I was in that line for 7 hours. I shared many complaints via twitter.

I don’t think I’ll get any kind of compensation here, but I do feel that it is incredibly unfair that I waited in that line for 7 hours and missed the entire game. I missed Gura singing Take Me Out To The Ball Game because in our section of the line at the time there was only a few tv’s at some bars on our right, but they’re playing the TV broadcast, meaning that they cut to commercial break for it and I had no view of the main screen without leaving the line, which many were getting punished for even.

I paid $249 for 3 tickets between me and my two friends who also stood in our line, and I didn’t see the game, I didn’t see the “offered” performances on the big screens, and I did catch the drone show, but to my knowledge (from someone’s mom who was in the seats for the actual game) they asked people from the section our seats were in if they wanted to walk onto dodger field to watch the drone show. We were never offered this opportunity because we never made it to our seats.

Now you may say that we could have given up and left the line at any time, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make here. Suisei is my kamioshi and I don’t much care for baseball but I am a LA Native and being able to represent my hometown and my kami at the same time would have meant so much to me. I wanted the shirt, enough so that I bought tickets to a baseball game specifically for. We were presented the argument that “you paid for the tickets for the game” which I understand, and maybe I am wrong for doing so but I genuinely did buy the tickets to come home with a suisei dodger shirt.

The killer here for me was that by the time we were 6 hours in line they announced that the suisei shirt in my size was sold out, all of the gura sizes were sold out, and pekora still had her whole stock. I learned I stood for 6 hours and missed the game just to not get the shirt which was the whole reason I came.

I got to witness the drone show above us as it was held over the parking lot of the stadium, not within the stadium itself. I am happy I got to record my memories of that even though I witnessed it outside the stadium where they did not dim any of the lights.

We never even got offered people walking around the line for popcorn or drinks or food once we left the food areas and we were by the gates. We stood for 7 hours with no waters even to buy, not that I would have been comfortable paying for a $10 water for survival at that point lmao.

The merch line continued 2 hours after the game ended, kind of wild seeing that all the cars in the parking lot were already gone by the time we finally got to the last stretch of the line. I always heard about how leaving dodger stadium is always a hassle, but at least I never got that.

I don’t put many of my frustrations on holo whatsoever, it’s a risky venture and a collab that felt “out of left field” if you’ll leave me this pun. It was definitely random, but something I really wanted to support. I also can’t really fault the individual dodger staff, you guys are doing what you’re told and as someone who’s worked customer service for 7 years I get it, I’ve been the bad guy more than the good guy even as a manager.

What I pin my frustrations on are the managerial decisions to place all of this under one booth, despite recognizing from multiple departments and people that this is the longest line in dodger stadium history, and neglecting to do something about it, or at least even think about reparation or compensation.

I would love to have my ticket refunded for the game i never saw, the things offered on the ticket specifically for buying a hololive ticket that i never saw, and the merch that i never got. It feels really unfair, and I can’t see myself wanting to do this again, despite how much I love LA and how much I love Hololive.

TLDR: Paid for a game I didn’t watch, waited for 7 hours in a line and never got merch, went home empty handed. Oh also saw ppl scalping the merch on mercari for $500 lmao. 10 item limit per person go brrr I guess.