Good show. Poor time management.
by surtrav3 on 3/4/14Alerus Center - Grand ForksThe pit party started at 5:30 p.m. and went until 6:30 p.m. The show started at 7:30 p.m. That leaves one hour of doing nothing. I heard a lot of people saying "what do we do now?" and "why did we come so early?" There were a lot of families there with young children and a lot of the children were very bored saying "when does the show start? when does the show start!" I think it would have made more sense to start the show at 7 p.m. The monster trucks did the standard things such as wheelie contests, racing, and freestyle. There were also motocross BMX riders that did tricks but only one rider out of 3 did a backflip. Also the motorcycles unlike the monster trucks use regular gasoline which creates nasty fumes that you could see hanging below the ceiling. There were also "tuff trucks" where local citizens could drive their own personal trucks around the track which was a joke and an obvious time filler as most of these trucks broke down during the race and had to be towed off. They also only opened half of the Alerus center! Why not open the whole center so there's less overcrowding and people have a little wiggle room between them and others. There was obviously enough people in attendance to do this and people could have had closer seats if they open the whole center. Next year instead of the "tuff trucks" and motocross riders I would instead like a jet powered car or one of those giant dinosaur car eating things.