It was my first marathon event attended in person, so I don't have any previous ones to compare the experience to. Almost all of my experience was positive. I did not stay at the venue, so I can't comment on that end of it.

The not so great:

• The pop​corn smell. This was really offputting to me. While free pop​corn/ice cream/water is fantastic, I'd honestly have preferred it if only drinks were allowed in the stream halls. The smell of pop​corn combined with the heat when the crowds were larger was quite unpleasant. It would also partially solve the issue of rubbish left lying around, although honestly that shouldn't have been a problem to begin with. Attendees should be better than that.
• PC practice room as mentioned by many. I thought it a bit odd that there was a rig there that had a label on it saying it belonged to someone and it just kind of stayed there the entire time. Never saw anyone using it. I had plenty of opportunities to practice my run, but my run was quite late in the event. Had I been in the first day or two, it would have really sucked. I know that it's possible to ask others to free up a PC, if they are not practicing themselves, but I can see why people might find that a little awkward.
• I think the StreetBoyz stuff was a good idea, but the pop-off and shouting were really obnoxious. It took longer than it should have to move them away, and I'm not sure why it was treated any differently from if an individual in the audience or on the other consoles kept being incredibly loud, so much so as to be heard over the runner.

The great:

• Pretty much everything else! The venue was well situated, easy to find, and well-suited to host such an event.
• There seem to be mixed thoughts on this, but I thought that having both streams in the same room was actually pretty cool. It gave more credence to stream 2, rather than having it basically be the less interesting side stream. At time, the crowds were pretty evenly split between the two. I never thought that the cheering from one was super noticeable on the other, both while running and while in the audience.
• Tech and Helpdesk were both super helpful. Big shout outs to Liva for managing stream 2 so smoothly. Set up and running was all very easy as a complete newcomer.
• All the other attendees that I interacted with. I had a great time.

I really don't like this. So I'm now stuck with green text everywhere unless I pay for the ability to make it normal again?

Not cool