catch 22
What was missing was the crowd, and the festive atmosphere.
But when you are there, and you are winning, you expect to have lots of fun. (I was there). But without the crowds, the experience doesn't quite have that infectious aspect.
Winning will solve this.
But winning on the level that will solve this will not happen immediately.
What is worse, the full crowds tend to stagnate and also not happen immediately after winning does.
This wil take time.
But once the place is full, and electric, the tide will be turned. People will have to be turned away, and be upset they couldn't be apart of it.
Not any time soon.
First, the winning. If the guys we brought in to make it happen don't make it happen, no one will