<p>Is it a lottery, is everyone able to get tickets that want them?</p>
<p>Stand in line; first come first serve</p>
<p>for the whole season or one game at a time?
And is there any chance to get tickets to UNC Games?</p>
<p>stand in a line, for a really long period of time.
Seeing how the Carolina game is going to be in March I believe, that’ll be a 2 month line exactly</p>
<p>For the UNC game you have to camp out. You MIGHT get in by waiting in line but I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt it. For all other games you stand in line. </p>
<p>For ACC games and other big games they will hand out wristbands the night before the game. So you wait in line for a wristband. For smaller games they just line up before the game.</p>
<p>If you want to go to the UNC game you camp out for 2-3 months depending on when the game is. Or you become friends with someone who has donated enough money to Duke to purchase those tickets.</p>
<p>For UNC, you do NOT need to camp out for 2-3 months. You can if you want, though. Blue tenting gets capped at 50 tents, and then the remaining 50 tents are subject to “white tenting” rules, which only lasts 1.5 weeks. During that, you need 2 people in tent at night and 1 during the day. The last 48 hrs are personal checks, and everybody in your tent (up to 12 people) needs to make 3 out of 5. So, in the end you spend about 3 nights in a tent and maybe 8 hours during the day. Not bad at all. White tenting gets capped at 100. So, that’s only 1200 people total. Student section seats 1500-1900 depending on what Fire Marshall is on duty. Thus, every year people get in from the walk-up line, which forms 48 hrs prior to the game.</p>
<p>One other game besides UNC is also tenting. Pretty much all other games, if you get in line 1.5 hr before tipoff, you’ll get in. Most games you can get in 15 minutes prior to tipoff if you don’t care what seat you have. It’s not a brutal as people make it out to be. And, yeah, as stated above games during the week they hand out wristbands the night before then you need to show up 90 minutes before gametime to get it your alloted group. Tenting only counts for the 2 games…You never get a physical ticket; just show your student ID and they swipe it when you enter.</p>
<p>For later.</p>
<p>I think bluedog got it mostly right, but I just wanted to add a few things that were ambiguous or slightly off. </p>
<p>White tenting is a good alternative if you don’t want to blue tent, which sadly is 2 months for you freshmen next year because the home UNC game is in March. I’ve done both 1 and 2 months, and while it does warm up around the end of February, having to go to the tent does get fairly old around that same time. However, it is important to note that not all the groups that want to white tent are allowed to, and the selection system for white tenting is not that simple. This is especially true next year again due to the 2-month blue tent and a lot of people are less apt to tent for that long.</p>
<p>The system boils down to knowing the geography of Duke, driving, running, and some luck. At a pre-specified time, the line monitors post the location of the signup that can be anywhere on campus. For instance two years ago it was the Hart House (do you know what that is?) and last year it was a research building that’s not even on Duke Maps. So you have a person sitting by a computer and the rest of your prospective tent scattered with cars, bikes, etc waiting. When you get the call the closest person runs as fast as possible to the place and the first 50 (or fewer depending on the number of blue tents which may exceed 50) groups get in. Most people do not. The system favors people who are familiar with Duke and people with cars so if you do choose to white tent, be sure to get in tents with these people. The only sure way to get a tent is to blue tent. </p>
<p>Lastly, just to clarify, when white tenting starts, all blue tents change to white tents and follow white tenting rules. Personal checks are not 48 hours before the game but usually the weekend (Fri, Sat) before. There are 5 checks on two nights, but usually the line monitors are nice enough to do 3 in the first night so you can get them all over with and sleep the second night. In addition you’ll probably be at K-ville anyway because there are huge parties there due to everybody needing to be there. </p>
<p>If you do blue tent, however, and are organized, you will end up with very good “seats” because many, many tents do drop out due to failed tent checks and tent failures (people getting super mad at each other). In then end, you can expect to move up 10-15 spots depending on where you are to start… I remember my tent was high 30s to start and moved to 22 one year. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>(Btw, Hart House is where President Brodhead lives. Now do you know where that is?)</p>
<p>“good alternative if you don’t want to blue tent, which sadly is 2 months for you freshmen next year because the home UNC game is in March.”</p>
<p>Is something different when your not a freshman?</p>
<p>Shrinkrap: Nah. Freshmen are under the same rules as everyone else. </p>
<p>It’s just that the majority of people who blue-tent tend to be freshmen. It’s sort of first-year tradition. K-Ville goes absolutely crazy as it gets closer to game date. It’s like a never-ending party with you, your best friends, and nearly a thousand fellow tenters.</p>
<p>Sorry Shrinkrap, I was not clear about that. It is not 2 months because you’re a first year student, but because of the year. Duke and UNC play two games against each other every year alternating between at Duke and at UNC first. The first game is in Feb. and the second game is in Mar. so whenever the game is, tenting ends, right?</p>
<p>Since tenting always begins at the same day each year, the first day of Spring semester (earlier for some who stay through Christmas), the length of blue tenting varies between 1 month (Jan to Feb) and 2 months (Jan to Mar) every other year.</p>
<p>The upcoming year (Fall 2009) has Duke playing at UNC first, so tenting is for 2 months. I was lucky in that my first year, Fall 2006, it was only 1 month. Unfortunately it was bitterly cold that year so I guess it balances out?</p>
<p>Oh, I see. My D was a freshman last year, planned to tent, but didn’t. She is apparently thinking of doing it this year.</p>
<p>I did walkup line with a ton of people i know, got there 2 days early, were 30th group in line or something, I stayed one night, and my partner stayed one night
Some people got in line the morning of and got in, but I think pushed their way in and were obnoxious about it jumping in front of people in cameron (snu or dsig i think)</p>