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Well, first and foremost....
Las Vegas is a fans track, no matter where you sit you are able to see all the action. So good job to Formula D for that, I dont know if this was how the D1 setup was... but I was very happy I was able to see every clip and turn. No big wall, no stupid fence.
Ticketing was kinda effed up... here's how it was listed on here.
Saturday July 12, 2008 – Main Event
2:00pm - 10:00pm - Ticket Will Call (Will Call Building)
5:00am - 1:00am - GATES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (Venue)
4:00pm - 5:30pm - OPEN PRACTICE: Top 32 (Track)
5:50pm - 6:05pm - National Anthem presented by the Air Force Reserve (Track)
6:05pm - 8:20pm - QUALIFYING #2: Top 32 (Track)
10:00pm - Opening Ceremonies / Driver Introductions (Track)
10:25pm - MAIN COMPETITION BEGINS (Track)
12:15am - 12:30am - Trophy Ceremony (Podium)
I was thinking I was going to be able to pick up my ticket at 2. And just walk on in, but no.... Only team will call was open and I had to wait until 4 for the regular ticket stand to open to get a will call ticket. I mind as well bought my ticket there. And on top of that they were only letting spectators with the 2 day pass go in at four, everyone else had to wait until 5:00. They finally let everyone in at 4:45 after they stood around every so often calling in 2 day ticket spectators. They were fair but not very efficient, as someone who deals with customer service not a whole lot of intensity from those employees of the track. To the fellow name Will Wetzel?? I will say it like my boss says it, make executive decisions and get hot.
During top 32 qual, I dont really need to hear Jarrod because i find it easy to judge the runs my self. And the scoreboard was very easy to see in the day time. But when night time came around and tandem battles started the scoreboard became very blurry and I could not hear the announcements. Some of it was due to the drag announcer and the "boti" DJ... very annoying trying to hear over 3 diferent voices. The drag announcer was understandable, but the DJ was just plain annoying.
And on top of that, since tandem battles had like 5 mins of downtime each Jarrod just seem to stop announcing in between runs. I'm like wow.... I'm not going to rag on the man, but if this is "pro drifting" I would really like the announcing to be more technical and not just "wooooo so and so is coming in hot!!!". I had to explain to a few first time spectators what was really going on. At times like this I really miss D1s announcing with Toshi, he was a real asset to drifting.
No real judging problems, just in tandem its kind of weird to see some runs get scored 10-8 and 7-5 as if almost every run the lead driver was perfect or really bad but still has the lead. Its just really weird, either the announcer needs to give a detailed explanation or one of the judges.
Overall, I might sound kinda critical. But I really enjoyed this event, waaaaayyyy better then the long beach event at the beginning of the year.
I give it a 8/10, good job FD!!
Las Vegas is a fans track, no matter where you sit you are able to see all the action. So good job to Formula D for that, I dont know if this was how the D1 setup was... but I was very happy I was able to see every clip and turn. No big wall, no stupid fence.
Ticketing was kinda effed up... here's how it was listed on here.
Saturday July 12, 2008 – Main Event
2:00pm - 10:00pm - Ticket Will Call (Will Call Building)
5:00am - 1:00am - GATES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (Venue)
4:00pm - 5:30pm - OPEN PRACTICE: Top 32 (Track)
5:50pm - 6:05pm - National Anthem presented by the Air Force Reserve (Track)
6:05pm - 8:20pm - QUALIFYING #2: Top 32 (Track)
10:00pm - Opening Ceremonies / Driver Introductions (Track)
10:25pm - MAIN COMPETITION BEGINS (Track)
12:15am - 12:30am - Trophy Ceremony (Podium)
I was thinking I was going to be able to pick up my ticket at 2. And just walk on in, but no.... Only team will call was open and I had to wait until 4 for the regular ticket stand to open to get a will call ticket. I mind as well bought my ticket there. And on top of that they were only letting spectators with the 2 day pass go in at four, everyone else had to wait until 5:00. They finally let everyone in at 4:45 after they stood around every so often calling in 2 day ticket spectators. They were fair but not very efficient, as someone who deals with customer service not a whole lot of intensity from those employees of the track. To the fellow name Will Wetzel?? I will say it like my boss says it, make executive decisions and get hot.
During top 32 qual, I dont really need to hear Jarrod because i find it easy to judge the runs my self. And the scoreboard was very easy to see in the day time. But when night time came around and tandem battles started the scoreboard became very blurry and I could not hear the announcements. Some of it was due to the drag announcer and the "boti" DJ... very annoying trying to hear over 3 diferent voices. The drag announcer was understandable, but the DJ was just plain annoying.
And on top of that, since tandem battles had like 5 mins of downtime each Jarrod just seem to stop announcing in between runs. I'm like wow.... I'm not going to rag on the man, but if this is "pro drifting" I would really like the announcing to be more technical and not just "wooooo so and so is coming in hot!!!". I had to explain to a few first time spectators what was really going on. At times like this I really miss D1s announcing with Toshi, he was a real asset to drifting.
No real judging problems, just in tandem its kind of weird to see some runs get scored 10-8 and 7-5 as if almost every run the lead driver was perfect or really bad but still has the lead. Its just really weird, either the announcer needs to give a detailed explanation or one of the judges.
Overall, I might sound kinda critical. But I really enjoyed this event, waaaaayyyy better then the long beach event at the beginning of the year.
I give it a 8/10, good job FD!!
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