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With the new owners of Waves, I think the atmosphere will improve - for one they intend to add food and alcohol. They're also more into growing the retro scene. But I get what you mean, it's a big place and the energy wasn't the same (although at Real Sports we inherited atmosphere from the coincidence of an important Blue Jays double-header). The lack of food made it hard to keep people around for the finals, and having just the 1 system per day sort of cut the crowd the in half (not to mention that in 2015 we had 60 players on EACH system but just 30ish each this time, so it's more like 1/4). I think we'll get more people this year since it's at a consistent location (there was one guy saying he was going to bring his 15 family/friends who play). I wish the location were more central. And the hotel situation got screwed up (3 hotels with deals didn't make sense - better to get just 1). Maybe we can get mic'd commentary going earlier in the day in order to build atmosphere and get the casual players more into the overall event. So it kind of feels like a televised event from the start. Any thoughts anyone has on improving atmosphere?

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Maybe having an RA computer set-up on stage that guys can interact with, exi with forum members. Would be cool to be able to put the RA system on stream and have the announcer(s) call online games.

Not sure if this is still open but I guess I missed it when it was posted. A few points: 1. @clockwise I'll definitely be at the next one, whenever we can have it. And I mostly played Duke because of my famous financial follies, I'm pretty sure if Congress starts doling out some Corona Checks, I'll still have just enough to pay my fee by September. 2. @Bob Kudelski I played in both Jam tournaments so we probably met. I also got crushed the entire time. If only somebody had hosted such a thing in 1998... 3. I do agree with @CoachMac on one thing: The atmosphere picked up once we started streaming but overall it was nothing like that bar in 2015. The place we were at may be ideal in some respects but it's about as exciting as a dentist's office. It would be nice to have more casual viewers to add to the big game atmosphere.