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Those two technical problems presented huge hurdles. Are they an excuse? No, but they are an explanation as to why I couldn't rectify when I saw things going south quickly. 

The other points I would like to address, is the lack of activities. This time last year, I recall one of the bigger complaints regarding events being the overall over complexity of them, and a desire to return to more simple events where we quote "make a outfit, show up, hang out and socialize, take some pictures, and enjoy the night". That's what I look at my event as being, a simple meet and greet where we make some avatars, laugh at some in references, play some minigames, and call it a night. I'm not technically minded enough to masterfully put together a ton of Udon stuff and make fuckhuge fun things like speed dating, etc. I think there is still a place for low key events that are mostly just for fun. 

The last point being the vast majority of my events ending in disaster. I'll agree 200% that VRGrammys was a shit show and should never ever be repeated. Terrible idea, bad execution, everything about it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The literal only good thing that came out of it was all the nice shit people made for it, the contributions of those who helped, the sneedup, and the prank at the end of it. That shit was great. That being said, the only other event I've ever hosted was the original last years wish upon a star. I don't think mamamad crashing the balls out of it is something I could necessarily have predicted, or prevented. It's just one of those "is what it is" things.

Short of invite+, which a large majority of the community views as gatekeeping (which doesn't even prevent it once an instance ID is known), there's very little you can do to prevent that. I'd rather thread anon's and people who aren't necessarily on mine or other hosts friendslist be able to attend then do invite+. 

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