Worcester II Drawing Results

idk. I think they way they run the lottery is silly then. Whats the point in having location options if its likely just gonna give you GA?

And the fact that I only put in GA as a back up plan... Guess I should have known that if I really wanted Reserved, I should have only put in for that??

They should just pull names out of a hat. 1st choice open, you get it... if not, move to 2nd choice and so forth.

zman wrote:

ShouldHaveBeenSomething wrote:

Let's make this as easy as possible so we can clear this up.

Steps towards proof and afterlife:
1. Goto your My Tickets page on PearlJam.com
2. Make sure both Night 1 and Night 2 ticket results are viewable on your screen
3. Click the PRINT SCREEN button on your keyboard
4. If using Windows goto START ---> type MSPAINT in the program box
5. Once in MSPAINT click the large clipboard in the top left that says PASTE
6. Your screenshot of your tickets page will be in MSPAINT
7. Click the little folder in MSPAINT right above the clipboard and select SAVE AS
8. Give it a name and save it as a JPG file
9. Goto http://www.imgur.com
10. Click on the top right where it says Computer
11. Find the JPG file you just saved from MSPAINT
12. Click Start Upload
13. Once uploaded click the 4th selection down on the right. It will say [IMG]xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[/.IMG] 14. Copy and Paste that selection in a reply here. The whole process should take you 3 mins I just copy and pasted those directions from a tutorial on uploading pictures. Let's see if you come through. :corn:[/img]

easily photoshopped. taking pic with cellphone is much more reliable and less apt to be tampered with

I have the iPhone and took a pic with it How do I put it on the page that way?

twisted thoughts wrote:

How can they be offering Reserved seats to all now, when people put in Reserved as 1st choice and didnt get it, but got GA 2nd choice????????

This is where the way they draw the lottery has a clear flaw, and in the case of this one single show, they should have drawn all GA 1st choice, then drawn all Reserved 1st choice, then proceeded to GA 2nd choice (Which would have been less or none depending on how many reserved seats were allocated), and finally reserved 2nd choice (which in this case would have been nobody as everyone who had GA first choice would have been accounted for already), then the leftovers go into this 2nd chance lottery, which would have probably put a higher number of GA up for grabs and less reserved. But those of us (myself included) who had Reserved as 1st priority would have had that from yesterday's draw.

Definitely flawed. Not complaining about getting GA tix, but the way the drawing is done needs tweaking and certainly wouldn't have been difficult in the case of a single show.

mjservs806 wrote:

I have the iPhone and took a pic with it How do I put it on the page that way?

I think your lie has been exposed since it is now FACT that tickets are leftover from the lottery yesterday; meaning everyone who was eligible and entered to win tickets, did. We no longer need your snapshot, we already have the answer.

Poncier wrote:

twisted thoughts wrote:

How can they be offering Reserved seats to all now, when people put in Reserved as 1st choice and didnt get it, but got GA 2nd choice????????

This is where the way they draw the lottery has a clear flaw, and in the case of this one single shoe, they should have drawn all GA 1st choice, then drawn all Reserved 1st choice, then proceeded o GA 2nd choice (Which would have been less or none depending on how nay reserved seats were allocated), and finally reserved 2nd choice (which in this case would have been nobody as everyone who had GA first choice ould have been accounted for already), then the leftovers go into this 2nd chance lottery, which would have probably put anhigher number of GA up for grabs and less reserved. But those of us (myself included) who had Reserved as 1st priority would have had that from yesterday's draw.

Definitely flawed. Not complaining about getting GA tix, but the way the drawing is done needs tweaking and certainly wouldn't have been difficult in the case of a single show.

Exactly.

What's the point of having a priority if they are going to ignore it...

ShouldHaveBeenSomething wrote:

I'm pretty sure this happened because it was AN ADDED SHOW. They want to make sure the 10C ONLY TICKETS are sold first. I would ponder a guess that NORMALLY they would go by strict priority listing.. but since they wanted to get rid of 10C ONLY SECTION first if you had both selected you got 10C Pit over reserved...

It's pretty common sense IMHO.

Thank you. Is this fact or assumption? If fact, I dont believe that information was provided to us prior to the lottery closing, but perhaps I missed it. I thought the normal lottery went as I explained before - picking names and going thru their choices, rather than picking a section first and then picking names, so I just assumed this lottery would run the same.

Either way... Im happy I got a 10c ticket and those w/ GA who want to trade for Res. shouldn't have too hard of a time doing that I'd assume...

sk8nshoot1 wrote:

If they have Reserve Seats left (they didn't use them all up) and that was my first choice, then that's what I should have gotten... Seems pretty simple...

Agreed.

But Im so tired of speculating the lottery system :fp:

Poncier wrote:

twisted thoughts wrote:

How can they be offering Reserved seats to all now, when people put in Reserved as 1st choice and didnt get it, but got GA 2nd choice????????

This is where the way they draw the lottery has a clear flaw, and in the case of this one single shoe, they should have drawn all GA 1st choice, then drawn all Reserved 1st choice, then proceeded o GA 2nd choice (Which would have been less or none depending on how nay reserved seats were allocated), and finally reserved 2nd choice (which in this case would have been nobody as everyone who had GA first choice ould have been accounted for already), then the leftovers go into this 2nd chance lottery, which would have probably put anhigher number of GA up for grabs and less reserved. But those of us (myself included) who had Reserved as 1st priority would have had that from yesterday's draw.

Definitely flawed. Not complaining about getting GA tix, but the way the drawing is done needs tweaking and certainly wouldn't have been difficult in the case of a single show.

And a thank you to you too. Some here are making me feel like I'm the only one who thinks this way.

mjservs806 wrote:

mookieblalock wrote:

mjservs806 wrote:

I have the iPhone and took a pic with it How do I put it on the page that way?

I think your lie has been exposed since it is now FACT that tickets are leftover from the lottery yesterday; meaning everyone who was eligible and entered to win tickets, did. We no longer need your snapshot, we already have the answer.

Appology accepted.. I did not lie!

crawl away

Appology accepted.. I did not lie![/quote]

crawl away[/quote]

Ok mr.knowitall..

Let me preface my post by saying that people are going to say that I'm complaining and they would be right I am. Personally I feel people have the right to complain or question things that don't totally make sense when they have something invested in the issue or item at hand and that investment can be anything from money to time etc. In this case my investment is my dues and time spent supporting the band etc.

Count me as one of the few that got GA instead of reserved to the second show, although GA was my second choice.

Am I happy to have tickets, yes. Am I as happy as I would be if I got my "1st priority" of course not, as it's not my first "priority" or preference. I don't think there is a member on this board who can truly say that they have no preference to where they are in a venue. If they didn’t, they're essentially saying they would be just as happy in the nosebleeds as front row in front of Eddie. So I think we can all agree people all have a scale and preference to things, it's natural and ok.

The only people who may have not have a preference are those that simply aren’t able to attend the show, and you know what as soon as they are able to magically attend the show - they too would have a preference of where they stand/or sit.

With the above said, I registered for reserved as it's my wife's preference, who will be attending the show with me. Personally I could care less if I'm GA or reserved as I've seen then double digit times and either way I know I’ll be fairly close. However given we can select a priority I did to reflect what my wife would prefer.

I can understand getting GA although it wasn't my preference, if the band was getting zero allocation for reserved seats, or on an as needed basis (so just enough to fill the folks who ONLY put down reserved, I would refer to these guys as gamblers as it’s all or nothing). This would make total sense to me. This scenario however isn't the case, as clearly the allocation of reserved isn't on an as needed basis given they just sent a notice saying they have additional reserved available.

To me this boils down to laziness on how the new lottery system was coded and executed.

Should I simply shut up and consider myself lucky to be going, possibly but I still think it's fair to say the new system is poorly executed and/or explained, even if it did land me tickets.


Feel free to blast me, but I wanted to pass along my 2 cents

Jesus guys. Cut the kid some slack