hockey line forming

[Ben Rocky '04]

Sec A entrance to Lynah.  emails just went out, Gene announced on VBR.

[Tub(a)]

Let the stampede begin.  :-O

[Ben Rocky '04]

Numbered wrist bands this year.  Not a bad idea, but branding would have worked too.

[ithacat]

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/corn-m-hockey-body.html

Of course, if you're reading this you're either too old, too far away, or too late (just kidding).

LGR.

[Beeeej]

Or already have your season tickets.  :-D

Beeeej

[ithacat]

You had to rub it in, didn't you...:-P

[French Rage]

Report from a grad student I know:  Within 20 minutes of the line announcement, they had processed 850 people.

[Beeeej]

If you had any idea how much we pay for seats in Section C, after paying $45 for the privilege of buying them in the first place, you wouldn't have the slighest jealous bone in your body.

Beeeej

[ajec1]

Yeah, its all over...from what I have been told, the line was out of control, people were coming in from all sides, there was no line and it was generally ugly. Sounds as if copious amounts of facetimers could be making an appearance in Lynah this year  ::yark::

[nymanisadouchebag]

after hearing the VBR broadcast, I was outside section A in maybe 7 minutes of driving/walking; a giant, sweaty mass of people had formed at the bottom of the stairs. The line then went through lynah, into bartels and finally the ramin room. the wristband idea seems like a positive improvement, but my personal opinion is that "section A" as a location is possibly the stupidest i have seen or heard of. The stairs going into lynah allow for little or no natural crowd control. moreover, the CUPD jumped on the opportunity to tow as many cars as humanly possible. in short, a joke, but thats nothing new.

[homesickalien]

terrible, terrible job

those who were waiting in the line down the street got terrible numbers or didnt get any at all, and the best line numbers were given to the people who pushed through and cut.

awful display

[calgARI '07]

I've gotta say that was the least safe environment I have ever seen up close.  There was a mob of over 1000 people right outside the doors and there was literally no way to move or breathe.  When they finally opened the door after a couple minutes, it actually got worse.  It was like being caught in the worst series of waves where you have absolutely no control of your footing or balance.  You just had to hope you would be pushed in the right direction.  The most telling part of it was that I was there with three buddies and we all got numbers in different 100's.  I sort of was pushed in the right direction and got #545 which would hopefully put me in A.  Regardless, I'll be trying to trade up to hopefully get back in B for a third straight year.  

[TCHL8842]

The line was a complete mess, I was at the other side of bartels when it was announced a swarms of ppl were already there when I got there.  There was no crowd controll what so ever outside of lynah.  Ppl were shoving there way up the line.  By the time the doors opened there was probably 800+ students in a semicircle around the entrance with everyone pushing to be the first one in.
In general this was not a line but rather a mob at Lynah.  So far I have not talked to many ppl that have friends with line numbers close since everyone got lost in the mob.  I was lucky enough to get line number 320, but several friends right behind me got in the 700s+ and some got under the 100s.  This was a joke process by the Atheltics and the school and they should serious think about changing it.  
Sorry for my little rant but I think this was well deserve.  I personally want to see the school to cut all this dont hurt the academics crap and just have a message in August telling when and where tickets will be sold and let ppl line up whenever, and have a rule similar to Dukes Bball.  One person has to be in your spot at all times, besides that you are fine.

The pushing and shoving was out of control and for some reason on my side it seemed to help since I got a higher number then I thought I was going to get

[calgARI '07]

Agreed, absolute disgrace on every level.  I actually thought last year's was really good and the crowd control was helped a lot by 1) the weird location and 2) the fact that one number got two tickets meaning there was less than half as many people

[bjybjy]

We got there a bit later than average due to not being able to wait on campus everynight for the annoucement to go out. When we got there there were probably three hundred people in front of us.

It seemed like no matter how many people showed up after us, the line didn't grow behind us. Cutting was rampant.  Half way through the police decided that the best way of fighting people pushing forward was to have the front of the line push back.  They didn't make this clear to the back of the line, so the front of the line smashed into the people in the middle that had no place to go. A girl ended up getting injured and EMS was called.

 At this point the police basically cut the line in two and physically forced the people around the girl to move back. Now all of a sudden the people that were nearest to the girl but in front of her were towards the front of the line, while those who had been just a few spots away (my group) were forced all the way to the back of the line.

At this point instead of 300 or less people in front of us, I'd say 400 or 500 were in front of us, and like 4 people behind us. Then at least two or three times the Lynah red shirt staff guy  "Scott" decided that our section was too close to the front and pushed us back again. My group was literally pushed to the end of the line four times, and we were being very calm and attempting to follow all rules. Guess what! We don't have tickets but people that got there after us certainly did.  

I don't want to sound like a whiney bitch, but come on... I've been a LOUD lynah faithful member for 4 years and this was the worst line setup in that time. It was like the athletic ticket office was surprised that 2000 people showed up all at once, again.

A silenced Lynah Faithful.

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