Canuck_4_Life wrote:As of yet:
No parade
No dance showcase
A question for the GC veterans, is one night any better than the next for an even like TigerTown, where it's presumably $10 each day you walk through the door.
Spirit of Edmonton, Riderville, Tigertown and Atlantic Schooners Kitchen Party are all freebies or at least they have been in the past. Other single day team oriented events have cover charges but are still well worth it. Seems to be more events every year which does takes some pressure off the traditional ones.
As one would expect all get busier each day. Spirit of Ed traditionally is the biggest one with the greatest probability of lineups, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights. Location and size of venue plays a huge part in deciding how to approach attending the events. Spirit of Ed was unable to come to an agreement with the Winnipeg Trade & Conv Centre for a variety of reasons and wound up being at somewhat of an outpost close to the airport. That worked for us as the hotel Blue Fan arranged was literally over the back fence from the Spirit of Ed. But it did have an impact at the door. Normally long Friday and Saturday lineups to get into SoE simply didn't happen. Last year Riderville replaced the SoE as the place to be with the resulant long lineups at they were in the Trade & Convention Centre. Tigertown was just down the hall and Atlantic Schooners Kitchen Party was 2 blocks away.
For the most part it becomes a defacto pub crawl. Most folks tend to circulate amongst the events. If you don't like the lineup at one you just wander to the next one. Play it by ear......or is that play it by beer.....is the only way to go.
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