# MrBeast's "Beast Games" Vegas shoot an unmitigated disaster, say local staff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 27, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779 "2024-09-27T03:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/1 "2024-09-27T03:17:00Z")
The prominent Youtuber recently conducted a three-day shoot at Allegiant Stadium for the first part of a Squid Game-esque competition series he’s producing for Amazon. The 2,000 entrants were required to live and sleep in the stadium over the course of the shoot, and according to locals who were hired to accomodate the contestants, the entire production was an utter clusterfuck of Grand Guignol proportions, including; - Overflowing port-a-potties - Employees unequipped for human waste disposal being threatened into cleaning up said overflows - Contestants forced to wear trash bags after having their clothes and belongings confiscated - Lost/mishandled medication, undergarments, and personal belongings - Staff not provided with adequate equipment or information - Starving contestants begging for food of which there was little - General understaffing - Production schedules being changed at the last minute on MrBeast’s whim and because apparently nobody realized they couldn’t control the lighting on an outdoor set if they shot in the daytime - Contestants being threatened by MrBeast’s staff for trying to comply with the terms of their contract - Medics having to steal costumes because MrBeast didn’t want them visible on set - Problems with food distribution leading to 800 meals going to waste out of 1200 purchased - Staff surreptitiously donating thousands of unused sleeping bags to local homeless shelters to stop them from getting thrown out - Contestants lying about their medical status to get onto the show, resulting in medics having to deal with people with needs they weren’t prepared for Channel 3’s expose on the shoot can be read here; > **[Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be 'blacklisted', cite OSHA, setting...](https://news3lv.com/news/local/las-vegas-staff-say-mrbeast-should-be-blacklisted-cite-osha-setting-medics-for-failure)** > > Exploring the chaos that paved its way to a class action lawsuit, contestants and Las Vegas staff speak on their MrBeast ‘Beast Games’ experience. And here’s the testimony of an anonymous contestant; [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BVPEFrNjBeU/maxresdefault.jpg "The SHOCKING Experience of The MrBeast "Beast Games"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVPEFrNjBeU) Sounds like an utter cock-up on the scale of Fyre Fest or Woodstock or the Channel Awesome movie shoots - people with big ambitions, too much money, and not enough sense, attempting to put on a massive production with no idea of how to handle the logistical side of things in general. I’m not the right demographic for MrBeast and I don’t think I’ve ever watched one of his videos, but if I were one of his sponsors I’d definitely think twice about wanting to be associated with him after reading about this. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/2 "2024-09-27T03:26:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Overflowing port-a-potties Maybe I’m missing something, but doesn’t Allegiant Stadium have enough bathrooms for 65,000 people who have been drinking beer for hours? > [@](#): > > …and because apparently nobody realized they couldn’t control the lighting on an outdoor set if they shot in the daytime Isn’t Allegiant Stadium a dome? I’m not saying any of your claims are wrong. I have no idea who MrBeast is, but he just sounds like the kind of person who could screw up something that badly. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/3 "2024-09-27T03:28:21Z")
Mr Beast, claims of an ex-employee (so big o’ block of salt), and other legal concerns with his efforts to date on Legal Eagle. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W4CePWWN1Xs/maxresdefault.jpg "MrBeast: Illegal Rigging, Lotteries, & NDAs?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CePWWN1Xs&t=81s) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/4 "2024-09-27T03:28:57Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Isn’t Allegiant Stadium a dome? Never been there, but I get the impression that the dome isn’t opaque and the natural light filters through. > [@](#): > > Maybe I’m missing something, but doesn’t Allegiant Stadium have enough bathrooms for 65,000 people who have been drinking beer for hours? In the stands, yes, but I gather that those weren’t readily accessible to the people being made to sleep on the field. This is what the Channel 3 article says; > [@](#): > > About a dozen portable restrooms were set up on the field to accommodate the 2,000 contestants who were limited to the field’s confines. > > “We had a guy come up to us with his sleeping bag, and his sleeping bag was covered in excrement,” said contestant wrangler Kara on the third day of the competition. The contestant had slept near one of the portable restrooms on the stadium field, she continued. > > “So that porta potty obviously overflowed,” said Kara, who only saw the portable restrooms emptied once throughout the production. > > According to Kara, a MrBeast producer ordered a contestant wrangler to clean the mess and threatened termination when the worker expressed reluctance. > > The worker was not provided equipment or training on handling human waste, said Kara, who spoke with the “extremely upset” worker afterward. After searching the stadium for protective equipment, she said they found gloves without the producer’s guidance. ---
**Author:** ![Xocomil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xocomil/32/14927_2.png) [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/5 "2024-09-27T03:57:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Isn’t Allegiant Stadium a dome? That’s probably exactly what Mr. Beast said. You are now almost as qualified to run a large production as he is. This it what the interior looks like during daylight. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/2022_Las_Vegas_Bowl_Allegiant_Stadium.jpg/640px-2022_Las_Vegas_Bowl_Allegiant_Stadium.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/2022_Las_Vegas_Bowl_Allegiant_Stadium.jpg/640px-2022_Las_Vegas_Bowl_Allegiant_Stadium.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/6 "2024-09-27T04:01:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > About a dozen portable restrooms were set up on the field to accommodate the 2,000 contestants who were limited to the field’s confines. Twelve port-a-potties for two-thousand people sounds _way_ insufficient. If I was one of those people, I’d be looking for a path into the stands and towards the bathrooms for visitors or even the team locker rooms, which are going to have showers. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/7 "2024-09-27T04:24:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Never been there, but I get the impression that the dome isn’t opaque and the natural light filters through. Okay. If it’s a sunny day, leave the lights off; if it clouds over a bit, and there’s less natural light coming in, turn on some of the lights. > [@Smapti](#): > > In the stands, yes, but I gather that those weren’t readily accessible to the people being made to sleep on the field. I wonder what the point of that was. Why rent a stadium and then pay more to bring in port-a-potties? Just make it part of the rental agreement that you get access to some bathrooms. It sounds like whatever sort of show MrBeast was trying to stage required that no one leave the playing field. I don’t see how it would have made much difference if they’d extended that zone somewhat to include a few rooms with plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/8 "2024-09-27T04:28:11Z")
I’m sure everything will go perfectly now that they’ve moved to Toronto. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/9 "2024-09-27T04:29:11Z")
Is this a restaging of that documentary, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/10 "2024-09-27T04:29:28Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’m sure everything will go perfectly now that they’ve moved to Toronto FWIW, the anonymous contestant in the Atozy video says the Canadian side of the production was much better, which he attributes to Amazon being directly involved at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/11 "2024-09-27T05:49:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Is this a restaging of that documentary, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”? I was thinking it sounded like some cut-rate _Survivor_ clone; 2,000 people on a football field rubbing sticks together to try and start a fire. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/12 "2024-09-27T09:02:34Z")
Wow. It sounds like it could be Season 3 of the original _Squid Game_. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779/13 "2024-09-27T09:25:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Twelve port-a-potties for two-thousand people sounds _way_ insufficient. From what I’m seeing online, the general rule of thumb is one porta-john for every 50 people you expect to accomodate, so they should’ve had at least 40 for the 2,000 contestants, and that’s not even accounting for the staff who must have numbered in the low hundreds. If 12 is all they provided then I can easily see how they could’ve overflowed onto the field where people were trying to sleep.