BobB98

Good points and will consider imple4menting for future events.

We did not get the food or space that we contracted for from J Gilligan's. Felt like we were being undermined by the venue all day. This ended up not being what we had planned. We felt we had done well with the Oregon game and this venue would be good again. Never again will we use J Gilligan's, In my opinion he scammed us and constantly tried to undermine what we were doing. Fortunately most of our guests were not affected however some were and that was not acceptable to us.

We went through 45 kegs of beer and would have had more Abita had it not been $40 more per keg.

We had misters at the last event and had complaints about them getting everyone and their food and clothing wet so we tried to do without them. Better mister management was probably the answer and will definitely look to that for future events. Also, placing fans so that they could not be hoarded by people is another thing we learned.

Putting an event like this together with an all volunteer member force for the number of people that attended will certainly cause some hiccups.

In the future, we will not allow walkups in the event until one hour after the start time so that people that pre-register are allowed in ahead. We will also include a disclaimer about the quantity of food available after a certain arrival time.

Thanks for your comments.

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