Quadruple history estimated count then and it's 6000 per 10 minutes. That still means roughly 100 minutes to get 60,000 fans thru the gaes
Jamie Pollard statement regarding ticket scanning process during home opener
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I thought the scanners worked on NFC and not Bluetooth. Which, may be an issue for some as NFC is not a feature on all phones. I guess I assumed that the cyclones or wallet apps would know this and default to a barcode instead, but maybe that’s not the case and this caused people problems?
Basic math...it will get a little better but not much until they increase the amount of scanners. Plus zero plan in place for gate workers to intervene when someone is having scanning problems to keep the line moving.
I would imagine most people have no idea their phone even has an NFC toggle. Anyone with Apple or Google Pay would but I would imagine most others don't.
Were there indeed only 25 scanners around the stadium? The North side seemed to have quite a few but I didn’t count them all
For those wondering why you would even move to the system we did, I assume that Ticketmaster offers reduced royalties for doing it.
My phone claims my NFC was turned on. Do not know for sure that it is working so I am going to try it out at a merchant this week.
Many of the entry level phones don’t even have the hardware. Motorola power phones didn’t last I ordered them for my kids.
I imagine next week, lots of people will leave to the stadium more than an hour prior to kickoff.
NFC and Bluetooth always on, on my phone, as well as GPS, Wifi, data and every other communication toggle.
Season tix downloaded to google wallet well before game, Wallet open and ready at gate.
Reader would not read any of my tix, I tried, the girl at the reader tried, her supervisor tried. After several minutes of trying and everyone behind me waiting, they finally just waved us around the turnstile.
Was the same for the groups ahead of me that I was able to see.
The reader was not reading the tix. And with everyone trying and trying, the backup just got worse and worse.
Season tix downloaded to google wallet well before game, Wallet open and ready at gate.
Reader would not read any of my tix, I tried, the girl at the reader tried, her supervisor tried. After several minutes of trying and everyone behind me waiting, they finally just waved us around the turnstile.
Was the same for the groups ahead of me that I was able to see.
The reader was not reading the tix. And with everyone trying and trying, the backup just got worse and worse.
No, some doofus came up with that. Look at the photo linked on the article. That is just the north and I can count 20 there. So they would have only had like one scanner at the other locations then.
Then realize that there were at least 60 scanners and that number gets smaller.
I’m told west side used hand held scanners. But I’m guessing only 5-10k use that entrance.
I just looked at the north that had at least 20, the south was similar and when I went past the east it was close to the same, but just figured 10 for each side to be safe. The west side always has the least amount of people.
We had 7 people and it took at least 45 seconds per person. All tickets were approved just really slow.
My biggest complaint wasn’t even the ticket issue, it was the fact they stopped selling beer at the side concessions in the SEZ. That was my one hack. The beer line was almost as slow as the entrance.
LOL...but I didnt... I wish I would have just never went in and watched from the lot.but atleast you tailgated those extra 10 minutes… jerk!!!
My kids were done before we got in, I was done by the time we got in, my wife was done not much later. 45Mins in line in the mass of people, in that heat with no air and no shade was too much.
We brought our kids to the game for the first time... I dont think they ever want to go back. My son was in panic mode in the crowd, at the gate. Was so overheated.
Everyone was so overheated by the time we got in we didnt want to be there.
All but ruined the experience. The weather is no ones fault, but the lack of prep for all the problems and the weather was.
It sucked for me, but I will go back, my kids absolutely hated it, and dont want to go back, and that started because we stood outside for so long in the heat, in a mass of people, and they were miserable. Down at their level in the crowd, I am sure there was even less air.
