Pre Classic will be a flop again - Lots of Hotel Cancellations

Eugenics wrote:

Can't forget what has become of the city itself. People living in tents at all open greenspace in drug induced zombie haze. Restaurants that can't handle the traffic. Used to be magical, now like a post apocalyptic movie.

Please fact check wrote:

Floppy McFlopface wrote:

You can tell how attendance will be by the hotel cancellations and the plummeting ticket prices. Many of those that reserved hotel rooms are now cancelling them as the free cancelation window closes, so there are now a bunch of available rooms where just a week ago, there were very few. Also tickets are $15 for the same seats that people paid $50-$100 for in March.

Pretty sad.

Just checked because I’m going and I’d love to stay closer. Still no available rooms in Eugene or Springfield. “Many” cancelled rooms? Doesn’t look like it. Ticket price point is valid but let’s not exaggerate.

Please fact check wrote:

Floppy McFlopface wrote:

You can tell how attendance will be by the hotel cancellations and the plummeting ticket prices. Many of those that reserved hotel rooms are now cancelling them as the free cancelation window closes, so there are now a bunch of available rooms where just a week ago, there were very few. Also tickets are $15 for the same seats that people paid $50-$100 for in March.

Pretty sad.

Just checked because I’m going and I’d love to stay closer. Still no available rooms in Eugene or Springfield. “Many” cancelled rooms? Doesn’t look like it. Ticket price point is valid but let’s not exaggerate.

duck sauce wrote:

Eugenics wrote:

Can't forget what has become of the city itself. People living in tents at all open greenspace in drug induced zombie haze. Restaurants that can't handle the traffic. Used to be magical, now like a post apocalyptic movie.

the problem is that it's too expensive to go. cheaper to spend a week in budapest than a weekend in eugene

g7ofof9 wrote:

Which city wants to host? We can't even fill NY and LA grand prix.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

g7ofof9 wrote:

Which city wants to host? We can't even fill NY and LA grand prix.

NY meet was sold out but I don’t know if it would be were there bleachers on the other side of the track. But it’s on Randall’s Island which isn’t exactly the same as these European cities with the stadiums in the city. If you had an outdoor stadium actually in NYC hosting a DL meet I’m confident it would sell twice as many tickets as Millrose at least.

I just can't afford the tickets wrote:

Letsrunners: "The US Open pays the winner $3m! Why can't elite runners get paid well?"

Tennis fan: *pays $13K for a seat at the US Open final and flies in from LA for the match. Has a Rolex and a Mercedes because Roger Federer made them look like a neat things to have.*

Track fan: *won't pay $15 for a ticket and drive an hour to watch his sport. Mumbles complaints about price gouging and being eaten alive by inflation the one time per year that he drops $120 on new running gear.*

Letsrunners: "I just don't get it. The pay disparity between sports just doesn't make any sense!"

I just can't afford the tickets wrote:

Letsrunners: "The US Open pays the winner $3m! Why can't elite runners get paid well?"

Tennis fan: *pays $13K for a seat at the US Open final and flies in from LA for the match. Has a Rolex and a Mercedes because Roger Federer made them look like a neat things to have.*

Track fan: *won't pay $15 for a ticket and drive an hour to watch his sport. Mumbles complaints about price gouging and being eaten alive by inflation the one time per year that he drops $120 on new running gear.*

Letsrunners: "I just don't get it. The pay disparity between sports just doesn't make any sense!"

Kenny59 wrote:

Did they leave the light on ?

Please fact check wrote:

Floppy McFlopface wrote:

You can tell how attendance will be by the hotel cancellations and the plummeting ticket prices. Many of those that reserved hotel rooms are now cancelling them as the free cancelation window closes, so there are now a bunch of available rooms where just a week ago, there were very few. Also tickets are $15 for the same seats that people paid $50-$100 for in March.

Pretty sad.

Just checked because I’m going and I’d love to stay closer. Still no available rooms in Eugene or Springfield. “Many” cancelled rooms? Doesn’t look like it. Ticket price point is valid but let’s not exaggerate.

Schedule genius wrote:

Please fact check wrote:

Just checked because I’m going and I’d love to stay closer. Still no available rooms in Eugene or Springfield. “Many” cancelled rooms? Doesn’t look like it. Ticket price point is valid but let’s not exaggerate.

Duck home football game the same weekend as well.

No thanks wrote:

I consider myself to be an ardent fan of the sport and the only way that I am going to even remotely interested in Wiley is if she totally dissociates from Huntington and the Johnsons. Until then, I couldn't care less about her or what she does.