On Friday lunchtime – after a great few days in Barcelona for the Forge Accelerator – I hopped on an EasyJet flight to Bordeaux for this year’s internal Autodesk football tournament. I was one of the lucky ones: there was a later Vueling flight – which I’d very nearly opted to take – that was cancelled because of strikes in South-Eastern France. A bunch of players and fans from the Barcelona office ended up having to rent cars and drive them to Bordeaux to participate. Apparently a number of others from the UK and Italy were also impacted and unable to make it. (It turns out that a number of people also had trouble leaving Bordeaux because of the strike: for instance, the Sunday night EasyJet flight to Geneva was cancelled, so some of our players are now in the process of driving a one-way rental car across to Switzerland.)
When I arrived in Bordeaux at around 4:30pm I hopped into a taxi to take me to the lake area where the majority of the event hotels were located….