This is my first year living in NC and am looking at going to at least some of the ACC tournament games. Curious to know from people who have been in prior years the best way to get tickets. I can see through the ACC website (that links to ticket master) that really only GA seating is available now for $99 and says "all sessions" and 7 events. Does that ticket mean you can see every single game in the tourney or does it mean you get 7 early round games?
Is it better to wait and get tickets through VT?
Will final seeding impact which tickets I would need to buy?
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Each event is a session - Morning session would have two games, afternoon session two games for the middle rounds. $99 (plus $3,450 in Ticket Master fees /s) would be for 1 sessions (3 games) of the first round. 2 sessions (4 games) of the second round. The quarterfinals (4 games), the semi's 1 session (2 games), and the Finals. A lot of people just ask people whose team just lost for the rest of their tickets or session they don't play, so it is usually easy to get tickets there or get some recovery for ones you do not want.
Thanks for the information. Do I understand you correctly that the GA would be a way to ensure tickets to every game, but with seats on the baseline while waiting for specific game tickets may be cheaper overall and allow for better seats?
I am not certain about this, but I think they went to all GA tickets. I cannot remember when they changed or all the changes. Most of the whole tourney tickets go to the fans of local teams expected to make a deep run, but there are a lot of teams who are not good, do not have a following, and don't travel anyway. This meant when they sold actual seats in a section, huge sections up front and visible on TV were often empty. Also, the weekday early sessions games that compete with work are nearly empty. Once individual session tickets go on sale, the quarter finals and up can go fairly quickly on the assumption that VT, NCSU, UNC will make it and bring fans. They may sell out before you know who is playing. It is easy to buy, hard to sell, the early round day tickets. I cannot remember the price difference between session and package tickets, as I usually just get sessions. If we move on I would ask the losing team's fans for tickets for the next session (both games in the session, as winners play each other next session)- and usually get them at cost (what I offered.). I have seen them being given or thrown away. I was out of town last year, so do not know if that got harder with VT going farther.
So now that we know when we play will there be any tickets through VT or are they all through ACC/ticketmaster? I didnt jump on those GA tickets
Screw the ACC tourney, I want to lock up my NCAA tickets.