 Otakuthon was selected as the convention to hold the Canadian Preliminaries for the WCS, starting in 2014.Winners from the Preliminaries at Otakuthon 2014 traveled to Japan to participate in the WCS 2015 events, but not compete in the Cosplay Championship.This was the first time a Canadian cosplay delegation represented the country at this international event, which has been running yearly since 2003.