Empty seats

Azza · 28 Jul 2012 at 11:58

Is this real life?!

Literally blocks of empty seats at the gymnastics (possibly corporate / sponsors?), loads at the swimming as well and there was quite a few at the womens basketball.

Scon · 28 Jul 2012 at 13:30

Yeah they are corporate seats, and with it only being the swimming heats I think they just CBA turning up.

Vonhelmet · 28 Jul 2012 at 14:50

Corporate... Pretty disgraceful, but shows where the IOC's heart is.

Feek · 28 Jul 2012 at 14:56

Vonhelmet said:
Corporate... Pretty disgraceful, but shows where the IOC's heart is.

Typical of pretty much every major sporting event.

jonneymendoza · 28 Jul 2012 at 21:46

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19028979

pathetic. i thought it was sold out? even the swimming events had loads of empty seats

hanmer · 28 Jul 2012 at 21:50

They are sold out for the fans and people who want to go an watch. Those empty seats are allocated to companies and sponsors who obviously dont care about the sport and cant be bothered to turn up :mad:

jonneymendoza · 28 Jul 2012 at 21:52

well it seems they only gave 50% to the fans and people, and the rest to the corporate nobheads

Merlin5 · 28 Jul 2012 at 21:54

Let's hope Seb keeps his word then.

"Lord Coe has previously threatened to name and shame companies which do not use their tickets."

daz · 28 Jul 2012 at 21:55

I think that if a certain percentage of seats allocated to a company or organisation aren't filled for each event, they should forfeit their tickets for the later events, or be told to put tickets back in the 'pool' so that they can be re-allocated or purchased by people that actually want to go.

Azza · 28 Jul 2012 at 22:03

I did make a thread with this exact title earlier.

Its got to be noted though during this mornings swimming session there was quite a few 'cheap' seats that were empty as well. But there was hundreds of the corporate ones empty.

explicit4u · 28 Jul 2012 at 22:12

I'm pretty sure people just couldn't be bothered to turn up for the heats because the arena (?) was full during the finals.

Azza · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:23

Loads of empty seats at the dressage as well and the commentator just said its the biggest crowd they've had!

Vampire · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:27

Lots of empty seats in the aquatics venue again today by the looks of it.

Sucks, I'd have liked to have gone there.

oli356 · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:51

explicit4u said:
I'm pretty sure people just couldn't be bothered to turn up for the heats because the arena (?) was full during the finals.

Wouldn't call the aquatics centre full during the final, still plenty of seats around by the looks of it.

Guerrilla · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:27

The commentators on the swimming have just said it well... Have a queue outside and simply let people in if there are empty seats, they can give a donation to charity to get in.

GAC · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:32

Merlin5 said:
Let's hope Seb keeps his word then.

"Lord Coe has previously threatened to name and shame companies which do not use their tickets."

in a news conference at the mo he's said thats not what we are about.

got to love seb being the slimey sod back tracking.

londonbairn · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:53

Not very good for the country, yesterday at the road race met a few families who had come over from Europe for a few days, desperate for tickets.

Just does not look good...

DanF · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:55

The corporations should give out spare tickets to their staff, it's what the company I work for does and I've been to things like Wimbledon before for free. Good staff incentive and keeps the seats full.

DanF · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:58

rafster said:
desperate for tickets.

Well yeah that's also the fault of the ticket site, it's a total abomination of a website, I know loads of people that didn't get tickets that they had in their basket because the payment system just kept on breaking. People should get banned from website development for that.

helpimcrap · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:59

Didn't they not advertise some of it as the building hadn't been constructed and so they couldn't sell unviewable seats as they hadn't been finished literally until days before?

I heard tht somewhere....