#good overall

We headed out Friday afternoon and our first task was to check into the hotel. IDK how many people saw my post before leaving for the con but I had stumbled upon hotel reviews mentioining bed bugs and got super anxious because it was too late to change hotels/ this room was non-refundable. The good news is no bed bugs! The hotel was a little bit older and did have an...old building smell? IDK how to describe it but the room itself was fine. We had some problems with the toilet but my best bro can handle a plunger so we were fine.

Anyway, I thought we'd be late but thankfully we weren't. I was required to sign up for the 6PM event and they had told me I was going first so I was a little annoyed when I got there and basically had to stand in line behind people who didn't sign up for the event. The volunteer basically wasn't verifying who had signed up and when the guest very calmly questioned him about it he kinda threw up his hands. This event was a charity event for a company that helps Autistic people find employment. Basically a select few who signed up got the chance to play a 2Player 'race' in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle against Johnny Gioeli from Crush 40 and get an autograph, picture, and certifciate all for $20 (with half of that going to the charity). IDK if you had to beat him to get the extra stuff because all they gave me was a photo. I don't even really mind because he was so friendly! A bit of a goof too, he had a Sonic cape on. It's nice that he's genuinely a fan of Sonic! I also noticed, from watching him play people who weren't super rusty and sucky at it like me that he was racing better so...I think he slowed down a bit for me (despite still winning).

We also did an event called Tournament of Voices which honestly was mostly a popularity contest in the end. I won't talk about it too much since my best bro wants to rant about it during one of our videos but basically we both participated, we didn't win and the person who ultimatly won was at least talented. I was worried because the person who won the round I was in sounded horrible in my humble opinion but he made the crowd laugh so that's how he advanced. My poor best bro, they had him do a round as a female character. He did the best he could but it hardly seemed fair since he was up against women. I think though that there weren't enough women for every female character to only have female contestants. I was very annoyed that after the event was over they said we could provide feedback but three people who had gone all the previous years monopolized their time to the point where they didn't realize we were there.

Saturday was super packed to the point where areas were stopped with foot traffic. It was also hard to find parking spots at times whenever we came back from getting food. We actually missed two panels because of this and the afternoon mostly became out first stop at the Dealer's room. The Dealer's Room had many more vendors than previous years and we only visited a few because of how packed it was. We were hoping Sunday would be less crowded, since it usually goes that way at cons (spoiler warning: It wasn't!) We bought some games and came back after dinner for a Mario Party 4 tournament. We didn't win but we had fun. We also handed out plenty of our business cards for the channel (so far no new subscribers but I'm holding out hope!)

Sunday, the final day, was oddly as packed as Saturday despite that usually being the day when most people head home and the cons wind down. We entered a tournament that was supposed to involve the games being announced on the spot and well that was the case but the first game was a PC game that was in early access and boy was it a mess! There were twice the amount of people than computers so we had to pair up and since the game isn't finished yet they have no in-game timer so they had us use our cell phone stopwatches to record the time of our partner. The game lagged and often crashed so what should have been a quick 30 minute run took an hour and a half to make sure everyone got a chance to do it. We were tired so we were actually relieved not to make it to the second round. Since we didn't make our next planned panel we just went back to the dealer's room and bought some more games.

That's why I'm dubbing this years Too Many Games the I bought Too many Games 2025. It's fine really, I'm just...not used to having money to spend at these things so I felt kind of anxious after I purchased stuff despite knowing I was responsible about it.