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Originally Posted by strombad
So your reasoning is because MTS is smaller, it can hold more events?
You.... are aware Calgary is flush with smaller venues, including MacEwan Hall and the Corral?
MTS being smaller gives Winnipeg no advantage over Calgary.
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Calgary is flush with nothing. It has a 19,000 seat venue and a handful of sub 7,000 capacity venues ( with a big gap between Mac Hall and Jubilee and the Corral). It has nothing in between. Vancouver has the Coliseum, Toronto has the Amphitheater etc. Not that it matters because any event at a venue that isn't the Dome is money lost to the Flames.
What MTS Centre can offer is that acts which could outsell those smaller venues but don't (because the Dome is just too big and costs more) can still play a show with good atmosphere by getting 10,000 people.
Just compare the event schedules for the Dome and MTS. There are a lot of mid-sized acts that play in MTS that don't play in the Dome and all the big acts as well. This was an unintended advantage that became of MTS being the size that it is.
The over 100,000 extra tickets TNSE sells for non sporting events are all the evidence you should need.