Meanwhile at SM City North EDSA, as the guards let the people in…MAD RUSH! PANDEMONIUM! PANIC BUYING of UAAP game 3 tickets!So how many did I get to buy? ZERO, despite arriving there early enough at around 9:45 am! Only eight tickets were sold to the first two people in line (maximum of 4 tickets per person). ONLY. EIGHT. TICKETS. Can you believe that?! What the phoooque!At about the same time (10:20/10:30 thereabouts) that we, the people in line, were told that the tickets were ALREADY sold out, I received a text from Atty. Carmela Nierva saying that tickets were also already sold out that early at the MOA Arena ticket center (and later on when I called her, she said that only five people were lucky to have purchased tickets). Then moments later I received a call from my college classmate Sky Cortez-Villaverde Cortez who told me that she, too, was in line at SM Marilao. I requested her to get tickets for me (if she could, no pressure). About two minutes later (or even less), she called again to say that there were no more tickets. Awww, I tried! But I will just watch on TV if no ticket comes my way. I don’t know if there was any positive development for the people who stayed in line at SM North when I left at around 10:40 (couldn't stay as I have dubbing or rapid mouth action in Makati at 1:00 pm). But good luck to them.Growling Tigers, I will pray for you.GO, USTE! GRRROOOOWWWLLLL!!!
Posted by Claude Despabiladeras on Sunday, November 29, 2015
The limited number of tickets sold irked students and supporters of respective schools many of whom were already at SM ticket outlets even before 10:00 a.m. when tickets were released on-site and online.
Claude Despabiladeras, a former UST courtside reporter, posted a video on his Facebook account showing people in a mad rush at SM North Edsa to buy tickets.
Despabiladeras claimed only eight tickets were sold with just the first two people in line able to get their hands on the tickets. A maximum of four tickets were sold per person.
“So how many did I get to buy? Zero, despite arriving there early enough at around 9:45 a.m.!” he said in the same post.
According to Mark Dacula, a customer service representative at SM Tickets, only 10% or close to 3,000 tickets were sold at 15 ticket outlets including the SM Tickets website.
The 90% of the allocated tickets are being sold at the two schools.
Last Saturday’s Game 2 saw a crowd of 21,933 at Smart Araneta Coliseum. Game 3 is scheduled to tipoff at 3:30 p.m. at Mall of Asia Arena.