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I am not sure this is a MSU ticket office problem. I believe the Ballena Technology people that run the program during the reseating are the problem. It took me 3 hours last night to get my order to go thru. That was not fun at 3am.

I too would like to know how often this will happen..........????????

Tritongreen.........have yours been released yet?
Curious to know what the lag is.......or if it is something else.

from another poster who spoke to the ticket office it is probable gonna be a yearly option.

Just changing or picking new seats that were purchased prior to the May deadline.

I do wonder if they will use this for future ticket purchases, didn't for basketball when they implemented the same system. I hate the "BEST AVAILABLE" option. Seems like it would be easy to convert both sports over to a system like this for picking tickets,

No, my tickets were never released. However, I am seeing seats that are being released so it is working to some extent.

Some tips from my experience.

Lots of activity at midnight. You could see things dropping off and adding back in real time. If you don't see something in a section you want, just hang out for a half our or so while people make their selections. Two of my old seats appeared about 5 minutes after I ejected them. They were picked up shortly after.

There's a 30 minute limit on your cart. Don't wait until the last seconds to finalize. You've got a few additional screens to go through before your cart expires. Leave a few minutes.

If you have multiple seats and want to hold on to only some of them, after you finalize you can check mark them. This wasn't clear to me, I figured I could add back my seats during the selection, but my seats were unavailable to me. I had to check them in the last steps to keep them. A little weird.

Similarly, be sure uncheck the seats you don't want. Not sure what happens if you keep your old and new checked in the final steps, but I wouldn't risk a big bill or the selection getting messed up.

The purple held seats popped up as soon as I initiated the process. There were a lot of purple that never expired during my session. Not sure what that's about, but waiting around for purple to open might be a waste of time.

The purple is pretty much indistinguishable from red. That's a really bad color combo. Add in the green for open, if you have any type of color blindness, your fucked. LOL. So, basically ignore the purple, I guess. If you can even see it.

In the morning, there were substantially better seats available in my section. FUUUUUU! Do yourself a favor and once you select, don't go back.

Overall a cool system. I hope they do it every year or at least periodically. It's a good motivator for donations and lets people move around a little with ease.

POW! section 123 row 3...been waiting since sunday for something like this to open up...

Thanks...I am pumped!

I'm shooting myself in the foot here but it is worth staying up until midnight. People drop great seats every night when they decide to move around. It's not just what is available prior to the time slot.

Haha I may be staying up after all!
I have 4 in section 20 row 13 on the aisle so happy even if I don't improve

Anybody get their Spartan Fund statement to pay for their seating fee?

"The Spartan Fund will send you a statement for any required scholarship seating gifts for your new seating"

I just logged in and the changes are reflected on my account. I changed Saturday night.

I was considering a move up to a higher per-ticket section. I have made a higher donation this year that would cover the extra cost. I called the ticket office to confirm that this was covered and they said it should be but in case I see an amount owing in my account that I should call them to explain and have it removed.