With a successful “Friends ’til Death” panel on day 2 of PAX West, we went into day 3 with an autographing session followed by Failboat’s “Fight Mii” panel.
The premise of “Fight Mii” is for audience members to participate in creating Miis in accordance with a prompt given by the host. Usually, audience members compete against each other, but for this iteration of “Fight Mii,” the audience members were allied against “Team Failure,” the team representing Failboat and consisting of his friends.
Here is our friend Aidan, who owns the “Skip the Tutorial” channel on YouTube, filming Dan in a pre-panel interview.
Moments before the start of the show, I peeked back behind the curtain to make sure Dan was still alive. He was mildly surprised.
At 8:30 PM in the Monarch Theater, Dan went live with his signature gold sequin shirt. Unfortunately, his co-host Jay wasn’t able to make it this time around, but Jay filmed some pre-recorded segments which Dan played for the audience to provide them with the prompts.
Between each round, Dan came down into the crowd to pick some audience members to compete.
I was the first challenger from Team Failure, and my mission was to create a Pikachu Mii. This was my first time ever laying hands on any Wii game whatsoever, so it was not exactly a smooth experience. To top it all off, the voting system was highly rigged, in that the audience cheers determined which team won… and of course, the audience voted for their own representatives. Long story short, I got demolished.
The next challenger on Team Failure was Aidan.
Dan realized that the voting system was a bit one-sided, so instead, he brought Stitch from the PAX team up to be the judge instead.
My favorite part of Dan’s panels is when he brings out the prizes. One of the prizes was a book of animals in the “Baby Touch and Feel” series.
Not bad.
Next up was Dan’s college friend Sam. The prompt was simply “red,” so Sam put red foundation on his Mii and called it a day.
Stitch came back up to judge the Miis and select a winner.
The next prize… HP printer ink cartridges.
Hello, Douglas Douglas.
Stitch came back up to judge the Miis again, and she ended up picking Doug’s Mii.
His prize? An inflatable unicorn sprinkler.
In traditional Doug fashion, he decided to pull a prank on Stitch and, on his way back to his seat, he pulled out $11 from his wallet and handed it over to Stitch to make it look like she was bribed to pick him as the winner.
For the final round, our friend Altrive was up to close out the panel.
The final prize? An ironing board.
This was a fun panel, and Dan is a very high-energy performer. Even though I wasn’t notified of my requested appearance until literally the morning of the panel, and then proceeded to have absolutely no idea what I was doing, I am still glad I got to participate.
If you missed it, PAX live streamed this panel on their website—you can check it out on the “Streams” section of the PAX West website.