Team Tix for the Final Four

[sperry]

Like many of you I'm sure, I bought Team Tix for the College Football Championship game.

For those who aren't familiar with the service, you choose a team and pay a (non-refundable) fee that will grant you the rights to buy tickets to the championship game at face value, but only if the team you chose makes it. So, I paid $50 bucks a week or so again, and if OU wins the Orange Bowl, I will be able to buy a ticket at face value. The earlier on in the season you buy, the lower the fee is.

So, my question is does anything like this exist for college hoops? I'd like to get final four tickets in the event that we make it, but buying on the secondary market will likely be higher than I'm willing to pay.

 

[usedtobe1]

Interesting. I've never heard of it. The 2016 Final 4 games are in Houston this year. Since I live in the Houston area, I plan on going regardless. I've gone to several FF's and my experience is that the Saturday semi's are tougher tickets than the championship game on Monday night. You can stand outside after the semi games and buy tickets from losing team fans who just want to get out of town.

It depends on who gets to the FF on how much the semi tickets will cost. If the power teams get there then the tickets are expensive (Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, etc). A couple of upsets mean the tickets can be had at Sweet Sixteen sites for a fair price.

 

[sperry]

Interesting. I've never heard of it. The 2016 Final 4 games are in Houston this year. Since I live in the Houston area, I plan on going regardless. I've gone to several FF's and my experience is that the Saturday semi's are tougher tickets than the championship game on Monday night. You can stand outside after the semi games and buy tickets from losing team fans who just want to get out of town.

It depends on who gets to the FF on how much the semi tickets will cost. If the power teams get there then the tickets are expensive (Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, etc). A couple of upsets mean the tickets can be had at Sweet Sixteen sites for a fair price.

Yeah, the fact that it it's in Houston makes it doable. I can drive to H-Town and stay at friends' houses instead of hotels. Makes swallowing a $400 ticket (or whatever it is) more manageable.

 

[JBaker]

TicketScore.com is somewhat similar and has Final Four on it.

The way it works is that you buy in at a weekly price, and you pay that same price each week until you decide to stop, or you get to the Final Four. At that point, you get your tickets. You don't even have to pay face value.

Obviously it's risky, because you're almost certainly throwing away money every week. And the buy in prices work like s stock market, where the better a team is performing, the higher their buy in is going to be. Right now, OU is $35 a week for the next 10 weeks to get in the stadium. That's the highest price in the nation right now, ties with Duke, KU, UNC, MSU, UVA, Maryland, and UK. Iowa State looked like a bargain right now at $13.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

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For those who aren't familiar with the service, you choose a team and pay a (non-refundable) fee that will grant you the rights to buy tickets to the championship game at face value, but only if the team you chose makes it. So, I paid $50 bucks a week or so again, and if OU wins the Orange Bowl, I will be able to buy a ticket at face value. The earlier on in the season you buy, the lower the fee is.

Does this give you the rights to buy face-value tickets in the best stadium locations, or just the nose-bleed sections?

 

[skyvue]

This is the first I've heard of these services, and I have to wonder how they can be assured of getting the tickets to these events. Sounds like some sleazy practices going on somewhere.

 

[sperry]

This is the first I've heard of these services, and I have to wonder how they can be assured of getting the tickets to these events. Sounds like some sleazy practices going on somewhere.

Team Tix is run through the college football playoff, so it's legit. https://collegefootballplayoff.teamtix.com/content/home

 

[sperry]

Does this give you the rights to buy face-value tickets in the best stadium locations, or just the nose-bleed sections?

The football one has two options: Lower level and upper level. No further breakdown though, so you get what you get within those parameters.