Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
https://youtu.be/WShktYGH9eI
That blog post being posted on October 19 2014 and this youtube video being posted on the 29th leads me to believe it's a fair assumption these are of the same cosplay contest, though I forget how far apart fan fests used to be so I can keep looking.

Make of it what you will.
That doesn't seem to match the description of who was in the contest. There's no Garuda for instance. There was a Las Vegas one from October 17th to 19th that year that is probably the right one.