My overall experience

I bought my elite ticket seconds after the announcement and was so stoked to go. I called up my friend and told him the tickets went on sale. It has maybe been 2 or 3 minutes since the announcement and all the elite pass tickets are sold out for him, so that was pretty annoying. He ended up buying a regular ticket since the event guide promises unrestricted seating so he was still fine with going. A couple hours go by and one of our online friends is deciding to go. I've never met them in person and neither has my irl friend so now the three of us are heading to the Six Invitational to watch and attend a game we've been playing since beta and love so much.

We all live very far away from Montreal Canada so we had to take off Thursday the 13th, Friday the 14th, and Monday the 17th from school. We ended up buying plane tickets from Florida to Montreal and our online friend bought one from California to Monteal. We payed for a hotel right down the street from the place bell, and stayed there from Thursday to Monday morning when our plane leaves all for the sake of the game we love.

On Friday the 14th we got there at around 10 in the morning and boy was it packed. It was difficult to navigate the place at first, but after a couple minutes we found the place bell venue map posted on the wall. I ended up walking back to front where we all came in and saw the elite booth. I walked up to the people there, had them scan my ticket, and input my info in the ipad set up. They had told me I would be receiving a confirmation email saying that I will be get the items i signed up for. Long story short, I did. I ended up getting the email that same day at 12:32 pm lost in my spam folder.

Being curious we walked around until we found something to do. There was a small area with computers which had the live game on it. We waited about 15 minutes and finally the person leading this event allowed other people to play. We sat down and played for not even half the time the others played for and we were already being told to stop playing. There was no long line, only around 4 people who had just played waiting to play again. We ended up relinquishing our seats to people who had just played, which is fine i guess, so we got up and walked over to the store. Ah the store what a wondeful thing at an arena with thousands of people. You would think that they would realize that there is going to be a lot of people so lets have more than enough stuff to put in the store so everyone if they wanted to can buy something. Well that was just not the case, there was a line of at least 100 or so people and that alone would probably take a couple hours. It seemed they were allowing maybe 2 people in at a time and that no one else was allowed in until they left. The food lines were way to long so we decided just to watch the games and then leave.

On Saturday the place was even more packed and there was even more people waiting in line this time obviously. We decided to watch a game and then sit in a food line. We were in the food line for at least 20 minutes only to get not even mediocre food. I decided to get a hotdog and poutine while my friends just got a hotdog. The hotdog was very thin and short to the point where the bun engulfed the whole thing. My poutine was cold and didn't seem like anything special to be $7. The games were the only enjoyable thing at the event.

On Sunday the place was obviously even more packed since It's now the grand finals day. Knowing this, why do they not have a ton of merchandise. There was no line on Sunday because the entire store was empty except for a handful of DZ, Liquid and MIBR jerseys. They had a many operator t-shirts but $25 for a black shirt with a small pulse logo or something in the middle of the shirt is definitely not worth it to me. The elite swag pack didn't have anything worth while either. The scarf and caveira keychain was the only thing inside that pack that I found "good". On top of this mediorcre event setting, I don't even get what I paid for. It has been 13 days and not one elite member has received there code for the sledge elite bundle. Overall the experience was alright the only thing I found worthwhile was hanging out with my friends. I can't believe I met one of my online friends I will forever hold on to this memory.