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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #60 on: April 26, 2017, 10:47:40 AM »
Wow! That leaves me out then. 9:03


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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #61 on: April 26, 2017, 10:51:37 AM »
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Wow! That leaves me out then. 9:03


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Everyone is going off  last years sale time with the whole 9:02 thing but this year the sale site was comepkty differnt than last year. Don't worry about your time yet. We don't know with the new set up how many peole were sent in thru the batches.

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #62 on: April 26, 2017, 10:51:53 AM »
[Updated 5-1 @ 9:44 to add results for the 1st of our group of 4]
Four of us got in, but we only have timestamps for the first one:
Chrome
What time were you given access to the form? 16:00:49 GMT
What time did you submit the form? 16:08:34 GMT

How many downtown hotels did you choose? 6
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose? 0

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? Closest
What waitlist preference did you pick? Yes

If you get a notification, what group were you in? email received 5-1-17 @ 9:21:56 AM PDT
What was your result? First Choice, Hilton Bayfront (2 rooms)

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What time were you given access to the form? 9:01 AM PDT
What time did you submit the form? 9:05 AM PDT

How many downtown hotels did you choose? 6
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose? 0

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? Closest
What waitlist preference did you pick? Yes

If you get a notification, what group were you in? TBD
What was your result? TBD

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What time were you given access to the form? 9:05 AM PDT
What time did you submit the form? 9:09 AM PDT

How many downtown hotels did you choose? 6
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose? 0

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? Closest
What waitlist preference did you pick? Yes

If you get a notification, what group were you in? TBD
What was your result? TBD

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What time were you given access to the form? 9:05 AM PDT
What time did you submit the form? 9:10 AM PDT

How many downtown hotels did you choose? 6
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose? 0

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? Closest
What waitlist preference did you pick? Yes

If you get a notification, what group were you in? TBD
What was your result? TBD
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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #63 on: April 26, 2017, 10:54:25 AM »
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Wow! That leaves me out then. 9:03


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I got the same 9:03 :( Very sad right now


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Everyone is going off  last years sale time with the whole 9:02 thing but this year the sale site was comepkty differnt than last year. Don't worry about your time yet. We don't know with the new set up how many peole were sent in thru the batches.

From the online numbers, it looks like a LOT of people were let in at 9:02 or prior. Shucks
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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #64 on: April 26, 2017, 11:00:30 AM »
What time were you given access to the form?  :01
What time did you submit the form? :01 and several seconds

How many downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)  6
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose (0-6) None

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? (closest to the convention center, lowest available rate, shuttle route,  disregard my request if choices aren't available)


Shuttle Route

What waitlist preference did you pick? (yes, no)

Waitlist
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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #65 on: April 26, 2017, 11:03:18 AM »
Through past experiences, I've learned not to freak out about the submission time.
There are so many known and unknown variables to the process we can only guess as to how the sort selection process truly goes.
Whether through my own submission or another's generosity, I have managed to get a great hotel every year and my times have never been good.

So, my recommendation is to not sweat it at this point.

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #66 on: April 26, 2017, 11:08:00 AM »
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silly question how do you see the time in which you got access to the forum?

Here's a bit more step-by-step for chrome. (I'm assuming you meant "form".)

Enter chrome://cache in the browser.

This should bring up a list of all kinds of stuff. Search for one that begins with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

In firefox you can see the timestamp in the cache window, in chrome you have to click on the url and it will take you to a window that has a lot of stuff, including the timestamp.

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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:19:33 GMT
Location: /addRequest
Server: nginx/1.10.1
Vary: Accept
X-Powered-By: Express
Content-Length: 66

Don't worry about the timezone at all, everything will be a bit after 9 PDT so I'll just look at the minutes and seconds. The timestamp is actually there in the url as well as en "epoch time," i.e. the number of seconds since 1-1-1970.

In this example, but with all the actual ids, X-ed out:

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #67 on: April 26, 2017, 11:09:13 AM »
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Through past experiences, I've learned not to freak out about the submission time.
There are so many known and unknown variables to the process we can only guess as to how the sort selection process truly goes.
Whether through my own submission or another's generosity, I have managed to get a great hotel every year and my times have never been good.

So, my recommendation is to not sweat it at this point.

I agree with you! Every year the sale seems to be different and the polls peole are seeing and comments with times of 9:02 and lower making people worry that they didn't get in isn't even a poll of everyone who participated once the sale so they are just a questionable to me.

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #68 on: April 26, 2017, 11:11:00 AM »
does anyone know if your place in line started once the window popped up after the running green man ?  or was it after clicking on that button that puts you on the actual entry. 

I had two computers with the green man gone.  but on my second one I didn't click on that proceed to form button until after I was done with the first one. 


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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #69 on: April 26, 2017, 11:11:09 AM »
It's been a very difficult week (5 year old dog diagnosed with inoperable large brain tumor) so I was really hoping for something to be happy about this week.  I'm really hoping I'm pleasantly surprised by the results of this hotel lottery.

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #70 on: April 26, 2017, 11:16:16 AM »
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I agree with you! Every year the sale seems to be different and the polls peole are seeing and comments with times of 9:02 and lower making people worry that they didn't get in isn't even a poll of everyone who participated once the sale so they are just a questionable to me.

We don't know what will happen due to the staggering of the notices.  Some people in the May 1st group may not want their rooms.  Maybe they'll be double booked because of group buying.  That would mean their rooms go back into the pool for the 2nd group.  This process never existed before.  We'll have to see.

We also don't know the impact of only sending the link to badgeholders, though it appears to me that plenty of non-badgeholders got the link anyway.

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #71 on: April 26, 2017, 11:20:16 AM »
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We also don't know the impact of only sending the link to badgeholders, though it appears to me that plenty of non-badgeholders got the link anyway.
It doesn't look like they posted the link on the CCI website, but, the link was the same one they used last year.
I was able to use the one I had already bookmarked.

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #72 on: April 26, 2017, 11:24:54 AM »
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does anyone know if your place in line started once the window popped up after the running green man ?  or was it after clicking on that button that puts you on the actual entry. 

I had two computers with the green man gone.  but on my second one I didn't click on that proceed to form button until after I was done with the first one.

I believe it was when the window popped up. I am basing this on a test window I had running, where it did get to the form but I never clicked on the button or filled out the form. Even so, I still had the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login entry present in the cache.

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It's been a very difficult week (5 year old dog diagnosed with inoperable large brain tumor) so I was really hoping for something to be happy about this week.  I'm really hoping I'm pleasantly surprised by the results of this hotel lottery.

So sorry to hear about your dog, best wishes and good luck with the lottery!

Thanks to everyone who has posted their information, keep them coming :)

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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #73 on: April 26, 2017, 11:33:53 AM »
What time were you given access to the form?
Form access:  16:02:16 GMT

What time did you submit the form?
Form Submitted:  16:09:58 GMT


What was the first queue number that you saw?
Did not catch this data point, sorry

How many downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)
6

How many non-downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)
3

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? (closest to the convention center, lowest available rate, shuttle route,  disregard my request if choices aren't available)

What waitlist preference did you pick? (yes, no)

If you get a notification, what group were you in? (May 1, May 8.)
Pending......

What was your result? (Top choice downtown, other downtown, Top choice non-downtown, other non-downtown, waitlist, nothing.)
Pending.....

Fingers crossed! :-X
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Re: SDCC 2017 Hotel Request Form Lottery - Submission Times
« Reply #74 on: April 26, 2017, 12:02:25 PM »
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Hi everyone! The sale is almost upon us and once again, we are ready to take the raw heat and turmoil of it all and chill it down with some cold, hard data analysis. We had awesome participation last year, so this year if you're willing, please answer as many of the questions below as possible.

If you can, please get the timestamps from your browser cache as they will be exact.  Some instructions on how to do this are below. If you can't, and can only give a rough estimate that's fine as well, and we will treat it accordingly in the analysis.  Feel free to post information from the sale and then update it later with the result, make separate posts, whatever works for you. If you don't remember some things that's fine too, anything will help.

Thanks in advance, and good luck with the sale!

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Questions

What time were you given access to the form?
What time did you submit the form?
What was the first queue number that you saw?

How many downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)
How many non-downtown hotels did you choose (0-6)

What option did you pick if your preferred hotels weren't available? (closest to the convention center, lowest available rate, shuttle route,  disregard my request if choices aren't available)
What waitlist preference did you pick? (yes, no)

If you get a notification, what group were you in? (May 1, May 8.)
What was your result? (Top choice downtown, other downtown, Top choice non-downtown, other non-downtown, waitlist, nothing.)

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Finding your form access and submission timestamps

Right now we only have instructions for Firefox and Chrome. If you have trouble with the instructions or are using a different browser like IE or Safari please don't sweat it, we don't want to add any more stress to your day. Rough estimates are very helpful too. (If you do find an easy way to get the information from other browsers, please let me know and we'll add it here.)

This is based on information supplied by the always helpful [member=3710]SteveD[/member] and [member=3729]racheva[/member] last year. We will update it if there are changes for 2017.

In chrome you can type chrome://cache in the address bar.

on the page, search (<CTRL> F) for cci.onpeak.info/addRequest?q=
This will be the form entry cache file.

search for cci.onpeak.info/thanks
This will be the form submission cache file

Firefox has the same type of cache search if you type about:cache and then select "List Cache Entries" under Disk.
Then do the same search as above.

When you find the cache entry you are searching for, just click on it to see the time information.
This will work for both Chrome and Firefox.
For example, the file should contain something like this:
I was in at around 9:00:50. I chose six DT and none outside DT. Bayfront, Hilton Gaslamp, MGH, Embassy - 2 beds city, Embassy - 2 beds bayview, Westin. I did not opt for pay mega rate. I did opt for closest at any rate. I waitlisted. I asked for 2 rooms: I twin and 1 single.


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