Students who managed to get tickets Monday night to the Nov. 26 Oregon Ducks football game against the Arizona Wildcats were forced to return them Tuesday morning.
Tickets for the game were inadvertently released to students Monday night. The tickets were intended to be released Sunday, Nov. 21 at scattered times from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
An e-mail from the ticket distribution website GoDucks.com said that the error was due to men’s basketball student ticket distribution.
University junior Robbie Pestal said a friend’s roommate told him the ticketing system was open for football tickets, and he was able to get one.
“I didn’t know about it in advance,” Pestal said. “I was in the right place at the right time.”
Since fall 2008, students who wanted to attend football games have gone online to load a student ticket on their identification card instead of waiting in line and getting a physical ticket.
This online ticketing system came under fire last year when a number of students were knocked off the system when they tried to get tickets to football games.
Pestal said he didn’t like the current system because it prevented him from receiving football tickets in the past.
“Oh yeah, I hate it. It’s the worst,” he said.
Additionally, the ticket distribution website, GoDucks.com, does not list this error. However, an e-mail was sent from [email protected] at 11:44 a.m. that informed students the tickets they received on Monday night were released falsely, so students would still have to request them on Sunday.
“Since the distribution date has not occurred for the Arizona football game, the student ticket you claimed has been taken out of your account, ” the e-mail read.
Garrett Klassy, the Duck Athletic Fund executive director, could not be reached by deadline.
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This story has been updated to include a lack of response from the athletic department.