I will also say this right now. Now the schedule shows the contest starting at noon and running until 3, this is still true, We will end the block of videos beng shown about 30 minutes before the contest, clear the room and at about 10 minutes till start letting people in. this means that if you want to see your video GET THERE EARLY. I wanted to implement a badge system for the creators but there isn't enough time to do it this year (next year it's something to look into to guarentee creators a spot)
if you are a creator and want a seat, please, I cannot stress this enough, GET THERE EARLY. 30 minutes before the contest, before we clear the room is the best time. we will be doing line control and people leaving the room will be instructed to go to the END OF THE LINE.
Since I have a list of all the creators I can proably start letting people in early, but this would only apply to the creators themselves and they must have ID (drivers license, or badge with thier real name printed on it) and have a video in the contest to get access. This will be sloppy seating because the problem just arose and it's about the best I can do given the time, as well as everything else I have blowing up in my face at the moment. (please try and remember, this isn't the only last minute issue I have to deal with. plus I have school and work too, so I'm trying my best)
One more thing. I understand how some of your (well mostly DWChang) are probably angry about the last minute move. But unfortunatly that's the price I had to agree to to get our own room. If the time was available, I can use main programming, but if a major need arises for the room, we get the boot. Is it unfair? Yes a little, but at the same time I already knew this could happen when I agreed to the room, which, in my opinion is still a damn good thing. I can talk to people about perhaps next year getting a biger room for us.



