Brazil - 13th Preliminary Round Report
Kodama selective reveals one more finalist
Double from Minas Gerais state conquers vacancy on event from Brasilia city
The penultimate vacancy to the Brazilian final of WCS already has an owner. It belongs to the double Bruno de Castro Maciel Ribeiro and Gabriela de Lima Birchal. They won the selective Kodama, in Brasilia city (Federal District), on May 31.
Bruno and Gabriela, from Minas Gerais state and Belo Horizonte city, interpreted the characters Albus and Shanoa, from the game Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.
In may, they had already taken part in the selective Anime Yuu, in Londrina (Parana state), but they only got the third place (world champions Monica and Mauricio Somenzari got the selective's vacancy).
Juliana Costa Silva Rabelo and Ana Flavia Bittencourt De Lima, by their turn, conquered the second place on Brasilia's event, with cosplays based on the manga The Rose of Versailles. Therefore, they guaranteed a vacancy to the on-line Mercado Mundo Mix selective.
The event of Brasilia had the presence of the Minister of Japan's Embassy in Brazil, Tatsuo Arai, that participated as one of the judges of the WCS selective.
Kodama exists since 2002, and it is carried out by N’DEAS Productions. It holds WCS selectives since 2007.
Final classification for the Selective Kodama
- 1st place:Bruno de Castro Maciel Ribeiro / Gabriela de Lima Birchal
(89 points)

- 2nd place:Juliana Costa Silva Rabelo / Ana Flavia Bittencourt De Lima
(85.5 points)

- 3rd place:Cecilia Faria de Sa Alves / Viviane Machado Ferreira
(83.5 points)









