Drove down from Brisbane spent my $5 and was impressed by many things including the number and range of machines as well as the number of people I got to meet in the flesh rather than on the forums.  I was only there from around 9:15 till 1:30 on Saturday but still very much worth the effort to get there.

Things that could have been better / should be considered for next time:

More space - who knew so many people were going to show up - By midday you had be special friends with everybody just to get to the machines

More Techs - they were struggling at 9:30 so had no hope once the place got crowded to keep things running.  With the crowds no hope of getting to the machines.  Both Forum are full of capable people who could assist for some of the time so resources should be easy for simple issues (stuck balls etc) leaving the paid techs for the hard stuff.

Free Play - this is pretty simple to set up on most SS and EM machines (not sure about DMD but most have a built in option) and can be jumpered just for the day rather than have to add credits manually.  Would have saved a lot of effort and disapointment.

Overall a great effort and I am looking forward to the next where I can hopefully atgend the dinner as well.

Michael