NetherlandsLoved the event, just got a few small things regarding the hotel.
The AC was not really functioning in the arcade and in hotel rooms. Did not help that it was impossible to open the windows (hotel did not have the handle for it, ha). Also, not sure what happened but water literally started pouring down in the boardgame room at least twice during the event.
The elevators are straight from hell. Most of the time only two were working and 7 out of 10 times they were or full or it would take 5 minutes to get on the elevator (plus also quite dirty). It would be nice if the door on the event floor to the stairs was accessible from both sides instead of just one way.
edit: nevermind
Hotel was alright, free breakfast was not bad. The lack of power of the ACs in the marathon rooms were a bit bad. Practice room was also just a bit too small, especially when mafia took over the first few days and boardgames in the last few days. The fuck was up with that wedding the first few days tho lol.
Food was pretty good, enough locations to go to, walking 10 min for the food court wasn't bad.
Location was pretty nice, close to everything and just 20 min from the airport by car. Also easy to get downtown Toronto with the train. Wouldnt mind if it was here again next year.
The marathon itself was hella fun, good atmosphere and people were nice. Kinda felt like ESA14.
Noice, can you fix my name though? Its Yvathacal and not Yvathatical.
I had a lot of fun at this years ESA, this was the first year I didnt have a run in the marathon so I could enjoy the whole event from a more laid back position.
Great: The people - I pretty much liked everyone I interacted with at ESA, everyone was open and except for a few moments, I was never bored. The Swamp - Comfy room for swampy people, was happy that this was alright with the staff.
Okay: Växjö - I liked being close to several supermarkets that were open till 22:00. Also more fast food stuff closer to the venue was alright. Venue - It was alright, I liked that the board games fellas were there. Rest was okay, nothing really negative. Lanyard - Pretty Gud, had some problems but I think these problems can be avoided next year.
Meh: Hotel - Scandic was a shithole, I got a 4 person hotel room and it turned out to be a two person sized room with 2 bunk beds in the wall. No room to place any clothes or stuff out of the suitcases and there was no goddamn fridge. Also getting a note on the door saying they will evict you if you make noise between 22:00 - 6:00 is not helping the cause. I am fine with them saying they got some complaints and want us to keep quiet a bit more but threatening to move people out is a really dumb thing to do, will probably not go back there next year because of this.
Venue side stuff - It was a bit weird that the kiosk was more expensive than the front desk, drinks 15 SEK instead of 10 and etc. Other than that, some notification about the LAN party happening beforehand would have been nice, it was weird to see a shitload of kids suddenly in the B hall playing on their PCs without anyone from the event knowing what the hell was going on. Also chair shortage.
Post Marathon - So the marathon ended on saturday morning (bonus in the evening) and the event lasted till monday. Why was everything cleared out sunday morning? We still had at least full day to go. This doesn't mean that all the cleaning up should be done that monday morning, but it would have been better if it was more spread out. Now sunday felt like a dead day with not much to do on it (had fun though, but still).
Bad: Location - 2-3h with train from the nearby airport to Växjö was annoying, I'd prefer it being closer to an airport or in a city that has one. Now it wasn't so bad for me because my travel time was still doable, but I can understand this is a major turnoff for a lot of people who need to travel from far away. That being said I will probably go by car next year, expensive, but more in control.
Växjö - Yep, even though I praised that food and stores were nearby, the location of the Fortnox arena was still kinda bad. There was nothing in the area to do, getting to the town center takes around 25 minutes on foot and the train station was far away from the venue (thank fuck for the free bus drive with the train ticket though). Also what was up with the retards in shitty modified cars at night?
Sweden - Seriously, I really started to hate Sweden this year, restaurants and shops close goddamn early (exception for supermarkets this year), trains are a massive pain in the ass to get tickets for and public transport is asssssssssssss. Though I feel it wont happen I would like to see ESA 17 in another country (like Germany).
Thanks for the update. Did another check through my mailbox but found nothing, only thing I can think of is that I deleted it by accident (or something).¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ill wait for the DM.
Alright thanks.
Edit: I guess the mail hasn't been send out yet? Kinda want to know if everything actually went right with registering since I did it quite early.
"Once you've registered, you will receive a second email with a link to submit a picture"
I never got this mail, do got the printed tick mail though.
Shitload of stuff has been said already so I'm gonna keep it short.
-Kitchen It was horrible, at some point in the week there was food everywhere, like cereal on a paper plate, sausages, stuff that should be in a fridge (sausages, cheese, ham), McDonald's in the damn fridge, etc. I just threw everything away and wrote the "clean up or ill throw it away" note (and kept on throwing things away if they were there).
I know people are lazy at these sort of events but it takes 5-10 seconds to clean the stuff you used. Which means washing it and not rinsing it once with water and put it in the sink so someone else can clean it up when they want to use it. I'm probably gonna volunteer next year to keep shit like this clean.
-Wifi It was bad, that is all.
-ACs Felt like they didn't do anything. One of the first nights we were playing mafia in the room and it was blazing hot, the ACs were on but you could only feel the cold air if you were touching the AC with your hand.
ESA was really fun like last year, people were amazing and the venue was nice.
35 minutes might be too tight for Gargoyle's Quest since I have no experience playing it on GB player, 40 might be more safe since shit can happen with encounters (didnt notice that you guys went for the estimate Xer submitted with).
Paid hard
Seconding S his idea, there is a nice park close to the venue anyway.
Paid with paypal as a gift (hopefully), if shit went wrong let me know.
Ill be arriving the 26th and probably leaving the 5th around 2-3ish. Will make the deposit this week.
SWAT 4: We did some routing today and made a lot of progress on that. Seems that the expansion maps arent hard and long so its not gonna add a lot of time.
About the audio; it should be fine if there is just one audio source (and its gonna be more serious than last year).
Not really been playing Gargoyle's Quest on stream, still do at least 2-3 runs a week on my Gameboy pocket in the train though and get consistent 30 min times on the PAL version, Ill try to at least do an online stream before this Wednesday.
Keep on saxing
