New opening hours
Crowd Management
As most visitors of SMC 2024 will acknowledge, the overwhelming amount of visitors on both days, but especially on Saturday has forced us to think about measures that will hopefully result in a smoother flow of several aspects of the show.
One of the measures we take to improve crowd control at SMC is to extend the opening hours of the show a bit, as well as the time we close the contest area for judging.
Keeping the contest area open during judging is impossible, as it’s simply too busy around the contest tables for the judges to perform their already difficult task.
In order to tackle that issue a little, we have decided that at SMC 2025 the contest area will close to the public at 15:30, instead of 15:00 on Saturday.
We also open the doors to the public half an hour earlier, both on Saturday and Sunday, meaning we open at 9:30 instead of 10:00.
Obviously there will me more to mention about this subject, but we’ll get back you on that later.