ADFC to present E-Ticketing to Senate
The Athletics Department Finance Committee will be presenting its Electronic Ticketing proposal to ASUO Senate this Wednesday.
All year, (former) ADFC Chair Kyle McKenzie and the rest of the committee has been developing this plan to make the football and basketball Duck games more accessible, and fairer for students with greater time constraints such as graduate students. The plan also seeks to cut down on no-shows by tracking whether students actually attended the games they received tickets for, as well.
In more detail, the E-Ticketing plan calls for the tickets to be available on the Sunday before a home game, and each class section will have two hours to get their allotment of tickets from GoDucks.com.
*Group 1:* 16.8%* of the ticket allotment for home games will be for
graduate students. Group 5 may request tickets at 9am-11am on
the Sunday prior to a home football or men’s basketball game.*Group 2:* 13.5%* of the ticket allotment for home games will be for
students with 0-44 credit hours (freshman status) at the
University of Oregon. These students may log-in a request
tickets at 11am through 1pm on the Sunday prior to a home
football or men’s basketball game.*Group 3:* 18.6%* of the ticket allotment for home games will be for
students with 45-89 credit hours (sophomore status). Group 2 may
request tickets at 1pm through 3pm on the Sunday prior to a home
football or men’s basketball game.*Group 4:* 19.7%* of the ticket allotment for home games will be for
students with 90-134 credit hours (junior status). Group 3 may
request tickets at 3pm through 5pm on the Sunday prior to a home
football or men’s basketball game.*Group 5:* 31.4%* of the ticket allotment for home games will be for
students with 135 or more hours (senior status). Group 4 may
request tickets at 5pm-7pm on the Sunday prior to a home
football or men’s basketball game.Any unclaimed tickets in each group will immediately become available after 7pm on the distribution day until all tickets are claimed.
Students will have until the Wednesday of the same week to return their tickets by emailing the Athletic Ticket Office.
2 no-shows will result in forfeiture of the next home games’ tickets for football. For basketball:
After missing one game, you forfeit your tickets for the next home game. After missing two games, you forfeit your tickets for the next two homegames. After missing three games, you forfeit your tickets for the rest of the season.
On the flip side, as an incentive to show up at all of the games, 100% attendance will be rewarded with an early opportunity to get Civil War tickets (definitely a big plus for having school spirit).
Some questions arise from reading the proposal, which will hopefully be addressed on Wednesday:
-Are the computer systems going to be able to handle the potentially thousands of students trying to access the ticket system at the same time during the beginning of a particular 2 hour window? Has the Ticket Office conducted a test to determine their capabilities?
-Likewise, is the Ticket Office prepared to deal with the possibility of hundreds of emails from students who do not want their tickets anymore?
-Will hard tickets be available as well?
