can someone post the TV viewership in Canada for those first games??? or maybe it isn't up anywhere
World Cup TV ratings
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Chileiceman
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I got $239 tickets for $43 for Sweden-Russia. The guys sitting next to us got theirs for $35.
Chileiceman
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Mostly full for the Sweden game, some odd empty seats here and there. It clearly was not sold-out though. That picture that was posted earlier in the thread was the only section that had a significant amount of empty seats. And it wasn't as bad as the picture makes it out to be. But it was in a pretty noticeable area of the arena.
Sometimes can be available after a few days but usually takes a week or so.
zeke
The Dube Abides
- Mar 14, 2005
- 66,937
- 36,957
Those seats are famous for being empty, especially in the early goings of a period, thanks to them having luxury boxes attached underneath.
Learn some history and some geography. When the west indies cricket teams were originally created in the late 1920s for cricket the included entities nons had achieved independence (or would for the next 30 or so years). As of yet still over a third of the west indies states are not independent (Sint Maarten, US Virgin Islands, some British colonies). When the Cricket world cup was first formulated in 1975 even Trinidad and Tobago, on of the larger west indies sovereigns, was not a republic. The history of these teams is rooted deep in colonialism and have been competing under the colonial flag for nearly a century. Even the term "west indies" as you can imagine was not self-attributed. They also constitute a very small collective of the international market and contribute comparably little to international economics (compared to say Europe). The European team is nominally European but excludes prominent European states while including players from states not part of the EU, and is a slap in the face to the number one geopolitical or economic entity in terms GDP globally. Comparing the two is a blatant gesture of ignorance.
Political statement? Please, they were created for the same reason you'd never have a "Team Washington DC" and a "Team Hawaii" and a "Team Georgia" in a World Cup those aren't countries and neither were any of the west indies countries at the time of the start of international cricket, still many by the advent of the cricket world cup and still over a third today.
zeke
The Dube Abides
- Mar 14, 2005
- 66,937
- 36,957
So they were just part of britain then. Why did they create a fake gimmick team just for the colonies?
Some Britain, some the US, some Netherlands, historically some were under French, Spanish, British, Dutch rule etc and in a more xenophobic era indigenous West Indians were A. not necessarily given citizenship instead often requiring naturalization and B. perhaps less likely to be accepted by the European following at home.
Coinneach
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Ratings disaster in the Czech Republic
We are hockey nation, but World Cup is something strange for us. Even hard hockey fans don't know that something like World Cup exists.
First game against Canada at 2 A.M watched 100k viewers (share only 40%).
We are hockey nation, but World Cup is something strange for us. Even hard hockey fans don't know that something like World Cup exists.
First game against Canada at 2 A.M watched 100k viewers (share only 40%).
MXD
Partying Hard
- Oct 27, 2005
- 52,214
- 18,196
...That's actually not THAT bad for a 2AM game, no?
(looks at Wiki because I don't know exactly Czech Republic's population)
Okay it's about what I expected, maybe 1M more.
Exactly. Except the "Europe" team in the WCH is not an EU team.
This is EU minus the countries that the NHL on its own accord decided are lucrative enough to have their own team.
I would have been a bit more forgiving towards a true EU team, using the European flag, which this is not. The borders of this Euro team are just custom made by the NHL to fit its desired format and max revenue.
Actually do they even play the European Union anthem before the games? I'm pretty sure they don't.
The West Indies cricket team started during British colonial rule when the entire region was considered an administrative entity. When the islands were granted independence, they first became known as the West Indies Federation, before that Federation fell apart and they became separate microstates.
So while the West Indies country does not exist anymore, those islands at least have a common cultural and political history.
The NHL has done things tastelessly without any regard for either.
Please, you should know that the Britons have a peculiar and fluctuating notion of what constitutes a nation within their sphere of influence, which is often reflected in the national teams of traditionally British sports.
National teams for Scotland and Wales today, national teams for the Dominions of Canada before it became independent, national team for Hong Kong...
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Toronto 'sold out' every game of the WJHC just like they 'sold out' every game of this tournament. Everyone bought packages to see Canada and are now getting crushed on the re-sale of the other games.
I bought tickets on various sites to US/Europe, NA/Finland, Finland/Sweden and Czech/USA. Combined 'face' on the tickets for the four games is $570. I paid $82 (CAD, post fees). And could have probably paid $20-30 less if I waited it out a bit more.
Bixby Snyder
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If USA doesn't advance and the ratings on ESPN tank as they surely will you can say good-bye to this tournament happening again in 4 years.
The crazy thing is the Canada games aren't really doing that well on the secondary market either. On Stubhub Canada-USA currently has 2,500-3,000 tickets available and prices are barely treading water and Canada-Europe has well over 4,000 tickets available and prices have fallen well below retail.
For the NHL/PA it is because those tickets have already been sold for big $, it's the secondary/resale market that is getting killed. The way things are going this tournament might single handedly bankrupt the ticket broker/scalper industry in Toronto... So I guess that's a positive.
TheBeastCoast
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Toronto st Michaels majors. Gone
Brampton Battalion. Gone
Mississauga Ice Dogs. Gone (new team back in Mississauga doesn't get any fan support, really)
Marlies. Not a big following
Leafs. I have never paid less than $150 for a ticket. Ever. That's top row, upper bowl, weekday game, lousy opponent. The secondary resale market is disgusting in Toronto. But prices will Never improve because leaf fans are easily the most loyal fans in all of North American sports. We will always fill the building
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