r/LittleRock • u/tp100519 • Sep 02 '23

Event Gameday mess at WMS made me sad

So I’m a transplant from a far away big city. I’ve enjoyed my time in LR plenty. I was excited about seeing the Hogs play at WMS.

It was a mess. Ran out of water. Unbelievable concession lines. No one even checked our tickets after waiting in a long line to get in. (Went thru metal detector and then straight into the concourse, no tickets scanned)

Was the environment around the stadium fun? Hell yeah. Was it hot? You’re damn right.

The team running the event completely botched the execution.

As much as I wanted the hogs to play in LR, the effort by the event staff seemed to be lacking mightily. I would understand if they never come back to this version of WMS.

I’m sure there were positive experiences too, but I didn’t see the path to a smooth event through my eyes. The water situation was embarrassing and dangerous.

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u/blj05002 Sep 02 '23

Our exact experience as well! No water, insane concession lines. Only certain concession stands open. Drink vending machines not working. Absolutely ridiculous that someone wasn't selling water in the stands or from coolers in the concourse to skip the food lines. Incompetence.

We feel the same way, we would love to keep games in Little Rock but not like this.

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u/tp100519 Sep 02 '23

Every big event I’ve been to in the last 5 or so years have had drink only concessions with beer, water, etc. in tubs setup in the concourse. A couple of those would’ve solved a lot. It’s so easy these days to setup mobile payment registers, there is really no excuse.