Originally posted by trey from mars
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Completely agree! Londoners don't care a s*+t about basketball and it's utopic to believe fill in the huge O2 arena with foreinger supporters only, neither if you dream of a Zalgiris-Maccabi-Panatinaikos-CSKA(or Oly) F4. Being in a metropolis, unless this city is a real "basketball city" (like Athen, for example), is useless. During the weekend you only have saturday for being a tourist... so how much of london can you visit?? I think, for example Kaunas, Siena, Bilbao would be better solution... if the home team is not qualified, many people would go anyway. The city size is ok for visitors, that in only one one-and-a-half day, can visit the most of the city.
I was really diasspointed about this year organization.. from many point of wiew:
1) I bought an "early" ticket and I was in the U raw (the highest one in the building).
2) I bought an "early" ticket at 160€ and 10days before the event there were tickets in the same sector at 50€
3) I got my ticket 6 day before the event... so no Viagogo access for me... and no possibility to re-sell it
4) O2 organization as prison jail: not possible to exit between the two matches, since they can't scan the barcodeout (basic technology.. anyway.. old stlye bralclets? maybe a club-like hand stamp??). Unbelievable. Moreover I want to have all conditions clearly written before buying ticket from EL.. how many arrived at the arena with keys and coins and were forced to go to the confiscation to drop them off?? I want to know the rules in advance, before buying... not only written at the entrance of the sporthall.
5) No smoking area.
6) Few entertaining event between the games... why not bring the 3vs3 or slamdunk contest finals between the game, unless keeping them in fuc*ing saturday at fu**ing Trafalgar Square??
7) No evening events @Fan Zone (at least in Istanbul a night concert was setup)
8) No supporters meeting points
9) Complete separation within sectors even in the middle of the two games, no possibility to visit the whole arena
10) last but not least.. no beer within the arena
I will write a complain to EL HQ... maybe it won't be even read... but I have to do that.
Now, after complains, few proposal to improve IMHO:
1) Arena size not exceeding 12000... more than enough for incoming years.. with people having few and few money...
2) No more 3rd place final... useless... ok this year Navarro set up a great show and I enjoyed watching... but this match is a really boring: having only one game, maybe at 6pm local time, would allow to sell cheaper ticket packages and at the same time people can go back at home the same night (saving one useless hotel night)
3) All related avents, fan zone, merchandise and so one have to be close to the arena and in the same day of the matches. This would allow to have also fans meeting points, bars, etc.
Sorry for being quit long in the post
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