ifm wrote:No they haven't, they are slower is all.
Does it matter how long it takes to sell out?
Well for you it does but i mean for everyone else.
They have sold hundreds less in the same amount of time, final didnt sell out last year and certainly wont this year based on the above.
Only sessions that sold out last year was the first weekend, semi final session, and the Thursday/Friday evening sessions. Thats it. The other midweek evenings had as much as 40% spare seating. As for the afternoons, pfft.
Gone are the halcyon days of this:
Lakeside SOLD-OUT YET AGAIN!
5th December 2002
THE EMBASSY WORLD PROFESSIONAL DARTS CHAMPIONSHIPS will once again have capacity audiences for every single one of its nine days at Lakeside Country Club, – the true home of World Darts – from January 4th to 12th, 2003. The box-office became so inundated with ticket applications that it had to close the shutters at the end of September.
“The demand, as always, has been simply incredible”, says BDO PR Consultant Robert Holmes. “Many fans have booked the entire week as a darts holiday, others have gone for the last four days, while the rest have managed to get single sessions.
“Lakeside has operated a system of priorities for bookings in order to keep pace with the huge numbers of ticket applications. But the deluge was bigger than even they could have anticipated! They had to suspend telephone bookings because the staff simply couldn’t cope with the huge number of calls coming in day and night. Mind you, they weren’t complaining. It’s a nice problem to have!
“As the country’s leading cabaret club, Lakeside is used to having superstar bill-toppers, but they are the first to admit that there isn’t a bill-topper around that can beat the Embassy for box-office business”.
