It was a complete failure on my part, I had/have an inability to talk/approach groups of people and ended up sitting on my own guzzling cans of sprite before making a hasty and rather embarrassingly early exist.
What I don't understand is how a room packed with 600+ people all noisily engaging in social interaction was any more manageable last night.
I found it almost overwhelmingly intense. I did stay to the end though.
I have a rather crippling social anxiety, which is usually circumvented by doing a short of vodka just before getting into such situations..