I would just go with whichever option is easier for you. If you already have six separate accounts in your party and everyone is linked, use it. If you are the parent or leader of a group where no one else has an account, have them sign in on your account on their devices.
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Looking at the poll results, if you get in the park on time, the odds are pretty good you will get a BG or BBG.
The folks on here are more likely better informed and prepared for getting a BG but it looks like if you are in the park on time, odds are pretty good you get at least a BBG.
I have to imagine that WDW for the moment likes this system. Having all guests go through the tap stiles before opening gives them a rough number of how many people seriously want to ride. The early morning start and having everyone get through the gates per-opening, creates a natural limitation on the number of available guests, maybe below daily ROTR ride capacity.
Since most people get a BG, I’m guessing that they know there are X number of people and allocate the number and size of the Boarding Groups so that they can try to accommodate as many of those people as possible. Guest Services doesn’t want to have a large mob of angry people there at the park at the start of the day who did everything “right” and still didn’t get at least a BBG.
I have not seen a lot of news reports or social media posts complaining about this. The polls seem to confirm it. If large numbers of people were getting rejected first thing in the morning there would be a major blow-up. Maybe I’m wrong in my thinking. It’s just this fool’s opinion. I haven’t tried yet personally but I’ll be there in April to see first hand.
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This might be picking nits, but when it says “8:01” for normal group close, can we assume there is something close to a full minute, or are a lot of these something like 8:00:30?
Additionally, do we have any kind of idea how many are in a boarding group?
Ohh…it is definitely seconds. I was given a back up boarding group yesterday and it was only about 30 seconds in.
I think I’ve seen estimates of around 140 per BG.
I have put the poll on a blog post
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In January, I didn’t quite know what I was doing and got lucky to get boarding group 76 with my daughter (and that wasn’t a BBG at the time). This time I had read up on the process and practiced at home thanks to the suggestions here. I was in the park Thursday 2/20 and Friday 2/20. I was on Wi-Fi inside or close to Legends of Hollywood store (there were two of us and we were not in a crowd trying to get on another ride). I got BG 18 on Thursday and BG 16 Friday!
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Cool! I feel like I have made a contribution to the broader Touring Plans community. 
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You’re just now feeling that?!? We each owe you a round at Oga’s! @Jeff_AZ
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So, is it best to remove family and friends from your list who are not interested in waking up early to tap in prior to park open? If boarding groups are gone in 60 seconds seems like it might be worth it to remove them prior to trying for a boarding group. And how do you all time the best time to attempt to join a boarding group. Do you need a stop watch with a seconds hand so you attempt to join right at 7:59:59??? I’m planning on being there May 9-16, I’m already stressing about only having 60 seconds! This is crazy and my husband thinks I’ve lost it!
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I had a party of 8, and I also was leading a Memory Maker share out of my own account rather than a dummy, and I was able to get a BG even with having to scroll past all the MM share people and then select the 8 people in my party. It’s not ideal, but it can be done. I also didn’t check time.gov or anything else fancy. I just started refreshing over and over a little before the hour. This is not to say those things don’t help, but don’t despair if you don’t use every tip in the thread. You still have a good shot at being successful.
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Thanks! stupid question, how do you refresh the app? Or does that mean you just sign out and back in?
To do a full refresh, force close the app and relaunch it. If you have an iPhone 11, it looks like this:
You can also do a “soft” refresh within the app by pushing the “back” button from certain screens, or pulling down on the top of the screen and it will connect to the server and pull any new data.
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Thank you!
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This post has screenshots. It’s for DL but is also applicable to WDW.
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Well since the poll question you created was in response to one of my silly questions, I get a little credit as well. 
Interestingly there have been three different postings of this question and it looks like 90% or more of guests are getting at least a BBG.
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Too true! Credit where it’s due!
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Weird thing happened this morning. I was practicing getting a boarding group from home. But instead of getting the “is everyone in the park” message, I got an actual boarding group. I cancelled of course, but this is one more glitch to add to the list of the inadequacies of the BG process.
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Same thing happened to me. I wonder if it’s a new policy and not just a glitch.
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