Big Chill well on pace to set attendance record
http://www.thebigchillatthebighouse.com/home.php
New to posting but I searched and didn't see this.
According to the site over 77,000 tickets have already been sold. I know this doesn't give us the record as these people need to actually show up, but this is very promising with several months to go. I am really hoping for over 100,000 people for this game!
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
attendance records are regularly based upon tickets sold plus crews, bands, etc., they don't count each person as they walk in on football Saturdays (and before someone snarks about the ticket scanning, they haven't changed the rules since it was stubs).
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:36 AM ^
Thanks for that bit of information.
Either way, looks like everyone is coming through to make this event as crazy as possible. It will be a nice addition between Michigan's last regular season football game and their BCS bowl game (hopefully).
I wonder, though, if for an "official" Guinness World Record, they wouldn't require an actual count of the people in attendance. It doesn't seem likely that world records would be based on tickets sold.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
i highly doubt Guinness went through and counted every damn person in Spartan stadium.
let's go into realism people.
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:21 PM ^
Have you never heard attendance given as both paid and actual? How do you think no-shows are calculated?
Pro teams do keep track of actual attendance. As I recall from the last Tigers game I went, there was a bar code on the ticket. They scan that ticket when you enter the stadium. You don't think perhaps they have a computer attached to those scanners where they can add up the number of people who actually went through the gate?
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:24 PM ^
you haven't been to games at the Big House, where the place looks 2/3 full and the announced attendance is 103,000.
the scanners don't tabulate real attendance. several games from 2008 verify that.
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:56 PM ^
Did my original post say anything about how things are done at Michigan Stadium?
I'm well aware that attendance at Michigan sporting events is given as tickets sold.
All I was doing in my original post was wondering about the criteria that Guinness uses for attendance records. I highly doubt such records are based on tickets sold.
And by the way, it's not that hard to manually count people in through the gates at a sporting event using--what else?--manual counters. This is exactly how they used to get actual attendance figures at Tiger Stadium.
Guinness would only be doing the record of attendance for an NCAA hockey game, as well as outdoor. Given the fact this record belongs to MSU's Cold War, where they didn't do a digital or physical HEAD COUNT and the fact that the highest attendance for an NCAA football game is considered to be UM vs. OSU in 2003, when they didn't use scanners, your argument is getting WAY off track. Tigers? really?
Given this is the article I could find on attendance and Guinness, of which you are the only person in the world to bring up, ticket sales/full seats are given to Guinness and they make sure the event is occurring as prescribed.
Where are the manual counters at UM? Or turnstiles for that matter? Unless you decided, during a discussion on the attendance record being set @UM, to randomly start discussing how Guinness determines such things (and not this event in particular), you're just rambling. And if you did decide to randomly bring that up - wtf?
You seriously just keep changing the argument to your own ridiculous assertions. Enough already. The point, which you keep missing, is attendance records are set by tickets sold, not asses in the seats.
What's amazing to me about your responses is that I asked the most innocent original question and you've responded by acting as if I'm attacking the integrity of the world record(s) that Michigan seems certain to set.
All I'll say is this: if Michigan sells 100,000 tickets for the game and there's a snowstorm that day and only 40,000 people make it into the stands, I don't think that's going to be considered a world attendance record.
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:36 AM ^
Very exciting!
I wish I could get the website to work for me... I've gotten to it a few times, but mostly it doesn't work for me. I know I'm a loser, but I want to make a desktop with Red on it, gosh darn it!
Speaking of Red, why hasn't he singed a new contract yet? According to this daily article, from 3/29, the hockey SID said contract information should be "released in the next week or so".
(http://www.michigandaily.com/content/notebook-michigan-mulls-over-quest…). I know he's coming back next year, but I would like for the AD to put my paranoia to rest and just announce the it already...
Well, my sources tell me the paper is singed and ready to go, but they're waiting for a monk to arrive to transcribe the terms.
I have my tickets!
AND spank some Sparty ass!!
Bought mine last month.......
It will be interesting to see how well you can see a hockey game in the big house from all seats. I was pretty young when I went to the first cold war - so I don't really remember much about it, other than being cold. I really just can't picture in my head what a hockey rink in the middle of the big house is going to look like - and how far away it will be from the first rows of the stadium.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:08 AM ^
Oh, the view is probably going to be pretty bad. It sounds like they're going with an Olympic-sized sheet, which should help some, but not much. In any case, you should be too drunk to notice/care.
and seeing what tickets become available in better sections as people start getting busy with this and that and can't go