Goldstar

• 0.0
• Written on Mar 26 2008

The event wasn't organized very well. At the first venue, they gave little notice as to when the event started. They just yelled go, and if you weren't near to any of the eggs, you got 0. Then they changed up the rules at the second venue without any notice. Instead of having a specific start time, whoever got their first could immediately grab all of the eggs. Meanwhile, the rest of us were outside showing the bouncer our IDs. Even worse, they hadn't told us that that was going to be the case. Otherwise, I would have walked fast to make sure I was in the front of the line. Furthermore, the eggs were hidden throughout the bar, where other patrons were, so we might have to ask a couple eating if we can reach over or if they could hand us an egg at their table. I don't mind looking somewhat silly, but it's too far when we have to walk around looking specifically at people's tables to make sure there are no eggs there.

They let too many people participate (which Prosinthecity frequently does for profit) and had too few eggs. There's no reason why they couldn't have enough eggs so that everyone was able to at least get a couple per location. Most of the eggs just had a couple of pieces of chocolate, so it's not like it was the cost. Therefore, all the eggs were literally gone within 1 minute.

Once we went to a couple of places and couldn't get any eggs, we decided to bail. The appeal of meeting new people still wasn't high enough for us to deal with the frustrations of disorganization. Unfortunately, for the few eggs we had gathered, we weren't able to claim our prize unless we stayed the entire time. Who wants to stay for 4 hours when an event is boring and frustrating?