Can everyone who plans to record that get together here to agree on a common format (e.g. as we are in europe 1080p25/1080p50, manual focus, automatic white balance or 24p if there are many people who can only film 33fps ntsc+ 24fps movie) and share the footage later?
This way we can keep the number of private cameras down and get more interesting footage.
Such as only 2 people doing a total instead of everyone and others organise to do knee shots or closeups or a particular side of the stage when something is happening. (So nothing surprising is lost.)
Or if someone finds himself sitting at the outside to get a good pan of the applauding audience afterwards,... .
No need for everyone to do the same after all.
Tirmagon: i can lend you one of my cheap tripods or a good monopod while I use the good tripod and the good monopod.