Arena open Day 2, Split into 2 events which greatly damage practicality
hello wizards team,
Thank you for all your hard work and time, I am sending this message to share an experience that hopefully wotc takes into account related to this weekends open .
Today, after setting aside yesterday to play, I set aside the first half of today as well only to find day 2 was split into 2 parts. I had to try and register in a meal break between work appointments at a cafe, pick portly within 10-15 minutes after a 20 min long wait while paying a closed cafe worker to stay open solely because there was a delayed second part to the event. Then I had to cut work short because the event did not allow for one to work or spend time with family in either part of the day, it ate up both parts. It would have been nice if wotc would have made it play out for 8 straight games for example. Such a change would be considerate to those who work (especially because we likely spend more on the game). A working person often cannot take two days off (unless there is no family or relationship day), to play for full days. These games eat at the spare hrs in ones weekday, to prepare for these events and so having the weekend not be a eaten up by something so easily avoidable as not splitting the draft is a little concerning. We have jobs or families if not both, personally I cannot ever participate in or financially support another sealed or draft arena event knowing that opens are this time consuming atm.I really enjoyed them, i probably spent $100-$200 a week on them if not easily more some weeks, but no longer. I hope that changes come in the future, because it would be nice to play in them again.
Thank you,
Erin Diaz