jk80

I think voting that you "didn't like it" and approving of the way it was run are two different things. We had a great day and I'm glad we went, but that doesn't take away from some of the poorly run aspects of the event, and doesn't excuse them either.

I didn't find the entry queuing for the event itself to be at fault, it was the queuing for B stage tickets and main stage events that had a lot of issues, as is well documented in other posts on this forum and elsewhere.

There were loads of people videoing. The stewards were going round asking people to stop when they spotted them. Despite requests, there were also loads of people using flash photography. I get how flash photography can be annoying for the guests, but what's the problem with filming, really?

ha really, I didn't watch the vid.

Sounds like they may have been better devoting this space to more seating for Stage B or merchandise, with all due respect to the performers.

ah fair play!

Ah, I'd heard it was a hoax.

Ha yeah I think I saw her too, very nice!

Whether they are paid or not is of no concern to the customer. The customer just wants them to do the job right! One could easily interpret the fact that volunteers were used as a further penny-pinching, profit-maximising measure by those running the show, to be honest, although fair play to those people for doing their best for free that day.

Yes that's what I thought.

Reckon they're likely to come back, given the way it was run, would it have made no difference to them?

What did Avery Brooks say in the opening ceremony that summed it up?

Good luck to you. There was a talk involving Denise Crosy and a few others at about that time this morning and I believe it was mostly empty because people hadn't been able to get tickets yet and were still queuing. I'd get there as early as you can and pray they've upped their game.

Wow, hopefully tommorow things will be quieter, as I'm going tomorrow only. May not get there till about 0915 though so by the time I get in and then get to the free talks queue I could find myself waiting over an hour and end up finding out they ran out of talk tickets . If I am lucky enough to get there though with tickets still available, what do you generally do? Do you ask for the talks you wish to see, or do they just hand over something to you? I'd look at the timetable and plan out your day. If you've paid for other talks or photo ops then look at the B stage timetable and see which things you can and would like to see. Then when you get to the people handing out tickets you can just say eg, "two tickets for Michael Dorn and Brent Spiner please" or whatever. They'll give you the little blue tickets, they're nothing fancy. We were slightly concerned because we wanted three tickets for things and there were only two of us present because our third person was at another talk, but there didn't seem to be a problem with getting however many you wanted, within reason.

Yes, it's by the free talks stage, the B stage. Unless they have miraculously sorted it tomorrow I strongly advise anyone going to get in that queue as soon as you can if you want to see the free talks.