Malmö is hosting ESC 2013

[Nike]

Ticket prices right now(this is probably second hand)

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The lowest price right now is 4995 SEK(578.70 Euro) That's probably the worst seats.

The best seat right now is 5995 SEK(694.56 Euro).

This is how it will look! Few tickets and then it will be insane prices. The big black market in Sweden will work very hard with the tickets.

 

[Sim]

^^

you're just kidding yes?
If that's true, I'll watch at home

 

[Matt]

We have websites like that as well. It was just decided that the contest would be held in Malmo and they already have the exact seating arrangement and costs? No way. They are trying to sell you tickets that don't exist yet and charge you a crazy amount of money. The broadcaster & EBU will eventually announce the official website that is going to sell the tickets for the actual price.

The same thing happened to me here. I was looking for tickets for a particular musical and I found some websites trying to charge you hundreds of dollars before the official theatre released any info. It turned out that the tickets were less than a hundred bucks so some fools actually ended up buying these tickets and paid a fortune.

 

[AdelAdel]

Were people complaining this much when Malmo hosted the 1992 contest?

 

[Matt]

Were people complaining this much when Malmo hosted the 1992 contest?

Who knows but that was over 20 years ago when the contest was much smaller so it's not really a fair comparism.

 

[Stargazer]

The 1992 contest was held at Malmö Isstadion with a capacity of around 5,000 seats. Back then all the contests were held at small venues, so there was never that issue. It's only now that we're used to gigantic arenas that we know what we'll be missing out on. Back then there wasn't any bridge between Denmark and Sweden either, so all international guests would have traveled to Sweden and stayed there most likely. It's not really comparable.

 

[Narmina]

good luck to Malmo!

 

[EdvinasLTU]

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[yulichka]

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"In Malmo, it becomes the smallest Eurovision finals since 2002. Are you upset too?"
Even smaller than in Kyiv?

 

[Nike]

"In Malmo, it becomes the smallest Eurovision finals since 2002. Are you upset too?"
Even smaller than in Kyiv?

Well I don't think Malmö 2013 will be much bigger than Kiev 2004. The half part of the seats will disappear then we are talking about 7, 500 seats. That's too small for Sweden when Globen is too small for MF. Swedes know of difficult it is to get tickets to MF. It will be IMPOSSIBLE to get tickets to ESC 2013.

 

[EdvinasLTU]

"In Malmo, it becomes the smallest Eurovision finals since 2002. Are you upset too?"
Even smaller than in Kyiv?

Eurovision 2002 - 6,400 (The capacity of Saku Suurhall in Tallinn will only be for 6,400 visitors however, over half of this, 4,400 will be reserved for the organisers including delegates. 1,500 will be on sale to the public to people in Estonia via an auction from 12 December 2001, while the other 500 tickets will be on a first come first server bases for the rest of the World. Dress rehearsal goes on sale on 28 January 2002. Only 610 tickets were sold to Estonian.)
Eurovision 2003 - 6,000 (not sure)
Eurovision 2004 - 10,000
Eurovision 2005 - 6,000 and 2,000 for press
Eurovision 2006 - 15,000
Eurovision 2007 - 10,000 (not sure)
Eurovision 2008 - 20,000
Eurovision 2009 - 30,000
Eurovision 2010 - 20,000
Eurovision 2011 - 35,000
Eurovision 2012 - 16,000

 

[marita255]

I am so disappointed for Sweden. I was hoping for Friends arena in Stockholm. I believed that it will be the best Eurovision ever! But i think not.. Why they chose Malmo? :?

 

[Nike]

22, 000 visitors at the weekly show "Allsång på Skansen" this evening and SVT give much bigger ESC to an arena which can't take more than 7,500 to ESC?? Nice work, SVT!!

 

[Mickey]

22, 000 visitors at the weekly show "Allsång på Skansen" this evening and SVT give much bigger ESC to an arena which can't take more than 7,500 to ESC?? Nice work, SVT!!

Do they really fit that many in? The Soliden stage at Skansen seemed far too small to fit that many people when I was there. I know it's mostly standing, but still.

 

[Nike]

Do they really fit that many in? The Soliden stage at Skansen seemed far too small to fit that many people when I was there. I know it's mostly standing, but still.

Yes, Expressen said it was 22,000 visitors at "Allsång på Skansen" tonight.

 

[FilipFromSweden]

I must say i'm so dissapointed for many, many reasons.

1. I live in a city like 50 minutes away from Stockholm with a car. I would have gotten tickets and seen the final, or maybe one of the semifinals. But since Malmö is far away from me (like, 8h with car?) and i have school and all that day after. Well.. i hate Malmö now. Ruined my dream to go see Eurovision in my home country

2. Malmö arena will only take up to 13.000 and i'm afraid that the stage will look like it did in Helsinki 2007 :? :? :? that scares me. And i'm afraid it will. I hope it may look a bit like the Oslo stage if we are lucky.

3. FML .. Melodifestivalen (National Final for Sweden) takes up to 16.000 people under the grand final. And ESC here will only take up to 13.000????? :evil:

4. Friends Arena would have been better. People would have seen the beautiful city and the cool new big arena. Maybe it would have been like in Moscow 2009? or Dusseldorf 2011? Well sad.. it will be Helsinki 2007.. grrrr...., we could have had a big stage and all that. And more people would have had the big chance to see it! But sadly SVT is so stupid. EBU does not like that Eurovision gets bigger and bigger with bigger arenas, stages etc. And when its Swedens time yeah, lets draw it back! ....... Economy is a big issue in this, but newspaper have released that SVT could have gotten Friends Arena for only half of the price (and if i owned it, FOR FREE!)

5. Its like.. when you go to other european citys and have Eurovision (like in Germany, Azerbadzjan, Serbia, RUSSIA and Greece) they have all these big stages and sutch. But when you come to us in the nordic countrys (Finland, Norway) the stage is ofc. smaller then past year. Design a bit ugglier etc. So no one will really wan't to return to Nordic Europe if Sweden don't pull of a MONSTER show.

 

[Mickey]

Yes, Expressen said it was 22,000 visitors at "Allsång på Skansen" tonight.

I guess my judgement of crowds is not what it should be. Unless, the 22,000 is just the number they let into Skansen, of which the Soliden stage is only a very small part. At any rate, only a fraction of those people would be seated and the concert is in no way comparable with ESC.

 

[Nike]

I guess my judgement of crowds is not what it should be. Unless, the 22,000 is just the number they let into Skansen, of which the Soliden stage is only a very small part. At any rate, only a fraction of those people would be seated and the concert is in no way comparable with ESC.

It was 22.000 to watch Allsång på Skansen.

This show how interest Swedes have in big events. If a the smaller events like this can interest so many people what about ESC then. 10,000 in ESC isn't enough!

 

[Israeliboy]

Still, I'm so sad for this selection. Malmo

 

[Yoni]

22, 000 visitors at the weekly show "Allsång på Skansen" this evening and SVT give much bigger ESC to an arena which can't take more than 7,500 to ESC?? Nice work, SVT!!

I love how the more time goes the more you lower and lower the capacity of the arena

get over the butthurt