Geez, I'm away for not even an hour and two pages are waiting for me! Y'all are crazy! ^_^
So, gotta catch up.
I have to agree that it is shaping up to be a FFVII Mock-Battle, and that's fine with me, heh. If we get cosplayers from other games, that is also awesome, but I can see plenty of fun that can be had with just the VII cosplayers we have right now.
And I also agree that Portland (on a nice gray day) does have the nice Edge/Midgar atmosphere. Hopefully it is cloudy weather during the photo shoot at Kumoricon. It would be so perfect!