Hey everyone, I'd just like to say that the Fanimazing Race was awesome. I was white team and ended up placing 4th place on day 2, behind yellow 1st, purple 2nd, and dark blue 3rd.
I do have a complaint though, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to put it, and yes I'm a little bitter about it. Please get Runners (employees that go with the teams) that actually care about doing the race, instead of just caring about getting community hours. Due to this, we went from first in the race to last on day 2 because of how much our Runner slowed us down. Here's a list:
1. When we're dashing to the next checkpoint, often times we lost our Runner, due to her looking off who knows where. When we find her, a minute later, she talks about how "You guys don't know how important I am. Don't ever lose me." And yet, when I look back while dashing to check if everyone is there, she yells "Don't look back, just keep going. Don't worry, we're right behind you!"
2. She's also very half assed about helping. Runner's arent supposed to give giveaway hints, but may give directions or other small little hints if we're completely lost. She'd refuse to give any hints more than something cryptic, then remind you of it and yell at you for not getting the hint 10 minutes later. She'd also keep pitching in ideas and bitch about it, if you don't follow it.
e.g. One part of the race, we had to get 10 proofs of visits from 10 restaurants, such as a card or a menu. The first thing she does, is tell us to separate, "because it'll be faster." Then proceeds to be strict on the rules, and not let us call each other for 10 minutes, before giving some leeway so we can find each other. She also kept telling us to get more menus/cards from extra restaurants, which was unneeded because the 10 we had, were for sure on the list of approved restaurants. We ended up waiting 10 minutes at the checkpoint for my teammate to sprint her way from across the convention, slowing us from 1st to 2nd by a lot.
3. She complains too much due to her not caring. At the last event, we had to find the Head of Gaming. When we couldnt find him for 10 minutes, we checked back with team yellow, and found that all the other teams had found him already. When our Runner hears this, she smugly said, "Oh, that sucks, because I've seen him twice already so far." When we leave off to find him again, she says "Wow, what great luck, I'm stuck with the slowest team. No offense, but you guys are pretty much in last place." She then bitches about how she can't leave because she needs those hours, and asks us if we're impressed she stuck with us for so long, even though she couldve left.
After the race was over, I was a second away from socking her in the face. Sorry if I seem pissed or bitter, cuz I am pissed and bitter. I'm fine with not winning 1st place, I'm fine with even getting 10th place, but I'm not fine, if this is due to some bitch who insults us with petty passive aggressive comments and suggests half assed ideas.
Overall though, it was a fun race, I had mostly a great time, and I would really suggest it to others, so long as they dont get the luck I had with runners. I'm glad team yellow had won, because they had signed up with me and my partner, and we had been working together the entire time.
I do have a complaint though, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to put it, and yes I'm a little bitter about it. Please get Runners (employees that go with the teams) that actually care about doing the race, instead of just caring about getting community hours. Due to this, we went from first in the race to last on day 2 because of how much our Runner slowed us down. Here's a list:
1. When we're dashing to the next checkpoint, often times we lost our Runner, due to her looking off who knows where. When we find her, a minute later, she talks about how "You guys don't know how important I am. Don't ever lose me." And yet, when I look back while dashing to check if everyone is there, she yells "Don't look back, just keep going. Don't worry, we're right behind you!"
2. She's also very half assed about helping. Runner's arent supposed to give giveaway hints, but may give directions or other small little hints if we're completely lost. She'd refuse to give any hints more than something cryptic, then remind you of it and yell at you for not getting the hint 10 minutes later. She'd also keep pitching in ideas and bitch about it, if you don't follow it.
e.g. One part of the race, we had to get 10 proofs of visits from 10 restaurants, such as a card or a menu. The first thing she does, is tell us to separate, "because it'll be faster." Then proceeds to be strict on the rules, and not let us call each other for 10 minutes, before giving some leeway so we can find each other. She also kept telling us to get more menus/cards from extra restaurants, which was unneeded because the 10 we had, were for sure on the list of approved restaurants. We ended up waiting 10 minutes at the checkpoint for my teammate to sprint her way from across the convention, slowing us from 1st to 2nd by a lot.
3. She complains too much due to her not caring. At the last event, we had to find the Head of Gaming. When we couldnt find him for 10 minutes, we checked back with team yellow, and found that all the other teams had found him already. When our Runner hears this, she smugly said, "Oh, that sucks, because I've seen him twice already so far." When we leave off to find him again, she says "Wow, what great luck, I'm stuck with the slowest team. No offense, but you guys are pretty much in last place." She then bitches about how she can't leave because she needs those hours, and asks us if we're impressed she stuck with us for so long, even though she couldve left.
After the race was over, I was a second away from socking her in the face. Sorry if I seem pissed or bitter, cuz I am pissed and bitter. I'm fine with not winning 1st place, I'm fine with even getting 10th place, but I'm not fine, if this is due to some bitch who insults us with petty passive aggressive comments and suggests half assed ideas.
Overall though, it was a fun race, I had mostly a great time, and I would really suggest it to others, so long as they dont get the luck I had with runners. I'm glad team yellow had won, because they had signed up with me and my partner, and we had been working together the entire time.