Ticket etiquette

[buttonmonster]

How do you guys deal with ticket etiquette when you’re in a group of 9?

So you agree a 5 and a 4 group (call them team a and team b), and then each team tries for their respective team and then IF one team is lucky enough to get tickets they try for the other team?

 

im trying to think of there are any fairer ways of doing it?

stressful and political in terms of how you “group” the teams 😕

[internetjef]

Yep something like this . 

I would avoid the use of A and B as it gives B a secondary feel ha 

also I would try and make sure the distribution of anyone with a track record of success is split between the two groups 

if you put all the really on the ball and efficient mates in one group , and all the less ‘on the ball’ ones in the other then it may be less fair 

I would also consider trying to flush out the groups to 6 , whether using friends of friends , or perhaps people on here who are in singles/doubles. Just because you get tickets with them doesn’t mean you have to camp / stay together come festival time 

Edited July 12, 2023 by internetjef

[fightoffyour]

We did team names as Houses from GoT once, although that could have it's own built in popularity as well. But all the lads from Blackburn were House Bolton 😄

[Gnomicide]

12 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

We did team names as Houses from GoT once, although that could have it's own built in popularity as well. But all the lads from Blackburn were House Bolton 😄

My tent flag is House Bolton!

[a6l6e6x]

More organised people in group a, rejects in group b. However if group b got through and I didn’t I am pretty sure I’d never speak to any of them again

[Hotchilidog]

We split into Friend/Family groups. 

[stuie]

When I used to get tickets we split our groups into people who tried hardest on previous occasions. 

The mate who went out the night before ticket sale and woke up at 09:10 was in the secondary group. 

Tough but fair. 

 

 

[GrumpyRaver]

One year I had 9 or 10 in my group, so gave everyone a different group, meaning everyone had an equal probability of tickets across the process. Bit of a ballache though.

[tom22]

No necessarily easy or best way of doing it, but most important thing is that everyone is crystal clear on what to do if they get through so you don't end up with some duplication.

In 14/15/16 we had a group of 12 made from 6 couples. 2014 we all got tickets, 2015 just the guys got tickets and in 2016 just the girls got tickets. Always winners and losers however you do it.

[fred quimby]

8 hours ago, stuie said:

When I used to get tickets we split our groups into people who tried hardest on previous occasions. 

The mate who went out the night before ticket sale and woke up at 09:10 was in the secondary group. 

Tough but fair. 

 

 

When I tried for tickets for friends one year, we were up and organised ready, there were 5 people wanting tickets, 10 if us trying ( so we thought)  One person got through. Then found out that one of the 5 went for a bike ride during the sale. 

[clarkete]

12 hours ago, internetjef said:

Yep something like this . 

I would avoid the use of A and B as it gives B a secondary feel ha 

also I would try and make sure the distribution of anyone with a track record of success is split between the two groups 

if you put all the really on the ball and efficient mates in one group , and all the less ‘on the ball’ ones in the other then it may be less fair 

I would also consider trying to flush out the groups to 6 , whether using friends of friends , or perhaps people on here who are in singles/doubles. Just because you get tickets with them doesn’t mean you have to camp / stay together come festival time 

"The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet of Golgafrincham" 

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B

(just to say I've had times I've been very far below B in a list and someone lovely still weaved some magic) 

[chazwwe]

When I did a bigger group. We split it up into 2 groups like you said and how we did it was who within our friendship group did we most hang out with/travel with/partners etc. So group 'a' was my group of friends from college and my partner at the time and group b, was a group of friends who were more close but I had only known for a little while. It worked as we were kinda 2 separate groups anyway and only rarely were we all out together. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 hour ago, fred quimby said:

When I tried for tickets for friends one year, we were up and organised ready, there were 5 people wanting tickets, 10 if us trying ( so we thought)  One person got through. Then found out that one of the 5 went for a bike ride during the sale. 

on yer bike should have been the words uttered !!