Albany tickets in the Cornell section

[REDhead]

Just came back off the ticket line and seats are indeed in 103-102-101...(what in past years was the Sucks section)...
Today's line is for townies only. Tomorrow's line is for students. Each of us gets our own section...with random others thrown in (Pepsi has been selling seats in these sections and we were sent what's left....)

[cmoberg]

So are you suggesting that tomorrow the students will be sold seats in a different corner?  That would be very distruptive to organized cheering.  Also, mixing fans from 2 schools in one corner seems like a recipe for disaster.

Chris

[andyw2100]

[quote cmoberg]The group sales office has a limited number of seats left in section 101.  I was able to secure to adjacent aisle seats in 101 on the 102 side.  Was the Cornell Ticket office selling even or odd?

Chris[/quote]

I'm not sure what you mean by even or odd. The ticket office was selling entire rows, or at least pieces of rows. Just not adjacent rows.

If this helps, we wound up with Section 103, Row J, Seats 1,2,6,7,8. We're hoping that with 1,2 being on the aisle, some kind soul in seats 5 and 6, or in the row behind or the row in front of 6,7,8 might be willing to switch with us, to get better (aisle) seats.

Chris--perhaps you can help me answer a question that the ticket office could not. Are the 1,2 seats we have in Section 103 on the aisle with Section 104 or Section 102? If the seating is consistent from section to section, and your seats in Section 101, near 102 are low numbered that should mean that our seats are on the aisle with 104. Thanks, and hope the above helps.
                    Andy

[andyw2100]

[quote cmoberg]So are you suggesting that tomorrow the students will be sold seats in a different corner?  That would be very distruptive to organized cheering.  Also, mixing fans from 2 schools in one corner seems like a recipe for disaster.

Chris[/quote]

I'm not suggesting that at all. I think the student tickets are also going to be sold from the sections listed earlier. Or perhaps from adjacent sections. I have absolutely no reason to believe that Cornell was sent two blocks of tickets, in different corners of the rink.

Of course I also have no idea why Cornell was sent alternate rows, so who knows.
                      Andy W.

[HeafDog]

[quote cmoberg]So are you suggesting that tomorrow the students will be sold seats in a different corner?  That would be very distruptive to organized cheering.  Also, mixing fans from 2 schools in one corner seems like a recipe for disaster.

Chris[/quote]

I wish there were some way to get the students (or recent alums, whatever) to stand on their own in a few sections.  Whenever we're away from Lynah, and the people who like to sit are mixed in with the people who are used to standing, it inevitably saps all of our energy.  Ideas, anyone?  Does anyone even agree with me?

[cmoberg]

The low numbered seats are on the left edge of each section.  My seats are in 101.  So your seats look to be on the 104 side of 103.  

By non adjacent rows I took it to mean that we might have row ( A and C ) but not ( B ).  Or it might have been ( B and D ) and not ( A and C ).  Anyway, I have row E (5), seats 6,7 (which are the aisle because of the triangular nature of the section)

Perhaps the Students are getting the other rows in the same sections?  Groups sales did not indicate any other sections for Cornell when I talked to them.

Chris

[cmoberg]

BTW, my wife and I are rather distant alums (class of 80 and 79) but we would be happy to stand. We go with the flow.

Chris

[andyw2100]

[quote cmoberg]

By non adjacent rows I took it to mean that we might have row ( A and C ) but not ( B ).  Or it might have been ( B and D ) and not ( A and C ).  Anyway, I have row E (5), seats 6,7 (which are the aisle because of the triangular nature of the section)

Perhaps the Students are getting the other rows in the same sections?  Groups sales did not indicate any other sections for Cornell when I talked to them.

Chris[/quote]

Thanks for the info on the seat numbering. As for the adjacent rows, I doubt the ticket office is purposely "intertwining" the students with everyone else. I think the ticket office was simply sent alternate rows.

I also wouldn't put too much stock in there being a lot of consistency in this "alternate rows" deal. It could be they were sent A, C, F, H, J, O, etc. Meaning multiple rows left out, as opposed to consistently every other row. It really felt like there were holes in the allocation. That tickets had probably been being sold out of the section, by Ticketmaster or Pepsi, or whomever, and that Cornell was sent parts of some adjacent sections, with lots of seats missing.  

A pretty stupid way for the Pepsi arena to sell seats if you ask me, but no one asked me.
                       Andy W.

[REDhead]

To clarify my earlier post, tomorrow the students will be sold seats in the same corner of the rink as the townies tickets today....Our corner this year is the 101-104 sections.
Certainly we'll be in a bloc all together, although it seems that Pepsi has sold some of the seats in those sections through its own box office, because at the CU ticket office today not all the seats in each section were available.

Gene does think of ways to address the townie-sitting, student-standing dilemma. I believe that's why the sale dates this year are separate...so a section can be sold to sitting townies, and the next day the adjacent section(s) can be sold to standing students (if you are a standing townie or sitting student, I guess you're on your own!)

I know that in the past the Ticket Office has tried to sell the top rows in sections to students and the bottom rows to townies, also in an attempt to address this issue.

So there is definitely awareness of the standing/sitting issue, and attempts to work on seating arrangements that work out well for everyone!

(and p.s., you can make noise sitting or standing, so I think the issue of energy is not so much your posture as your noise level, which I fully support being as loud as possible!)

[Rosey]

So, I left a message at the Cornell ticket office, but I have no idea if they're actually going to get back to me or not.

I tried to order tickets online, but their webapp appears to be broken.  (What a surprise.)  I called tickets.com (the Pepsi Arena's ticket broker), whereupon the woman who answered proceeded to tell me that tickets were no longer being sold over the phone, but were available at the box office or online.  I informed them that they weren't actually available online, which greatly confused the sales rep.

Isn't selling tickets a solved problem?  I mean, why does this have to be difficult?

Kyle

Update: it appears the app is broken, in that it only works on IE.  Unfortunately, their interface doesn't allow me to choose from whichever seats are free, and since they won't sell me the tickets over the phone, if I order them online I'll end up in the same situation I was last year: some seats on the far side of the arena.

GAAAAA!  These guys get a $10 cut from every single ticket they sell, which means you'd think they could afford to hire some web developers to design them an app to make the customer experience a little better.  How difficult is it to entertain the notion that their idea of "best available" isn't the same as mine?

[andyw2100]

I wish there were some way to get the students (or recent alums, whatever) to stand on their own in a few sections.  Whenever we're away from Lynah, and the people who like to sit are mixed in with the people who are used to standing, it inevitably saps all of our energy.  Ideas, anyone?  Does anyone even agree with me?

I thought I had posted this about fifteen minutes ago, but perhaps I only "previewed" it. I hate when that happens. I'll try again.

Let me start by saying that although I am now a middle-aged Faithful, I am happy to stand at away games. Heck...I'd stand at home games too if I could. In fact, at Colgate the last two years we stood the entire game. (Last year it really annoyed the Colgate fans that were mixed in with us, but heck...there were more of us so...)

When I was a student, the students did not yet stand the entire game. Instead, we would jump up, en masse, yelling and cheering at almost anything exciting at all. Any odd-man rush, flurry of activity in front of a goal, even sometimes an especially hard hit. I never counted, but in retrospect I'm guessing we probably jumped up 30, 40 or 50 times a game. I actually think we were louder, and the atmosphere more exciting than it is today, with the students standing the entire time.

So what I'm getting at is that if you find yourself in a "sitting" section at an away game, try jumping up and cheering when anything "exciting" happens. Pretty soon plenty of people will be jumping up with you, if only to not have their view blocked. I think you'll find that when that starts happening, there is no "lack of energy."
                  Andy W. '86

[DeltaOne81]

[quote krose]I tried to order tickets online, but their webapp appears to be broken.  (What a surprise.)  I called tickets.com (the Pepsi Arena's ticket broker), whereupon the woman who answered proceeded to tell me that tickets were no longer being sold over the phone, but were available at the box office or online.  I informed them that they weren't actually available online, which greatly confused the sales rep.[/quote]

Looks alright to me:
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=22642&agency=PEPSI_SEASON&pid=5650833

(if that link is session specific or something, here's the screen before:
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?orgid=22598 )

Although I didn't go all the way through because I refuse to pay $20 in handling fees. If it comes to that, I'll just buy them at the box office on Friday.

Isn't selling tickets a solved problem?  I mean, why does this have to be difficult?

Well, I feel for the ticket office guys a little today. Definitely way more demand than their capable of dealing with, on one of the few times per year when it happens.

Doesn't mean I'm not calling regularly though :-P

[Josh '99]

[quote krose]How difficult is it to entertain the notion that their idea of "best available" isn't the same as mine?[/quote]I've wondered the same thing myself.

[DeltaOne81]

Just got through to the ticket office and got two sets of All Session for Will Call in Albany.

Perhaps things are slowing down.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Just got through as well.  No reason to pay those expensive service charges through tickets.com