Notes about United Center/First Dance before Presale ended and began (Patreon)

11:16PM represents the time the ticket map was taken down last night. I did not expect my script to keep running (as I had to bring my laptop somewhere else with me and lost internet connection during my commute) but I left my browser open so I could keep that timestamp around. Interestingly enough, the script picked right back up once the ticket map went live. Here's the thing; if I would've refreshed the browser or done anything to it, I would've lost this opportunity but because I left it in its exact state and my script kept running, I think I was able to capture the number of tickets saved for today (I guess I know what I'll be doing for the next big presale). As noted in my first post, the first count I could get was 1,020 available tickets and several hundred were ahead of me (in another browser I had 2,000+ ahead of me but was able to get in with about 500-600 people ahead of me in another browser/account). I don't recall if Dave announced the 12K figure he received before or after the new seats were added late Friday. Either way, if you add in the 1,450 figure (that came available today) to 12K and then some consider some of those new seats, it gets you in the ballpark of my final estimate for today:

Tickets Distributed => 13,654

I couldn't give a good estimate after the initial presale due to not knowing if the 200s had been fully opened or not. After today I know they were not. I'm still not convinced they were opened at all during the presale and somehow ended up on Stubhub. Also, I had some questions about the hard camera sections (if they'd use all 4 or just 2). But after cross referencing with what is available on Stubhub, it paints a clear picture of what was actually opened. I know some people expected/wanted a much bigger number but one thing fans have to get used to is more realistic numbers than the exaggerated numbers promotions gave in the past. This building is pretty predictable for what it can hold for concerts, basketball games and hockey games. Suite numbers can inflate the totals but unfortunately Ticketmaster does not give that information. No matter how you slice it, it was a great day for AEW. Anyone else catch CM Punk's Instagram stories with the pictures of the baseball/football stadiums in Chicago?