In fairness to Rage, they were also competing against a well-attended autographing session by Evergrey -- EG's only autographing for the weekend since they arrived the day of their show.
(And no, I wasn't in there either. No disrespect to Rage, but I didn't really know their material and I wanted to talk to my budz in Evergrey -- and EG's set had exceeded my expectations and I'd seen 'em as far back as Progpower in 1999.)