2] MTAC Pi August 9–11, 2002 Days Inn Nashville Airport Nashville, Tennessee
400 Steve Bennett, Rozie Curtis, Takayuki Karahashi, Sherry Lynn, and Jan Scott-Frazier.[3] MTAC 4.01 Beta April 2–4, 2004 Nashville Marriot-Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee
1,000 Greg Ayres, Robert DeJesus, Monica Rial, and Doug Smith.[4] MTAC Go April 1–3, 2005 Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Nashville, Tennessee
1,700 Brent Allison, Greg Ayres, Laura Bailey, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Lisa Furukawa, Kevin McKeever, Vic Mignogna, Monica Rial, and Steve Yun.[5] MTAC 6th Period April 21–23, 2006 Embassy Suites Nashville South 2,500 Greg Ayres, Steve Blum, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Lisa Furukawa, Caitlin Glass, Scott Kurtz, Vic Mignogna, Para2Mahou, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, and Travis Willingham.[6] MTAC Prime April 13–15, 2007 Cool Springs Conference Center Franklin, Tennessee
3,000 Lisa Furukawa, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, Mohammad "Hawk" Haque, Neil Kaplan, Kevin McKeever, Yad-Ming Mui, Ananth Panagariya, Peelander-Z, The Protomen, Doug Smith, and Steve Yun.[7] MTAC Infinity April 25–27, 2008 Sheraton Music City Nashville, Tennessee
3,750 Greg Ayres, James L. Barry, Johnny Yong Bosch, Chickenbox!, DJ TX300, Eyeshine, Kaiju Big Battel, The Man Power, Mega Ran, Nashville Lotus Taiko Team, Peelander-Z, The Slants, and Doug Smith.[8] MTAC Ninja April 3–5, 2009 Sheraton Music City Nashville, Tennessee
4,200 James L. Barry, Lisa Furukawa, Mohammad "Hawk" Haque, Steve Horton, Jeff Nimoy, the Notorious MSG, Ananth Panagariya, Sam Romero, Colleen Ann O'Shaughnessey, The Slants, DJ Wrecktal Destruction, ST~Prime (formerly the Band of Seven) and Jeong Mo Yang.[9] MTAC Odyssey April 30-May 2, 2010 Sheraton Music City Nashville, Tennessee
4,000 (affected by record flooding in Nashville) Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Neil Kaplan, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Doug Smith, Jan Scott-Frazier, Sonny Strait, Lisa Furukawa, Vic Mignogna, Steve Yun, Spike Spencer, Angry Viking Press, Kaiju Big Battel, with Musical Guests Quaff, Team Illuminati, DJ Wrecktal Destruction, and The Man Power[10] MTAC Goes To 11 April 22–24, 2011 Sheraton Music City Nashville, Tennessee
5,640 Action Adventure World, Robert Axelrod, Blue Grade, The Eric Stuart Band, Lisa Furukawa, DJ Wrecktal Destruction, Garth Graham, Yuri Lowenthal, The Man Power, Vic Mignogna, Reni Mimura, My Parents Favorite Music, Tara Platt, The Protomen, Shammers & Lefthand, The Slants, Eric Stuart, The Suzan, ST~Prime[11] MTAC Omega April 6-8, 2012 Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Hotel Nashville, Tennessee
Symphonic Anime Orchestra References
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 1999 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/434. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2001 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/435. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2002 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/287. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2004 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/205. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2005 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/572. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2006 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/825. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2007 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1001. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2008 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1289. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2009 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1625. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2010 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1848. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ "Middle Tennessee Anime Convention 2011 Information". AnimeCons.com. http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/2241/Middle_Tennessee_Anime_Convention_2011. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
External links
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