Hilton Anaheim

It was very good.

It was in the Anaheim Hilton and Anaheim Convention Centre, which are in the greater Los Angeles area, but are not actually in Los Angeles itself.

Los Angeles is complicated.

Do you have any questions about it?

And you've got to give people accurate timing, especially if people are going to run parties afterwards and things like that.

They need to know that you're not actually kicking off until 11 p.m.

yeah well and also like because the so the party scene at LA was really nice because all of the rooms that are the party suites at the Anaheim Hilton back onto a central courtyard that had tables so like you it was actually really nice because there was such like basically parties around the edge of this big space where everyone was hanging out it felt a lot like the bar at an Easter con except with a lot more free alcohol and I was super down for that the social scene was it's probably the best way I've seen it done at a world con I had a great time in the parties like I think that part LA con take a bow it was perfect but because the night deck shut at midnight officially it meant that by the time we'd come out of the ceremony gone to the losers reception had a drink and like commiserated read some stats and then gone to the parties the parties had largely wound down that is a problem because if you because I think the thing is if you're going to have a three hour long ceremony it needs to start at seven and that's the real problem But if it starts at 7, because the program, Megan, Helen, Montgomery, doing program, had blocked out all of the finalists from, I think, 4 o'clock.

So if you're a Hugo finalist, you weren't programmed after 4 o'clock on the Sunday, and then the reception started at 5.30 for a 7.30 move into the auditorium for an 8 o'clock start.

But during the convention itself, I spent most of my time just dashing between buildings before the sun got me, and then navigating two rather different mazes at the con itself.

The Anaheim Hilton, which was where a lot of the smaller programming happened, was this sort of like... deceptive maze.

I don't know how big it was.

I don't think it was really that big, but I never got a firm grasp on it.

So a little bit of unofficial events at BlizzCon.

The Anaheim Hilton, which is a hotel that is right across the street from the convention center, is kind of like the unofficial place to go and get a drink and maybe even talk to one of the game devs.

who also get to get drink.

Um, that's a great place to go.