This was my 2nd ESA.

Pros:

• Ice cream
• Feasel, this man coordinated and setuped all of the tournaments alone. I joined for Smash Ultimate and ALTTP Randomizer. I hope Feasel makes a return to next ESA and he'd have a team to help him out setuping tournaments! I read about having tournament finals in ESA streams and I see that working out if ESA is up for it. Especially if tournament there has been going is hype. Discord channel for tournaments next time would be awesome!
• Great location, really close to shopping center and train station/airport
• Infodesk being super helpful when needed, thank you Panda, Pottoww and everyone else
• Breakfast was amazingly good, I had to get into habit few times to wake up between 6 to 9 AM to get breakfast before it closed :D
• Atmosphere was fantastic, ESA feels like 2nd family to me by now
• I wanna play Jubeat now
• Mafia
• I think Super Mario Sunshine relay race was well organized, people have been practicing for their shines, for commentary I kinda agree we captains should have talked with runner and runners name should've been on stream. Might be lots of work for tech crew so I understand it was this way better.

Pro and Con: +- I didn't know where to put this, so I rather put it in middle, I understand Stream 1 not liking Street Boyz hype, especially when it was close to Stream 1. I enjoyed the hype this game brought up, but for the sake of this event I would have liked these setups being outside of Stream 1 and 2. Many times popoffs happened and it was loud.

Cons:

• Often I saw people leaving trash in TV/PC setups, even in stream/quiet practice rooms
• Don't know much about hosting and donation reading, but from reading other peoples feedback I think this can be worked on
• Since everyone is saying, guess I should too. I'm not PC runner myself, but lack of PC setups was definitely a big concern, majority of speedruns being on PC then people didn't get to practice enough.
• Too many races and co-op in ESA streams, I think solo runs were cut out too much for this year

Special: $25 or $20 runs are amazing, should be done by one person, seems to be working the best that way.