Fast Pass = Awesome

cydsho

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For us old people, it's just having a ticket and showing it to someone who lets you in. So we're now converting digital to physical.....
Really I'm not complaining it's just weird.
 
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For us old people, it's just having a ticket and showing it to someone who lets you in. So we're now converting digital to physical.....
Really I'm not complaining it's just weird.

I thought the same thing. We've made this push to go digital... now we're taking that digital ticket to go back to a physical means of entry. Mind boggling.

There was also what I would say was *zero* security when entering. Literally did not lose pace in my walk going through the gates. I mean I'm not going to do anything bad but it is a bit suspect to get in that easily.
 

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I park in C1-C2 so the station next to the Hilton ticket office made it super easy to get the wrist band, and getting in the stadium was almost too easy. There was one person standing there who was barely paying attention. Something tells me that isn't going to last if more people start to use it.
Probably shouldn't have said anything :campbell:
 

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If you already scanned your phone you get a fast pass bracelet that all you do is show to the attendant. Nothing to slow the line down and nothing for "security" to check. But if they roll it out to more people they will need many more pre-check stations.

Then at the gate they will need a bag-check line and a no bag line. Works perfectly. Not sure how anyone can ***** about this. Still gives an accurate scan of technology and numbers and you don't have to worry about your phone still having a charge at the end of tailgating.
 
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I thought the same thing. We've made this push to go digital... now we're taking that digital ticket to go back to a physical means of entry. Mind boggling.

There was also what I would say was *zero* security when entering. Literally did not lose pace in my walk going through the gates. I mean I'm not going to do anything bad but it is a bit suspect to get in that easily.
Soon they'll just send out the wrist bands ahead of time to all the season ticket holders, in a big envelope and the wristbands will have photos of players on each one. One for each game and you just tear the one off for the current game. Can't believe nobody's thought of that.
 

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Soon they'll just send out the wrist bands ahead of time to all the season ticket holders, in a big envelope and the wristbands will have photos of players on each one. One for each game and you just tear the one off for the current game. Can't believe nobody's thought of that.
I thought the same thing, but instead of messing around with wrist bands, they could send out rectangular pieces of paper with the game and date printed on them!
 

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I park in C1-C2 so the station next to the Hilton ticket office made it super easy to get the wrist band, and getting in the stadium was almost too easy. There was one person standing there who was barely paying attention. Something tells me that isn't going to last if more people start to use it.

Really smart to use the Hilton ticket office too.
 

2020cy

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Now you ruined it. Keep it on the down low. Now the fast pass line will be longer that the regular line. Nice work
 

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Really smart to use the Hilton ticket office too.

They were setup outside the ticket office when I went & got them. Easiest thing ever, no wait for the wristbands & no wait at the stadium. Sure, it's a little less convenient if you're not tailgating close, but it can be fun to take a few brews for a walk to take in the sites & sounds outside your own tailgate.

Shouldn't be, but I'm surprised so many people are complaining about this.
 

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Obviously some people still struggle with the technology. Fine. But even in a best-case scenario it is still considerably slower than before - perhaps only by a few seconds per ticketholder, but multiply that over thousands of people and the lost time is enormous.

How nobody has thought to allow you to batch up all of your tickets and scan them at once is beyond me.
I am one of those that struggles scanning with my phone, I have them all ready in Google wallet and just hand the person doing the scanning my phone. Not going to hold up the people behind me because of this.
 

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Thought I would try this out. Works pretty darn slick. We went to the S7 location around 9:30. Plenty of staff there. They scan your phone and hand you a wrist band. If I had my wife’s ticket on my phone they would have scanned that and given me another band for her. First time iI’ve never had to stop to get into the game.

Well…. I guess except for the blizzard game against Nebraska back in the early 90’s where they just let you walk in.
 

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I happened to be on the south side of the stadium yesterday so I used the west entrance for the first time ever. It was extremely fast. No crowd at all.

Just wish you could get to the west entrance from the north side without having to walk all around the stadium.
 

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I happened to be on the south side of the stadium yesterday so I used the west entrance for the first time ever. It was extremely fast. No crowd at all.

Just wish you could get to the west entrance from the north side without having to walk all around the stadium.
Just donate more and you can park there...;)o_O:cool: