
Took in the ISF World Championship Softball last night. The games are good but oh my the organization or lack thereof is something else.
We bought the $100 tickets which included reserve parking.
We arrived at the park for about 8pm for the Canada USA game.
First, we were told reserved parking was full. We would have to park where ever we could. This confuses me. If you sell for example 100 reserve parking tickets, would you not have 100 parking spaces? Someone help me with that.
No big deal, we parked a long ways away.
Second, the Australia New Zealand game was only in the second inning despite the fact Canada and the USA was scheduled to start in less than 20 minutes. Again, no big deal. We watched Australia pull the upset of the tournament defeating New Zealand 7 - 0.
The Canada USA game started close to 10:30pm and ended near or after midnight. Again no big deal. I'm a big boy and can stay up late.
Third, the big deal. Absolutely no traffic direction in the parking lot and we were at least one and a half hours getting out. For one hour, I shut off my engine and nobody moved. We had ended up parking near the campground and ofcourse that was the last line go move.
Two young men finally got out of their cars and directed the traffic. No bright vests, no flashlight but they did a real good job.
We ended up getting home at 2am.
To the tournament organizers I wonder this.
1) Where was your traffic control. Where were the Saskatoon City Police? Three men made cell phone calls to get police help and no help responded. I don't blame them. The organizers should have had people directing traffic. Were they not expecting anyone to show up for the game.
2) What does reserve parking mean? The lady that sold me the ticket pointed out that if I spent more money along with my reserved seat I would get reserved parking.
Quick in, quick out she said. I don't think so.
So thats my rant for a Saturday morning.
Am I going back today? Not sure! Will there be traffic control. A call to the office indicates nobody knows. What they they do know. They already have our $100 bucks times two so do they really care if we come back or not.
I leave that question unanswered.
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