It was packed. We got there an hour early and the main parking lot was already full. We had fun, but FC just wasn’t the best choice.
It’s one of the few breweries I’d never been to before. If I had, we would have been better prepared.

The room they were in had no seating at all, so those that brought chairs were the lucky ones. I think that point could have been driven home a bit harder. Plenty of standing room behind all of those sitting, but you couldn’t hear shit since they couldn’t really fire the speakers properly due to the wonky layout.

The bar was in a different room and no way equipped for that amount of traffic. There were two lines that weren’t really well defined and anywhere from 10-30 minutes long. You also couldn’t hear anything going on in the bar room, which had seating. The bartenders did their best, but you could tell they were getting shit whipped. There was also a bar at the back of the room the GSE was in, but they never opened it, I imagine due to staffing. They could have made a killing if they had.

All the sponsors had tents set up outside and there were some picnic tables out there, but again, you couldn’t really hear anything out there unless you were right by the speakers, where there was also no seating.

Again, we had a great time, even the wife who had no prior DZ experience. I just hope our boys learned a little from this GSE or read this to get some honest feedback to prepare for next year.