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My seats used to be in Section 105, rows 2 and 3 (one on the floor level) at the Hartford Civic Center, XL Center People's Bank Arena (yes, we sat behind each other). My slot is tomorrow. Now I'll be lucky to get into the 200s.

Yes, I upped my contribution to get double points.
 
Huskee11 said:
Just finished. I am still in the second level at Gampel and in 106 at XL/Peoples/Whatever, but the seats are slightly better than before at both places.

But this is only after kicking in a fairly decent contribution on the two for one points program. Absent that, I suspect I would have ended up worse off than before.
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I think a lot of people didn't renew seats.
I don't know how many seats were eliminated due to the upgrade but I renewed yesterday and I only moved 3 seats.
 
I'm all ventilated, but I want to add I hope they nuke the scoreboard at Peoples Bank. Most high schools have a better score board. A real embarrassment for the basketball capital of the world.
 
Since1990 said:
I think a lot of people didn't renew seats.
I don't know how many seats were eliminated due to the upgrade but I renewed yesterday and I only moved 3 seats.
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I cannot fathom this. I upped my contribution by 500% and LOST my section 104 seats (which I've had for ) to the upper bowl at the XL Center today.

I even called (nicely) the UConn Athletic Office and was told that people with more priority points than I got all those lower bowl seats. If people are NOT renewing, if folks are "aging out," if I doubled my points with my contribution-- what am I doing wrong?
 
I think my day is the 16th and I'll log in but I'll be shocked if there is a seat I'd sit in left at the Civic center.

It seems as though some fans who had no or 1 seat last season now have seats. Too may fans are being shoved out when it should equal to the reduction in seating. That double points offer may have been a sneaky way to get some ticket agents and sugar daddies a bunch of prime cushions to sit on. Especially for the mens games. That's the price of monetization. I like winning more than I love "the good old days".
 
Sargassoc said:
I cannot fathom this. I upped my contribution by 500% and LOST my section 104 seats (which I've had for ) to the upper bowl at the XL Center today.

I even called (nicely) the UConn Athletic Office and was told that people with more priority points than I got all those lower bowl seats. If people are NOT renewing, if folks are "aging out," if I doubled my points with my contribution-- what am I doing wrong?
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I don't see how that could happen.
I renewed my seats in section
118 yesterday and was moved 3 seats.
 
Sargassoc said:
I cannot fathom this. I upped my contribution by 500% and LOST my section 104 seats (which I've had for ) to the upper bowl at the XL Center today.

I even called (nicely) the UConn Athletic Office and was told that people with more priority points than I got all those lower bowl seats. If people are NOT renewing, if folks are "aging out," if I doubled my points with my contribution-- what am I doing wrong?
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Other people donated more. That’s the answer.
 
zls44 said:
Other people donated more. That’s the answer.
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Yes, I took that to be the answer-- but given how much people complain about the price of just the tickets, I am still surprised.

We are also not UConn alums, so get no priority points that way. I have done my best to get points in the other ways, however.
 
I got my same seats at Gampel. We could have gotten closer, but I like having seats at the end. Plus, it's the last row in chair backs and we like having the space behind us to put coats and snacks. Got comparable placement to our old seats at Civic Center, but not at the end of the row - seats 3, 4, 5 instead of 1, 2, 3. We'll live.
I also noticed that this year payment in full was the only option, as opposed to spreading it out over a few months. Not a big deal, but may be inconvenient for some.
How long 'til November?
 
FairView said:
I got my same seats at Gampel. We could have gotten closer, but I like having seats at the end. Plus, it's the last row in chair backs and we like having the space behind us to put coats and snacks. Got comparable placement to our old seats at Civic Center, but not at the end of the row - seats 3, 4, 5 instead of 1, 2, 3. We'll live.
I also noticed that this year payment in full was the only option, as opposed to spreading it out over a few months. Not a big deal, but may be inconvenient for some.
How long 'til November?
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Payment in full was only for the seat donation part of the tickets. Payment in four monthly installments was available for the actual tickets. That’s the way I paid for our tickets. And my husband insists on purchasing paper tickets for $40. He hates having to transfer mobile tickets if someone is not going. My technological dinosaur!
 
The inconvenience with transferring electronic tickets to UConn games is that the transferee needs to have a UConn ticket account. Many potential transferees don't have one and some find it difficult to create one, or at least not worth the bother. Your husband's friends may be the dinosaurs.
 
Huskee11 said:
The inconvenience with transferring electronic tickets to UConn games is that the transferee needs to have a UConn ticket account. Many potential transferees don't have one and some find it difficult to create one, or at least not worth the bother. Your husband's friends may be the dinosaurs.
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That's interesting. I'm not sure that's the case (having an account) with Arizona, although it may be. All but one of the folks we transferred tickets to definitely have accounts, but I don't know about the one person.

However, our friends split soccer and softball with another couple (they do not split their football or women's basketball) and request paper tickets to make the division either. This year, we are splitting our volleyball tickets but are hoping to do the transfers on-line.
 
KnightBridgeAZ said:
That's interesting. I'm not sure that's the case (having an account) with Arizona, although it may be. All but one of the folks we transferred tickets to definitely have accounts, but I don't know about the one person.

However, our friends split soccer and softball with another couple (they do not split their football or women's basketball) and request paper tickets to make the division either. This year, we are splitting our volleyball tickets but are hoping to do the transfers on-line.
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Our tickets for South Florida are run by Ticketmaster, so people we transfer to have to have a Ticketmaster account. Definitely a problem for many of our friends, who are pretty much Luddites. Obviously, we’re all in an older demographic.
 
As a 40 year fan and 30 seat ticket holder I am sick over the lack of loyalty used I
the seat selection process. Over 30 years we had moved down several times until we had gotten to the 4th row in Gampel and 8th row in XL ( directly behind the bench) . Now The only courtside seats available were in 2 level or in the lower end sections.Similar choices that I had 30 years earlier when I purchased my 1st season tickets. I only donated $34,500 between 2019- 2025 ,obviously throwing $ away in terms of the process. They had to bring in many new high $ donors to fill the lower sections so quickly. There was NO value given to fans that went most games during ups and downs of the program. No integrity or respect for long time season ticket holders!
 
OFAN said:
As a 40 year fan and 30 seat ticket holder I am sick over the lack of loyalty used I
the seat selection process. Over 30 years we had moved down several times until we had gotten to the 4th row in Gampel and 8th row in XL ( directly behind the bench) . Now The only courtside seats available were in 2 level or in the lower end sections.Similar choices that I had 30 years earlier when I purchased my 1st season tickets. I only donated $34,500 between 2019- 2025 ,obviously throwing $ away in terms of the process. They had to bring in many new high $ donors to fill the lower sections so quickly. There was NO value given to fans that went most games during ups and downs of the program. No integrity or respect for long time season ticket holders!
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Agreed; and I'm still a bit suspect of who actually bought all those lower sections so quickly.
 
Farney said:
Do we know if we are back to having to pick new seats every season or is this again “your seats for life”?
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This was a question I asked when I called the UConn Athletic office. The young man I spoke with said they don't know yet, but "they" are leaning towards the keep-your-seats-plan from the previous years.
 
The reason they gave for needing to do this in the first place was that the seat redesigns at Gampel and Hartford changed what was available.

It would be disingenuous at best to try and turn this into an annual occurrence.
 
Huskee11 said:
The reason they gave for needing to do this in the first place was that the seat redesigns at Gampel and Hartford changed what was available.

It would be disingenuous at best to try and turn this into an annual occurrence.
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Ha, don't you understand the power of $$$$$?
 
I had Section 101, row H, seats 6-7 at the XL Center for the past few years (right across from the UConn band). Lower level on the side but the view was tough to see the other side of the court. This morning I got section 202, row C in the Peoples Bank Center which is second level but a better view of the entire court, sort of behind the UConn bench. So not as bad as I feared, hopefully the seats will be more comfortable than the ones I had which were a tad narrow for me lol.

The lower level only had available seats at the ends and corners.
 
Alydar said:
What they don't say is that it's the life of a fruit fly.
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LOL, I'm pretty sure in CT there was a ruling that the duration of "lifetime" was 7 years. How long has this seat selection been going on? It's probably close to 5 years, give or take.
 
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