So most of the information relating to this post has been deleted but
Earlier there were posts About how many tickets have been sold
For Ladies/women’s long.
I was just told by someone in a position to know the total sold for tonight Is - 5,000
5000. In an arena that seats close to 20k and in a state not scared of covid.
I think that pretty much tells us all I need to know about where figure skating is and why you’re not on primetime major networks every night
Anecdotally, when i have gone to Nationals the overwhelming majority of the crowd seems to not be local. This may have been different at this Nationals. I’ve never been to Nashville. Maybe Scott Hamilton is well known there.
For myself, the tickets were so expensive (roughly twice what they were in Greensboro) that I was unable to purchase an all event ticket. So prices may have played a part.
Also anecdotally - a ton of people on this board, including myself, cancelled due to Covid.
They normally only sell the bottom half of the arena at US Nationals. The only time I’ve seen the whole arena being sold was at Worlds and the top half was pretty empty there.