A limited supply of around 600 tickets will be reserved for University of Idaho students to attend the 2021 season’s football games in the Kibbie Dome, according to an email from Vice Provost and Dean of Students Blaine Eckles.
Tickets are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis. A limited number of tickets are also available to the public, opening up for online purchase on Monday.
The Dome, with a maximum capacity of 16,000, will be operating at 20% capacity due to COVID-19, according to the email. Masks are required inside the Dome and fans will need to walk through a thermal scanner upon entering the building.
Seating will be assigned to each attendee and students will be able to sit in “pods” of two, four or six. Students are required to remain in their pod, which will be spaced six feet from other pods, and won’t be allowed to move to a group they are not assigned to.
Tickets can be picked up in pairs of two or more, but cannot exceed six. Students will need to pick up their tickets at the Information Desk, located on the third floor of the Idaho Student Union Building, and bring a valid VandalCard. Tickets will not be available at the Kibbie Dome as they have been in the past.
“Students sitting in a pod are encouraged to pick up their tickets as a group at the Information Desk,” the email stated. “You can also designate a ‘Pod Captain’ who can pick up all the tickets for your group. The Pod Captain must show valid VandalCards for the students in their pod to obtain tickets for their group to sit together.”
Students are reserved to six per group while community members are able to purchase up to eight tickets because the university is attempting to compensate for larger families needing to attend together, Eckles said.
“Typically, (fans who aren’t students) are coming with families, so we wanted to be mindful of what that looks like,” Eckles said. “Students are not actually purchasing their tickets in order to (attend), so they’re not coming with family members, per se.”
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