True Attendance Figures?
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I noticed on opening day for the Hawks, the attendance was 34,717 and close to capacity when the Yahoo/Fukuoka Dome always proclaims its capacity at 48,000 people. So, have the "official attendance people" been simply overestimating all this time? Or are a lot of people getting free tickets?
I had been wondering why one of the slogans for the Hawks this year is "mezase [take/strive for] 1,000,000 people," when the Hawks have consistently drawn 3 million people a year. These new attendance figures might be the reason.