I saw news on the Internet that tickets for the WTT Beijing Grand Slam could not be sold. This matter is also on the hot search.
Two of the top four hot searches on the sports list are about WTT. And it's all about the news that the WTT Beijing Grand Slam can't sell tickets.
Seeing this news, it was actually quite unexpected. Because at the end of August, some people said that tickets for the Beijing Grand Slam were hard to find, and the tickets were sold out after only 5 minutes.
Why is it only 10 days later, and it was revealed that the tickets could not be sold? Isn't that contradictory?
After reading the relevant reports, the information before and after is not contradictory. The tickets sold at the end of August are tickets for the singles final. Although tickets for the singles final are very expensive, they are the most exciting and the number of tickets is not much. Fans who like to watch table tennis matches naturally don't want to miss the singles final. So when the singles final tickets came out, they were sold out immediately.
Tickets for other performances are not very good. Mixed doubles tickets, in particular, are even more difficult to sell. The main reason is that the Shatou combination does not participate in the mixed doubles competition, and Lin Shidong/Kuo Man participates in the mixed doubles competition instead. This is naturally a little disappointed for fans who like Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, and they are reluctant to spend money to buy tickets for mixed doubles matches.
However, in the table tennis competition held in China, the ball market is the best. Every time a tournament is held in Japan, the number of people watching it is particularly large. Especially the competitions in which the national table tennis participated, were almost full.
Why did the Beijing Grand Slam go cold this time? This is the first time that China has hosted a WTT Grand Slam.
Netizens left messages one after another, expressing their opinions. There are three main points.
First, tickets are too expensive.
Tickets for the Beijing Grand Slam are too expensive. The most expensive reached 1688 yuan. And there are also some park tickets, which also cost dozens of yuan. Park tickets are also required to watch the big screen in the park outside the venue. The park also sells merchandise, which are also expensive. The World Table Tennis Federation has hollowed out its efforts to make money from Chinese fans.
Second, buying a ticket is like opening a blind box.
In this event, some fans reported that the players' blind boxes, the number of games were blind boxes, and the stadium was blind boxes. That is, if you buy a ticket, you may not be able to see the game of your favorite player. This is difficult for many fans to accept. After all, many people watch games just to see their favorite players or idols' games. If you spend a high price and can't see the game you want to watch, you will naturally feel at a loss.
Third, worry is defined as a fan circle.
Boycotting the culture of sports circles and rice circles has become a topic that has been frequently discussed recently. Some have been punished for their excesses.
This has made many fans dissatisfied and worried.
Some fans are worried that cheering for their favorite players on the pitch will be defined as fan circle behavior?
Some fans said that they didn't dare to go! Spending real money to watch the game and cheering for the players you like may be beaten into a rice circle. So who wants to go?
In fact, the fan circle is really hard to define, and it can't be beaten to death with a stick. The relationship between players and fans is that of fish and water. The players are the fish, the fans are the water. If there are no fans, no one will go to watch the table tennis match, and no matter how good the table tennis player is, it will lose its meaning.
There's a degree of problem here. As long as the fans do not act excessively, do not interfere with the normal life of the players, and do not affect the safety of the players, there is no problem with normal star chasing, but it is conducive to the development of table tennis.
Of course, it also depends on the individual attitude of the players. Some players like to communicate with the fans, and some players may not be good at communicating with the fans, which will have different effects.
In short, don't escalate things, if you don't allow the fans to cheer for their favorite players, you may lose some fans, which is not a good thing.