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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rydac" data-source="post: 3345465" data-attributes="member: 257">I'm actually surprised that only 200 people got through since hotel registartion was open nearly 7 hours ???. Sure it was in the middle of the night in the U.S., but I know a lot of gamers who stay up late, and in this day of such quick communication I'd have thought more reservations would've been made. I saw people posting on the Gencon forums who were in the "200" saying they didn't get first choice...with only 200 reservations spread across the hotels?Another poster suggested they should post the size of the room blocks in each hotel. That way as consumers we could make an informed decision about what our odds were of getting into a particular hotel. I don't see any reason this should be a secret...unless the dirty little secret is the room blocks available for joe average gamer aren't very big.I'm also surprised they opted to cancel the "200" reservations. I'd think that the hotels at a minimum would've said I don't want my staff to have to deal with someone showing up with one of the cancelled reservations which are valid contracts...so leave them be and someone at the housing bureau needs to apologize and fall on their sword.Last year I was one of the people who didn't get their housing code for more than 30 minutes after housing registration opened. I wondered why we couldn't have received our code with our membership and just not turn on the site until the appointed time. I was thus pleased to see they went to that system this year, but unfortunately someone opened the gates early.They then cursed the housing system by sending out the cancellation emails stating reservations were being cancelled due to an earlier "computer glitch". Just be honest it was due to human error, but then when they opened reg. they did have software trouble and loads of people with their registration failing due to them timing out. On top of that I bet they irritated more than 200 people with the last minute reschedule to two hours later for reg opening. Ay Caramba!</blockquote>

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