I personally didn't think this was a well, thought-out event when it came to character choice. This event had a HUGE advantage to be a human char with 20 JoAT compared to 0 if you were elf. The first part, neither my partner or myself both being elf could make the required sashes, so we had to waste time explaining this to an EM. We got to make hats instead. My partner did the spoons... crafted 1 out of about every 20 tries. Human char didn't fail. Again, wasted time. Same thing for even trying to mine ore... said to h*ll with it and went and bought the ingots... Oh well, perhaps the next event will be more interesting.