I was waiting for my name to be randomly called three times. Oh well. I truely appreciate the effort, but hopefully they go back to the physical ticket system next time.
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DrogithShe who runneth the BYOCPittsfield, NHRegistered Userregular
I was waiting for my name to be randomly called three times. Oh well. I truely appreciate the effort, but hopefully they go back to the physical ticket system next time.
Yeah... I am truly sorry about the software. Our first computer locked up and when we switched... well you all know what happened. Back to the good old fashioned raffle tickets next year.
I'm going to see about getting a survey out to everyone relatively soon. As the LANFest lead in the area, I want to make sure everyone had a good time and continually make the BYOC at PAX (and hopefully outside of PAX) bigger and better!
I know that there is the hype factor of having a bunch of folks in the room for the raffle drawing, but it's really hard to make it sometimes depending on panels, if you're volunteering or running a game. I would be cool if the tickets could be drawn and awarded electronically, then you could make a big deal about it and get photos when the people claim their prizes. I promise to still get excited if I get an email or PM that I won something and to come claim it.
I know that there is the hype factor of having a bunch of folks in the room for the raffle drawing, but it's really hard to make it sometimes depending on panels, if you're volunteering or running a game. I would be cool if the tickets could be drawn and awarded electronically, then you could make a big deal about it and get photos when the people claim their prizes. I promise to still get excited if I get an email or PM that I won something and to come claim it.
The 1 problem with that is what if the person doesn't check their mail until the con is nearly over and we've already started pack-up, or they time everything so they come back from a panel, close shop, and take off. We would have unclaimed prizes at the end of the day. I'm just not greedy enough to keep that kind of stuff. We do get photos of all the winners though, just waiting for them to be uploaded by the LANFest social media group.
I completely understand though. I know there were a few people that split groups up to hit multiple raffles that were happening at the same time.
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Kilonum[E]Somewhere near BostonRegistered Userregular
edited June 2016
Speaking of the raffle, it turns out that the Gigabyte X99-SLI motherboard was DOA, doesn't even POST. Fun times with RMAs coming for me.
EDIT June 5th: Motherboard was fine, now RMAing the processor.
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Yeah... I am truly sorry about the software. Our first computer locked up and when we switched... well you all know what happened. Back to the good old fashioned raffle tickets next year.
I'm going to see about getting a survey out to everyone relatively soon. As the LANFest lead in the area, I want to make sure everyone had a good time and continually make the BYOC at PAX (and hopefully outside of PAX) bigger and better!
I'm actually surprised I did not lose my voice from PAX (i was the dumbass who kept screaming)
Shoutout to LANfest by the way, your staff was amazing (especially Eric xoxo)
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See y'all at PAX East 2018!
The 1 problem with that is what if the person doesn't check their mail until the con is nearly over and we've already started pack-up, or they time everything so they come back from a panel, close shop, and take off. We would have unclaimed prizes at the end of the day. I'm just not greedy enough to keep that kind of stuff. We do get photos of all the winners though, just waiting for them to be uploaded by the LANFest social media group.
I completely understand though. I know there were a few people that split groups up to hit multiple raffles that were happening at the same time.
EDIT June 5th: Motherboard was fine, now RMAing the processor.