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The best ways to reliably get tickets every year:
1. Have a connection to CI people who can get you tickets easily every year. Result: easy guaranteed tickets.
Few people have that, so the next-best way is:
2. Show up in-person at a PA CI brick-and-mortar store long in advance of its opening on ticket-selling day, and camp out in line. Result: less easy but almost-guaranteed tickets.
And of course, failing that there's:
3. Buying online. This is for the birds. Your odds aren't very good at all.
Almost nobody has #1, and few people can logistically do #2. That's why they work so much better for reliably getting tickets.
ANYBODY can do #3, which is why it's a giant competition cluster-f**k and you have low odds of getting tickets.
So your assignment for next year is to suck up to CI employees or move to northeastern PA!
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