Middle Tennessee Anime Convention

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Middle Tennessee Anime Convention
Venue	Sheraton Music City
Location	Nashville, Tennessee
Country	United States
First held	1999
Attendance	3,000 in 2007
Official website

The Middle Tennessee Anime Convention (MTAC) is the first anime convention in Tennessee, and the only anime convention in Middle Tennessee.

1 Programming
2 History
- 2.1 Event history
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Programming

MTAC has many popular recurring events, including a cosplay contest, a ramen eating contest, Goldenboy Extreme Elimination Khallenge (GEEK), AMV contest, and rave. Other popular panels and events include concerts, martial arts lessons and demonstrations, ParaPara lessons and performances, art workshops, and a yaoi panel.

[edit] History

Founded in 1999, MTAC set forth to deliver rich 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.

[edit] Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests
December 10–11, 1999^[1]	Days Inn Nashville Airport Nashville, Tennessee	300
November 2–4, 2001^[2]	Clarion Hotel Nashville, Tennessee	400	Tiffany Grant, Sonny Strait, Bill Timoney, and Kira Vincent-Davis.
August 9–11, 2002^[3]	Days Inn Nashville Airport Nashville, Tennessee	400	Steve Bennett, Rozie Curtis, Takayuki Karahashi, Sherry Lynn, and Jan Scott-Frazier.
April 2–4, 2004^[4]	Nashville Marriot-Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee	1,000	Greg Ayres, Robert DeJesus, Monica Rial, and Doug Smith.
April 1–3, 2005^[5]	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.
April 21–23, 2006^[6]	Embassy Suites Nashville South Franklin, Tennessee	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.
April 13–15, 2007^[7]	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.
April 25–27, 2008^[8]	Sheraton Music City Nashville, Tennessee	3,700	Greg Ayres, James L. Barry, Johnny Yong Bosch, Chickenbox!, DJ TX300, Eyeshine, Kaiju Big Battel, The Man Power, Mega Ran, My Parents Favorite Music, Peelander-Z, The Slants, and Doug Smith.
April 3-5, 2009^[9]	Sheraton Music City Nashville, Tennessee