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Conquest Festival 2022 Set to Make Philippine Events History

Content creators and gamers will once again converge for CONQuest Festival 2022, organized by AcadArena. This year’s event takes place on July 23-24 from 10am to 7pm at the SMX Convention Center Manila in Pasay City. A great variety of local and international guests awaits pop culture fans and cosplayers. Genshin Impact, Valorant, and OSU! players will surely have a promising weekend, and VTuber and anime fans won’t be disappointed either.

One Whole Weekend of Variety for Gamers and Fans

During the 2-day event, con-goers will get to experience various activities such as community panels, celebrity meets, a Tech & Game Developer Expo, Crafter’s Quarters, and a Retro & Freeplay arcade.

CONQuest Festival 2022 will also host the grand finale of AcadArena’s Alliance Games, the Philippines’ biggest campus gaming league featuring League of Legends, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Valorant, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, and Call of Duty Mobile teams.

The Biggest Roster of Local and International Guests Post-Pandemic

CONQuest brings local and international content creators in one place. (Photo from CONQuest 2019)

CCONQuest is holding the biggest event with local and international all-star guests that the country has seen since in-person events have been allowed. The lineup is as follows:

What Makes the CONQuest Festival Special?

Everyone’s attention is in the game happening at the stage area. (Photo from CONQuest 2017)

CONQuest Festival traces its roots back to Iloilo City, where it started in 2017 as a high school project. It set a record as one of the largest events in the city with around 2,000 people in attendance during the first two years.

In 2019, CONQuest led to the creation of the AcadArena collegiate gaming and esports network, and its move to the Iloilo Convention Center proved to be a success with over 8,000 in attendance.

CONQuest was known as “Iloilo’s Esports and Pop Culture Festival” in the past. (Photo from CONQuest 2019)

With 30 guests and a variety of activities, CONQuest Festival 2022 certainly will make a mark in the country’s convention scene. Tickets are still available online—visit CONQuestph.com to get yours. All visitors must be fully vaccinated to enter. For more information, follow CONQuest on Facebook and Twitter.

Photos from CONQuest. Anime Corner is one of the official media partners for CONQuest 2022.

Jay Agonoy

Jay Agonoy has written feature stories for websites such as Rappler and The Reimaru Files, as well as moderated select panel discussions on the local anime and cosplay community. Currently, he hosts keepsakes., a show discussing about being an anime fan in the Philippines. Prior to joining Anime Corner as its contributing writer, Jay has covered events in the Philippine Otaku community since 2010.

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