On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Bill Corrigan <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>        How does the above square with the following language appearing on
> the College Hockey News (CHN) website:
>
>        "As in past years, priority list status applicants will receive the
> first opportunity. You get on the priority list based upon the amount of
> years in a row you have ordered tickets to the Frozen Four."
>
>        So, if you pass on the 2010 tourney in Detroit, does that miss send
> you back to the tail end of the line (i.e. priority 1) in terms of priority
> status for years beyond 2010 since you will have broken the consecutive
> years guideline for priority status?
>

This appears later in their FAQs:

> *Q:  How do I qualify to become a priority ticket applicant?*
>
> A:  You are considered to be a priority ticket applicant if you have
> purchased a ticket *in your name* through any one of the following means:
>
>    - Directly from the host arena for any event beginning with the 1997
>       championship in Milwaukee through the 2001 Men's Frozen Four in Albany, New
>       York.
>       - Through Worldtek Travel for any event beginning with the 1997
>       championship in Milwaukee through the 2004 Men's Frozen Four in Boston.
>       - Through the current NCAA ticket application process that began
>       with the 2002 Men's Frozen Four in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
>
> Each priority ticket applicant is assigned a priority number. Your priority
> number is based on the number of events that you have attended beginning
> with the 1997 championship. As of the 2009 event in Washington, D.C., the
> maximum priority number that one can achieve is 13. For example, if you
> purchased tickets to the 1998 event in Boston, the 2000 event in Providence,
> the 2003 event in Buffalo, the 2005 event in Columbus and the 2007 event in
> St. Louis, you would be assigned a priority number of 5 out of a possible
> 13.
>
It doesn't sound like consecutive purchases enters into it.

What may happen, though, is that they may not mail reminders of the lottery
for the 2011 FF to people who did not go to the 2010 Frozen Four.

John

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John Edwards
I used to put quotes here.