Total Seat Count as of Midnight 6-16-09

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Here are my numbers as of midnight tonight (6-16-09)...

Total seats remaining: 254 (-170 from midnight 6/13)

Total lower level seats remaining: 74 (-35 from midnight 6/13)

Total upper level seats remaining: 180 (-135 from midnight 6/13)

Sections sold out: 14 (+3 from midnight 6/13; not counting student sections)

Sections with the most seats remaining:

-235 (13 seats remaining)
-231 (12 seats remaining)
-234 (11 seats remaining)
-209 (10 seats remaining)
-101 (9 seats remaining)
-103 (9 seats remaining)
-219 (9 seats remaining)
-236 (9 seats remaining)

Premium Seating Still Available: 55 seats (-5 from 6/13)

$500 Seating: 22 seats (-3 from 6/13)
$250 Seating: 24 seats (-2 from 6/13)
$100 Seating: 9 seats (no change from 6/13)

Some statistical notes since Friday:

-Today's selectors were again primarily upper-deck selectors, with 135 of 170 seats being selected upstairs. This has a lot to do with the fact that there are no longer any consecutive seats available downstairs. However, there were more lower deck seats selected (35) since Friday than there had since last Tuesday.

-As you can see above, the premium seating has all but come to a halt. It's not a terrible surprise that the folks down the waiting list are not snatching these up, but it wouldn't have been a terrible surprise to me if they would have dropped substantially, either. I'm a little bit interested that these guys didn't go a little better clip than they did over the past day (just five seats, or 8% of the remaining inventory), and that the ones that did go were in the $500 and $250 sections, while not one $100 selection was made.

-There are now no longer any consecutive seats in the entire stadium. I did notice a few instances where there are seats in several consecutive rows, leading to the distinct possibility that people will get shifted around somewhat due to these.

-By my unofficial count, there were more than 50 single seats selected today, which is by far the highest day in that category. Tomorrow will be the real day to watch, as there will be nothing to select but single seats, and so that's really where we'll see how committed people are to getting in the building.

-The number of seats selected today has dropped pretty dramatically as the days have gone on. Here are the number of seats selected in the last few days:

-Wednesday: 504
-Thursday: 464
-Friday: 321
-Monday: 170

-The number of selections dropped pretty heavily again today, even more than my prediction last Friday of 225. Again, a good guess might be that people were scared off the list by having to select single seats with no guarantee of getting placed together.

-At 170 selections, only 53% of the selections were made on Monday as opposed to Friday's 321. That's a 16% drop from Thursday to Friday, and a 39% drop from Wednesday to Thursday. Considering we can assume the same amount of patrons allowed to select each day, that's a pretty drastic drop from one day to the next.

-Should that same drop occur again tomorrow, that would mean only 90 seats will be selected tomorrow. Again, we'll surmise, should that happen, that it will be due to the single-seat theory.

-The next update will occur around Midnight tomorrow night...
 

Great data...thanks again!

I wonder how many of the selections today were the ones that the U reserved off because they were obstructed view of the field.

We can't see these on the seat watcher.

You are right....we'll see how dedicated people are to getting into the stadium...even if they have to sit apart.

The front to back seats went quickly (same seat number,adjacent row).

Great to see....as even the Becky game and Iowa games will be sold out with primarily Gopher fans.

I wonder how many visiting tickets will get returned...I bet very few initially. Maybe Cal or Purdue or NW don't travel that well. We'll see who they offer those tickets to.

GM
 

I think some of the earliest non-donation seat selectors who have failed to pay are starting to see their seats go back up. Yesterday I witnessed a pair go to hold, then green/available and one cycle later it was gone. A couple of weeks ago I embarrassingly had trouble getting my CC to run at the ticket office, and they made it clear that they wouldn't yank my tickets until they worked with me a bit. But at some juncture they have to pull tickets and it makes sense that they would try to do it before the end of the selection process. Another GHer got lucky probably due to similar occurrence (which of course effected the final count of seats taken over the weekend).

The real question is where singles lie in the same row, or in a row with obstructed seats. In the upperdeck that is the four seats above the tunnels and the two at the base (or so I heard from a ticket office peon). I am not sure about the lower deck ones. The real question is how do they re-release these seats as they make pairs out of them, if they choose to go through that process? Call through the list? They could also offer them to adjacent ticket holders. I personally would not take much coxing to take a another seat. I had no need for multiple seats when I first bought in years ago coming out of the student section, but now the loved-ones and friends are sure piling the band wagon high! I didn't want to go to the back of the line though. I know that several of you have waited in the list to snag singles that were next to your groups, but who couldn't be convinced to take a spare seat, especially in the bleachers? The donation seats are likely going to be a bit more stuborn.
 

The numbers are getting low enough that even guys like me can count them now. The lower bowl is down to its last 65 seats... all singles, scattered about.
 

Yeah, and I was one of those guys that was hoping to snag a single seat that was sitting at end of my four tickets (section 133). It went right away yesterday as soon as the picking went to all-singles. My little plan is kaput. I have a family of 5 and my real mistake was not going to 5 tickets back in the Metrodome. My youngest kid is 5 (2 back then) and I figured it wouldn't make sense to drag her to all of those games. The problem is, a babysitter costs about the same or more than just buying that fifth ticket.
 


Any idea if the waitlist number people mentioned yesterday of 1301 was the 1301th ticket selected or actually #1301 on the list of people waiting to get tickets?
 

Any idea if the waitlist number people mentioned yesterday of 1301 was the 1301th ticket selected or actually #1301 on the list of people waiting to get tickets?

It's not the number of tickets - wait list people were assigned a number in advance.
 

In my attempt for that 5th seat, I am 1628 out of the total 1800 wait list.
 

Yeah, and I was one of those guys that was hoping to snag a single seat that was sitting at end of my four tickets (section 133). It went right away yesterday as soon as the picking went to all-singles. My little plan is kaput. I have a family of 5 and my real mistake was not going to 5 tickets back in the Metrodome. My youngest kid is 5 (2 back then) and I figured it wouldn't make sense to drag her to all of those games. The problem is, a babysitter costs about the same or more than just buying that fifth ticket.

Really? You were trying to add an extra single at the end of your group? This is the first I've heard of this.:rolleyes:
 







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