Hocky Tickets 2006/7

[French Rage]

[quote Ben Rocky 04]Here's the word from the powers that be on the 'line':

http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/082806aaa.html[/quote]

So they dont even have to be present at the Albany game?  Even though that would take little effort for them to check, and would help attendance of another sport...

Great year to be a senior.  You dont have to have stepped foot in Lynah the last 3 years but now could have priority over harder-working underclassmen.

[Free11Skier]

Wow, they even refer to it as a lottery.  I was expecting atheltics to try to call it something else.

[redhair34]

[quote Ben Rocky 04]Here's the word from the powers that be on the 'line':

http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/082806aaa.html[/quote]

To make matters even worse, season tickets are now $100 more expensive for undergrads--sweet::rolleyes:: .

[Jacob '06]

Doesn't this actually put you at a disadvantage if you are one of the first people? If they go from the number they draw back in numbers, you are much less likely to get tickets if you are towards the beginning of numbers

[French Rage]

[quote redhair34][quote Ben Rocky 04]Here's the word from the powers that be on the 'line':

http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/082806aaa.html[/quote]

To make matters even worse, season tickets are now $100 more expensive for undergrads--sweet::rolleyes:: .[/quote]

And you can only pay via your bursar account.

[DL]

I'd always thought having the Sun post surprise notices about ticket sales was way more interesting.  
It would be even better to scatter ticket sales on an unpatterned daily basis, forcing buyers to go to all kinds of obscure parts of the campus to snag one or two of maybe a couple dozen priority numbers.  An Amazing Race system would be far too much work, but would sure be a lot more fun.  
Or maybe I just like scavenger hunts.

[cth95]

That could be pretty interesting.  If they wanted to, atheletics could force students to learn about the Cornell campus and history by sending them to relevant places.  There are probably too many people to pull that off, though.

Other than bragging to people that Cornell hockey is so popular you have to wait in line to get a ticket, the specific rules of the line don't mean much to me now, since I am an alumnus. I do wonder though, what's the point of staying in line overnight if you already have your number and know you are getting a ticket?  Is the extra effort of one night really that big of a deal if it only holds your ticket and doesn't help you earn it by seeing if you can endure more than the next hopeful fan?

[French Rage]

[quote cth95]
Other than bragging to people that Cornell hockey is so popular you have to wait in line to get a ticket, the specific rules of the line don't mean much to me now, since I am an alumnus. I do wonder though, what's the point of staying in line overnight if you already have your number and know you are getting a ticket?  Is the extra effort of one night really that big of a deal if it only holds your ticket and doesn't help you earn it by seeing if you can endure more than the next hopeful fan?[/quote]

Nah, it's so athletics can sell those stupid t-shirts.

[octopusguy]

that's not necessarily true.  if the line they pick is way at the end, i'm sure they will just wrap around back to the first numbers.

[Cactus12]

Yeah... statistically speaking it's equal chance no matter what line number you hold (assuming they wrap around and actually pick at random)

[Jacob '06]

[quote Cactus12]Yeah... statistically speaking it's equal chance no matter what line number you hold (assuming they wrap around and actually pick at random)[/quote]

Yeah, I realized this later on. My first reaction was thinking if they didn't wrap around, but that wouldn't make sense.

[French Rage]

[quote Jacob '06][quote Cactus12]Yeah... statistically speaking it's equal chance no matter what line number you hold (assuming they wrap around and actually pick at random)[/quote]

Yeah, I realized this later on. My first reaction was thinking if they didn't wrap around, but that wouldn't make sense.[/quote]

Which makes it almost a given they wont wrap around.

[Trotsky]

[quote cth95]I do wonder though, what's the point of staying in line overnight if you already have your number and know you are getting a ticket?  Is the extra effort of one night really that big of a deal if it only holds your ticket and doesn't help you earn it by seeing if you can endure more than the next hopeful fan?[/quote]
As a veteran of three weekend-long lines, before the university pussied out: yes, it does.  There is a dramatic difference between a crowd of people who were obsessive enough to blow a whole weekend (including ditching Friday classes) on waiting in the mud, and one which had tix distributed via mail or the luck of the draw.  There are of course great fans and poseurs in all crowds, and various dumbass groups manage to strong-arm their way into whatever system you can come up with.  But there is a significant difference in the relative percentage of each who get into Lynah under different systems.

If you want a better crowd, make it harder.

[cth95]

[Q]If you want a better crowd, make it harder.    -----Trotzky[/Q]


I agree with you that a line will weed people out who don't care as much.  I meant that the current scenario is very different than the one you described.  

Spending one night in line just to reserve a ticket you already have doesn't take nearly as much effort nor does it have the reward of being able to vie for a spot close enough to the front to make the cut.  If one can freely choose how early they commit to the line, then there is a direct relation between their effort and the chance of getting a ticket, whereas the current system rewards anyone lucky enough to win a lottery number who is willing to stay over one night.  I imagine that includes almost everyone.  Only the real die hards (like the people on this forum :-) ) would camp out for three days straight to get one of the first spots in the line and assure themselves a ticket.

[Winnabago]

[q]They may also choose seats in Section F which is a general admission section.[/q]

Did anyone catch that? What does GA in ONE section accomplish?