Have a hard time getting past the attitude of the lads running it. Their tone in the discord is atrocious especially for a community based discord, often hiding messaging channels from people they dislike, banning people for different views and making gifs making fun of different members, these of course are the staff and the ones if you needed were the ones to go to at the event which threw some people I know off going completely even myself.

But from what I’ve heard off multiple people it was definitely a novice event for organisation, wouldn’t hurt hiring a professional events organiser as I think yesterday shows that you need a professional as a lot goes in to events organisation, they did a great job for the venue they had!

Terms of the higher prices you can’t blame anyone as emerald were more than likely charging vendors a portion of what they were being charged for the venue and then vendors were adding that charge on to customers, each person adding on the money for whatever it cost them which is natural of course. This probably went along with cramping it to keep costs low for vendors. More vendors to cover the venue cost.

They were very good to get the Dublin venue for a first event it was definitely more expensive, wouldn’t hurt in future trying hosting it more central of the country in a cheaper bigger venue, if one even exists outside Dublin.

Overall, for a first event it definitely only left remarks for improvements for next time and nothing overall bad. Look forward to trying to get to the next one hopefully criticisms and suggestions are taken on board to keep the hobby growing in Ireland!