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Originally Posted by boogerz
I'm still chapped about how they stopped allowing people into the Corral at around 1:10PM after the Game of Thrones panel started. One of my friends was there for Game of Thrones and stayed for TWK, said that there were empty seats, despite the event staff's claims that the Corral was over capacity.
Either they need better head counts, or move the bigger events to the Dome.
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This.
Whatever horseshoe they had up their butts Friday and yesterday must have fallen out, because their crowd management today was downright awful.
First, they were letting people into the building far too slowly after the doors opened, creating a huge line outside that by my estimate would've been there until at least noon. Supposedly to minimize crowd pressure at the inner doors, but there wasn't any so there was absolutely no good reason to impose the kind of bottleneck they did.
Then they messed things up my closing the Corral when they shouldn't have. The "we're closed" announcements were intended to disperse the crowds gathering in artist alley, but they only exacerbated the situation because if you announce that its closed then everyone wants to be there for when you re-open. And they will believe that you will re-open, because they know that the Corral can't be full for Nathan Fillion while Game of Thrones is still in session, because it's obvious that some people will leave between panels. The simple and obvious way to disperse that crowd would have been to let them fill the available seats.