Unfortunately, my comment has a lot of complaints in it, and though I did have a decent time for the most part, the issues below really put a damper on things.
I know it's not going to happen, but attendance caps please! Just because five hotels can hold x amount of people technically doesn't mean that that exact number (or more) should be allowed to attend, especially when the majority of them are still in the same three hotels mostly on the same floors.
There were several times during the weekend where I was trapped in the habitrails between Marriott and Hyatt or Marriott and Hilton where no one could move in either direction. This was not when badges were being checked, it was simply due to the sheer amount of people trying to make their way to where they were going. Had there been an actual fire, a medical emergency or god forbid, a crazy person with a real weapon, what would happen then? The amount of people moving about is beyond an annoyance issue and and moving into serious saftey issue territory. If the con grows again next year by 30%, what then?
DC*TV did a terrible job at live broadcasting or rebroadcasting panels. Most of the panels I tried to watch in my room Saturday and Sunday had no audio and then cut out after ten minutes, switching back to bumpers and videos. How is this not getting better over the years?
And of course, there's the line issues that have been pointed out above in that there are lines, unofficial lines, and mobs of people milling about waiting to get in line. I'm not sure how that can be fixed but it's not working as it is.
On a plus note, I rarely had to wait more than five minutes for an elevator in the Marriott and most everyone practiced good elevator etiquette that I noticed. Also, registration was amazingly fast so hooray for that being even more efficient than last year.
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Date: 2012-09-04 03:54 am (UTC)I know it's not going to happen, but attendance caps please! Just because five hotels can hold x amount of people technically doesn't mean that that exact number (or more) should be allowed to attend, especially when the majority of them are still in the same three hotels mostly on the same floors.
There were several times during the weekend where I was trapped in the habitrails between Marriott and Hyatt or Marriott and Hilton where no one could move in either direction. This was not when badges were being checked, it was simply due to the sheer amount of people trying to make their way to where they were going. Had there been an actual fire, a medical emergency or god forbid, a crazy person with a real weapon, what would happen then? The amount of people moving about is beyond an annoyance issue and and moving into serious saftey issue territory. If the con grows again next year by 30%, what then?
DC*TV did a terrible job at live broadcasting or rebroadcasting panels. Most of the panels I tried to watch in my room Saturday and Sunday had no audio and then cut out after ten minutes, switching back to bumpers and videos. How is this not getting better over the years?
And of course, there's the line issues that have been pointed out above in that there are lines, unofficial lines, and mobs of people milling about waiting to get in line. I'm not sure how that can be fixed but it's not working as it is.
On a plus note, I rarely had to wait more than five minutes for an elevator in the Marriott and most everyone practiced good elevator etiquette that I noticed. Also, registration was amazingly fast so hooray for that being even more efficient than last year.