#comifuro 15

Okay this will be an essay of my rant to this fucking event. AND DISCLAIMER before someone could sue me *cough cough UU ITE*, this whole post isn’t made to cast down the event nor the organizer. I wrote this as a study case, since I’m not only a japanese themed event enthusiast but also an event management graduate.

First of all, the ticketing. They open some ticketing booth, idk how many but from their instagram post there was only 5 tix booths. This is fucking stupid, doesn't make any sense, since they do prepare 13.000 tix a day. Can't they do math??? 13.000 divided into 5, so 1 booth must handle 2.600 ppl. Considering the ticketing process should be handled in 1-2 minutes, so you get how much time for those 2.600 ppl per booth to get their tix. Wow. Imo they should open like 10 on-site tix booth for 13.000 people.

Okay there was presale tix, which was sold online. But are the presale tix buyer could pass the gate faster? Nope, because the event only had one entrance gate, both for the presale tix and onsite tix holder. WOW a huge red flag.

Then, the event officers. I can barely see them, like in the whole basement queue, I mean the three-times-zigzag queue (yes crowded is an understatement for the queue), there was only one person. ONE. They also didn't really communicative. I didn’t catch if they holding a HT or not to communicate with each other. It was when me and my friends fed up (after 3 fucking hours) and walked out from the queue when we knew the lines outside the hall was actually chaos, the tickets were sold out (and ppl still lined up until the basement area bcs they didn't know this). The officer at the basement didn't say anything about this.

But I think the most problematic issue is the lack of information from the organizer. You see, the Instagram account is not really informative. When other event is actively post literally everything that happens on site, they didn't. There was no so-called live report Instagram Stories, so the visitors didn't know how huge was the crowd until they see it by themself. The queue keep growing numbers because people didn't really know what happened at the venue. OH did I mention the connections at the venue sucks?? The signal said 4G but it's really hard for me to text on Whatsapp. Well, maybe that's why the organizer couldn't even post any stories, but that can be fixed by preparing an alternative wifi router or something for themselves.

I guess the organizer failed to see how big the excitements of the market. Comifuro 15 was delayed for 2 years, so it just fair for people to get overhyped by their comeback. But I heard from other friends who came on the second day, it was much better than the first one, even if the crowd already gathered since 6 AM in the morning (lmao). At least they tried to fix their crowd management.

Anyways, I haven't put the floor map of the event location. So here it is. I already marked the location of our booth too! ☺

Finally tomorrow's the day! Fingers crossed! And see you there~!

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The event will be held at ICE BSD on September 24th~25th 2022.

I joined last year during the online convention and this time, I finally joined the offline convention! I'll be joining a dear friend of mine in her booth and will be selling some stuffs. We will be at booth D-37a.

Here are some merchandise I plan on selling:

If you are around the area during that time, feel free to visit our booth! \(=w=)/

Anyways, that's all for this time's post~! See you at Comifuro15!

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