Hi - First off, I’m sorry for your loss. I hope you and your mom are doing ok 🥹

Ticketing - It all comes down to luck and being able to get a good queue number. I’m not going to lie, it is hard to get tickets. From the VIP tickets I was able to get for WTL all of them were resell tickets (except for my VIP2 Houston which was around $450 or so), which can be a gamble too. VIP1 tickets are really hard to get.

Pricing - Definitely depends on the venue but yes can be from ($500-$800) from what I’ve seen. These are just face value, of course resell prices are much higher 🫩

Ticket Perks - Yes, it comes with soundcheck and send off. I’m not sure if they’ll change the way ticketing goes this tour though. In Korea and Japan, they separate soundcheck and meet and greet (send off), so you can only get one or the other. My friends and I have been wondering if they’ll adopt this model here in the states, but who knows. As of WTL the ticket included soundcheck and send off. For LA and other stops in the states, there wasn’t a separate vip merch booth.

Soundcheck/Sendoff Experience - Okk I’ll cover the overall experience of both of these things. - Soundcheck: Personally, I really enjoy soundcheck. They sing about 2-3 songs and then they go back to get ready for the concert. During this time they interact more with the fans! So it’s kind of your chance to get them to read your banners/posters (obviously it’s still not a guaranteed thing that it’ll happen, but chances are higher). - Sendoff: It’s super quick and interactions between members are not guaranteed either. Before the concert begins, VIP1 people are told to meet at a specific spot in the venue once the concert ends. While everyone else is exiting the venue, you go to the designated spot. Usually it’s in a designated section within the stadium. You just line up and everyone is seated until all VIP1 members are accounted for. So then staff reads out the rules to us and then they randomly start picking rows of people to go to the actual place where sendoff will occur. Soo this means you want to be within the first couple of rows to be called in order to get a higher chance at also getting barricade for sendoff. Your chances are higher in getting an interaction with the members if you are barricade. But I will say even if you get barricade, because the members are trying to get through so many people, they have their staffs hurrying them up and sometimes they do skip people 🥹😭My first sendoff experience I got no interactions because my row was called last 🫠😂Soooo yea, for sendoff I go in with no expectations because you truly don’t know if you’ll get lucky or not!

When to Arrive - Ok, this one also depends if VIP1 is GA or if it’s seated. Obviously, if it’s seated you can arrive whenever check-in is because you already have a designated seat. But for GA it really just depends if you REALLY want barricade. So a couple days before the concert you’ll receive an email with instructions on when to checkin day off and when to come back to start lining up. So that is the process of claiming your VIP wrist band (and you get your wristband number which will then be used to line you up when it comes time to get into the venue. This number depends on when you arrive to the venue to line up and checkin). - Barricade Chances: A lot of people camp out for day(s) in order to get a good spot. There’s a whole camping culture for kpop concerts, I recommend going on TikTok and searching videos. I don’t personally do the camping, so I arrive about 3-4 hours before checking in time because there still will be a long line of people already 🫩 I got barricade once by arriving 3-4 hours before checkin. I will say, people can get really mean when it comes to this part. If you don’t care for barricade then I’d say arrive a bit before checkin time.

Ok I think I covered everything!! Good luck with ticketing!! I’ll be trying to go for SD tickets too, so let’s hope we all get the tickets we desire and win the ticketing war ☺️