Mihairokov
Senior Member
The law explicitly doesn't apply to World Cup, IIRC.
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urbanclient
Senior Member
I believe it does, it also created a black market.
christiesplits
Senior Member
There don’t seem to be many reports of transit issues on social media getting to the stadium today. The staggered arrivals for the supporters’ groups, along with the reminders to show up early, appear to have kept congestion down.
ImmenselyMental
Senior Member
Attendance number just out for Canada's opening match against Bosnia today: 43,002.
Northern Light
Superstar
Game result 1-1 tie
1 point each for Bosnia and Canada.
1 point each for Bosnia and Canada.
PL1
Senior Member
I looked at tickets at around 10:30 this morning. $2k for a pair was too steep for me. It was a beautiful day for the match, and while I think Canada should have won, only goals in the back of the net count.
urbanclient
Senior Member
txlseries4
Active Member
Heard word so many were exiting and congesting transit that the Fan Festival opened up more free general admission tickets on Ticketmaster for people to re-enter or go from the stadium to hang out at the fan festival to mitigate it. Must have been half the crowd who came for the Canada game left afterwards.
It was still lively with maybe a few thousand a couple hours after the game ended at the fan festival with a steady tickle of people heading there for tonight's game. Lots of people showed up today right before the match with and without tickets. I don't know what goes through someone's mind to show up that close to game time. I think at its longest the line to get in stretched about 500m from the entrance on the west end of Fort York Blvd to Bathurst but it was moving fast and the only people I heard complain were those getting there near half time and having to join the line.
Because the fan festival tickets were made free plenty of people no-show and many leave after key games so as large crowds exit after games I expect they'll open up free general admission on ticketmaster. Worth checking the site every now and then. I'm assuming for many of the fan festival days it won't be nearly as busy as today was so they may monitor attendance and open it up earlier.
christiesplits
Senior Member
SubHuman
Senior Member
There's been a noticeable amount of empty seats, including Toronto yesterday, for games they claim to be sold out or close to it.
I suppose one possibility is that they "sold" tickets to corporate sponsors they required to buy tickets to all matches. But the corporate sponsor types may only be interested in going to the final and some other high profile matches, and don't necessarily care about showing up for all the others.
The NFL Super Bowl has been almost entirely a corporate event in recent decades. But that's easier to do with the one big annual event, and might not work as well for a World Cup tournament of 104 matches spread out around the North American continent and over more than a month.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/empty-seats-canada-opening-world-193948767.html
World Cup Ticket Price Controversy Continues, Canada’s Debut Sees Empty Seats
Empty seats at stadiums due to exorbitant ticket prices will continue to be a main topic of discussion at the World Cup.
www.si.com
Edit: I guess FIFA doesn't care if the empty seats look bad, as long as they've already got their money for them.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7354239/2026/06/12/empty-seats-world-cup-stadiums/
https://archive.is/Wfjka
I got to the FanFest at 2:25pm, 35 minutes before the Canada game started, and still missed seeing the first five minutes of the match on the screens. More annoying was trying to leave after it ended. Apparently even two thirds filled Bathurst TTC streetcars were instructed to not stop to let anyone on or off once they left the stadium.
I won't be going there again, and instead going to the UofT where you can bring your own lawn chair, or Mississauga Celebration Square.
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txlseries4
Active Member
I don't envy operations having to make these decisions and manage the optics of it all. Be told to make the tickets free, know people will no-show more than if they tickets were the original $10, but not be able to easily provide walk-up admission because ticket holders are guaranteed entry and you have a capacity limit. Also messy that the fan fest shows multiple games in a day at this stage but timed-entry tickets would be a nightmare to facilitate.
gabe
Senior Member
Uhh I saw that same piece, from 3 weeks ago. You yourself also said the hotels aren't even 50% sold right now.
"City's hotels tracking to see occupancy rate around 80% in June, July" as of mid-May is not conflicting with occupancy rate being only ~50% come June. That CBC article citing "tourism groups" staying "hopeful" is just that, hope. They hoped <50% occupancy would surge by mid June.
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Vancouver, Toronto hotels less than half full ahead of World Cup matches
With days to go before the FIFA men’s World Cup matches kick off in Canada, new data is raising questions over whether expectations for accommodation demand in host cities were overblown.www.ctvnews.ca
Hotel bookings during World Cup down from last year, but B.C. minister sees positives
VICTORIA — British Columbia's jobs minister isn't disputing hotel data that suggests Vancouver hotel vacancies on World Cup game days are down sharply compared to the same dates last year. But Ravi Kahlon took a positive view of analytics provided by U...www.ckom.com
Doesn't surprise me one bit. The people i know traveling to the world cup in Toronto are staying at hotels in Mississauga and Hamilton. Because the downtown Toronto hotel prices were insane. Few months back just about every hotel was $900 to well over $2000 a night! They can urber it or even rent a car to a GO station parking lot and still save tons of money.
If Toronto hotels raised their prices a little more than last year. Every single hotel in the city would have be booked full. But they got cocky and greedy and now have empty rooms during the cup, looks good on them.
Obsidian
Active Member
if they are half full at $900 a night the hotels are way ahead, that's probably 3x revenue from last year
Johnny Au
Superstar
At least Canada is in excellent shape given the standings (all teams in Group B have one point; Switzerland and Qatar had a 1-1 draw in their match).
All Canada has to do is to win as many matches as they can. Qatar however is no pushover; they managed to draw the Group B favourites Switzerland!
All Canada has to do is to win as many matches as they can. Qatar however is no pushover; they managed to draw the Group B favourites Switzerland!
Mihairokov
Senior Member
It operates the same as every other franchise sports league in NA - the tickets are accounted for and attached to someone and they are counted as sold/distributed regardless of whether or not they entered the building for the event.