Ticket Line Procedures

[Will]

Oh, one more thing, for those who don't know, yes they WERE selling the "I did my time in the line" shirts again this year.  They're slightly different; they have a little prisoner/jailbreak guy on the back along with a flying puck.  They ran out of the smaller sizes quickly, leaving only XLs left around 1PM on Saturday.  That was fine for me since I'm a big guy.  I actually ended up buying two, in case one of my friends who weren't there would want a shirt.  In the event that no one bought the shirt and I didn't get tickets, I would keep one shirt nice and use the other to complain.  On the back, it says "I did my time in the line."  I would have used a sharpie to write in directly below, "and I still got screwed by Cornell Athletics".  Luckily, I don't have to do that now, but now I don't know what to do with my second (or third, really) Lynah Faithful shirt. :-P

[Ben Rocky \'04]

Line numbers up through 800 got their seats!  There were maybe 10 spare seats left in G as 800, my sister('06)'s number got to pick her seats.
Im so glad the morons in the group in front of us (which went from 10 people to 30 or so between 3pm and 6pm friday) sold us 2 of their line numbers allowing our entire group to get the tickets we so desperatly wanted.  

FUCKING FACE-TIMERS!!!!


-ben '04, lynah faithful since 1984

[Ben Rocky \'04]

Lets just print up a bunch of them anyway.
Or maybe True Lynah Faithful on the front
and  FUCK THE FACE TIMERS on the back

sorry, im okay, i swear

[Will]

Ladies and gentlemen, my friend and yours, Ben Rocky '04...

[dsr11]

For those of you that didn't get tickets, couldn't you just call up the visiting school and buy tickets in Section O?  Why can't you do that and make Section O a Faithful section?  I mean, those of us not on campus rely on the visiting school's internet radio feeds since Cornell's costs money and generally sucks.  So why not take the extra step and order tickets from the visiting school?  It may not work for Hahvahd, but it should work for most other games.

[Mel \'00]

First, I want to apologize to all those faithful who got shut out of the ticket process. My sister and her friends were there at 2pm hoping they would not kick them off the line. Like many others, they were cut by so many that our numbers went from 200-400. But, I am very happy that all 800 numbers got their tickets. Our group ended up at the bottom of A so we will have fun with the band.

Have faith all who did not get tickets. My firiends and I last year pretty much went to every game by buying single game tickets. Granted, several times we sat in section O but we still got into the games. Tickets frequently go on sale on this message boards and if aw.nyone in our group, doesn't need a ticket for a game, I will let you all know.

As far as this process, there must be a better way. Personally, I really liked it when years ago you simply sent in a letter for tickets. Sure, they favored upper classman but freshman did not have problems getting seats. I know there must be an increased demand for tickets now but this unpolicing/cutting/shutout of so many students is unfair also.

[nyc94]

What happened to separate lines for upperclassmen?  I seem to recall in 1990-1993 they gave out line numbers on three different colors of paper - one for seniors, one for juniors, and one for sophomores and freshman.  All of the seniors got to choose seats before any juniors, etc.  Thus, section B was all seniors.  Each year our seats got better.

[Will]

Mel '00 wrote:

Personally, I really liked it when years ago you simply sent in a letter for tickets. Sure, they favored upper classman but freshman did not have problems getting seats. I know there must be an increased demand for tickets now but this unpolicing/cutting/shutout of so many students is unfair also.

Well, as I recall, it wasn't as simple as that.  It was a lottery system, really.  So with that system, all you really get is a different set of complaints for Athletics to handle.  My freshman year was the last year of the lottery, and I was one of the lucky ones to actually get tickets.  (Ironically, my seats this year are worse than my seats my freshman year.)  I somewhat like the idea of favoring upperclassmen*, but I only say that because I am an upperclassman.  Unfortunately, that notion doesn't help freshmen who are locals (IHS graduates, for instance) and may have been members of the Lynah Faithful (albeit from the "townie" side) for years.  Considering the number of IHS graduates who come to Cornell each year, I wouldn't want to ignore them.  There's no reason in theory why a freshman can't be a hardcore Cornell hockey fan.  Now, if only we could find a way to discriminate between Faithful freshmen and facetimer/scalping @$$hole freshmen...

* - The amount of uneducated freshmen waiting around in the Ramin Room was readily apparent yesterday.  The band came to play and of course did a number of traditional Cornell hockey songs.  During "The Hey Song", there were too many people shouting "Hey" instead of "Sieve" and not knowing the following part.  Also, a sparse few of us rose and put our arms around each other to sing the Alma Mater.  It was quite sad to watch and I get the strange feeling that the real centers of hardcore fan support this season will be spread throughout B (as always) but also in F and G.  Oh well, I guess we'll wait and see.

[Bjammin 03]

For what it's worth,

A little birdie (possibly the same bird that Fred referred to) told me that next years line procedure will be changed so that
ONE person may  purchase ONE ticket only. This way more folks a chance at tickets as well as "paying your dues" b/c there will be no leaving and people will have to stay in line if they want the privileged to be called one of the Faithful.

We'll just have to wait and see what happens ::screwy::



Post Edited (09-14-03 21:05)

[Will]

Ben Doyle '03 wrote:

A little birdie (possibly the same bird that Fred referred to) told me that next years line procedure will be changed so that
ONE person may  purchase ONE ticket only. This way more folks a chance at tickets as well as "paying your dues" b/c there will be no leaving and people will have to stay in line if they want the privileged to be called one of the Faithful.

I heard that too, although the way I heard it, it was more of an idea that they were throwing around rather than an already agreed-upon policy for next year.

[Bjammin 03]

O.o.t.g.w.g.r.o. V. ;-) - I can't say for certain that's what will happen but I was told that is likely the way things will work next year.

[Allie]

I know that I rarely post but I am on here often reading what everyone else is writing.  I've been especially busy reading since I got screwed over on Friday for season tickets.  I just wanted to say that I think that the AD should go back to giving some priority to those Faithful who have been around a bit longer.  I've had season tickets for the past four years and am now a first year vet student at Cornell.  We had our first big test on Friday so there was no way that I could go and camp out early.  My boyfriend and his roommate are third year vet students and have had season tickets for the past 6 years and when we ran down from school at 4, we sadly realized that it was the end of an era... we're only hoping that we'll be able to get tickets on the 15th and by calling other school's ticket offices, though we're still planning on going away to RPI, Union, Colgate and Harvard just like we have been every year... doubt we'll see any of the face timers at any of those games...

[jy3]

hey all
a couple point that i am sure people in the last ten posts may have said, but i have to sleep :-)

the cutting of the line was insane. If you are going to determine who gets tickets and the order by which seats are selected by the order people appear in the line then you damn well had better police that line with hired people. spend the damn $280 to give 7 guys $40 for the day. gimme a break. do it correctly. if you do not disperse the line when it forms early then police. i know people who cut the line b/c they got there and realized they would not get tickets. this is not right either.

i think that there are few solutions to some of the problems facing lynah now:
empty seats - someone can organize a "get rid of your ticket 3 days before the game" board or place on campus or something can they not? have athletics put an add in the Sun if they are not happy with the frosh who fail to show up this season  - and that will happen.

too many people not enough tickets - sorry but I think we should expand/build a new rink. i am all for tradition - a new rink can be build with out the sound absorbing high roof at the RIP fieldhouse...

dont have tickets? - do what i did last year - call the enemy and get tickets for section O - problem games? north country duo, colgate, hahvahd. all others should be easy to obtain.

still dont have tickets? - sorry guys, that blows. I hope it all work out somehow...

[Will]

jy3 wrote:

empty seats - someone can organize a "get rid of your ticket 3 days before the game" board or place on campus or something can they not? have athletics put an add in the Sun if they are not happy with the frosh who fail to show up this season  - and that will happen.

Isn't that what the eLynah Ticket Exchange is for?

[French Rage]

[Q]Isn't that what the eLynah Ticket Exchange is for?[/Q]

Yeah, but how many face-timers post here??

I do like the idea of Faithful buying out section O.  Nothing would help further psyche out opposing teams than their own fans getting drowned out and taunted by Faithful sitting right behind them.