Topic: Switch 2 Hands-On Event

I registered to be a part of the draw for the Switch 2 hands-on event in my city yesterday.

What a pain. The site kept loading and crashing, and my Nintendo account profiles weren’t showing up properly. I have to assume it was because so many people were signing up at once.

Did anyone else get a draw placement successfully? I figured we could share our experiences at the event here if/when any of us get to go. For now I guess we could discuss the registration process and our hopes for the event.

I have a draw entry in for the London event on the Saturday. Other than not going live quite when they said it would, I did not have a problem after that. Not sure how many spots there are, but it is a large venue. Guess we will know in a few weeks if we got in!
Hope all NL people who enter get a spot

I would love to if it was closer but I will wait for YT streamers who go to comment on their experiences.

I suppose Mario Kart will be the big premiere title at the event. Though I wouldn’t be opposed to being able to play a new 3D Mario early…

Definitely entering for the London one, fingers crossed!

Update: Did not get through lol

Got my entry.
I am in!

London event. Sat Morning!

Wishing everyone good luck if you have not yet heard. Sorry if you didn't get it though

I applied for London and didn't get tickets 😥

US still hasn’t drawn tickets. It’s rad to see @Mana_Knight got in! I’m bummed for all who weren’t selected.

@Lazz Thanks Lazz Fingers crossed for you and all NL peeps who have not yet had their one drawn then!

Didn’t get in. @Mana_Knight congrats. Have a great one

@Mana_Knight thanks - just found out that I didn’t get in. Good luck to the rest of you.

@1UP_MARIO @Lazz - Aww. Sorry guys

@Mana-Knight you’ll have to keep us updated! I entered for the London Saturday morning slot but I wasn’t lucky. Oh well, means I don’t have to go on the tube for an hour 🤣

Not even 24 hours in and apparently there were already listings of these tickets on eBay: https://x.com/nintendeal/status/1884320784765837592?s=46

Pretty crazy if you ask me. How did Nintendo not realize this would happen? It was stated in the NDA that they can’t sell the tickets, but some people just didn’t listen.

Even worse if the tickets don’t have names of the people who got them, making it easier for a person who didn’t initially register bring the resold tickets to the events and register them as part of their account to gain entry.

BTW I never actually registered into the drawing.