Furiated 6 hours ago

Just wanted to thank @Magic Feather for the good advice provided a while back. I was able to get a Rise boarding pass this morning! Staying at Beach Club and one of the reasons I picked here is to be able to walk to DHS. You definitely have an advantage over everyone else by staying at a Boardwalk area resort. I walked over and as I was approaching around 8:30 I thought, am I way too early? Nope. Lots of people already there lining up waiting for security to open. Around 8:50 they moved us up and lined us all up outside the temp screening tents. There were already huge temp screening lines before the first Skyliner people started coming off the line. And the cars had just started to enter the lot when they let us into the screening tents. I think it was around 9:10 when they let us into the tents, and from there I was good to go all the way into the park and walked right into MMRR with no wait. I rode MMRR, walked to Ronto Roasters for a morning wrap, and was sitting comfortably waiting for the 10:00 lottery. I made sure I had full signal bars on my phone and was flip-flopping over whether to turn WiFi off or not. I had a good connection and tested moving around the app to make sure it was responsive while connected to WiFi. It seemed like it was, so I left it on. Was watching the seconds tick down on my watch with my phone at the ready and on the My Queues page. Right at 10:00, I clicked Join Virtual Queue, the blue Join button was on the next screen, clicked that and just clicked through everything else as fast as possible. Got Boarding Group 5! Very shortly after that, groups 1-5 were called, so I headed over and got right in with no wait. Fantastic ride! As I was entering the queue, a mom was asking one of the Rise CMs why the app wasn't giving her a boarding pass as she was trying right then. He explained that they were gone and that they go in seconds. She looked so deflated. I'd love to know what her specific story was. Because while I was sitting waiting to try for mine, there were at least 2 separate occasions when the park-wide announcement was made about the need for a boarding pass and to get one through the app. So I'd love to know, people in her situation, did she hear the announcements? Did she arrive too late and miss them? Was it something else?