Tag: fan anxiety

For years people have been saying "Why doesn't San Diego Clear Hall H between panels so people won't camp out all night and sit in the room all day just to see a panel at 7 and stink up the joint?" The CCI folks have considered this, but rejected the idea, as David Glanzer explained when I interviewed him for the More To Come podcast a few months back. One of the main reasons was that they didn't know where to line people up. NYCC's Main Stage (Formerly the IGN Theater) isn't as big as Hall H -- it seats about 3000 people to Hall H's 6000, so lining them up isn't quite as hard —but getting in is just harder since it's smaller. So this year, finally, NYCC is doing the unthinkable and will institue room clearing and wristbands. You can read the whole policy here but it runs to more than 1000 words, so here's the outline: