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<blockquote data-quote="Steve_MND" data-source="post: 6867420" data-attributes="member: 6801314"><p>Honestly, I had zero complaints about the gaming space (altho it of course could have been better) -- I'm used to those unfortunately cavernous gaming halls.</p><p></p><p>My concern was more of how it was being organized and the sort of people they had running stuff. With a couple notable exceptions (shoutout to Jay Africa), almost all the judges I had were terrible (didn't know the rules, didn't know how the AL rules operated as far as XP, etc.), and Baldman's organizational skills, mustering, etc., were hit-and-miss at best. Location is an unfortunate aspect of the venue you're running at. The quality of people you get to work for you and the ability to manage them, however, were what I am more concerned with. I've played at Baldman events before in smaller conventions before, and had a fine time. I just don't think they were at all prepared to do a Gen-Con sized con by themselves, were overwhelmed by the numbers, had to pull in judges they had no idea of the qualifications of, and so forth, and we'll have to see this year if that's changed any. Baldman stepped up to the plate and owned up to last year's problems, but it's easy to lose trust, and much harder to win it back.</p><p></p><p>We'll see how this year goes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve_MND, post: 6867420, member: 6801314"] Honestly, I had zero complaints about the gaming space (altho it of course could have been better) -- I'm used to those unfortunately cavernous gaming halls. My concern was more of how it was being organized and the sort of people they had running stuff. With a couple notable exceptions (shoutout to Jay Africa), almost all the judges I had were terrible (didn't know the rules, didn't know how the AL rules operated as far as XP, etc.), and Baldman's organizational skills, mustering, etc., were hit-and-miss at best. Location is an unfortunate aspect of the venue you're running at. The quality of people you get to work for you and the ability to manage them, however, were what I am more concerned with. I've played at Baldman events before in smaller conventions before, and had a fine time. I just don't think they were at all prepared to do a Gen-Con sized con by themselves, were overwhelmed by the numbers, had to pull in judges they had no idea of the qualifications of, and so forth, and we'll have to see this year if that's changed any. Baldman stepped up to the plate and owned up to last year's problems, but it's easy to lose trust, and much harder to win it back. We'll see how this year goes. [/QUOTE]
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