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Match: Colombia/Switzerland, July 7, 1pm The Central Library has watch parties for selected games in the Microsoft Auditorium. Enter on the first floor (4th Ave), and it’s just behind the elevators on the right side. The Auditorium has one huge screen and over 250 hard plastic seats. The seat backs give a little, but not as much as, say, the seats at the Cinerama, making them slightly more comfortable than a plastic chair, but still a hard sit for 2 or more hours. Fortunately, for most matches you can spread out, as there will only be a few dozen people in the audience. I took up a few seats with my stuff and my legs. The audience was about half people there for the whole match and half people who wandered in, as the ‘door ‘ is really a large section of wall which they fling open, so that anyone with a passing interest in soccer will notice the large screen and likely check it out for a few minutes. The sound and video were good, but it was just the raw TV broadcast, commercials and all. Like my first library watch party (#1, Lake City), it’s okay to have food and drink, so I brought my lunch. I assume alcohol is a no no. Unlike Lake City, no snacks were provided, but there are water bottle filling stations nearby. The only glitch was that they almost didn’t open the room in time. A librarian who I gather was in charge of the event had to get security to call someone (from facilities?) to come down and open up the space a few minutes before it started. Also, the auditorium is noticably cooler than the rest of the air conditioned library. I regretted not bringing a long sleeved shirt on this warm day. submitted by /u/Worldly_General_5672 |
