For various reasons, we weren't able to make it to Omaha this week but have rooms reserved in the event we are blessed to make it to the championship series. I was planning to hold out as long as possible to get tickets for this weekend but want to get things in order. What is the best plan of action for championship series tickets? Buy now or wait a bit longer?

Congratulations, it's now your fault if something goes wrong.

Im watching this for advise… if ags make it, I'm gonna aim hard to take my boys north and find 3 spots in the stadium. Even if it's SRO or nosebleeds, just want to get us there but not break the bank.

I will offer my experience from this past weekend.

First, I read all available info on texags in regards to purchasing tickets. Most, if not all advice, was to wait as long as possible to purchase. I did exactly that.

We arrived in Omaha without tickets, just in time for the Kentucky/NC State game. As we were walking to the gate at first pitch, tickets on all of the ticket resellers were dropping. I can't speak about the scalpers as we did not even approach them. One of us was sourcing tickets on Ticketmaster, another Stub Hub and another Seat Geek. Ticketmaster appeared to be the official reseller as the CWS website takes you there.

We found $30/seat tickets, 2nd row from field, first base side, ground level, directly in line with the right fielder. We were on the end of the aisle and seats were awesome. About $150 after all of the fees. Ticketmaster by far had the lowest fees. Don't know if that is always the case but at this event, they did.

We were getting ready to use the same MO for our game with Florida but the rain delay threw us a large curve.

We had planned on getting our tickets as the teams took the field, watching the game and driving an hour or two south to get a hotel cheaper on the route home. The rain delay forced our hand in regards to a hotel and altered the ticket purchase as well.

While waiting out the delay, we began to try and find hotels. As you've seen, they are far higher than normal. Searching all of the hotel browsers, the lowest for a place that wasn't third world was about $250.00. I happened to go to the Choice Hotels page and found a Quality Inn 12 miles away for $189, 2 queen beds. Ratings were good, hotel was adequate, glad we didn't spend big bucks after such a late night just for a short sleep, but it was filled with Florida Gator fans. I'm sure they liked our Aggie gear at breakfast! The rain delay probably caused some last minute cancellations or flights that affected the hotels.

However, the ticket purchasing got quite hairy. We were finding tickets dropping like rocks. We waited until they took the field as before, had $20 seats lined up but for some reason, the resellers quit selling immediately as it started. That caused our transactions to fail, forced us to attempt extremely pricey ticket purchases but in the end, those failed also. We ended up walking to the ticket booth, buying $35 standing room only tickets.Our family of four got in the gate for $140. My family found vacant, unfilled seats after about an hour of standing and people leaving due to the late start. I stood for the entire game as any good Ag should but enjoyed myself by walking around the entire stadium and watching the game from different locations. They had a food/drink rail or bar for lack of better terms around most of the stadium behind the last row of seats. Handy to lean on, place your food or phone. Not an unpleasant experience. Also, Gator fans Suck.

In hindsight I would do some things differently. I would purchase the last game of the day tickets before the game actually starts to prevent not being able to complete the transactions. We actually checked this the next day for 2nd game tickets and they did not cut off. Our only takeaway from that is that it must've been due to the extremely late start. Also, any kind of weather delay/game postponement can leave you in a pickle. So a backup plan is a good idea. We would not have gotten to see the Aggies play at all if the game would not have been played or at least started by 10am the next day.

But yes, not purchasing anything before going can be done. Not without some level of stress but it was nothing that bad. We only ended up spending about $479.00 for 4 of us to watch 2 games with an overnight hotel stay.

That being said, it may all go out the window if 2 large schools with huge fanbases like A&M and Tennessee make the finals. Both fanbases travel well and I am sure, will be there in force. But the other teams will be gone so that may be a wash.

Hope that helps and sorry for the long winded story. And, when we win our next game, I may be doing this all over again. Happily!

I don't know about TM, but having sold tickets on Seatgeak in the past I have seen they won't let you modify your listing after the official start of the game. That plus the late start may have messed up last minute ticket purchases for the FL game.

Thanks for sharing your experience in so much detail for others coming to Omaha!

Appreciate the advice and I will take all blame if things go south. I tried to word the post to the best of my ability to keep it somewhat general and avoid the jinx! I've since knocked on wood, as well.

I made the trip back in 2022 and we bought immediately prior to the start of the games without any issues. We left after our Wednesday loss to OU so I have no prior experience with buying tickets for the final weekend. Curious if anyone has any thoughts on ticket availability after six teams are out. I'm guessing tickets become available but at what cost?

Looking on the CWS app at the 'tickets ' section and keep in mind it's a resale, the cheapest ticket for Game 1 of finals with fees was $220 dollars n the lower level but still filtered as cheapest.

Not what I was expecting. I would think you could buy tickets at the stadium from the ticket booth with no problem

I went to Rosenblatt 3 times and loved it for all but the ticket system was stressful and that old general admission standing in line for hours was awful.

I have not been to the new stadium.

General Admission standing room only tickets were always available for each game for $35. It was very easy and enjoyable to stand and/or walk around the stadium until around the 3 inning and then there were always a multitude of open seats available to sit in. Sure someone could come kick you out if they came to sit in those seats, but that never happened and there are no ushers enforcing seatings.

I'm also hoping for a good reason to drive to Omaha this weekend. No current reservations or tickets…so we shall see

OilManAg91 said:

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General Admission standing room only tickets were always available for each game for $35. It was very easy and enjoyable to stand and/or walk around the stadium until around the 3 inning and then there were always a multitude of open seats available to sit in. Sure someone could come kick you out if they came to sit in those seats, but that never happened and there are no ushers enforcing seatings.

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Thanks, that information alone will be helpful to someone here. We did not know that SRO tickets were always available for $35. It was our first time there. We would have stressed far less. And that was our experience as well. No ushers to be seen and seats to be had that no one showed up for.

So SRO tickets for Finals are $35? How's the view from SRO outfield/ baselines?

tkag said:

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So SRO tickets for Finals are $35? How's the view from SRO outfield/ baselines?

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I would have to defer to OilMan for the finals. I have never been. The web site may address. They were for the early rounds.

The view was fine. The sections are fairly short so you are not terribly far away. You can't see plays near the wall though. My family was sitting in the section Jace made the catch on and could not tell if he caught it. I happened to be in SRO for left field and saw it.

Watching this thread. I'm driving up with my sons if we make the finals.

I don't know this for certain, but I thought I read somewhere that SRO tickets were only available after regular ones sold out.

Flying up Sat morning…be in Omaha at 3:00…hopefully sitting in seats at 6!!!!!

Watching Ticketmaster for the weekend. Does anyone know if those prices drop for the final like the games leading up

If it's Tenn/A&M and both fan bases come up like I expect them to the market will be pretty hot and I'm sure have a high floor (people traveling all the way up there will want to go to the games and a lot of people "waiting it out").

Haven't you seen what happens plan to parade too early?

When have we been this close to a national title opportunity in the past 85 yrs tho in any sport that matters? We haven't had any chances to plan the parade early …. Just sayin.

How are home and visitor teams decided for the final 3 game series?

I believe higher seed is home first game, switches for game 2, coin flip if game 3 is needed.

trouble said:

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I believe higher seed is home first game, switches for game 2, coin flip if game 3 is needed.

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This is correct.

I contacted the stadium ticket office this am.

tonytx is correct. SRO tickets are only sold AFTER the other seats sell out.

They are available when that happens, even in the finals.
I was told that they can only be sold for each particular game, the day of the game. You cannot pre-purchase for another day.

I specifically asked if they had seen them sell out for the finals. She said that they have sold out before but then modified that to say that they didn't really sell out but it is dependent on stadium capacity. It is more of a fire code issue. She said that entry has sometimes been paused, they assess, then allow more people in.

I obviously do not want to mislead anyone. There is a risk going there without anything pre-purchased the way that I did. And it was not the finals. The risk is that you will drive (or fly) 800-900 miles and have to watch the game from across the street in a sports bar. If you are ok with that risk, by all means, do it.

If you are the type that needs to know you have a spot before you leave, I recommend that you take that route. I was in this camp and was nervous but had 2 really bright adult children Aggie students assuring me that they could get it done. They did.

I also believe that there is going to be an abnormally high demand for the finals and seating will be at a premium.

Reminder that we won't know home/away until the finals are set.

If we win, we would be away team in game 1 vs. Tennessee and home team in game 1 vs. anyone else.

Awesome post and thank you for your time and help!

Current prices are insane

Let's hope we win today and Tenn loses. Best case scenario for our and opponent's pitching staff and gives us first shot at finals seating and one less game at these crazy ticket prices

Charlie Moran said:

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Let's hope we win today and Tenn loses. Best case scenario for our and opponent's pitching staff and gives us first shot at finals seating and one less game at these crazy ticket prices

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Except if that happens, we won't know if we're home or away for another 24 hours.

If Tennessee wins today, they are home for game 1. And away for game 2.

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I believe higher seed is home first game, switches for game 2, coin flip if game 3 is needed.

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No coin flip, higher-seeded is automatically home if there is a game three.

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The Division I Baseball Committee has determined that for the MCWS Finals (championship series), the better seeded team will be the home team in MCWS Finals Games 1 and 3 (if necessary). The lesser seeded team will be the home team in MCWS Finals Game 2.

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Thank you

tonytx05 said:

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trouble said:

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I believe higher seed is home first game, switches for game 2, coin flip if game 3 is needed.

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No coin flip, higher-seeded is automatically home if there is a game three.

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The Division I Baseball Committee has determined that for the MCWS Finals (championship series), the better seeded team will be the home team in MCWS Finals Games 1 and 3 (if necessary). The lesser seeded team will be the home team in MCWS Finals Game 2.

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When did this change? Very good to know.

aginlakeway said:

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tonytx05 said:

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trouble said:

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I believe higher seed is home first game, switches for game 2, coin flip if game 3 is needed.

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No coin flip, higher-seeded is automatically home if there is a game three.

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The Division I Baseball Committee has determined that for the MCWS Finals (championship series), the better seeded team will be the home team in MCWS Finals Games 1 and 3 (if necessary). The lesser seeded team will be the home team in MCWS Finals Game 2.

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When did this change? Very good to know.

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That is a quote from the 2024 MCWS Participant Manual, page 27. The next paragraph explains what happens when both teams in the finals are equally seeded.

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If both teams advancing to the MCWS Finals are equally seeded (e.g., both were number two regional seeds), then a coin flip will determine the home team for MCWS Finals Game 1, with the loser of the coin flip being the home team in MCWS Finals Game 2. An additional coin flip will take place to determine the home team for MCWS Finals Game 3 (if necessary).

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Which doesn't matter because no teams left are equally seeded.