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nfitz said:
Bizarre. Lightening was well clear by 4:45 pm. And heading north east.

Is everyone with any competence at city on vacation this month?

And does lightening there make it to the ground? All hits the CN Tower in my experience watching.

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I know certain personnel at the fan fest were told to shelter between 330-345 and just after 4pm operations shut down and evacuated Fan Fest. I looked at the lightning map around 3:45 and there were huge clusters just west of Humber Bay. I believe the threshold is lightning within 10km, and the event command centre would have rolling weather forecasts from a meteorologist through the day, far more detailed and accurate than what the public accesses.

From an operations standpoint it would be both challenging and very risky to have thousands of attendees egress to a muster point that's safe, wait it out, and then all re-enter. Everyone would have to go back through security, and on top of that, there is no re-entry to the Fan Fest, so they probably don't have the capability to check tickets again and let people re-enter.
 
I’m surprised by the massive turnout for a weekday Mexico vs. South Africa game at the FIFA Fan Fest.

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PL1 said:
I suspect the crazy WC ticket prices coupled with fuel price surcharges have not helped. FIFA is a greedy organization
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It's not just FIFA

My cousins in Hungary love racing but refuse to go to the Hungarian Grand Prix because of the cost.

For that particular event, F1 jacks up the prices knowing that it's a premiere sporting event.

Lowering prices would diminish the provenance of it and put it into a lower tier of events.

Nobody goes to a top tier global event and expects to pay minimal dollars for tickets. It's the World Cup not OFSAA.
 
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Richard White said:
It's not just FIFA

My cousins in Hungary love racing but refuse to go to the Hungarian Grand Prix because of the cost.

For that particular event, F1 jacks up the prices knowing that it's a premiere sporting event.

Lowering prices would diminish the provenance of it and put it into a lower tier of events.

Nobody goes to a top tier global event and expects to pay minimal dollars for tickets. It's the World Cup not OFSAA.
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I get that, but they've overpriced the events. There should be zero empty seats.

F1 is another org that is chasing the $$$
 
PL1 said:
I get that, but they've overpriced the events. There should be zero empty seats.

F1 is another org that is chasing the $$$
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I don't think there will be any empty seats. As of last night, only 60 seats remained for today's Canada game. Wouldn't be surprised if its sold out now.
 
Tuscani01 said:
I don't think there will be any empty seats. As of last night, only 60 seats remained for today's Canada game. Wouldn't be surprised if its sold out now.
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I mean at a tournament level. The South Korea – Czechia match had lots of empty seats. Sure, that might have been an uninteresting matchup for locals, but at the right price bums will fill seats. It is the men's World Cup after all. Empty seats look bad and are very noticeable on TV
 
Tuscani01 said:
I don't think there will be any empty seats. As of last night, only 60 seats remained for today's Canada game. Wouldn't be surprised if its sold out now.
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Just checked now and there are zero tickets from Ticketmaster on sale that aren't resale and one that's resale. Plenty of people elsewhere are trying to sell the ones they bought, but that's normal with a resale market. I tried to check on the FIFA marketplace site but got a 25 min timer to let me in... I don't care that much to find out!
 
Wasn't the province supposed to crack down on resale prices higher than face value? Or was that all show and no enforcement as is usual...
 
Richard White said:
It's not just FIFA

Nobody goes to a top tier global event and expects to pay minimal dollars for tickets. It's the World Cup not OFSAA.
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Shameful, delusional bootlicking.

Football/soccer has always been the world’s most accessible and affordable sport. Your anecdote about F1 – one of, if not the most expensive sport – serves zero purpose here.

Every previous World Cup has had far more affordable tickets than this year, as it should with limited expense to operate relative to cheap ticket revenues, broadcasting, sponsors. The World Cup was never a prestigious, exclusive event. So why pretend like it is then accept and support this greed and exploit?
 
Earlier this month CBC put out this article:

It included this graph showing the increase of tickets for this year's World Cup. FIFA absolutely saw the high tolerance for excessive ticket prices in North America and took advantage
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As well as this chart showing ticket prices relative to income of the locale
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As a brighter highlight, Mexico's opening ceremony yesterday was just excellent. Latin America really brings incredible vibes. FIFA's ultra controlling over broadcast rights, natch, so they only have it on their website and not YouTube but it's free to watch. Musical performances begin at 3m 50s. The costumes, music, production are really impressive. Hopefully Canada's opening ceremony can get close.

 
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