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Team Russia Crowned World Cosplay Summit Champions

Team Russia reigned supreme at this year's World Cosplay Summit, dressing as Princess Zelda and Link from The Legend of Zelda. The team was made up of cosplayers Nek and Nichi, who used their Zelda costumes to move them past the Russian preliminaries and into the Summit.

Here are the costumes that propelled them to victory:

Photo by Marico

And here's the skit they performed in the finals:

Footage is available on Youtube of all of the various finalists, but for a brief recap, here's a rundown of the teams that made it into the finals:

If you're interested in checking out all of the events and cosplayers from the World Cosplay Summit parade that took place before the finals, MAiDiGi has a playlist on YouTube here.

Here's Team USA, which featured the cosplay duo Green Jello Cosplay.

This year's competition featured representatives from 26 countries.

Cosplayers eager for the chance to represent the United States in the World Cosplay Summit 2015 can check out the Team USA website, which also provides information on all of the regional qualifiers.

Via JapanTimes, images from World Cosplay Summit Russia FB, Neko-tin.Deviantart