Fair enough.
The one thing I thought would be decent would be the opening night stuff, but it was horrid and made me cringe even more when I heard the tournament mentioned.
Me and my mates were at the city and couldn't get into the party central or whatever it was called, it was too full so we were basically sitting on the footpath not able to hear or see anything
.
Then, we walked over to some hill, can't remember where it was. There were a lot of people there too so we could barely hear each other talk, and were isolated to a small area waiting a couple of hours just sitting there having a chat.
Finally, when the fireworks came on, they were so incredibly average it was insane, especially when the show was being touted as the best fireworks to hit the country. Even the Waitakere Diwali fireworks show in 07 or 08 was better
. Only decent thing was seeing the fireworks set off in multiple locations.
Absolutely miserable experience turned me completely off the whole tournament, thought of it as even worse than before now. I'll actually be genuinely excited if we host the Olympics, Cricket World Cup or Football World Cup, but it's unlikely we'll ever independently host anything again and the Football World Cup and Olympics is nothing more than a pipe dream. The Cricket World Cup here won't be the same as we're basically just another venue with Australia as the home of all the fun.
