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[lovbug]

Full of questions today.

-At Eclipse1, Gold pass got preferred seating, will Silver be getting this (after gold of course) ?

-Are there any gifts again for staying at Park Inn?

-When will we find out what these other surprises are?

-What will happen if eclipse only gets 3 guests?

-How will the casino themed party work, i assume people won't actually be able to gamble

Theres some things to think about lol

[pez]

silver get seeted after gold so first 100 gold next 150 silver then the others as far as i can tell and thats about all i can answer...

[Phoenix Will Rise]

I have been to other casino themed nights where they give u fake money, and everyone gets to play with that, and there was prizes for those with the most at the end of the evening etc!

A question from me.. Gold passes can go for autographs at any time, others go when they are called, but what about silver card holders??

[gebes]

Answered in reply 1

I've not read that there are, but there's still plenty of time for stuff like this to be announced

Whenever Jason or Mark decide to tell us !

Standard line time , guests can be announced right up to the event itself, take a look at the Hub, they're getting 2 surprise guests.  I will admit it's been quiet for more guest announcements, but I would guess things will get moving fast after the Hub convention next weekend.

I've seen this done where by you gamble with tokens rather than money itself, and turns of say a roulette wheel have different prizes , so if for example you bet on red 15 and the ball lands there, you win something, for the purposes of this answer, lets say you win a photoshoot or extra autograph.

Phew, glad that's the end of your questions. !!!

[jael001]

As others have said, with 'fun' casinos you play with fake money or tokens and there are usually prizes for the winners. I work for a party company and we've organised a few of these for fundraisers and they can be great fun, especially as you're not at risk of losing any real money so everyone can have a go.

[lovbug]

gebes, on Oct 12 2008, 09:27 PM, said:

Standard line time , guests can be announced right up to the event itself, take a look at the Hub, they're getting 2 surprise guests.  I will admit it's been quiet for more guest announcements, but I would guess things will get moving fast after the Hub convention next weekend.

Phew, glad that's the end of your questions. !!!

Perhaps other guests will be annouced, but what would happen IF no more guests can be annouced.

Don't worry i'm sure i will think of lots more  

[Quinny83]

Oh I do hope that there will be a freebie for those of us staying at the Park Inn, last time I missed out - I was staying elsewhere, managed to book a room at the park inn this time only because I booked 2 days after E1.

Edited by Quinny83, 12 October 2008 - 11:00 PM.

[Too Tall]

lovbug, on Oct 12 2008, 08:55 PM, said:

Full of questions today.

-At Eclipse1, Gold pass got preferred seating, will Silver be getting this (after gold of course) ?

-Are there any gifts again for staying at Park Inn?

-When will we find out what these other surprises are?

-What will happen if eclipse only gets 3 guests?

-How will the casino themed party work, i assume people won't actually be able to gamble

Theres some things to think about lol

Heres's what I can answer...

Gold passes do have a priority seating section, which no one else can site in. This means even if they turn up half way through a talk they can this site in the first couple of rows (in a free seat).

Silver passes do not have a reserved area! But Silver passes will be called in to the hall after the Gold passes and so as long as you are their when the hall is filled you will get a seat behind the Gold pass holders.

The casino you get given £50 fake money at the start and the person with the most at the end of the evening wins. What they win I don't know at present.

Phoenix Will Rise, on Oct 12 2008, 09:20 PM, said:

I have been to other casino themed nights where they give u fake money, and everyone gets to play with that, and there was prizes for those with the most at the end of the evening etc!

A question from me.. Gold passes can go for autographs at any time, others go when they are called, but what about silver card holders??

Can you please show me where it says Gold Passes can go for autographs at any time? As far as I'm aware this is not the case. Gold passes are called the same as everyone else, they were at Eclipse 1. Silver passes will be the same. You will be called for autographs in groups of reg numbers.

We can not allow people to just join any queue at any time, not even the gold pass holders as it would be impossible for us to manage the queues.

[lovbug]

I seem to remember that this caused alot of problems last time. As far I know Golds were ment to go in when their groups were called, however they were allowed in before other non gold people in that group. However LOTS of gold people got all theor photos as soon as the guest was up. As some people (and staff) thought gold pass could go for photoshoots whenever they wanted.

[jael001]

I dont see why it would be impossible to manage the queues if Golds could go in whenever we wanted. There's only 50 of us, if we're split between the various guests it should really make much difference as far as I can tell.

[such_jaunt]

My sister and I were gold last Eclipse and we never queue barged for autos..I would love to be allowed though that would be fab lol

[sebastianillyria]

Too Tall, on Oct 13 2008, 05:44 PM, said:

The casino you get given £50 fake money at the start and the person with the most at the end of the evening wins.

Great !  

[Phoenix Will Rise]

Too Tall, on Oct 13 2008, 04:44 PM, said:

Phoenix Will Rise, on Oct 12 2008, 09:20 PM, said:

I have been to other casino themed nights where they give u fake money, and everyone gets to play with that, and there was prizes for those with the most at the end of the evening etc!

A question from me.. Gold passes can go for autographs at any time, others go when they are called, but what about silver card holders??

Can you please show me where it says Gold Passes can go for autographs at any time? As far as I'm aware this is not the case. Gold passes are called the same as everyone else, they were at Eclipse 1. Silver passes will be the same. You will be called for autographs in groups of reg numbers.

We can not allow people to just join any queue at any time, not even the gold pass holders as it would be impossible for us to manage the queues.

Sorry bout that Too Tall... it was actually a gold pass holder I was speaking to at E1 who was telling that one of the perks of a gold pass was that you didnt have to wait for your group to be called... but it seems that, as others have mentioned, there may have been a bit of confusion/barging at the time, so he probably shouldnt have got them all in one day, even tho he did!
My bad, sorry! :)

[Too Tall]

jael001, on Oct 13 2008, 09:06 PM, said:

I dont see why it would be impossible to manage the queues if Golds could go in whenever we wanted. There's only 50 of us, if we're split between the various guests it should really make much difference as far as I can tell.

There are in fact 100 gold passes. And trust me having 100 people being able to join any queue at any time is not easy to manage. We could call an extra group of 25 people just as 50 gold passes decide to come and see that guest. We suddenly have a queue of 75 people, which we just don't have room for. We need to be able to control the numbers in the queues. Having 100 people that can turn up at any time makes that very hard to do.

We sort out the queues so that it fair and everyone gets to see half the guests the first day and half the second.  For us to be able to make sure an even number of people get through on the first day, we can't just let all the gold passes in. As someone else has said above, all that happens is that the gold pass holders all go and get their autographs on the first day. 3 guests with 100 gold passes that's 300 people down queues. This means each standard ticket holders will miss at least 1 guests on the Saturday because there isn't enough time because their spot in the queue will have been taken by a gold pass holder. At the end of Saturday all the gold pass holders would have all 6 autos but some standard ticket holders in turn may have only got 1 or 2 on the first day, not overly fair.

Seriously try orgainising 800 people in to queue in that small of a place and then tell me you're happy for 100 people to join any queue they like. Trust me you wouldn't.

I understand people pay extra money for the gold passes, but that is for the other extras, photo shoots, front rows in talks etc. There is noting on the website about priority in autograph queues.

To make the show flow we need to manage the queues, to do that we need to manage the number of people in thoughs queues. It's as simple as that.

[jael001]

Ah ok. Yeah I can see with 100 people that might become a problem. I dont know why I thought there were only 50 Gold Passes. Nevermind.

[Too Tall]

Phoenix Will Rise, on Oct 14 2008, 12:12 AM, said:

Too Tall, on Oct 13 2008, 04:44 PM, said:

Phoenix Will Rise, on Oct 12 2008, 09:20 PM, said:

I have been to other casino themed nights where they give u fake money, and everyone gets to play with that, and there was prizes for those with the most at the end of the evening etc!

A question from me.. Gold passes can go for autographs at any time, others go when they are called, but what about silver card holders??

Can you please show me where it says Gold Passes can go for autographs at any time? As far as I'm aware this is not the case. Gold passes are called the same as everyone else, they were at Eclipse 1. Silver passes will be the same. You will be called for autographs in groups of reg numbers.

We can not allow people to just join any queue at any time, not even the gold pass holders as it would be impossible for us to manage the queues.

Sorry bout that Too Tall... it was actually a gold pass holder I was speaking to at E1 who was telling that one of the perks of a gold pass was that you didnt have to wait for your group to be called... but it seems that, as others have mentioned, there may have been a bit of confusion/barging at the time, so he probably shouldnt have got them all in one day, even tho he did!
My bad, sorry! :)

I believe at EC1 there was some mis-understanding over this. There is nothing on the website that states gold passes get any priority in autograph queues. But at EC1 some gold pass holders believed they did and the ticketers at the end of the queues, rather than asking an organiser accepted what the attendees said and let them down the queues I think the mis-com came because the SM event Gold passes do allow people to join any queue, but they don't include things like photo shoots, just priority queuing for them. It was noticed and everyone was told to not allow it on the Sunday. It does just make our job of managing the 800 or so people that much harder if we allow people to join queues when they like, even if it is only 100 of them.

jael001, on Oct 14 2008, 03:24 PM, said:

Ah ok. Yeah I can see with 100 people that might become a problem. I dont know why I thought there were only 50 Gold Passes. Nevermind.

At SMs signing events it's only 50. That's where you prob got that from.

[Catmoo]

I found it weird at the first eclipse cos me and my sister went with how everything was called out (I had a gold pass and was an ando badge as well) and then near the end of the day on sunday we were in the signing hall and asked if we were able to see a guest, not knowing if we'd been called, and the crew member said we had been able to go even if we hadn't been called all weekend, which confused me cos I knew that wasn't right :/

[clloby]

Catmoo, on Oct 14 2008, 11:01 PM, said:

I found it weird at the first eclipse cos me and my sister went with how everything was called out (I had a gold pass and was an ando badge as well) and then near the end of the day on sunday we were in the signing hall and asked if we were able to see a guest, not knowing if we'd been called, and the crew member said we had been able to go even if we hadn't been called all weekend, which confused me cos I knew that wasn't right :/

That was what I was told at the end of Eclipse.  

The Gold Passes had priority at Chevron, and I thought that was the way they had decided to organise things.  So now I am confused again.

[pez]

i still only had one auto on the sat i was in michas group, we only got called for noah on the sat ... sunday was buuuuusssssyyyy

[such_jaunt]

We were in Adam's group and most of ours seemed to be on sunday