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![]() Hopefully you are home and beginning the process of rest and recuperation from ESA. Packing up this weekend was far easier than last year, thanks to so many of you hanging back to help pack up on Sunday, so we thank you enormously. As an organising team we have many thoughts (almost all good!) on ESA this year, but before we share them, we need as usual to listen. Please use this thread to post your thoughts on any part of ESA, whether you watched at home or were an attendee. It is important you are critical if needs be, so we can effectively plan for next year. We will be feeding summarised feedback to the hotel, and they will be providing a group response in due course. If you have specific complaints hotel service that require a personal response, please email them directly as we can not handle individual points. All on site attendees will shortly also receive a short multiple choice survey by email with a comments box. Comments made here will remain private to the organising committee. If you have already written a pastebin, please copy/paste it here. It helps us out a lot to have all comments in one place See you next time! Planks |
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Gonna keep it shorter than previously: ContentsPositives:- The venue. Holy heck, what a nice venue. The size of the floor is perfect for the setup. Great use of all the side rooms as well. Anything less would have been an issue but you guys truely made the most out of what we got and it showed. Mehs:- Broken ACs and very small beds were a bummer. Next year I might just book a single for myself to avoid this issue. Still, the only thing that was nicer at Scandic compared to QHV were the beds imo. I hate to give negative feedback as well but a single incident in regards to chat moderation was sort of souring my personal experience, even though I havent been involved. While the situation was handled on site from what I heard, some people should maybe cut down on their egos and try to not overstep their boundaries. Overall, the entire organisational team felt super connected to the participants and the volunteers and it did feel like a close family, hence probably why negative appearances by certain people became so much more noticeable and impactful. I had an incredible week and I was blown away by the improvements. Having been to both GDQs and ESAs as well as smaller events in the past, this has been the single best marathon experience for me so far. So much love for all the volunteers, organizers and runners. โค๏ธ |
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I will skip the positives as I generally agree to what most people liked and even loved about this year's ESA Summer - as in the location, hotel, etc. So here is what I think could be improved: Not sure if anything can be done about the beds but I know you guys are awesome and will do your best do improve ESA even further ๐ |
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Pastebin containing my feedback along with other stuff, as duplicating information is inefficient ๐ |
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All of the good stuff has been pretty much said allready, same goes for the negative stuff. + The energy levels and enthusiasm this year was absolutely amazing, which wants me to support the event again/even more with runs now than before (and i hope im not the only one who feels that way) Really minor negatives: |
CounterPillow
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As a viewer, my only big complaint is the chat mods. During the GTA LCS run, one of the missions involved a truck with the company logo "Liberty Sex" on the side. The runner Nozlar referred to this as the "sex truck", mentioning it multiple times. Anyone who typed "sex truck" in the chat, however, got a 10 minute timeout. That is to mean that any message even just referring to the truck as "sex truck", with no offensive content whatsoever, was met with a 10 minute timeout. I think that's just dumb. Chat mods shouldn't enforce rules any more strictly than the venue (or the game) itself does. There is nothing offensive about "sex truck". Yet, these GDQ rejects think they run the show. |
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Heyo! ESA Summer 2018 was the first on-site gaming event I've ever attended. I stayed for 3 nights, so my experience wasn't "full", but here's my thoughts: The venue was quite honestly amazing. I was surprised by how much the organizers managed to fit in there, without making it messy or narrow. Access to everything was simple and well organized. The free stuff was of course a sweet cherry on top? Atmosphere-wise I couldn't ask for much more. It was everything everyone hyped it up to be. I felt at home as soon as I arrived. Everyone was super chill and friendly. The only minor negatives I can think of are: -Chat moderation. It seemed at times a bit too strict, and at some points a bit lazy. No disrespect to the people moderating of course, but some decisions in chat were a bit strange. -Badge control. People from outside the event are bound to enter the arcade area or the gaming area, but nobody should have to be afraid of their stuff being stolen or messed with. Some sort of security near entrances would help, especially with common badge checks. All in all the event was one of the best experiences of my life. All the people I met, including making new friends, all the new speedgames I witnessed and got interested in, and all the support from everyone there made those days incredible. Thanks for ESA Summer 2018, and see you next summer! |
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Well, I have to say well done on hosting such a fantastic event this year. You've improved so much on previous events - Where do I begin? The only negative I can think of that's worth voicing is the hotel's policy of no outside food on the first 2 floors. Naturally, food groups are a big part of these social events, and when we've all gone out to Dominos at 9:30 pm, what are we meant to do with our pizza? Sit and eat it on the street curb? Sure we're allowed take it to our hotel rooms, but none of our rooms were big enough to house a party of 8. It would've been really nice if they'd have the dining area open or something, just anywhere that we can sit and eat our food without having to go back to our rooms in small groups. There are probably even more positives that I'm forgetting. Seriously, thank you for such a great event. |
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Didn't make it the event, cause of some issues that happened during my trip. But I'm sure that the event was good, especially the stream was very good. Mass housing is really required, since people are coming a long way and it's already expensive. It's not very my cup of tea, that I'll have to find any apartment rooms somewhere in the city. I don't have the money for the hotel rooms, so that's definitely required. It's nice if you just could walk for a few minutes, and then you would be there. Then people don't have to leave late night, look for busses etc.. EDIT: Didn't mean that it is required, but it would be nice to have for future events. |
Irregularprogramming
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I loved the event way better than previous and I think the venue played a big part in that. A big negative I felt was the viewing experience on stream one for me at least was very much negatively influenced by the bright studio lights, I ended up not watching runs that I wanted to watch because of them. I understand that they need to be on the current runner and people on stream but did all of them need to be on all the time and do they really need to block the screen? I had constant vision blotches in the main stream hall because of them. I actually felt it was a big plus that the hotel did not allow outside food, I can say a lot of good things about the community but I know from experience that they would not be able to handle eating on the top floor without it being as gross as last year. |
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Mass housing isn't "required". It's nice to have, but it isn't required. Bring back the couch, unless the aim was to get all the commentators sitting in Arozziยฎ gaming chairs? In which case, fair enough? I dont know how many CRT's were brought to this event, but you could probably half that number next year, even if you dont replace them with an equivalent number of low latency digital panels. You could probably reduce that even more if you could provide a few OSSC's and panels. Many CRT's sat unused. We could have utilised the speakers built into the venue a little more maybe? They worked great for Quiplash (even if everything else gave up) so maybe we could hook them up for just voices have have the one speaker be game audio only? I'm not a particular fan of the hosting layout, a desk or a couch works much better than two separate chairs. I feel like we're just reinventing the wheel here. the three monitor setup however (info, stream, chat) was just about right. |
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Hey ESA this year was really a masterpiece in all speedruns events I attendee so far. For feedbacks here is my list : ++ The venue. Quality Hotel View was really an awesome place for this event. With some surprises at some times ๐. As a venue it was definitely a A++ It was really an awesome event overall. Can't wait to be part of ESA 19 ๐ |
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There were a few things that bothered me during the event but nothing major. Mostly room size and purpose. The audio level of the arcades were at times a bit distracting but not too bad a couple of days in when an ok balance was found. The board game room was a bit too small during prime time and MTG tournament. The tournament room was not at all suitable for anything tabletop even though I was encouraged to sign up for using it which means that for the 3-4 hours the MTG tourney went on we stole the board game room for that. There were a couple of nights when groups turned around at the door because all tables were filled. I never saw the tournament room be used for much other than 2-6 fighting game setups except for the one night of mario kart. The size of the room was not really utilized. The quiet practice room was too close to the arcades and stream 2 to be consistently quiet and was often not really quiet anyway as it was sometimes used for groups practicing or just playing games. Iโm guilty of that one aswell during some QUBE2 practice. It could also have used some monitors for HD consoles not hooked up to computers. |
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Since almost all of the positives have been covered I'll just add a couple of things on that I believe would benefit us all next year. Scheduling Hosting Badges |
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Second ESA and it was great c: I'll try to be a meano and find some downsides though: -CRT TVs. But you guys already know what to do about it. I'm running old games (OoT, SM64...) and I play on a LCD screen (Haier TV 56cm). it works really well, pretty cheap, you can plug composite, HDMI, VGA etc... And I never felt any input delay. So yeah you can definitely get rid of the CRTs imo ๐ -The Promo code about Dominos. Yeah that sounds weird to complain about this but why do we always have promo codes for unhealthy food ? it's bugging me a bit, especially for that kind of event. -Where were the huge TVs from last year ? ๐ฎ -Some people leaving the junks around them ๐ Not ESA's organitors fault of course. Next time make sure to put a sign with something saying "please don't let your goddam coffee alone for a night close the electrical outlets and runners' consoles" But Overall the event was aboslutely great, I just had to complain because I'm french. On the other side we had: +A very good hotel, really good rooms, no problems with the showers, beds, something unclean etc.... Shoutouts to the waiters and room cleaners. +The location, nothing to say, it really can't be better. +The general happiness of people +The price, it goes with the hotel point in a way. Thanks to the promo code for the rooms, we got some very cheap rooms imo. I mean 345โฌ for 9 nights with breakfast included in such a quality hotel.... It is impossible to do better. +The 2 streams, it's a really good idea. I've seen some people complaining about it, but I guess they're just jealous ๐ +I don't know what kind of tissu you used to prevent some tables to be damaged. But it was neat lol +Probably a lot of things I forgot to write right now. Shoutouts to the french community for being so enthusiastic |
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I agree with everything positive that has been said here. Just chiming in to share some thoughts about the PC peripherals. The table cloth on the tables in the main room was in the way most of the time. The seams were constantly in the way, either blocking the mouse or the arms, and the texture made mice hard to use. Same goes for the coarse tables in the PC room. The mice were pretty bad in my opinion. The ergonomics were fine (ambidextrous design) but the side buttons were a recipe for disaster. I constantly pressed the buttons on the right side of the mouse by accident, and these buttons almost killed the GeoGuessr run as well. It would not have been as bad if they wouldn't share the same forward/backward binds as the left side buttons, but for the future I wish we got mice with buttons only on the left side for the thumb. The mechanical keyboards were a nice touch but some of them stopped working halfway through the event. I assume that the many people that used them caused dust and gunk to collect in the switches at a very fast rate, making them not register keystrokes. Next time, try looking for mechanical keyboards without floating key design or just get membrane boards. They aren't as nice, sure, but they would most likely last through the whole event. Summed up: get better mice that have no annoying pinky buttons, switch to non-floating design mechanical / membrane keyboards, get some cheap mid sized mouse pads that could be purchased with the money you save by buying membrane keyboards, if you decide to go for it.. |
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Goost
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Shoutouts to the organisers for putting on a great event, especially considering how I felt towards ESA16/17 with regards to venue/location! I think this venue pretty much fixed all the major issues I had with those years that could be solved without moving the event out of Sweden ๐ For some actual feedback: Outside of these fairly minor points, I do have to echo what a lot of people have said: |
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joka
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Overall everything was a massive improvement over previous years, so I'm going to be very nitpicky and only mention the two things that I can think of that bothered me a little bit: - Stream audio was way too loud inside the stream room the last couple of days. Especially the hosts. I know I'm not the only one that noticed this ๐ That's it.. |
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Harpa
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The event was great, and an improvement on last year (which was my first ESA), although last year was awesome already. Since lots of things have already been said, I'm just gonna focus on some things that I felt were improved this year and other things that could still be improved: Improvements from last year: Things that could be improved: Things that weren't really good or bad but are worth keeping in mind: |
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