v28 Feedback Thread - Give us impressions/feedback/loved etc Options

[Jen]

On behalf of the core admin team (Votucu, Squid, R4N and Zardoz), please do share your feedback for v28!

What you loved?
What you didnt love?
What we could do better?
What you think we missed?

(dont have to use the above, just helps get the creative juices flowing to help the teams that work with the core admins make it more awesome).

[JustinCarew]

What you loved?
The atmosphere of people, the rush of playing in the tournament.
The internet was amazing, but I had no idea of what was banned in terms of usage of internet, a guy two doors down from me to my left was torrenting like no tomorrow which surprised me.

What you didnt love?
The fact that the giveaways were during peoples tournaments, one of our players almost missed out on a motherboard because of this.
The quality of toilets after midnight was awful, having never been to a LAN before I had no idea this would happen.
Lack of space between tables, just a tiny bit more space and I wouldn't have been annoyed at the amount of people going past us.
The time slots of tournaments, and the lack of notifications because of this. Two of the people on our team are big DotA fans and would have loved to play in both.
The announcements in general, we all missed out on the midnight bbq because we were too busy getting our asses kicked in the Grand Final of the League tourney, which would've ended ages ago if the unforeseen issues didn't occur.
The aircon at 4am as well.

What we could do better?
Not force, but try to engage people in the theme more. I myself completely forgot there was even one, and the chair on the stage looked like a standard thing to highlight a winner of whatever.
Bring someone in at some stage of the event to clean the toilets.


What you think we missed?
Maybe a system where someone (not suspicious looking, maybe someone certified with the staff to give people a lift) can volunteer and be approved to give a lift to people without car access to mcdonalds, or any food place for that matter. I learnt the hard way that its really hard to live on confectionary and ice tea for 29 hours, and didn't eat any "real" food until morning.

[Zardoz]

What you didnt love?
The fact that the giveaways were during peoples tournaments, one of our players almost missed out on a motherboard because of this.
The quality of toilets after midnight was awful, having never been to a LAN before I had no idea this would happen.
Lack of space between tables, just a tiny bit more space and I wouldn't have been annoyed at the amount of people going past us.
The time slots of tournaments, and the lack of notifications because of this. Two of the people on our team are big DotA fans and would have loved to play in both.
The announcements in general, we all missed out on the midnight bbq because we were too busy getting our asses kicked in the Grand Final of the League tourney, which would've ended ages ago if the unforeseen issues didn't occur.
The aircon at 4am as well.

Hey, there are some great suggestions here - however:

* Tournaments are running pretty much solid until the early hours of the morning and then people go home. Whenever we give away prizes, we're ALWAYS going to clash with tournaments. Tournaments also clash with each other - we can't realistically run DOTA 2 and LoL back to back as there's just not enough hours in the LAN to do so.
* Toilet quality - we're lucky those things were refurbished. We'll see if we can get a cleaner in there but cleaners are VERY expensive at that hour (so we could probably remove/reduce the cash prizes in order to do so but I am willing to bet that people won't like this either).
* We're working on improving our notifications. How do you suggest we do so? We've got an audio-visual communication survey that'll be going out with our wrap-up to get some feedback. This includes announcements. One idea we had was to stream the mic to a server so people can listen in.
* The aircon was just fan operated (i.e. no cooling was used). The challenge here is that the venue doesn't have climate control so we manually have to turn it on, then realise it's cold, then turn it off, then realise it's hot. The temperature varies - it's hotter in the middle of the venue than it is along the sides as well.
* Seating - yes, it's a bit squishy. We can solve this problem by slashing about 40 people from our player count - so 40 people would miss out on seats. Would you prefer to miss out on a Respawn every year in lieu of this?