Today dawned bright and early, and another crazily busy day began.
In the morning there was a meeting for all team members and organisers, where the teams in three stages chose the order for the Championship on Sunday.

And we finally got a picture of all the teams posing together, in front of the results of the order draw.

The teams then dispersed, and had about an hour and a half to get ready in their first costumes for a long round of events. After a while they began to emerge in all their glory. There was lots of admiration for each others' costumes, and a great atmosphere in the lobby. Here's Mexico and Spain getting close:

Australia take a dance around the lobby while waiting for all the teams to gather:

After plenty of time for photos and chat, the teams split into two groups. Group A went off to meet the mayor, visit the Nagoya Convention Centre and then go on to Nagoya Centrair airport to perform and be interviewed. I went with Group B; we took a bus ride (which included a rousing sing-song from the Italian team!) to Chunichi Shinbun, a Nagoya newspaper office. Here they are looking fabulous just outside.

Some teams were interviewed while the others, like France and China here, were in constant demand for photos:

You can't imagine a more elegant group!

After that it was back on the bus, where multilingual genius Pol interpreted for everyone.

Next stop was the TV Aichi studio, where some teams relaxed while others practiced for their appearance on the live programme 3ji no Tsubo.

The Mexican, Chinese and French teams appear with some samurai on the live TV show!

After the programme had finished, everyone went outside, and the cosplayers had their pictures taken with the samurai and the cute TV weather girls. They certainly made an eyecatching group!

Afterwards, the Australian team met an Australian samurai! It's a small world after all...

What with the heat and humidity in Nagoya today, everyone was glad to finish up and get back on the air-conditioned bus. The teams had been out and about for hours at this point, but were still going strong. Some of the entrants for the Japanese cosplay heats joined us at this point, and we followed Group A out to Centrair Airport; a few people took the opportunity to have a much-needed snooze.

Arriving at the airport, we met Rie and some of the other Japanese cosplayers.

Group A arrived, and the teams had some dinner - Tenmusu, a Nagoya speciality.

The final event of the day was probably the most exciting - a party for the teams to meet Japanese cosplayers, chat and take pictures with them. First was a performance from last year's Summit winners on the big stage.

Following this, the teams from Group B came up on stage and were interviewed. The Japanese cosplayers were very impressed with how great they looked!

Then everyone was free to mingle and take photos; I took so many of fantastic costumes and poses from international and Japanese cosplayers that it was literally impossible to choose which ones to post here; for now's here's Italy with Mario and Luigi!

And Brazil and Spain looking totally fantastic:

To finish up, the teams and Japanese cosplayers got back up on stage and had a little sing and dance. You have to be amazed at how much energy everyone still had after such a hard day!

Back on the bus for one last journey back to the hotel. Here's a final photo of our Japanese group, still in costume:

A massive well done to everyone who worked so hard today; looks like tomorrow will be even busier, so stay tuned!