I agree with Rich on pretty much everything
and would add that
*it wasn't a great idea to keep spectation from the stands to only 2 fields.
*One of the fields was cut off halfway down (Tomahawk?) for no obvious reason
*on the fields, the XL turf was a bit dodgily placed, as someone says had they sold some of it already
?*The plastic they placed under the turf was necessary but the wrong kind of plastic, and became increasingly slippy on the second day (when the paint wasn't cleaned up- not a dig at the bunker cleaners, you worked your butts off!) especially when walking to the deadbox a couple of players not just on my team were slipping over; not safe
*security...I wasn't allowed to go INTO the bar without showing my ID, from the players area, but was allowed to walk OUT OF the bar from the public area without being checked
I gotta say I've only been to three; I played Esher; loved it, I watched NEC, and potted up for this one, and they were all great. I enjoyed Escher most of all as a player, and NEC was really great from a spectators point of view.
There was some kudos from it being at Crystal palace and being able to sit in the grandstands, but it kinda rattled about, there wasn't the atmosphere of last year when people were packed into the stands to watch
.Food was good, a little expensive but it always is. Loving the corona bus etc (I think they were a little cold in those outfits
).Trade stands, I thought they were good, and there were some sales on saturday in the Dye tent (woop £1 hats)
access to the site, I thought was not brilliant but not awful either...I traveled up alone by train which I've got to admit was pretty daunting having never been on trains through London
(victoria station is scary!!), and tho a map I printed off said it was a 5 min walk to the stadium it took me a 15 min taxi ride (having been told I'd have to walk thru the dark park at 9:30 by the taxi woman...) to get to the campsite (pretty much right next to the stadium)(The campsite was hillarious btw, having arrived I was, lol, confronted by 3 people who nigh on jumped on me when I said I was there for the paintball and asked me for ID of some sort (what??), and I had to call someone up from on the campsite so they'd let me down (we'd already paid and I'd even given them their names...!). We were told that Fuggle or whoever it was, had not told them about Campaign, or something, and they were pretty narked, and said we were all rude and had a bad attitude, and rowdy, and they'd already had to throw someone off the site (thursday!), and if we were rowdy that night we'd all be gone by tomorrow morning!! Lol.
Gotta say There was no trouble at all, so well done for proving them wrong guys
)NEC was the nuts in terms of getting there, motorway, trains and airport; you basically got off the train and you were there (despite there being no signs actually onsite so I went the wrong way taking me 30 min...
)But there were a lot of positives and I really enjoyed the whole thing, there were some things that could have been improved on but they didn't spoil it for me, merely, if they were better it would be reeeally good. So...don't say we're ungrateful; just suggesting what could've been done better
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