The Show Debrief: what your show actually did
When a live show ends, Planet Events keeps the receipt. The Show Debrief is a read-only page showing what the night actually did against what you planned: how long every block really ran, how long the show was held, what was skipped, what was cut short, and where the schedule drifted. It is arithmetic from the record of the night — nothing is estimated and nothing is written by hand.
Where it lives
Open the event and click “Show Debrief” in the top row of buttons. The button appears once at least one show day has ended; before that, there is nothing to show and we don’t pretend otherwise. Anyone who can see the event can see its debrief — if you could watch the show, you can read its record. There is a PDF download on the debrief page, so the record can leave the platform like your run of show can.
One debrief per show day
A live session covers one show day, so a three-day event ends up with three debriefs, listed on the same page in the order they ran. Each one shows every block with its planned length, its actual length, any time it spent held, and the difference — plus the blocks that never ran, called out by name.
Time a baton holder deliberately gave to or took from a block with the +/− buttons is listed separately from unplanned overrun. A keynote that was given five extra minutes on purpose reads differently from one that ran five minutes away from you, and the debrief keeps those apart.
A block that was cut short is marked CUT with how long it actually ran; a block that was cut from the night reads SKIPPED with the reason in the timeline, and one that was put back shows both the cut and the correction. If the person running the show sent the crew any alerts, they get a section of their own: what was said, at what level, when, and who acknowledged it by name — or “Nobody acknowledged this.” in words, because that is worth knowing the morning after.
What it says when it doesn’t know
If a session was never ended — everyone’s devices went quiet and it was closed automatically — the debrief says “nobody ended this session” rather than inventing an end time. If lateness was never measured, because no block with a planned time ever started, it prints “not measured” rather than a reassuring zero. A record you can trust has to say when it doesn’t know, and this one does.
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