Reserving Un-Reserved (General Admit) at sporting events

geoffs87 on 05/02/2016 - 16:31
Last edited 05/02/2016 - 17:04

Hi All,

My girlfriend and her friends have organised about 30 people to go to the Rugby 7's tomorrow in Sydney. For some reason they bought General (unreserved) seats. Now we want all 30 to sit together…

Does anyone think its a douche move to somehow reserve the 30 seats we need (we have tickets for all 30 people) with a sign or something. We'll get in early so we can sort it out.

I know it was a rookie move on their part not just getting reserved for such a small amount more.

Edit: It's an all day event (11hours), some of the people can't make it in til a little later

Anyway - appreciate suggestions.

Poll Options

  • 26
    Yes, Douche Move
  • 1
    No, You've paid for seats, should be ok to hold them
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Comments

  • curryblender on 05/02/2016 - 16:41
    +5

    Go in very early and sit together

  • James1976 on 05/02/2016 - 16:50
    +1

    Unless a majority of the group are there early, I say douche move.

    If 2 of you are there early and the rest rock up 5 mins before start, extra credit douche move (but full props if you are able to pull it off)

  • geoffs87 on 05/02/2016 - 17:03

    Should mention it's an 11 hour event… Heaps of games throughout the day. Unfortunately some of them can't make it til later in the day

  • eatwell365 on 05/02/2016 - 17:09
    +1

    Get two people to be there early - a guy/gal, wear white or black polo shirts with black pants, put sunglasses on, wear headsets with the office passes. Get some do not enter tapes and round up 30 chairs.

    • geoffs87 on 05/02/2016 - 17:23

      I like you

  • mskeggs on 05/02/2016 - 17:31
    +2

    It is sold out I notice.
    I guess a proportion of the crowd will arrive over the course of the day, so it isn't like it will be all bums on seats at kick-off.
    In the same fashion, however, if you tried to block off of the best seats with only a handful in attendance, I reckon you risk getting a lot of aggro.
    I reckon you can reasonably seek to have the seat next to you left for a late running friend, so you can reserve a total of 30 seats once 15 of you arrive.
    If fewer than 15 of you arrive early, I think you need to accommodate patrons who do show up.
    I suppose if you value sitting together over your view of the field, you could reserve 30 seats right at the back without having to much anger, but that then penalises your early birds who would suffer worse seats for the whole day to reserve a seat for your latecomers.

    • geoffs87 on 05/02/2016 - 17:48

      Yeah that's along the lines of what I'm thinking. See how we go! Cheers

  • Randxyz123 on 05/02/2016 - 18:08

    Good luck with reserving 30 seats. It just won't work.

    I know for a fact at the MCG you aren't allowed to do it and the staff will come and tell you to move jackets/bags.

    You can normally get away with reserving 5 but reserving 30 won't work.

    All I can suggest is calling the ticket issuer or going there extremely early tomorrow and see if you can pay the difference and get reserved seat tickets.

    Props to you for having a girlfriend interested in rugby :P

  • YaBigGoose on 05/02/2016 - 19:48
    +1

    There's reserved sections for a reason..

    • geoffs87 on 05/02/2016 - 21:31
      -2

      Thanks for your helpful opinion

      • eatwell365 on 05/02/2016 - 22:13

        OP got neg for saying thank you? I don't think the comment was being sarcastic.

  • Nutrino on 06/02/2016 - 00:53

    Remember that seinfeld episode at the movies?

  • mskeggs on 09/02/2016 - 08:00

    So how did you get on? Or are you in hospital with a broken jaw for trying to reserve 30 front row seats on your own ;-)

    • geoffs87 on 09/02/2016 - 12:32

      Haha. Actually did quite well! Turned out we only needed 23, and 6 people were there from the beginning.

      We chose seats about halfway back, and given it was an all day event, plenty of other seating was available around the stadium.

      It helped that 4 of the 6 that got there early were girls. People seem to not question the bags all over those seats when they're accompanied by girls :)

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