On a thoroughly unserious note, apparently there was a multi-event World Cosplay Summit that Anime Expo was involved with in some fashion. It was "controversial", because some sort of modelling agency was behind the whole thing, and deliberately and transparently rigged the contest so that their pre-packaged set of Italian models "won". Apparently everyone else involved are volcanically pissed off about the whole thing, including the staff of Anime Expo. What a way to run a carnival...