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Well, this isn't the post we thought we would be making this morning... We were full of excitement yesterday driving to Blenheim Palace for the long-awaited Game Fair yesterday, and ready to put up the stand and start getting ready to welcome visitors… Sadly, the wind was soon taken out of our sails because when we arrived, we were told there had been a mix-up with the size and location of our stand. We had booked way back in December, but there was another company’s stand already set up in our spot! We spent the next 5.5 hours communicating with the organisers (who we were told had other similar cases of missing stand slots and a rather large backlog at the gate to deal with) but were told that repositioning wasn’t available. There was seemingly nowhere else they could put us. Kyle and I tried to come up with a solution, for example turning the marquee so it was narrow and long and might squeeze in somewhere, but this presented some issues with the racing sim being potentially unsafe… The other businesses exhibiting in our row were amazing and very supportive, at one point trying to move their stands to accommodate us, but it wasn’t to be. So, by the evening and after a long day either driving or sitting stationary in the van, we were en route home with an empty weekend stretching ahead to fill. We’ve removed the social posts we’d scheduled and contacted everyone who wanted to meet this weekend to chat about websites and tech. We hope to be there next year - maybe with a bigger stand to make up for the wasted days of prep?! #onwardsandupwards #changeofplans

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