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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1200 on: April 11, 2019, 12:00:58 PM »
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HOLD ON!! One thing at a time here! I just caught my breath from Hotelpocalypse! :D



NO CATCHING YOUR BREATH

THIS IS SDCC

You must be in a constant state of panic  ;D
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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1201 on: April 11, 2019, 12:02:07 PM »
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Correct!  We can't think exclusives until we have a place to sleep....one in which we'll probably all pay nearly $300 a night, and only maybe spend 5 hours in it each day......I love Comic-Con, don't you?! ;)

Or in some cases, $300 for a daily place to shower   ;D

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1202 on: April 11, 2019, 12:02:34 PM »
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So I'm accustom to Queue-It, and can sort of explain what's going on. So some of you mentioned it didn't go to the running man at exactly 9:00. For the record, it did not happen for me as well. So how the system works, once you get into the waiting room, Queue-It is set to automatically refresh at certain intervals. I've never studied it close enough, but I'll guess around a minute.

So not everybody will be on the same interval schedule. Chances are, at 9:00 even, your interval hasn't finished yet, so the running man won't start until the full 1 minute (or whatever its set to) interval finishes.

So thus everyone will have the running man showing at a different time. However, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume Queue-It's system will account for the various different intervals, and will not start everything until it knows everybody in the waiting room has been randomized.

I know this is confusing, and I'm sorry. I can try and clarify more later. I hope those that do understand what I said, will understand how it works.

I did notice the refresh interval creeped while in the waiting room as well. Not by much. Refresh was every 30 seconds, say 8:15:15 so next was 8:15:45, eventually became 8:25:16 to 8:25:46. I was looking for any patterns I could find.

I read somewhere, can’t remember where (reddit maybe), but the refresh interval does have a part to play in our places in line.


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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1203 on: April 11, 2019, 12:41:09 PM »
Me and my friend got in at around the 9:01 mark and my friend's brother got in around 9. Hoping that we at least get something good.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1204 on: April 11, 2019, 12:47:44 PM »
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I did notice the refresh interval creeped while in the waiting room as well. Not by much. Refresh was every 30 seconds, say 8:15:15 so next was 8:15:45, eventually became 8:25:16 to 8:25:46. I was looking for any patterns I could find.

I read somewhere, can’t remember where (reddit maybe), but the refresh interval does have a part to play in our places in line.


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I'm not entirely sure on that?  Though it's possible.  I didn't open my computer until about 5:20am (8:20 pacific) and I was the first one in my team that go in.  Almost everyone else was in at 5:01-5:02.  They all got into the form after me.  I was late because of the RIDICULOUS timezone I'm in.  Yeesh.
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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1205 on: April 11, 2019, 12:48:46 PM »
I'm so distracted at work right now, can't stop thinking about hotels
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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1206 on: April 11, 2019, 12:54:09 PM »
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I'm so distracted at work right now, can't stop thinking about hotels
I still have to go back home and figure out My exact times.  I left the machines running and I've visions of laptops smoking, my dogs ripping into them, or that I read the numbers wrong and picked super late...I can't think!!
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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1207 on: April 11, 2019, 12:54:28 PM »
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I'm so distracted at work right now, can't stop thinking about hotels

Same. Still trying to figure out how to get the exact time from the Chrome browser on Android.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1208 on: April 11, 2019, 12:57:08 PM »
This was my second time trying the lottery (had a great result last year and got in pretty quick this year, so fingers crossed). But holy cow, what a horrible feeling having to wait several days and worrying about whether I made a mistake on my entry, or left something off, or duplicated something with someone else, or a bunch of other things.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1209 on: April 11, 2019, 01:07:39 PM »
Got in at 9:12.  Doesn’t look good for me.


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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1210 on: April 11, 2019, 01:10:12 PM »
I woke up at 8:55 and I jump up rushed to computers, login on three devices. All got in around 9:05 to 9:07 went back to bed and finally up again.


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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1211 on: April 11, 2019, 01:14:47 PM »
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Got in at 9:12.  Doesn’t look good for me.


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Same. I feel your pain.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1212 on: April 11, 2019, 01:17:45 PM »
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Yes every single one of my browsers had a captcha check.
I had multiple sessions over multiple computers and got captcha-ed on all of them, although the captchas didn't start appearing until after I had several sessions going.  Thankfully, they all popped up pre-running man before 9:00 AM.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1213 on: April 11, 2019, 01:22:06 PM »
I went into the waiting room at 8:20 and didn't get into the form at 9:07  :( finished it at 9:13

I wasn't going to do it but I grabbed my phone and entered the waiting room at 8:58 very last minute and got into the form at 9:00:47 Finished it at 9:05

SO GLAD I got my phone last minute! I feel pretty good about that one :D

Good luck to all! now we wait 5 excruciating days ???

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Re: SDCC 2019 Hotel Discussion
« Reply #1214 on: April 11, 2019, 01:28:45 PM »
I got captcha'ed twice, both pre-running man. One featured a motorcycle taking up 3 squares and the other had traffic lights that kept changing! As I clicked on the squares that had traffic lights, they kept adding new ones and changing the images like a puzzle! After about 30 seconds of that, I suppose the system finally deduced that I wasn't a bot and let me pass! I envisioned seeing Gandalf the Grey on the other side of the computer shouting, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" :P
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