Final thoughts

Stu: An excellent convention. The highlight lecturers for me were David Stone & Shoot Ogawao. If I never hear tie a yellow ribbon... It would be too soon. I've had a fabulous time; the only thing I'd like to change is to add a dealer’s location map to the programme. Many times I heard people asking "Do you know where _______ is?" Also there seemed to be very little advertising of the dealers upstairs, poor Paul Gordon had to spend a night in the Ruskin drinking and doing card tricks to make sure he had lots of visitors at his stand the next day. Overall rating 10/10.

Geoff: This year it was up to its usual standard, good times had by all. It would be helpful to have a brief description of what the lectures would be focused on in the programme. During some of the acts in the sat and sun shows it has been difficult to see certain acts due to low lighting of the stage. See you next year, from the oldest blogger in town! Overall Rating 10/10.

Matt: First of all a big thank you goes to Stuart and Geoff for all the work they've put into the blog. Thank you to Geoff for booking everything, even though the hotel was pink! Thank you again to Stuart for doing an excellent job driving and listening to my probably very dull stories. I think having 3 different opinions, has given you all a view of our time at the convention. I hope you have enjoyed reading our blog, PLEASE do COMMENT on what you thought of the blog and the convention. More photos will be added very soon!
So what did I think? .... Well an excellent convention overall with the highlights for me being David Stone and Shoot Ogawao. My dislikes of the convention were Fukai and Scott and Muriel! Also can I suggest If you're watching a lecture at Blackpool sit next to someone you don't know and say hello. I think we would all learn something new from this. It then also sorts out the problem of an empty number of seats with 1 person sat at each end. We were going to name and shame the pushers and shovers but to be honest I can't be bothered to type them all. Would it hurt to say sorry in the dealer’s hall?! It was great meeting lots of magicians I hadn't already! And I hope to see you all again next year. My overall rating is 9/10.