The onsite registration is for those who did not register online.
You could either attach your name card or fill up your particulars and answer a few questions on the registration form (if I remember correctly).
The registration forms were placed on a table. Everyone is given a form and a queue number ticket.
Most people who just arrived simply joined the queue as they assumed that's the procedure, and that includes those who have registered online.
A staff was going down the queue asking everyone if they have already registered online and received the QR Code emailed to them. For those who have, they were directed to the QR Code scanning stations to pick up their badge.
The staff was also collecting the completed registration forms from the visitors and passing them on to his colleagues in charge of keying in the details and printing the badges.
The whole process was rather messy.
The visitors did not receive their badges according to their queue number.
Those queuing behind got their badges before the ones queuing in front. A few were delayed as they couldn't find the registration forms. The queue number ticket served no purpose (no matching of form to queue number) other than perhaps for the staff own tracking purpose.
The staff at the counter was apparently stressed as the people in the queue got impatient as they were rushing to attend the various talks.
I guessed she had to key in all the details and the answers to the questions into the system which slowed down the process. To make matter worse, the two computers connected to the printers were taking turns to hang. And then they run out of cards to print the badges or run out of lanyard.
Someone in the queue commented, "It's faster to just write out the names on the badges."
Why not just print the badge and key in the details later? Or simply write it out like what the person suggested.
That's probably more interesting to look at rather than the standardized badges the rest of us got. And maybe it could be an ice breaker topic.
Perhaps it looked more professional to have the badges printed.
It's a tech event after all.