What was with the 3 hour delay this morning? My feet are sore as hell from being in that damn room waiting for my badge. And what is with the staff preventing hotel guests from taking the elevator without asking first? I swear I almost called hotel staff for that crap when I missed the elevator. I can already predict your response to this complaint and it will be defensive, but trust me, many others are thinking the same thing.

Oh, I forgot the constructive criticism. Have a staff meeting and tell them to not let the stress get to them, I noticed about half of your staff was at breaking point tonight.

I enjoyed the singing when we were in the waiting rooms this morning at least. Got some good pictures of various cosplay people as well. :b

That was the best part of the convention today, not waiting in the room part, the part where the many bronies could at least make it enjoyable enough.

I agree things were unorganized this morning, but I do understand that it's a first year Con, many of the staff were doing this for the first time, and there's always a first time for everything. Including learning lessons. I could tell some of the staff had little patience today, but I really felt for them. How stressful it must have been with that crowd! I applaud them for making it through the day. Most of the bronies were awesome too. I've always found that to be the case with bronies, being that their motto is "Love and Tolerate". And that's just what they do! The staff were all bronies too. They were just having some of their buttons pushed a bit too much today. I'm sure things will be more organized tomorrow and Sunday.

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Well I had a fun day, to say the least. xD

It started off pretty bad. My girlfriend and I weren't even in the system, but things did get a bit better. I do agree that some of the staff seemed pretty rude and there was definitely very very little communication throughout. Definitely understaffed at first. We still had fun though and will continue to have more fun. Just hoping that it goes smoother tomorrow.

It was a good day, despite the 3-hour delay and wait to get my badge. There are two more days left to enjoy here. Lynnie said most of what I was going to.

I left early on day 1 (without ever even picking up my badge), and did/will not return for days 2 or 3.

My constructive criticism: the number one failing of Everfree was lack of signage. I couldn't tell where anything was. There were no signs of where events were being held. And for those of us who hadn't picked up our badges, we didn't have a handy-dandy copy of the printed schedule or map (which I presume was included in the show book).

Number two failing was registration. I had an ominous feeling when I saw that there was no scheduled pre-con registration pickup, which is something most fandom conventions do: Sakura-Con is an excellent example of pre-con registration pickup done right. But even though registration was slow, it was absolutely shocking to be shunted off to a room for two hours to wait until we would be allowed to get in the line.

Con staff trying to get people to clear hallways... clear them to where? Clearly the show was trying to stick far too many people in to far too limited of space.

The main room in the Holiday Inn was a nice space, but it being on the 12th floor is problematic. Obviously, the elevators are going to be a bottleneck. If the show goes on next year in Sea-Tac, I hope that it manages to book the Hilton, which is much better equipped for a fan convention.

I bear no ill feelings towards Everfree: in the end, I only lost half a day and the cost of my membership. It probably would have been more bearable if I had come with friends, but I attended by myself, and didn't know anybody at the con, so I felt very isolated.

I admit, I feel disappointed. I was looking forward to it being "The Best Con EVER", but all of my expectations were frustrated. I hope everypony else had a better time than I did.

I held my tongue for Day 1 because it turned out ok but Day 2 was an absolute nightmare.

Nobody made it clear where exactly the line started for the VA panel. How about a sign that clearly says where to go to get in line? Lot of miscommunication there. There was a line parallell to the breakfast place then we're told that's not allowed and the lines is somewhere else, a real mess.

And for Ponystock an hour or so delay?

I found it absolutley galling that the volunteers (greenshirts) showed absolutley no concern for the people in line for HOURS. How about a "We're sorry for the delay". NO. It's always "Clear the sidewalks!"

ZERO updates from the greenshirts. How hard is it for one person to gives us "Hey guys it'll be about 30 minutes" or even "I don't know how long it will be but I'll give you a update as soon as possible so hang in there"

Is that not reasonable? When I've been waiting TWO AND A HALF HOURS in a line what I don't want to hear is "HEY GUYS CLEAR A PATH" "HEY GUYS KEEP YOUR BACKS TO THE WALL". I swear you guys care more about not pissing off the hotel than the Bronies.

It's also funny how one greenshirt tries to get us all to sing then a few minutes later another greenshirt tells us to stop singing because it would disrupt singing guests. The phrase " The left doesn't know what the right hand is doing" was never so fitting.

I get that you're volunteers and you guys put a lot of time and effort into it but some of the stuff was completley preventable. Most of my gripes could've been solved with paper a marker and some courtesey and caring from the greenshirts.

I genuinely think a apology is in order.

I had that "They're volunteers they're not getting paid, this is a first year con" mentality but you guys used up all that good will and then some.