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Originally Posted by jpachard
I just got back from Vancouver and the TV coverage there was awesome. No adverts etc.
Big downer was the games were very, very badly organized, specifically the ticketing component. We tried to get tickets to some events at the door only to be told they were "sold out". Went back to the bar to watch the "sold out" event only to see roughly 30% of the seats were vacant, WTF??!!! Plus the ticketing booths had no idea what they had for sale in respect to events and couldn't give us an honest answer if we could get tickets.
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I have heard about the ticket fiasco and spoke to a friend of mine about it last night who is peripherally involved in this. The big problem (as always) are corporate sponsors who have taken large blocs of tickets as an incentive for their sponsorship. I was told VISA is the biggest culprit. They were going to distribute these tickets as part of some incentive scheme to cardholders, but never got this off the ground, with the result that virtually all of the tickets allocated to VISA are going unused. There are similar issues with other corporate sponsors.
But I have also heard the organization and distribution of tickets generally is a disaster and there are no excuses for this.