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7/25/18, 1:30 PM | #11 | ||
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7/25/18, 2:02 PM | #12 | ||
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I’ve just planned ahead and have had good luck sitting about where I wanted to. Sometimes I’ve had friends put my blanket down for me because I had to work. Other times I’ve done the same for others. You can have my seat this week. I’m not going to any Sprint Week races.....
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7/25/18, 2:07 PM |
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Just don't do that crap unless you are advertising LOUD on the website that some seats are reserved for the season, and the seats SCREAM don't sit in me. |
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7/25/18, 2:15 PM | #14 | ||
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7/25/18, 2:26 PM |
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Unless it has changed, Bloomington allows marking seats starting at 5PM the day before a race. The row above the bleachers, on the blacktop, is reserved and marked as such. They also have some reserved parking spots on the hill which are also marked as such.
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7/25/18, 2:29 PM | #16 | ||
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Seat saving is one thing, BUT, the guy who saves 10 seats and then sits Alone all night.
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7/25/18, 2:41 PM | #17 | ||
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I can understand the argument against saving seats. You can have the policy that nobody saves any seats until the gates open the day of the event. However, then you just have a row of blankets outside the ticket booth that stretches a hundred yards like on Saturday of Sprint Week last year at Kokomo. If a person can’t get there ahead of time to save a seat they certainly wouldn’t be able to save themselves a place in line either.
I think the best thing a track can do to combat the issue is do what Kokomo does for the Smackdown and say X amount of rows are reserved and then below those are GA. Fair to all involved I think. Haubstadt basically does the same.
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7/25/18, 3:11 PM |
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If it's an event where top 5 rows are reserved and that's it; then you know to sit in row 6 or lower or buy a reserved seat. But if 2 random seats top row are reserved, and random 4 seats on row 7, and here and there with no advertising or obvious marks. You are causing people trouble for no reason. Been there, big pet peeve. But it really comes down to track's communication and follow through of marking. (And most tracks I've been to suck on the follow through on the grandstands side. Even some really good tracks, still don't do what they say they are going to on the grandstands side. As long as they have your money, close enough) |
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7/25/18, 3:39 PM |
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I hate blankets laid in advance, unless they were my blankets back in the day at Flemington. I used to like them blankets. We had the same seats, first turn top row forever. I never gave it much thought, it was a advantage of living near the track.
We never sat down the entire night and we could climb down the back of the grandstands instead of working down thru the crowds. Nobody cared, today you'd be in trouble for using the "back" exit.
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7/25/18, 7:37 PM |
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Just # the seats and sell ticket# like any sporting event. buy tix in advance or general admission ,Maybe stay home and whine about it !!
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