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1/16/2021 6:41am
1/16/2021 6:41am
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1/17/2021 2:47pm
So I ordered my tickets for H1 the day they went on sale. I got some REALLY good seats and was stoked. About 4 days ago, I get an email from Ticketmaster saying that NRG was closing the section and level that I had chosen and automatically assigned me some new seats. They absolutely suck. They are in the very corner of what would be the end-zone during a football game, and very low, so you can't see the other parts of the track (as you could if you were up higher).
Has anyone else had something like this happen? I am wondering if there is any chance in hell of getting them to change our seats once I get to the stadium. I don't even know whom I would contact or where I would go, at the stadium, to ask for something like that.
I assume we are stuck with the craptastic seats, and I am still stoked at being at the opener, but I'm not going to be happy if the only section I can see is the small area right in front of us. Maybe I'm bitching and moaning for nothing, and they will turn out to be decent seats. Will shall see.
Has anyone else had something like this happen? I am wondering if there is any chance in hell of getting them to change our seats once I get to the stadium. I don't even know whom I would contact or where I would go, at the stadium, to ask for something like that.
I assume we are stuck with the craptastic seats, and I am still stoked at being at the opener, but I'm not going to be happy if the only section I can see is the small area right in front of us. Maybe I'm bitching and moaning for nothing, and they will turn out to be decent seats. Will shall see.
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Hammer 663s
Anyone going to any of these races expecting anything close to normal is crazy.
Expect constant changes. Guarantees and plans are etched in jello.
Just saying, caveat emptor
The Shop
If anyone wants to get SX fan attendance shut down again, your advice is perfect for them.
It isn’t just the reduced capacity. If you look at things in a set of 2 rows. Row A will have probably 4-6 seats open for seating on each end with the seats in the middle blocked off. Row B will have the ends blocked off for seating, with seats available only in the middle.
Leaving your purchased seats to try to sit in the blocked seats would mean that the venue wouldn’t be compliant on their “distancing” plans, even if they conformed to their overall attendance capacity reduction.
Willfully violating this for your own convenience is the sort of thing that could show health authorities that these events just can’t be held under the current rules and could fuck up being able to attend Supercross events for the rest of the season.
The best thing that the OP can do is to go to the ticket box window early and see if he can trade seats legitimately, not just violate the venue’s plan that is what allowed them to have fans attend in the first place.
The picture below shows the seating pattern. The solid blue circles seats are still available for purchase, the gray filled circles are already sold, and the open circles are closed off for distancing purposes.
Yes, during “normal times” you can get away with moving to empty seats just about anywhere if you can make it past the ticket screeners, which is what it sounds like 520 and lostboy are suggesting to do to those grey circle seats. That’s the shit that could end up getting live crowds at Supercross eliminated if it occurs early and often in the series.
Your mistake is confusing our past experiences at Supercross with the reality of the new protocols.
Hammer 663s
If it's one guy, no one will notice, but it starts with one and then everyone is shifting and moving and then it's all out of whack.
Then you're going to have some Karen who works for the city/county/fire/police/CDC/whatever lose their shit over the fucked up seating and lack of proper controls.
You don't have to like it, but you know he's right.
They won't stop racing, but they will stop spectators if it gets out of hand
Pit Row
If it means moving to seats that were used as distancing buffers and weren’t intended for seating, see Dave’s explanation above.
I bet H2 will have half the crowd that H1 had, and H1 looked sparse.
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