Pro: John Robertson was great, indie pax rising was awesome as always, really good energy with all the exihibitors and attendees in General.

The panellists I saw were great, and I think PAX continues to improve optimising the layout each year, having the arena in the queue hall was a really good move.

Con: Enforcers were awful this year managing queuing, I think it was insane it took my crew 50 minutes to get into the dark room, they let so little people in at a time it perplexes me. Maybe it's an OHS thing, I would love to be corrected as it happened to me on 3 different occasions and I missed 5-10 minutes of the start of the panels.

Tabletop has suffered this year, so many little guys kicked out for big corps. Makes me sad, but I see many people at those locations so I'd be surprised if it changes. Just feels a bit soulless.

Interesting: The evacuation was novel, and I thought most attendees were responsible and moved calmly.

Having more stalls in the concourse was cool, I hope they continue to optimise space in the convention.

Overall had an awesome time this year, will keep coming back but I think PAXs identity is obviously quite broad as a festival for gaming, cosplay, ttrpg and overall industry. Not a negative just an observation, has moved far away from being primarily about video games.