Eli5: how did the ticketing issue with the COPA America Final occur on such a large scale compared to other major sporting events that occur in the US?

Question

We have multiple events throughout the year where fans travel across the country for a game, but this sort of issue doesn’t happen with those. Sure ppl resell old tickets or other scams but not where thousands are left outside the gate.

Is the issue on the mgmt company over COPA? Cultutal differences with live events and scamming? We don’t see hundreds to a low thousand trying to push their way into a stadium at a finals or championship game for other events due to ticketing issues.

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Answer 1

I don’t know enough to know for sure but from my understanding the Copa team turned down help from the US federation and the hard rock facility itself in running game day ops.

The copa mgmt was wildly underprepared and that in combo with a crowd willing to just plow past the limited security led to the mess you saw.