It was a big surprise to see how early people needed to queue for stage events, and how long some of those were, especially Pawpets. The Hinkley staff were great at bringing around drinks and snacks, but I think (especially for newcomers) the 45-60 minute+ queues were a bit much.
I really hope the queues can be improved at the new venue, especially as the con gets bigger. Early seating? Sponsor seating? It would also be helpful to set some expectations in the conbook and adjust the schedule leading up to big events.
Hi Coadey,
As TD Crowd control, queues and the like were my responsibility but even myself and my team were caught out with how early some people were queueing, for a couple of events we even had to tell people to go away and come back later, one of these was the pawpet show.
People had originally started queueing al least an hour before the scheduled start time for the pawpet show and this was something we could not have foreseen, we had to be especially fast in getting the props in to the stage from the storage room due to this, the show itself did have a sponsors only queue, but as we get larger so does this queue.
Ideally people should start queueing no more than 15 minutes before the start of an event, this gives myself and my team a chance to organise separate queues should they be needed, it also means that you are not queueing for ridiculous lengths of time.
- Codewolf