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s11r9seat8 said:
We are probably not representative of anything except poor choices, but we sold off our NCAA priority purchase tickets and had to turn around and buy from our school. Tampa was the worst experience in our eleven years - the city, not the games, so we sold out. Tampa gets another chance to offer up something interesting to do...
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Wow. I have to feel you are in the minority. I gone to almost every FF since 1994 and Tampa is definitely in the top 3 if not #1. Nothing to do in sunny Florida? Come on.
 
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Tampa's arena has that great organ, hope to hear an encore of "In a Gadda-Da-Vida."

Tampa Bay Downs is running, I saw Frozen Four fans there the last time the games were in Tampa. Went to Beulah when it was in Columbus, that track isn't there any longer.

I agree with mookie, I hate when it's in Boston.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Tampa is about 2 hours from the swamp. Everglades or Gainesville. Your choice.

Tampa did a pretty great job in 2012. The rink area is quite nice, the city is nice and easy to get around, and the rink itself is modern and quite nice as well.
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Spot on.

I'm interested to see how the locals show. The Bolts have become quite popular, especially during their SCF run last year. Probably a fair amount of people jumping on a bandwagon, but it isn't a lost sport in the city.
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Tell everyone who will listen there are plenty of seats available, both from the box office and on the secondary market. A substantial walk-up sale could make for a fine crowd. That would be great, but I don't expect it.

Instead, I anticipate that the building will be about 3/4 full. Solid enough; and certainly not embarrassingly bad like most of the recent regionals. But definitely a buyer's market on the street.
 
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I think its pretty simple that they went back to Tampa too soon. It seems very odd that they would have gone back to Tampa before going to St. Paul again...and at the very least not alternated between Boston/Tampa Chicago/St. Paul. It made absolutely no sense to me that they went eastern 5 years in a row...makes sense that there is burnout.
 
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s11r9seat8 said:
...Tampa was the worst experience in our eleven years - the city, not the games, so we sold out. Tampa gets another chance to offer up something interesting to do...
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Wow. This really is the first outright negative thing I've heard about the 2012 Tampa FF. Everything posted on this board at the time and everyone I know who was there gave Tampa--the city--overwhelmingly positive reviews, which, I suppose, is one of the reasons it came back so fast.

Are you sure you went to the right Tampa? The one in FL?
 
s11r9seat8 said:
Thanks for putting options out there -
Like i said, poor choices. We like all sorts of museums, chamber music, bluegrass, and skiing. Any combination of those. And yes, we are happy to be this kind of minority too. There was a very good Romare Bearden exhibition at a museum there. The rest was pretty forgettable.
Sunny Florisippiana? meh at best.
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OK, got it. I didn't have chamber music and bluegrass at the top of my favorite Frozen Four activities. :( ;)
 
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s11r9seat8 said:
Thanks for putting options out there -
Like i said, poor choices. We like all sorts of museums, chamber music, bluegrass, and skiing. Any combination of those. And yes, we are happy to be this kind of minority too. There was a very good Romare Bearden exhibition at a museum there. The rest was pretty forgettable.
Sunny Florisippiana? meh at best.
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Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon???
 
Tater said:
OK, got it. I didn't have chamber music and bluegrass at the top of my favorite Frozen Four activities. :( ;)
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Live blues is on the top of my list for next year. :)

But every year there is:

At 14 I had my first mullett
At 15 I had my first beard...
 
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s11r9seat8 said:
And if i have to reinforce my minorinicity - we enjoyed the heck out of Detroit. The Detroit Institute of Art was good enough to justify the whole trip and even offset the games being in the football rink.
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Dude (or dudette): April Fool's isn't until tomorrow.
 
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Big_Ben_M9 said:
I'd like to see Denver host again soon. Probably the only western market that has a chance of hosting again. St. Louis, Columbus, and DC would be cool as well. No idea how things went at these sites the last times they hosted but they're good hockey markets.
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Denver was the worst Frozen Four that I've been too. Extremely disappointing.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Why? I enjoyed it - took a car into as much of the national park as we could. Beautiful.
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Maybe that was my problem. No car. I found very little to do in the area around my hotel. ESPNZone was nice, but you can only drink and hear about things not college hockey for so long.
 
FireKnight said:
Maybe that was my problem. No car. I found very little to do in the area around my hotel. ESPNZone was nice, but you can only drink and hear about things not college hockey for so long.
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There's other things you can do in Denver now. :)
 
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Philly didn't sell out.
Tampa was and will be the best Frozen Four. Should really be there every year.
Nobody cares to visit Boston or St. Paul. Those places offer nothing any other place doesn't.
Do they have an amusement park and coastal beaches?
 
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TheSiouxFan said:
Philly didn't sell out.
Tampa was and will be the best Frozen Four. Should really be there every year.
Nobody cares to visit Boston or St. Paul. Those places offer nothing any other place doesn't.
Do they have an amusement park and coastal beaches?
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Boston does have coastal beaches, but I wouldn't recommend them this time of year. :D

I loved Tampa in 2012 and can't wait to go again next week, but the ticket sales challenges tell me it shouldn't be there every year.
 
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