On Saving Seats

[ThunderousPrime]

Originally Posted by Mr. Van

How about this:

Queue up to go into the venue in the order you arrive. It is absolutely unfair to have one team member line up early and then have a bus load of 70 students, parents and other supporters come up and assume they get to go to the front of the line. Line up to enter the venue in the order you arrive.

I was going to this but I was beaten to it.

In my opinion one of the most common acts of ungracious professionalism is when teams that are behind you in line run to get the the prime seats. This is wrong. What further irks me is when they send 3 or 4 people to save seats for their entire team. This is also wrong. If you want a certain section of seats convince your whole team to get up and get in line early so you can get them fairly like any other gracious professional would.

I would love to see a system implemented that involvles releasing groups of 50 or so people at at time to prevent the mad scramble for seats. The open the floodgates approach for opening venues doesn't work well.

Also another pet peeve of mine is when teams insist a certain section of seats is theirs because "we were here yesterday" or "we always have these seats". Again the only rule that should apply is who has their whole team assembled in the line in the morning the day of.