Biggest ever prelim final crowd coming up?

[skeepe]

When Canberra gets over 15k its bloody remarkable

I agree. We have horrible crowds. But that's not the issue here.

I'm of the firm belief that all finals matches should be sell-outs, regardless of their location. I realise we're a long way from that, but surely that should be the aim? You can't tell me that you couldn't find 80,000 people in and around Sydney who want to see this game. Surely.

 

[Jobdog]

Ahh Skeepey! It's been a while son ...

 

[The Tank]

I agree. We have horrible crowds. But that's not the issue here.

I'm of the firm belief that all finals matches should be sell-outs, regardless of their location. I realise we're a long way from that, but surely that should be the aim? You can't tell me that you couldn't find 80,000 people in and around Sydney who want to see this game. Surely.

I'd say there'd be about half the city's population who'd love to be at this game, but unfortunately it doesn't always equate to bums on seats (other than lounge chairs of course).

 

[Jobdog]

I think they'll sale past 50k. As for biggest Prelim Final crowd ever? I'm not entirely sure.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

I heard on 2gb this morning 40500 tix had been sold... WOW

 

[ashrafieh]

I heard on 2gb this morning 40500 tix had been sold... WOW

Awesome... That doesn't include the lunch rush I think we could pass 50,000 today, onwards to 70,000.

PAX numbers are over 48,000 now.

 

[Pazza]

on the parra forum there is a PAX number of 47706!

 

[benoir91]

Eels Cat B Single Seats only now

 

[Pazza]

i imagine there would be quite a few people ordering tickets once they get home tonight after work!

 

[elbusto]

i imagine there would be quite a few people ordering tickets once they get home tonight after work!

This is fantastic - after all of the negatives this year we deserve this!!!!

 

[ashrafieh]

Eels Cat B Single Seats only now

Same with the Dogs Cat B Now

 

[ElectricEelMan]

 

[StormChaser]

It's entirely possible ANZ members were added to the pax figure overnight or late yesterday. There was also the myNRL pre-sale in between the members and general public last night. And then 46 minutes of public sale before we saw the 40,255 at 9:46am today.

PAX numbers are supposed to represent the order in which tickets are sold. The term PAX is short for Passenger, and is usually indicative of how many people have purchased tickets.

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Wrong!! For the last time- It’s a numerical representation of the barcode, its basically something the human eye can recognise and if we type it into the ticketing system it gives us various info about the barcode… used mainly on event days to see if a barcode has been used, to stop people copying one ticket and it working over and over again etc
Its very technical buthas nothing at all to do with the number of tickets sold!
They do not represent an accurate account of tix sold Because It depends on what paxkey is used to create the original event, so the original number that it starts from is random and is often not 0. Each master event has a paxkey that the whole event is based on, and it creates from that all the following barcodes in the event. unless you are a programmer for Softix, whatever general knowledge you have about barcodes is just that. General. [FONT=&quot]
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[benoir91]

Eels category C only 10 empty bays left
Dogs categry C only 14 empty bays left

 

[benoir91]

:lol::lol::lol:
Wrong!! For the last time- It’s a numerical representation of the barcode, its basically something the human eye can recognise and if we type it into the ticketing system it gives us various info about the barcode… used mainly on event days to see if a barcode has been used, to stop people copying one ticket and it working over and over again etc
Its very technical buthas nothing at all to do with the number of tickets sold!
They do not represent an accurate account of tix sold Because It depends on what paxkey is used to create the original event, so the original number that it starts from is random and is often not 0. Each master event has a paxkey that the whole event is based on, and it creates from that all the following barcodes in the event. unless you are a programmer for Softix, whatever general knowledge you have about barcodes is just that. General.

Thats probably true, but IMO it is still a relatively accurate representation of tickets sold.

In both Eels vs Tigers and Eels vs Panthers the attendance was extremely close to the last pax number stated.

Also 2GB announcing 40500 tickets were sold this morning at 11am is pretty much identical to the PAX numbers stated here at 11am.

 

[StormChaser]

If it is it's purely coincidence. Seriously, we do NOT use it as a reference for tix sold.

 

[Timmah]

So what does PAX actually stand for then smart-ass?

Sorry, but whenever I attend a game and buy a ticket at the gate, it's always within one or two thousand, sometimes even closer, to the official crowd figure. It's somehow related, there's no denying that.

 

[ashrafieh]

If it is it's purely coincidence. Seriously, we do NOT use it as a reference for tix sold.

Good for you, we DO.

 

[ashrafieh]

Eels category C only 10 empty bays left
Dogs categry C only 14 empty bays left

How did you find that out?

 

[skeepe]

So what does PAX actually stand for then smart-ass?

Sorry, but whenever I attend a game and buy a ticket at the gate, it's always within one or two thousand, sometimes even closer, to the official crowd figure. It's somehow related, there's no denying that.

My understanding was it's the amount of tickets that have been printed. Sure, some may get cancelled, returned or not used, but it's usually a fairly accurate guide. Or so I've been told.