PBA Finals Game 6 tickets to go on sale October 17

MANILA, Philippines – Tickets for PBA Finals Game 6 will go on sale noontime Monday, October 17, according to league media bureau chief Willie Marcial.

Tickets will be available for purchase via the usual channels at the Smart Araneta Coliseum box office and online at www.ticketnetonline.ph. Game 6 is set for Wednesday, October 19 at 7pm.

Clamor for fans to get their hands on tickets is expected to be high with fan-favorite Barangay Ginebra now just a win away from its first championship in 8 years after taking a 3-2 series lead over the Meralco Bolts on Sunday, October 16.

Game 5’s gate attendance totaled 22,196 despite its near-cancelation due to Typhoon Karen.

Throughout the series there has been high demand for tickets with TicketNet’s website inaccessible at one point before Game 1. Tickets available on the website are normally upper box and general admission seats, prompting some fans to ask questions on social media about ticket allocation.

Dear PBA, care to explain bakit UB at Gen. Ad. lang ang nirelease niyong tickets for the finals? #PAANO

— PRINCESS (@cessmrz) October 6, 2016

pls PBA league be fair to us who was there since elims and now finals
u made it hard for us to buy tickets why coz were Ginebra fans??? https://t.co/VoUfYz5W8z

— lioness grande (@ToMiho4everOFW) October 13, 2016

Marcial explained priority is given to the two participating teams, the 10 other PBA teams, season pass holders, conference pass holders, and privilege card holders.

“Meron pa rin kaunti, nagtitira kami kaunti para sa general public hanggang patron (There’s still a little, we allot some tickets to the general public up until the patron section),” Marcial said of allotting tickets in the lower sections of the Big Dome.

He also explained the varying numbers in gate attendance throughout the finals, saying it lies in the number of SRO or standing room only and general admission tickets released by Araneta.

Sunday night’s 22,000-strong audience included somewhere between 6,000 general admission tickets and around 2 to 3,000 SRO upper A and upper B tickets, Marcial said.

Games 1 and 3 of the series had over 14,000 fans while Game 2 was over 18,000 and Game 4 was under 18,000.

Marcial said it’s the venue that decides whether SRO tickets will be released as it has to secure permission from Quezon City officials in terms of the number of people allowed inside the venue due to safety reasons.

The all-time record for gate attendance at Araneta is at 24,883, set on February 12, 2014 during Game 7 of the semifinals between Ginebra and San Mig Coffee (now Star Hotshots). – Rappler.com