I am extremely upset with this water event! After the fiasco and tornado of the Everest Ride event, one would think they would live and learn from that experience. Instead of improving conditions, they made matters worse!
I remember a number of us expressed unhappiness with the event and how it was handled. We all agreed that we wanted to have more time to organize, less time to judge and categories provided upfront. Most even wanted prize info to be known, that way we could decide whether it was worth it. Please dont patronize me with "I'm doing it for fun and to make friends" because you dont need an event to have fun or make friends. I am in it to win the prizes and have fun! If they said the prize was "fireworks magic" I wont lie, I would drop out because that prize isn't worth my time. Judging slots would help too!
VMK should have provided the categories upfront, so the little kids and adults can have a guideline to work with. Build a water slide is very vague and way too open ended. Last time they said make Everest and yet the categories were best use of tracks, color and theme. Who would have guessed these categories? Most of us expected "Most Like Everest at WDW" as one category. So now they provide broad info and avoid listing categories and we are stuck trying to work with that. And then boom, come the winners 'Best Use of Barrel Chairs', 'Best Use of Tiki Fountains' and 'Best Use of Water Rugs'
We also still have 28 hours of judging times, and the same team requirements. Why do we need to register the room names right now? And then there's the matter of the first 200 teams only. That gives us four days to organize a team, get a leader, a theme, room titles, ideas, etc. Who is going to chance waiting until 7/16 to register? We are all going to cram up on 7/10 trying to get in!
How long will they take to let us know? So you mean to tell me after I spend 4 days fighting and struggling to make ends meat, I may not make it? All that work to get an email that says "sorry you are registrant #201"
We get four days to do 95% of the legwork and 33 days to make the rooms. I don't need a month, maybe a week or two tops. Why does this have to drag out for a month? This was another complaint of many. I thought VMK cared but they don't seem to. This event is exactly like before except with three negative changes and I expected more from Disney and VMK!
I am just dissapointment and especially since VMK did not learn from the past team event and improve the conditions.
I remember a number of us expressed unhappiness with the event and how it was handled. We all agreed that we wanted to have more time to organize, less time to judge and categories provided upfront. Most even wanted prize info to be known, that way we could decide whether it was worth it. Please dont patronize me with "I'm doing it for fun and to make friends" because you dont need an event to have fun or make friends. I am in it to win the prizes and have fun! If they said the prize was "fireworks magic" I wont lie, I would drop out because that prize isn't worth my time. Judging slots would help too!
VMK should have provided the categories upfront, so the little kids and adults can have a guideline to work with. Build a water slide is very vague and way too open ended. Last time they said make Everest and yet the categories were best use of tracks, color and theme. Who would have guessed these categories? Most of us expected "Most Like Everest at WDW" as one category. So now they provide broad info and avoid listing categories and we are stuck trying to work with that. And then boom, come the winners 'Best Use of Barrel Chairs', 'Best Use of Tiki Fountains' and 'Best Use of Water Rugs'
We also still have 28 hours of judging times, and the same team requirements. Why do we need to register the room names right now? And then there's the matter of the first 200 teams only. That gives us four days to organize a team, get a leader, a theme, room titles, ideas, etc. Who is going to chance waiting until 7/16 to register? We are all going to cram up on 7/10 trying to get in!
How long will they take to let us know? So you mean to tell me after I spend 4 days fighting and struggling to make ends meat, I may not make it? All that work to get an email that says "sorry you are registrant #201"
We get four days to do 95% of the legwork and 33 days to make the rooms. I don't need a month, maybe a week or two tops. Why does this have to drag out for a month? This was another complaint of many. I thought VMK cared but they don't seem to. This event is exactly like before except with three negative changes and I expected more from Disney and VMK!
I am just dissapointment and especially since VMK did not learn from the past team event and improve the conditions.
