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With all of college basketball’s regular season games completed, the major conferences are holding their championship tournaments!  Seedings have been completed and the tournament games begin this week.  The outcomes determine who will get invited to the Big Dance on Selection Sunday, as well as what their seedings, match ups, and the location of their first games will be!

It’s tip off time!

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Gentlemen (and ladies), start your engines!

The “Super Bowl of Racing,” the Daytona 500, runs tomorrow and kicks off the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup racing season.

Fortunately Team FanSnap has been hard at work, searching the internet for tickets for the entire season and country, from Sonoma to Watkins Glen:

Have a great racing season!

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Still coming down from your Super Bowl high?  Don’t relax yet.

There are four amazing NCAA basketball games coming up this week.  Hopefully you can catch them on TV, or even better if you are in the neighborhood, see them live, in a prelude to next month’s conference championship and NCAA tournaments!

#7 Florida Gators @ #1 Kentucky Wildcats

#11 Georgetown Hoyas @ #2 Syracuse Orange

#10 Kansas Jayhawks @ #6 Baylor Bears

#9 Duke Blue Devils @ #5 North Carolina Tar Heels

It’s tip off time!

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Tiger Woods is coming to the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this week, for the first time since 2002.

Usually when great news hits an event, market prices for the tickets are bid up.  However, we noticed something different with this year’s Pebble Beach PGA event – many ticket owners who would otherwise, are not selling their tickets.  They want to see Tiger.

The good news is we did find an amazingly low number of ticket listings remaining on six ticket sites.  If you want to go, you better lock them up soon…

Tues  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am – Practice Round

Wed  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am – Practice Round

Thu  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Only 170 tickets starting at $70, averaging $100

Fri  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Only 155 tickets starting at $80, averaging $105

Sat  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Only 170 tickets starting at $80, averaging $103

Sun  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Only 265 tickets starting at $80, averaging $108

Grip ‘em and rip ‘em!

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p.s. If you are really in the mood to party, we found a fairway chalet for Sunday being offered on PrimeSport for $440!

Just two games remaining until the Super Bowl!  The AFC and NFC Championships are next Sunday, Jan 22.

Those of you who thought the Packers would repeat, or that the Saints were the hottest team in the NFL?  You were wrong.

Who will win?  Whatever the outcome, you can go to these games to cheer on your team, and even find Super Bowl XLVI tickets as FanSnap has found thousands on the best ticket sites across the web!

AFC Championship: Baltimore Ravens @ New England Patriots

NFC Championship: NY Giants @ San Francisco 49ers

Led by some great defenses and solid QB play, the Ravens, Patriots, Giants, and surprising 49ers are just one game away from playing for the Lombardi Trophy.  Can Tom Brady add to his legacy?  Can Eli Manning pick up a second ring?  Can Ray Lewis lead the decade’s most dominant defense to the promised land again?  Maybe we will even see a Harbaugh brothers title game?

Don’t miss kick off!

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Hard core music fans know that the Houston Livestock and Rodeo is known for much more than horses.  It is one of the largest collections of country and rock performances to happen in the U.S. every year in February and March.  Check out the acts coming this year to Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas!

Feb 28  Houston Rodeo: Alabama

Feb 29  Houston Rodeo : Kid Rock

Mar 1  Houston Rodeo : Lady Antebellum

Mar 2  Houston Rodeo : John Legend

Mar 3  Houston Rodeo: Luke Bryan

Mar 4  Houston Rodeo: Big Time Rush

Mar 5  Houston Rodeo : Eli Young Band

Mar 6  Houston Rodeo : Enrique Iglesias

Mar 7  Houston Rodeo : Blake Shelton

Mar 8  Houston Rodeo : ZZ Top

Mar 9  Houston Rodeo : Reba McEntire

Mar 10  Houston Rodeo : Chris Young

Mar 11  Houston Rodeo : Duelo

Mar 12  Houston Rodeo: Zac Brown Band

Mar 13  Houston Rodeo : Miranda Lambert

Mar 14  Houston Rodeo : The Band Perry

Mar 15  Houston Rodeo : Jason Aldean

Mar 16  Houston Rodeo : Train

Mar 17  Houston Rodeo: Brad Paisley

Mar 18  Houston Rodeo : Alan Jackson

Looks like another great concert season!

Team FanSnap

After some highly entertaining NFL wild card action this week (including record setting Tebow-related tweeting), next week’s match ups are set, and man have we found NFL playoff tickets!

Jan 14  NFC Divisional Playoffs: New Orleans Saints @ San Francisco 49ers

16,000+ tickets averaging $428

Jan 14  AFC Divisional Playoffs: Denver Broncos @ New England Patriots

7,000+ tickets averaging $330

Jan 15  AFC Divisional Playoffs: Houston Texans @ Baltimore Ravens

8,000+ tickets averaging $448

Jan 15  NFC Divisional Playoffs: NY Giants @ Green Bay Packers

8,000+ tickets averaging $311

Who’s your team?

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Sure we know the holidays just passed.  Hopefully your gift was as thoughtful as the one you received.  No?  Here’s your chance to make good, that is, if your “significant other” is an NBA fan.  Valentines Day is little more than month away!  Check out these games played on February 14, and imagine your loved one’s delight:

Washington Wizards @ Portland Trail Blazers

Houston Rockets @ Memphis Grizzlies

Miami Heat @ Indiana Pacers

New York Knicks @ Toronto Raptors

Utah Jazz @ Oklahoma City Thunder

Sacramento Kings @ Chicago Bulls

Phoenix Suns @ Denver Nuggets

San Antonio Spurs @ Detroit Pistons

Atlanta Hawks @ Los Angeles Lakers

As grandma used to say, nothing says love like a nice pre-game dinner and then some pro hoops.  Pucker up for the kiss-cam!

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In the last 48 hours since the NFL playoffs have been set, the football fan forces of supply and demand have been at work.  Despite team bragging rights and fan passion, the numbers don’t lie.  The hottest NFL playoffs ticket?  The Baltimore Ravens AFC Divisional Playoffs games, by far at $439 per ticket.  The cheapest, and maybe the best value?  The Pittsburgh Steelers at the Denver Broncos AFC Wild Card game.  Check back often, and we will keep an eye on the market prices this week to see how they move for you.

Jan 7  AFC Wild Card Playoffs: Cincinnati Bengals @ Houston Texans

14,000+ tickets @ $345 average price/ticket

Jan 7  NFC Wild Card Playoffs: Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints

8,000+ tickets @ $331 average price/ticket

Jan 8  NFC Wild Card Playoffs: Atlanta Falcons @ New York Giants

6,000+ tickets @ $391 average price/ticket

Jan 8  AFC Wild Card Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos

6,000+ tickets @ $273 average price/ticket

Jan 14  NFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ San Francisco 49ers

21,000+ tickets @ $355 average price/ticket

Jan 14  AFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ New England Patriots

3,000+ tickets @ $374 average price/ticket

Jan 15  AFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ Baltimore Ravens

7,000+ tickets @ $439 average price/ticket

Jan 15  NFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ Green Bay Packers

8,000+ tickets @ $363 average price/ticket

Happy New Year!

Team FanSnap

With the completion of the Cowboys-Giants game tonight, the NFL playoff schedule is set,  The Road to the Super Bowl starts this weekend and at FanSnap we have found thousands of tickets for every game!

Jan 7  AFC Wild Card Playoffs: Cincinnati Bengals @ Houston Texans

Jan 7  NFC Wild Card Playoffs: Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints

Jan 8  NFC Wild Card Playoffs: Atlanta Falcons @ New York Giants

Jan 8  AFC Wild Card Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos

Jan 14  NFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ San Francisco 49ers

Jan 14  AFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ New England Patriots

Jan 15  AFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ Baltimore Ravens

Jan 15  NFC Divisional Playoffs: TBD @ Green Bay Packers

Let the Games Begin!

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The NHL’s annual outdoors Winter Classic  has proven to be a huge success and 2012 will be no different with the New York Rangers visiting the Philadelphia Flyers on January 2 at Citizens Bank Park!

There are a huge choice of tickets available on the ticket market. The good news is that market prices have been steadily dropping and are currently averaging $531 per ticket.  Shop carefully using our interactive FanSnap Maps, as at any given point in time we regularly see asking prices vary by as much as 10-50% even for tickets in the same section.  Also, remember to check back often as sellers can change asking prices, and post or take down tickets at any time.

Happy Holidays!

Team FanSnap

2011 saw a resurgence in the concert scene as many hot new artists as well as long time fan favorites hit the road to put on same amazing live shows.  There is nothing like seeing your favorite artist or band live, whether it’s in a intimate club or with 20,000 of your closest friends.  Can you guess what were the most popular concert tours this year?  Here are the most searched-for concert terms on FanSnap in 2011.  How many of these tours did you see?

Check here to see how this list compares with the one from 2010!

Already 2012 appears to be no let down as many new tours have already been announced, from Coldplay to Tom Petty, Beach Boys, Van Halen, Dierks Bentley, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Diamond, Tool, Willie Nelson, T-Pain, as well as many already signed bands for Bamboozle and the Warped Tour!

Happy holidays!

Team FanSnap

p.s. Jon Bon Jovi is still alive

With the Cards win this evening, the matchup is set!  The Cardinals bring their long baseball tradition (and home field advantage, thanks to the NL All Star Game win), and the Texas Rangers return to the World Series for the second year in a row!

The great news for baseball fans is FanSnap has searched the web and found thousands of available World Series tickets for every game!

World Series: Texas Rangers @ St. Louis Cardinals – Home Game 1 – Oct 19

World Series: Texas Rangers @ St. Louis Cardinals – Home Game 2 – Oct 20

World Series: St. Louis Cardinals @ Texas Rangers – Home Game 1- Oct 22

World Series: St. Louis Cardinals @ Texas Rangers – Home Game 2 – Oct 23

World Series: St. Louis Cardinals @ Texas Rangers – Home Game 3 (If Necessary) – Oct 24

World Series: Texas Rangers @ St. Louis Cardinals – Home Game 3 (If Necessary) – Oct 26

World Series: Texas Rangers @ St. Louis Cardinals – Home Game 4 (If Necessary) – Oct 27

Play ball!

Who knew?  See for yourself and check out who’s going.

The MLB League Championship Series match ups and schedule have been set.  Can the Rangers make it back to the World Series?  Hard core Tigers, Brewers, and Cardinals fans in Detroit, Milwaukee, and St Louis dare to think this might be THE year.

And the best news?  Asking prices dropped overnight.  Check out best values and the broadest selection of Brewers – Cards tickets and Rangers – Tigers tickets now on FanSnap.

With the Yankees 10-1 win on Detroit tonight, the ALDS returns to New York for a series-settling game 5 on Thursday night.

A scan of all the leading ticket marketplaces and broker sites shows more than 10,000 listings starting at $45 and averaging $138 a ticket.  Who will move on to battle the Texas Rangers?  Check out all the Tigers @ Yankees tickets on FanSnap and see for yourself, live!

FanSnap allows you to find, compare and get the best ALDS tickets values!

Not that long ago, we all knew where to go to get event tickets. If you got aced out at the box office, you had to take your chances out in front of the venue before the event. In the last few years, however, we’ve seen the rise of a safe and secure ticket resale market. The explosion of choice has been a boon for fans because “sold out” no longer means sold out. And, it’s not just the secondary ticket market where options abound. There are now many more companies powering box offices — Ticketmaster/Live Nation, Paciolan, Veritix, Tickets.com, Outbox, Ticketfly, etc.. All these options, while great in that they afford fans more choice, can also make it difficult for fans to know where to go to find tickets. The challenge is knowing how to navigate all of the options to find the best deals is what led us to build FanSnap.com.

Patent-Pending FanSnap Venue Maps

A list of 10k tickets from 50+ ticket sites is no way to find the ticket you want. With that in mind, we pushed the ticket list to the side and built a new kind of seating chart. Our goal was to show fans the entire ticket market at a glance. To do this, we plot available tickets on a dynamic, clickable venue map. We then assign a color to tickets based on the price of the ticket. Lower price tickets are light colors. Higher price tickets are darker colors. We were the first company in the event tickets space to do this. Fans love it because they can easily see the best deals at a glance. It’s an awesome feature, but we didn’t stop there. We added pictures from inside the venue so fans could see the view from their seat before buying. Fans can also click the venue maps to zoom in and see tickets by row.

FanSnap Partners with Bing, the Decision Engine from Microsoft

Building a great destination like FanSnap.com where fans find the best deals on tickets from sites across the web was step 1. Next, we partnered with large media properties to help them show fans visiting their sites great ticket deals. Our biggest partnership to date was another industry first. We recently partnered with Microsoft to embed the FanSnap ticket search experience within Bing. Now, when fans search for “Yankees tickets” on Bing, they see the FanSnap ticket search experience and FanSnap venue maps without ever leaving Bing. In so doing, FanSnap became the first ticket search engine to power one of the major search engines. This is a great solution for fans who don’t know about the ticket market. Now when Fans on a major search engine search for tickets, they actually find tickets — and not ten blue links to other sites they may not have heard of.

FanSnap on Facebook Makes Ticket Buying Social

The “social graph” was a term used by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to describe how Facebook is making a richer web experience by taking into account how people are connected. We, at FanSnap, know ticket search is a great way to find the best deals on tickets. That said, we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make that experience even better for fans. FanSnap.com and Bing Events powered by FanSnap, for example, are great ways for fans to find the tickets they want, when they want them — a great way to find the tickets you want for events you know about. But, what if you don’t know about an event?

We know that live events are inherently social. No one ever buys just one ticket. With that in mind, we set out to flip the ticket search model on it’s head. Instead of a ticket-centric model, we instead took a very fan-centric approach where we suggest events based on what friends are going to as well as Facebook “Likes.” When fans friends RSVP for an event, their friends will see it. In fact, friends will now see all the live events their Facebook friends are going to, where friends are sitting at those events and even tickets nearby. To do it right, we recreated the entire FanSnap catalog and venue maps within to Facebook.

“Who’s Going?” powered by FanSnap

So often, we hear from fans that they would have gone to an event if only they knew about it. We knew, to be indispensable for fans, we had to solve that problem right out of the box — with zero work from the fan.

Today, when a fan adds our “Who’s Going?” Facebook application, we show suggested upcoming events that the fan might want to go to based on the fan’s Facebook “Likes,” friends’ “Likes” as well as events friends say they’re going to. In initial feedback, fans tell us they love that and if there was no additional functionality, they tell us that just knowing what’s coming up and what their friends are going to is fantastic. We were happy to hear that, but we took it a step further. Several months ago, one of our engineers wondered, “if we can put tickets on a venue map, why not put faces on a venue map?” He then hacked together a working mock up of the first iteration of our “Who’s Going?” application. With it, you could tell your friends where you’d be sitting at an event by dragging your Facebook profile picture onto a venue map. That hack-day project has become a core piece of functionality in “Who’s Going?”. Fans can now show friends where they’re sitting, see where friends are sitting and even find tickets nearby.

We’re nowhere near done. In fact we see our Facebook work as only just beginning. We have a ton of ideas about how to make “Who’s Going?” even better, but we want to hear from you. Please tell us what you think.

We’re on a “mission from fans” and know we still have work to do to make the app totally awesome. We have lots of ideas and we’ll be updating the app often, but we thought it was important to get your feedback first.

Please add the app, give it a test drive, and let us know what you like and don’t like.

Team FanSnap

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new eTickets feature on FanSnap.com. Electronic tickets make it fast and easy for fans to identify ticket listings that are fulfilled via email rather than courier service.  Fans can now see eTickets listings at-a-glance and even filter listings to show only eTickets if they desire.

Fans tell us that a key factor in their ticket-buying decision process is fulfillment convenience. Today’s sports, concert and theater fans buy tickets at any time; from months to hours in advance of the event.  Fans buy tickets in the middle of the night, on the weekends, and from the road. We’ve added eTickets support to ensure that fans can quickly find, and receive, the tickets they want, when they want.

Many of the 50+ ticketing providers that FanSnap partners with to display ticket results are making investments in 2011 to start or increase their support of last-minute tickets either via integration with box office systems or by allowing ticket sellers to upload PDF files of their tickets.

MLB tickets on StubHub and NFL tickets on TicketExchange are the first to be supported. FanSnap is currently working with a number of its ticketing partners to add many additional categories in the coming weeks.

To filter by eTickets, first find the event you want. On the seat map page, check the box next to "eTickets only." We filter the results so you only see eTickets.

FanSnap’s eTickets feature will also be made available on FanSnap partner sites including Bing, the Decision Engine from Microsoft Corp.

Fans rely on FanSnap for the most comprehensive and accurate view of the market for available live event tickets. The ticket market gives fans the choice to buy and sell tickets on their own schedule.  FanSnap was created to give fans the best information available to make great ticket buying decisions, with fast and easy features to:

• determine at-a-glance the ticket price range by section using the colored “heat map” markers on our patent pending interactive FanSnap Maps(sm).
• view at-a-glance comparable ticket offers from multiple providers in a simple comparison format.
• easily identify the best value tickets(sm)
• see color photographs of the views from many areas of many venues

In related cool FanSnap news, we were recently named an “Official Honoree” in the Events category of the 2011 Webby Awards, along with NBCOlympics.com, WorldSeries.com, and USOpen.org.

As the team at FanSnap wraps up the last year of sports, we’ve collected data from the overall most searched college teams from around the NCAAs. The inputs below are overall searches in 2010. No one conference dominated the results. Rather, fans used FanSnap to search for a variety of teams from across the country. Check out the results below.

2010 Most Searched College Sports Tickets

1. Ohio State Buckeyes
2. Iowa Hawkeyes
3. Duke Blue Devils
4. Arkansas Razorbacks
5. Texas Longhorns
6. Kentucky Wildcats
7. Virginia Tech Hokies
8. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
9. Oklahoma Sooners
10. Michigan Wolverines
11. Florida Gators

The Ohio State Buckeyes grab the top spot in our overall most searched list. The Buckeyes had a great year in the Big 10, going 11-1 and beating their rivals, the Michigan Wolverines. Ohio State takes on the Arkansas Razorbacks (#4 on our list) in the Sugar Bowl on January 4th: find Best Value tickets at FanSnap. The Duke Blue Devils took home the NCAA National Championship last year, and in the latter half of 2010 they are undefeated at 12-0 and are ranked at #1 in the country. Duke is one of the biggest names in college sports, so no surprise to see them up high in our searches. Florida, once winning national championships in multiple sports in back to back years, have fallen off slightly in 2010. They’re only 11th on the most searched college sports teams of 2010.

2010 was an exciting year in the music scene. From Jay-Z and Eminem’s “Home and Home Tour” in Detroit and Brooklyn, to J. Bieber’s seemingly contagious popularity, there was never a boring week in the music industry this year. Below are the Most Searched Concert Tickets for 2010.

2010 Most Searched Concert Tickets

1.    Justin Bieber
2.    Taylor Swift
3.    Lady Gaga
4.    Black Eyed Peas
5.    Dave Matthews Band
6.    Phish
7.    Bon Jovi
8.    Tim McGraw
9.    Nickelback
10.   Jay-Z
11.    John Mayer
12.    Jimmy Buffett
13.    Michael Buble
14.    Pearl Jam
15.    Roger Waters

Justin Bieber is truly the man of the year. He not only takes the #1 spot on our 2010 Most Searched Music Tickets list, but Bieber searches were only second to the Yankees on our most searches overall list. Impressive for a 16 year old.

Bon Jovi sits at #7 on our 2010 Most Searched Concert Tickets list. Pollstar recently published numbers stating that Bon Jovi was the highest grossing artist of the world this year, topping $200 million in ticket sales. Other tours on both our 2010 Most Searched Concert tickets list and the Pollstar top 10 included:

• Roger Waters – #2 on the Pollstar list
• Dave Matthews Band – #4 on Pollstar
• Michael Buble – #6 on Pollstar
• Lady Gaga – #8 on Pollstar
• John Mayer – #10 on Pollstar

Read more about the Pollstar list here.