EmKingsFan4
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Did anyone go to the Meet Mike Bibby last night at Good Guys on Arden?
Meet Mike Bibby
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tubiscus
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It was very poorly done!
The face on the left was not a happy one! My wife and kids waited in line (164th from the front) four hours, only to have the tickets handed out to a huge crush of fans who bolted past the line. Obviously a huge disappointment for them and apparently many more folks who waited with them. Sounds like the Kings PR folks need to work on their crowd control system for these appearances.
The face on the left was not a happy one! My wife and kids waited in line (164th from the front) four hours, only to have the tickets handed out to a huge crush of fans who bolted past the line. Obviously a huge disappointment for them and apparently many more folks who waited with them. Sounds like the Kings PR folks need to work on their crowd control system for these appearances.
kingsfan52miller
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Ya me and my friend drove 30 min to that and when we got there there were like 40 thousand people there and people were leaving. so ya i guess u have to go there like at 6 in the morning 
and it was a bad thing doing it on a work day some of us cant take the day off work
and it was a bad thing doing it on a work day some of us cant take the day off work
kingsfan52miller
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Ya i know, next time we know. Even though i kind of knew already cuz i went to go see vlade last year and we showed up 2 hours early and there were already 100 people in line. but my friend had never been to an apearance so i thought we should at least try.
kingsfan52miller
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no i did not get a chance to go to that one, i wish i could have though. do u guys know if they are going to have anymore in the month of april
iheartBrad
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So i guess people were all over meeting Mike...quite frankly i don't blame them...but im sure it looked like people in line trying to get tickets to see the Backstreet Boys or something...
iheartBrad
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^well back in the day anyway
ImaDougaholic24_7
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iheartBrad said:
I'm going to see them tomorrow LOL. Leaving at 4am for an 8:30pm show. ::shakes head:: See what ya gotta go through when it's general admission. Meet and Greets and everything else like this..you learn your lesson after experience..you MUST get there early or it's not even worth it!
Mike0476
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To set the record straight...
I had a similar experience to the above.
I arrived at about 3:30 p.m. I had no idea how many people were ahead of me but it looked to me to be around 200 people or so. Then a woman standing in line near me said she had counted about 210 people ahead of us, so we all felt good about our chances.
At about 4:45 p.m., a woman who represented the group that hosted the event told us she would return to hand out tickets that would entitle us to meet Bibby and get his autograph. Big mistake there because that provided us with false hope and would later upset a lot of parents.
The time had come and gone, yet no tickets for any of us. Turns out all of the tickets were handed out to 300 people already. So, one woman went to see where the last ticket was given out to and how many people were between that person and our group. Basically, we went from about 210th in line to about 350th.
Despite asking the woman who represented the group that hosted the event, she told us she was sorry and that people have no morals and there was nothing she could do about it. When asked why didn't she hand out the tickets earlier when the lines appeared thin, she said she could not do it until after 5 p.m. She then told us we could always try again at another player appearance. That did not get over well with the parents as they brought their children out to meet Bibby and stand in the cold weather for over three hours.
Many people believed that Maloof Sports and Entertainment was behind the event.
Turns out that is not the case.
I decided to contact a MSE employee I had worked with in the past (I was an intern at KHTK Sports 1140am two years ago) and set the record straight.
I was told this was not a Kings-sponsored event. Instead it was done by Bibby's agent and Good Guys, so that probably explains the chaos and why they were unorganized.
I've already e-mailed the marketing department of MSE. Hopefully I will receive a reply from them on this subject matter.
tubiscus said:
I had a similar experience to the above.
I arrived at about 3:30 p.m. I had no idea how many people were ahead of me but it looked to me to be around 200 people or so. Then a woman standing in line near me said she had counted about 210 people ahead of us, so we all felt good about our chances.
At about 4:45 p.m., a woman who represented the group that hosted the event told us she would return to hand out tickets that would entitle us to meet Bibby and get his autograph. Big mistake there because that provided us with false hope and would later upset a lot of parents.
The time had come and gone, yet no tickets for any of us. Turns out all of the tickets were handed out to 300 people already. So, one woman went to see where the last ticket was given out to and how many people were between that person and our group. Basically, we went from about 210th in line to about 350th.
Despite asking the woman who represented the group that hosted the event, she told us she was sorry and that people have no morals and there was nothing she could do about it. When asked why didn't she hand out the tickets earlier when the lines appeared thin, she said she could not do it until after 5 p.m. She then told us we could always try again at another player appearance. That did not get over well with the parents as they brought their children out to meet Bibby and stand in the cold weather for over three hours.
Many people believed that Maloof Sports and Entertainment was behind the event.
Turns out that is not the case.
I decided to contact a MSE employee I had worked with in the past (I was an intern at KHTK Sports 1140am two years ago) and set the record straight.
I was told this was not a Kings-sponsored event. Instead it was done by Bibby's agent and Good Guys, so that probably explains the chaos and why they were unorganized.
I've already e-mailed the marketing department of MSE. Hopefully I will receive a reply from them on this subject matter.
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