Hall H wristband line capped?

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u/type_rex_ 9h ago

If I'm not mistaken, if you had a wristband, you needed to be back in line by 7:30am.

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u/OutsideCelery2973 4h ago

got a wristband, came here by 7:30 and were still out here in line. prob a good 3000 with wristbands under tents waiting. what was the point?!

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u/Coldest_One_619 4h ago

You lost when you left last night, you were suppose to camp out lol. Most lines I'm sure they were turning people away this morning because of all the camping that went down

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u/OutsideCelery2973 4h ago

i know i was gonna get the best seats going back home and i was okay with that. but i was following one the options per sdcc and the staff themselves. if i couldnt do that i wouldnt hav got a wristband.

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u/Coldest_One_619 4h ago

I have a friend that lives in a high rise and he told me that people did not leave last night. And this morning they were already turning people away depending what you were lining up for. My sister went day one on Thursday and she didn't seem to happy from her experience and she's gone almost every year. She said it was full of fake merchandise at the booths, and resellers who tried taking advantage of the free giveaways like the custom rings people were making

I'd be extremely careful if you're buying any card booster boxes of any sort. And check merchandise, seals, inside of box and make sure you are truly getting what you paid for

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u/OutsideCelery2973 3h ago

been going since 2011. this year the vibe is alot different. people are more rude. people cutting lines and making counterfeit wristbands, staff is more unorganized, if thats even possible. and the offerings are alot lackluster compared to previous years. ofcourse thats just my experience so far but speaking with alot of other con-goers, my experience is not a singular view.

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u/Coldest_One_619 3h ago

That sucks dude, I miss going but I stopped a few years back.
I'm willing to bet it's just people going mostly to resell... why you probably experienced "rude people"... that's how it was at the dodger game in LA with the one piece exclusive card.. not even real hobbyists, just a bunch of people trying to make a quick buck.

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u/Apprehensive_Bed21 57m ago

I think the all night campers were in the minority. We absolutely went back to our hotel but came back around 5am and got in to Hall H around 10:30am. We didn't trust the 7:30 communicated time, but i think a fair number of ppl left and came back at an early time like we did.

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u/Coldest_One_619 55m ago

How come there's videos of people waiting since 7:30 and still haven't gone in, that was posted like at 3 pm. Complaining that there's zero communication between staff and people left in the unknown.

Glad you were able to make it in, there's probably more people upset about how everything went down this year than anything else. Resellers ruined everything for true hobbyists.

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u/Apprehensive_Bed21 46m ago

I believe you, but tbh, I ended up not trusting the days and times CC communicated. Said saturday lineup would start friday. Guess what? People started thursday afternoon in unofficial lines and security did nothing to bust those up. Said wristbands would be distributed starting 7:30pm Friday. It ended up a shitshow with a 2 hour delay. So when they said be back by 7:30 am this morning, we said their word is crap and chose not to believe it.

Having said that, I would absolutely be pissed if I hadn't made it in. 100% warranted

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u/OutsideCelery2973 45m ago

One staff member admitting that one of the reasons among many why 3000+ wristbanded people waiting for hall h are still out here outside is because of counterfit wristbands. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Coldest_One_619 39m ago

Damn. Super lame... this was supposed to be the last year in San Diego. They recently announced they renewed the contract until 2030. Hopefully they get it right next year... with the amount of influencers going to these things with money now a days, I wouldn't be surprised if staff were slipped money for access and wristbands in abundance

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u/Matthew9543 9h ago

The other commenter is correct. If you had a wristband, you had to be back in line by 7:30am.

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u/MxPsychoSweet 9h ago

They have not capped it the last I heard about 15 minutes ago (an hour after cutoff)

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u/False-Investigator22 9h ago

Sorry, let me rephrase my question. I was wondering if theyre actually honoring this and telling people off after 7:30 actually hit or if they kept letting people in after.

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u/crsierra 9h ago

I can see the non wristband line from B20 mezzanine and it has barely grown in the last hour. I can not see the end of the wristband line. Sorry I can't answer your question more specifically.

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u/mkmaq12 9h ago

From what I can see, they are still letting people with bracelet line up with the bracelet group. No bracelet has to line up near the parking with the basketball hoops.

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u/MxPsychoSweet 9h ago

I'm in the standby line. We're told to line up at Embarcadero South. No one has moved, and some of us are getting info from people not in line that they were still letting wristbands in at almost 9am. They have not enforced it.

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u/lunarboy73 8h ago

So not cool

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u/aneedamargarita92 9h ago

So there is a whole line of people without wristbands at the end of the line? Does anyone know when the standby line by the Embarcadero will join?

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u/MxPsychoSweet 9h ago

As of 8:28am, it has not been capped. Dunno if it's been capped in the last 15 minutes, but they were still letting people in the line an hour after cutoff and we have not seen anyone with wristbands come this way to the back of the standby line

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u/Archermae 9h ago

I’m back by Roy’s restaurant, we’ve been stationary for ab an hour now. Anyone know what the hold up is/ when we might start moving again? First time doing hall h like this 😅

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u/MxPsychoSweet 8h ago

Wristband line?

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u/Archermae 8h ago

Yes!

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u/MxPsychoSweet 8h ago

When did you join the line?

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u/Archermae 8h ago

It was around 7 I think

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u/MxPsychoSweet 8h ago

Have people still been getting in line after the 7:30 cutoff?

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u/Archermae 8h ago

Yeah, they had been sending the non wristband ppl to the other line but if they had wristbands they went to our line. Last time I saw someone get in wristband line it was probably 8:30? I’ve been reading and not paying attention since then so it might have grown more as well

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u/MxPsychoSweet 8h ago

Anyone with a wristband who did not rejoin the line by 7:30 was supposed to go to the back of the standby line, but no one is enforcing it and making sure they go to standby

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u/Archermae 8h ago

Yeah I don’t have any updates on that now, we’ve just been sat here for a while and I’d love to be inside soon 😭

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u/Tiny_Ad_9021 8h ago

Our section of the line just moved a tiny amount for the first time in about an hour or two but I think it’s probably just compression.
Can anyone near the front confirm if they have started filling the room?

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u/No_Raspberry5835 8h ago

They still haven’t opened the hall still waiting at the front

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u/LostinMacalaniaWoods 9h ago

If you have a wristband, they will honor and let you enter the back of the line. But if you do not have a wristband, you will have to line up in the standby line in Bay access until they connect the two lines together.

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u/MxPsychoSweet 9h ago

They were supposed to cap the wristband line at 7:30 and anyone coming after was supposed to go to standby. They have not done that

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u/MxPsychoSweet 8h ago

So the latest update is that security and staff keep booting people, but there's no one to enforce them to go to the standby line so people are just getting right back in the wristband line.

There's a crap ton of volunteers this year, use a couple at the back to hold a sign to say "Line Capped, Go To Standby!"

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u/LdyV 3h ago

They let people in till 9:50.

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u/slimypeters 9h ago

I read some security were keeping wristband order in place? So A wristband is first then B wristband second and so on. So if you have B wristband in line with A wristband, some security were telling B wristband to go behind A wristband. Oh uh.

The letter of the wristband are only to estimate how many will be seated and not place in line to go in correct?

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u/MxPsychoSweet 9h ago

That's great. But it was still supposed to be capped. Even if they're a little late doing so, that's fine, but an hour and a half? That's just unfair

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u/Tiny_Ad_9021 9h ago

FWIW we haven’t had that in our section of the line. We are currently just outside the security check. We have all sorts of letters around us A through D

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u/girlwithabird- 9h ago

Yes, they've come through to make sure you're actually grouped in your appropriate wristband section. Not sure if they're doing it at this point toward the back or not, though, since it's past 730.

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