Louae
05-23-2005, 10:47 AM
http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/ticket_purchase_plan_050520.html
Spurs Announce Ticket Purchase Plan
The San Antonio Spurs have announced that for the next on-sale of the 2005 NBA Playoffs, they will use the process established during the 2003 NBA Finals known as the Random Number Drawing (RND) system.
Tickets will NOT be sold at the SBC Center Box Office. Rather, fans will be able to purchase tickets at Ticketmaster Ticket Center locations including Foley’s through an RND system beginning at 12:00 p.m on May 20th.
Fans may also purchase tickets by telephone at (210) 225-TEAM and through the Internet at ticketmaster.com or spurs.com. There will be a maximum of four tickets per person, per game.
The Ticketmaster RND system works by distributing sequentially numbered tickets to all fans in line at each Ticketmaster outlet approximately one-half hour prior to designated sale time. Fans should plan to arrive no more than one hour prior to the sale time. No camping out is allowed.
Once each fan is given a numbered ticket, the starting number will be drawn randomly by a customer.
For example, if there are 100 people in line, and ticket number 38 is pulled from the pool of available tickets, the customer that is holding ticket number 38 becomes the first person in line to purchase tickets. The customer with ticket number 39 becomes the second person in line, and so on.
Customers holding ticket numbers one through 37 go to the back of the line sequentially and people who arrive after the RND has begun will take position in the “late line” behind those with numbered tickets. Having a numbered ticket does not guarantee tickets, just a place in line.
All ticket purchases will be limited to four (4) tickets per person, per game.
The Spurs are hopeful that by taking long lines away from one box office at the SBC Center and instead offering Ticketmaster Ticket Center locations around the area access to the same electronic pool of tickets, more Spurs fans will receive a chance to purchase ticket.
I only have one question. Was the RND system in place for the sale of the games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference Finals? Or was the sale of games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference Finals on sale over the internet ONLY? I distinctly remember that games 3 and 4 were on sale over the interent only on May 20, 2005.
But on this message, it sounds like the RND System was in place for those games. Is that true or is this just a typo?
Spurs Announce Ticket Purchase Plan
The San Antonio Spurs have announced that for the next on-sale of the 2005 NBA Playoffs, they will use the process established during the 2003 NBA Finals known as the Random Number Drawing (RND) system.
Tickets will NOT be sold at the SBC Center Box Office. Rather, fans will be able to purchase tickets at Ticketmaster Ticket Center locations including Foley’s through an RND system beginning at 12:00 p.m on May 20th.
Fans may also purchase tickets by telephone at (210) 225-TEAM and through the Internet at ticketmaster.com or spurs.com. There will be a maximum of four tickets per person, per game.
The Ticketmaster RND system works by distributing sequentially numbered tickets to all fans in line at each Ticketmaster outlet approximately one-half hour prior to designated sale time. Fans should plan to arrive no more than one hour prior to the sale time. No camping out is allowed.
Once each fan is given a numbered ticket, the starting number will be drawn randomly by a customer.
For example, if there are 100 people in line, and ticket number 38 is pulled from the pool of available tickets, the customer that is holding ticket number 38 becomes the first person in line to purchase tickets. The customer with ticket number 39 becomes the second person in line, and so on.
Customers holding ticket numbers one through 37 go to the back of the line sequentially and people who arrive after the RND has begun will take position in the “late line” behind those with numbered tickets. Having a numbered ticket does not guarantee tickets, just a place in line.
All ticket purchases will be limited to four (4) tickets per person, per game.
The Spurs are hopeful that by taking long lines away from one box office at the SBC Center and instead offering Ticketmaster Ticket Center locations around the area access to the same electronic pool of tickets, more Spurs fans will receive a chance to purchase ticket.
I only have one question. Was the RND system in place for the sale of the games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference Finals? Or was the sale of games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference Finals on sale over the internet ONLY? I distinctly remember that games 3 and 4 were on sale over the interent only on May 20, 2005.
But on this message, it sounds like the RND System was in place for those games. Is that true or is this just a typo?