Sorry for being brief, trying to answer in bulk as good as I can
The fursuit friendly dance didn't seem to have been optimized for fursuit dancing
Since I seem to be hearing that a lot this year, we'll look into this.
Some serious sound issues on the main stage during events
If you don't mention which event and which kind of sound issue, your feedback is not very useful.
Not enough space for the dealer's den: there was a queue all day long almost permanently in front of the main one.
Sadly there is nothing we can do about it. We are out of space.
You have the buffet stated in the official programme and thus Id like to bealive it should be free of charge for the guests, or it wouldnt be off much use to put it as an "offical" meal event, would it? Would have been nice to have a welcome dinner/meal included.
The registration page clearly says "food is not included" pretty much all over the place. EF hasn't been providing free food since EF13. The opening times are mentioned for your convenience only.
Some events, specially the concert, started very late, and I lost info about it.
Yup, an accident happened on stage, and a staff member had to be taken care of by our medics. Staff was overwhelmed with stress, and communication wasn't as good as it should have been. I apologize.
There was a long que to one off the dealers den, and a short to the other, maybe you should do a better balance or room setting for them next time?
Yup, we wanted to improve this, I don't know what went wrong about that yet. Possibly some missing communication between the new dealers management and security - we'll discuss this in the team.
No info where you could find the different staff sections, specially the lost and found section. As it was now I could see one staff desk and they tryed to make me give a piece I found on the floor at the "lost and found" area but I still havent a clue on where that was.
The location of the con-ops office was well announced, but you ad mittedly have to know that lost-and-found is being handled by con ops. Small signage mishap.
No activities on sunday. I would have loved to had a few thing to do before the dead dog party, as it was now most off that day was a long "the day after feeling."
No official closing cermony. Why, really?
Because one extra day of con activities would considerably raise the costs, and because it's beyond the human power of our staff to run events for one more day.
Don't forget our programming begins on Wednesday evening - that's one day earlier than at most conventions.
Not so good timetable on some event. There where many panels at the same times (12,14 and even 16) and you couldnt visit all that you where interested in. Also the fursuit dance contest was at the same time most off us has to go and prephere for the parade, I couldnt onl see 3 or 4 numbers and would have loved to see more of it and it should have been schedualed away from other major fursuiting events.
The answer to this one is easy: It's the least of all evils. Firs tof all We have to do that, because our function rooms have limited capacity, so we need to "spread out" the crowd over many rooms. Then, having fewer parallel events would mean programming would have to start earlier, and end later during the day - that gets us into serious scheduling conflicts with the evening programming, and complaints from those panelists holding talks in empty rooms at 10 in the morning.
No official meeting point. That would have been much easier to meet and great with friends.
I don't understand your point. Why can't you just say "Let's meet at the bar" or "Let's meet at the elevators"? A single meeting point really makes no sense with 1300 people coming to ... uh ... meet
Yes we where many that stayed at overflow hotel, and actually some storage area, or even storage lockers, would be a great service to us.
Agreed, but since we're at 100% space usage, there's simply no free "area" where we could put it.
