the top level looks even less full than the trials most days
the top level looks even less full than the trials most days
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Shut up dude. Your take about this meet is to trash it?
COVID outbreaks might have something to do with it.
$65 a ticket for a niche sport in a small/mid sized, somewhat difficult to reach Oregon town with a modest local economy.
You aren't filling the stadium for this event, possibly not even if you let people in for free.
But yes, maybe the prices are too high for an event like this.
More like medical segregation leads to boycotts. It’s outdoors, stop the insanity. You have separate vaxxed and unvaxxed sections? Don’t be surprised if people, vaxxed included, stop showing up.
Why are people expecting full stadiums when the athletes are literally robots, no personality whatsoever and the event organisers do absolute nothing to promote or build up rivalries?
I was going to go but balked at $400 for a rental car.
I went to a lot of track meets at Hayward when I lived in Eugene. Pre Classic never sold out even before they added capacity to the stadium. And normally it's held while school is in session.
This stadium was always a vanity project, and this was always how it was going to end up.
I live about 30 minutes from Hayward and have gone previous years. I looked into it but didn't go because I thought it was too expensive and the schedule was terrible.
When I was looking at tickets they still had the women's 800 scheduled for friday night. Having the main races I wanted to see spread over 2 days really killed it for me.
You either have people that say it’s too expensive. Or people that are fine with spending money and realize there’s no nice accommodations. Not a good combo.
location is tough. I think if I lived within a few hours, I'd be there for sure. But as Jones said, the car rental prices are ludicrous right now. It just a god awful expensive trip, off the beaten path.
it is a shame the locals aren't more into it.
i guess portland is not really a track city?
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Because most people don’t care about track. Even Olympic viewership was down . Let alone going to a meet
I drove down from Portland, had a front row home stretch seat and was a few feet away from the world’s best athletes. Don’t really know why more people didn’t take advantage of the meet. The Hayward crowd are hard core track and field fans and of different political stripes. No politics there, just athletics. I am not sure what the seating capacity is for the new Hayward Field as compared to the former, but maybe it’s a little optimistic that people are going to sit in the upper deck for a track meet. I had a great time and high-fived a number of the world’s best. Probably cheaper than another reunion tour of the Eagles.
There is something up with their ticketing site. It showed less than a 1000 tickets available yesterday.
At the Trials it showed very few tickets left.
Breakfast In Bed wrote:
$65 a ticket for a niche sport in a small/mid sized, somewhat difficult to reach Oregon town with a modest local economy.
You aren't filling the stadium for this event, possibly not even if you let people in for free.
But yes, maybe the prices are too high for an event like this.
You'd get more bang for the buck if you got a steelhead tag with your $65 and drifted the Rogue River. Or rented a couple rafts and blasted your friends with water cannons.
Paid attendance never matches the actual
attendance at Pre. Basically you've got a budding Bernie Madoff is massaging the books.
Attendance had gotten so bad that one year Nike shipped twenty busloads of attendees from Beaverton to fill the seats.
The transparent roof is shaped like a giant magnifying glass. We all know what happens to ants when you focus the Suns rays on them with a magnifying glass?
Last of all, and most important, is that the citizens of Oregon and Eugene are outdoors in the Summer. They go camping and fishing. They hike in the mountains or relax at the coast. They do everything but attend a track meet. The biggest event in the Summer is the Oregon Country Fair.
The only people left in Eugene in the Summer are the hippies, transients and crackheads.
Whatever.
I sat under the transparent roof. There was no magnifying glass effect. It was very comfortable.
There WERE a lot of seats empty. There is a mask mandate in place on the entire west coast at delta is surging, and it's a lot bigger stadium than in the past. There is not a bad seat in the house. The only negative was they had trouble with the results a bit. It was a great meet!
Take your negativity elsewhere.
athletics is not popular enough to build such an expensive stadium. Perhaps a football stadium should have been built
What was negative about Makmos comment? It’s certainly accurate at least.