Just read the email this morning:

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"Basketball Ticketing Changes Announced ----------------------------------------- You asked for it - You got it. Based on student feedback last spring and this fall, the SG Athletics Commission worked with the Athletics department to develop the following changes to the Basketball ticketing process: 1. Loyalty Points determine your ability to get a ticket and your seat location. No more random lottery. The best seats go to the most loyal & senior fans - you are in control. 2. Lower level and side-court seating will go first - no more gaps in the student section. 3. Group seating will be determined by group leader loyalty points. In order to prevent "piggy-backing" from lower point members, we polled students if they would like to see a smaller group size. An October survey indicated students prefer a 10-person cap. Group leaders - you will be able to check who is in your group on Gopack.com. 4. Loyalty points are like football: you gain by attending games. Each game provides an opportunity to add one loyalty point, and there are a total of 10 more games before our first ACC game. Freshmen start with 2 points, Soph. -3, Jr. - 4, Sr.- 5, Grad. - 5. "

Maybe this will fix the problem of one whole section in lower level being empty like last year, among other problems.

11/11/2008 10:02:20 AM

Unless people realize that they can sign up for all the early games and walk out after five minutes just so they get tickets to UNC/Duke games. Otherwise, I am happy with this development.

11/11/2008 10:06:58 AM

^that is happening unfortunately

and there's really nothing to be done about it either

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 10:28 AM. Reason : ]

11/11/2008 10:11:18 AM

considering the time and effort it takes, I hope there aren't that many people who do it.

I'm just glad because I only missed 2 games by my own choice last year, but I still couldn't get tickets for a couple ACC games. This finally gives people who enjoy going to all the games a chance to enjoy all the ACC ones too.

11/11/2008 10:30:38 AM

Since there are only 10 people per group, and i'm the group leader, will I be able to kick "piggy backers" out to let others in?

11/11/2008 11:08:24 AM

holy shit! what an obvious fucking solution to a simple problem. It's too bad I had to put up with the random lottery bullshit while I was in school.

11/11/2008 11:18:43 AM

^^ good call

You should send an email and ask how to report a piggybacker to your group.

11/11/2008 11:26:32 AM

^^What an obvious solution that just about everyone said was a good idea the previous few years while nothing happened.

11/11/2008 12:06:47 PM

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"Unless people realize that they can sign up for all the early games and walk out after five minutes just so they get tickets to UNC/Duke games. Otherwise, I am happy with this development."

This might happen at the Reynolds game, I don't see too many people parking/walking to RBC just to do this. And even if this does catch on at least it will still weed out the people who come january decide, "hey, I don't care about basketball but I'll go watch UNC play"

11/12/2008 7:55:52 AM

^ exactly. It would be a waste of time, energy, and gas to do all of that. If someone was willing to do all of that, they are probably already big bball fans and would stay for the whole game anyways.

11/14/2008 4:19:22 PM

anybody have any luck getting a high point ticket? i never got an email saying whether or not I got one.

then again, the link is still up to get a wake forest ticket for yesterday. my guess is someone screwed up ticketing yet again.

11/16/2008 5:39:27 PM

yeah, i think something is fucked

11/16/2008 5:44:32 PM

yeah i signed up on friday for 1 + guest for high point and they're in the claim period and it says "unavailable"

11/16/2008 6:37:33 PM

thank god, I was going to be hugely pissed off if I couldn't get a ticket. I mean, it's high point. I don't think demand is that high.

11/16/2008 7:31:33 PM

demand not high? what are you talking about? we are undefeated!

11/16/2008 8:34:22 PM

Haha okay wow just went on there and reserved one easy as pie.

[Edited on November 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM. Reason : WTF system?]

11/24/2008 2:31:17 PM

okay so I graduated last week and can't login to the ticket website anymore

I claimed a ticket for the Marquette game but never printed it out

could I still get my ticket if I show up at the ticket office before the game? do you think my ticket would still be in the system?

12/20/2008 2:14:08 PM

Thanks for bumping this, never realized they switched everything. Guess I'll be going to more bball games so I can go to UNC for the third year in a row now

12/20/2008 2:41:21 PM

^yeah, my friends that haven't been going to ANY ball games are gonna be pissed when i tell them that im not taking them in my group for UNC tickets. But fuck them, not my fault they only go to two games every year. Im not getting fucked out of UNC tickets b/c of them

12/20/2008 3:13:53 PM

^ i like your style.

12/20/2008 3:30:12 PM

^well, i dig your style too man

12/20/2008 3:32:13 PM

well, new system doesnt work quite so well.

i'm a grad student, have been to every basketball game, and didn't get a ticket for the unc game. wtf?

1/25/2009 3:51:38 PM

Did you go to the camp-out?

1/25/2009 3:56:24 PM

nope, but if loyalty points do indeed play into lottery, i still should have been top of the list.

1/25/2009 5:01:14 PM

yeah well, my group was #1 at the campout, so i wouldn't know anything about that.

1/25/2009 5:03:40 PM

should've camped out then.

1/25/2009 5:09:39 PM

^^Is there a list? And did you have a guy named Trent in your group?

1/25/2009 5:17:27 PM

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"i'm a grad student, have been to every basketball game, and didn't get a ticket for the unc game. wtf?"

I'm a senior and been to every game and I didn't get one either.

I'm sorry but I am not camping out the coldest night of the year to watch us lose by 30.

1/25/2009 5:17:55 PM

^that was my call. they offered to give me a ticket if i volunteered for 3 hours. of course, they wouldn't return my emails or phone call after that though...

1/25/2009 5:28:33 PM

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"Is there a list? And did you have a guy named Trent in your group?"

yes and yes.

1/25/2009 5:30:50 PM

I went to the FSU game 2 weeks ago.........and lost a point for it! Then, my MIA ticket was located in the upper deck.



Bunch of shit.

1/25/2009 8:26:18 PM

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"I'm sorry but I am not camping out the coldest night of the year to watch us lose by 30."

than u are not a true fan rabel rabel rabel.


Nahh honestly i feel like the camp out got "sold out". The reason for camping out was b.c back in the day students ahd to be at the stadium at 7am to get tickets for game. People would get there earlier and earlier in order to be guarnateed the best seats to the point at which they were showing up the night before. After some shit went down a couple of years the university got involved and started creating rules with other regulation. Camping out should be spontaneous not some "system" for getting tickets with rules and restrictions. With the new online system "camping out" is essentially obsolete. What makes it worse is for UNC the game is just any other game with the tarheels looking down on us and consider their true rivals DUKE. We thus hype up and make a big deal to get UNC tickets and their fans don't nearly consider it a big deal.

[Edited on January 25, 2009 at 8:46 PM. Reason : L]

[Edited on January 25, 2009 at 8:47 PM. Reason : L]

1/25/2009 8:45:54 PM

sweet jesus, that is profound.

truly profound.

1/25/2009 8:55:21 PM

got jewed, no unc tickets in the first lottery

1/25/2009 10:13:15 PM

forgive me, oh great ticketing system! i got a ticket today!

i still ended up with row 5, behind the basket.

1/26/2009 2:59:22 PM

i take back my earlier statement. i got somewhat jewed. third level

1/26/2009 7:47:01 PM

a friend of mine still hasnt gotten her unc ticket from campout

1/26/2009 11:38:53 PM

^ was she low on the priority list?

1/27/2009 3:05:05 PM

Umm, I think somebody broke the new system. I went from having sideline seats every game to 12 rows behind the basket for North Carolina Central?!? Did I just have some bad luck on the randomization or did other people get screwed too?

1/28/2009 9:47:27 AM

WTF I've been to every game and got one for UNC through lottery and now my ticket for NCCU is in 127? I usually get 103 or 104. I have the max amount of points you can get unless they give extra for campout, but I thought that was for UNC only.



[Edited on January 28, 2009 at 9:49 AM. Reason : ^Yeah WTF I have the MAX point. Senior + Every game]

1/28/2009 9:48:15 AM

i'm still in 104 for nccu. what'd you guys do??

1/28/2009 9:50:15 AM

same thing happened to me.. ain't that some shit?

1/28/2009 10:09:47 AM

I'm still in 104

1/28/2009 10:52:26 AM

Campout didn't give you guys more points did it? Because I didn't camp out

1/28/2009 11:32:07 AM

nah, I don't think so. I camped out and don't have any additional points for it.

1/28/2009 11:54:43 AM

Ok first I have been to every game I had 20 points, MAX possible, and for NC Central I got stuck in 127 behind the goal. Now I have been penalized for NC Central. WTF?

2/5/2009 12:17:05 AM

^The scanners they use to check tickets when you go in don't always work, you can email to get that point added back. This happened to me earlier in the year, now I make sure the little scanner says go before I walk in.

2/5/2009 7:39:32 AM