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Title: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: friedminded on July 04, 2015, 01:32:57 AM
I'm strongly considering going for a limited autograph drawing at 9:00 am on Saturday. Would anyone be interested in teaming up?

The idea is that we help our teammates by waiting in line with them after we draw our own winning tickets to maximize the odds of everyone getting what they want. And even if things don't turn out perfectly, we at least will have met some new people and had guards for our stuff when we ran off to the restrooms. ;)

Here's what's available on Saturday at 9:00 am:

This is my first time doing any kind of team-up like this, so if anyone has advice about where/how to meet up, how best to coordinate once inside, etc., feel free to chime in.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: ahbbb on July 04, 2015, 07:48:59 AM
Are you looking for a team up as a line buddy?

I'm not sure how a team
Up will help for the raffles.
When you enter the raffle area, you choose the raffle you want to pick.
Win or lose, you leave the area and then go to the back of the line.
Which will be long.  mostly likely you won't get another chance to get through the line again. A team up would only help if the people with you have no desire for any of the autographs and they can just pick a raffle ticket for you.
Now, it does happen that you might get a second chance if you are early enough but it's long odds.

If I misunderstood, please ignore my post and let me know.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: Car_Low on July 04, 2015, 01:17:26 PM
I believe the volunteers also put a wristband on you as soon as you win so you can't go back in line to try again anyways.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: Mel on July 04, 2015, 02:49:49 PM
In my experience, only WB does wristband which you can not get off and trade or give to someone. All the others you just get a ticket you need to have when you come back for the actual signing. That could always change though.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: friedminded on July 04, 2015, 06:55:36 PM
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Are you looking for a team up as a line buddy?

I'm not sure how a team
Up will help for the raffles.
When you enter the raffle area, you choose the raffle you want to pick.
Win or lose, you leave the area and then go to the back of the line.
Which will be long.  mostly likely you won't get another chance to get through the line again. A team up would only help if the people with you have no desire for any of the autographs and they can just pick a raffle ticket for you.
Now, it does happen that you might get a second chance if you are early enough but it's long odds.

If I misunderstood, please ignore my post and let me know.
But you are only going to the end of the line for the individual raffle, not all the way back out to the marina where the massive "Everything Else" line ends, so it wouldn't be that bad.... right? Maybe I'm underestimating the potential length of each line.

If I do go through with this, I would want to line up super early. Early like I-want-a-seat-in-B20 early. The way I see it, if we're going to do this, might as well go all-in and not do a half-a$$ed job. I would hope that would help provide more than one opportunity to draw a ticket.

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I believe the volunteers also put a wristband on you as soon as you win so you can't go back in line to try again anyways.
This I have not heard about before and would be problematic. I hope someone else who knows for sure can clarify.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: omraged9 on July 04, 2015, 11:12:26 PM
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I believe the volunteers also put a wristband on you as soon as you win so you can't go back in line to try again anyways.

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In my experience, only WB does wristband which you can not get off and trade or give to someone. All the others you just get a ticket you need to have when you come back for the actual signing. That could always change though.

Yeah the WB wristband one is going to be hard to get around. However, it's not that you can't go back in line. You can. I've seen ppl with 2-3 different WB show wristbands on the same wrist. But I like the line buddy idea overall though. Are we allowed to save like one spot for 'a friend' if we're in the WB line? I've only been in a WB line once 2 years ago and I don't know what autograph line etiquette typically is.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: friedminded on July 05, 2015, 01:56:54 AM
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Yeah the WB wristband one is going to be hard to get around. However, it's not that you can't go back in line. You can. I've seen ppl with 2-3 different WB show wristbands on the same wrist. But I like the line buddy idea overall though. Are we allowed to save like one spot for 'a friend' if we're in the WB line? I've only been in a WB line once 2 years ago and I don't know what autograph line etiquette typically is.
I'm actually talking about the 9:00 am autographs (listed in OP) and not the 7:00 am ones (WB, Fox, etc.) but I'm guessing the process is the same, minus the wristbands. Regarding spot saving, I think this is greatly frowned upon because people are basically cutting the line. But since there are no wristbands here, it does end up happening.
Title: Re: Saturday 9:00 am Limited Drawings Team-Up
Post by: friedminded on July 07, 2015, 03:34:39 AM
Welp, looks like my inexperience and lack of knowledge about drawings has caused this plan to flop before it even started. :P

If anyone is interested in being regular ol' line buddies on Friday night/Saturday morning, feel free to PM me. I'd still be interested in that.