I hate the rush system too. But I didn’t get a ticket this year. So I’m biased.
Did you try to buy one solo or were you coordinated with any groups?
You played the game by the rules, I wouldn’t feel any guilt. You purchased tickets on behalf of people thus the need not to transfer.
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Solo. I’ve never needed groups before. Honestly I feel like group buys by single tournament goers like myself are locking out the actual families that the 5 ticket limit is meant for. I guess lesson learned.
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While that’s probably true, how many five-person families are all trying to compete in Pinburgh? I know of plenty of two-person groups, maybe some three-person groups. You can make the case that those traveling exceptional distances (like our Swedish friends) are basically a family group at that point. I’m wondering specifically about linked units here, not just a random group of five friends.
The problem as I see it is that these groups aren’t trying to get one block of tickets. It’s usually (number of people in pool)^2. So in an extreme case, if five people all try to reserve five tickets and all are successful at carting them, then that’s 20 tickets unavailable to everyone else until they expire. That’s exacerbating the rush.
If such stats exist, I would be very interested in knowing how many tickets expired at 12:15pm and were released. I’m going to wager it’s not a small percentage.
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I thought they fixed the cart hang ups last year?
So when tickets are out you’re automatically on the waitlist. When tickets come back up they are issued to the waitlist in order.
I thought people were coming off the waitlist day 1 because of this.
I was also under the impression that expired tickets would not be released back into the pool at all this year. They would all go to the waitlist.
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Expired tickets were almost definitely re-released into the pool this year. I know at least one person that was able to snag a ticket at 12:15 this year (which I think has to be due to tickets in carts timing out and dumping back into the pool?)
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I saw tickets at 12:15 and 12:20 … the dropdown was gone and I was refreshing every second from noon to 12:15. the dropdown appeared, by the time I clicked ‘1’ and scrolled to the button to buy, they were gone. That process happened several times to me.
Yeah i know it happened, I just thought it wasn’t supposed to happen anymore starting last year. I don’t think I heard any reports of it happening last year.
Not what was done. No waitlist action yet except for people that were supposed to get spots without having to play the lottery.
Last year several of us got on the waitlist within minutes of the sellout. One of our players then got his email within 48 hours and bought his ticket. I got my email and bought my ticket about 2 weeks later.
That was last year, this was this year. I don’t think there was ever any promise to do it that way this year (perhaps because of the practicalities of having the wait list not open until 1) and people definitely did get tickets as they expired from carts. I do prefer those tickets going right to the wait list as a fairer option, though, and hope that can be restored.
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i 100% picked up our five tickets during a wave of dropouts around 12:15.
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Well, the waitlist didn’t begin until 1pm this year, so expired carts at 12:15pm just released to the mob again.
After 1pm, what you say makes sense.
Has anyone else not been able to add their replayfx tickets to apple wallet?
I wasn’t smart enough to think to do that, but it’s broken for me too. When I click “Add to Apple Wallet”, it says “Safari cannot download this file”.
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Ditto. If it matters, I did not splurge the extra dollar for “ticket delivery to e-wallet” when buying the tickets. (As a matter of principle: ridiculous that ShowClix charges extra for that.)
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Player and Waitlist is up…
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Love the timestamps on the waitlist
RIP to anyone 12:59:59 and earlier
12 within the first second
183 in the first minute
414 total on that day
And up to 448 overall