The tix are free, but not travel. And at the cost of missing time with family over the holidays. I know I would have gone when I was a student and am going now, but looking at it from a broke students standpoint its a tough trip to make. Bowls are for Alumi more then the students. I droped a few hundred bucks on airfare, and it would cost close to that in gas too, and then you have to get a hotel which is another hundred+. I am not surprised that there were tix left. Also, like I brought up to a few people I talked to, to me a $30 ticket isn't worth standing outside waiting for. And I am sure a lot of students didn't know that there were tickets left after the big rush....I am one of the first ones to jump on the students for not going to stuff, but this case is a little differnet.