Reply To: Dedicated JoCo Cruise Crazy Shadow Cruise website
Speaking as someone who ran a Shadow Cruise event this year (Rock Band) and assisted with a couple others, I’m not sure I like the concept of having to negotiate time slots with both Home Office and another location.
The real limiting factor for Shadow Cruise isn’t organization, per se. It’s time and space. There are a limited number of venue locations and limited time slots for each. Given that the Home Office has to wrangle with RCI for ship facilities/space, and the fact that many Shadow Cruise events require specific resources or facilities on hand and are therefore not mutually interchangeable on the schedule if a conflict arises, I don’t know how much utility there would be in getting “pre-organized” without at least some Home Office input.
Ideally I think we should just ask the Home Office to negotiate the space and time first, and give us a clue about what times on each day will be occupied by an official event. Then funnel everyone to a Google doc to detail what sort of event they’d like / facilities they need, and then just discuss how best to Tetris in all of the moving parts so that everyone gets a worthwhile time slot that suits their needs.
A whole site page coded to deal with time slot negotiation feels like a nuke-to-kill-a-housefly solution.