Ashley Greene at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena parking lot arriving for work relieved to be receiving some good news on Wednesday afternoon. (ROD Sony Alliance) Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena - Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Wednesday October 23, 2013 @ 6:07 PM/ET.
JACKSONVILLE, FL - ROD CEO Ashley Greene finally got some good news regarding her live tour program TV tapings as her homecoming with Sara Sampaio in Jacksonville will run smoothly as the buccaneers from Los Angeles were able to sellout the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena right at the 6pm deadline. As a huge movement in ticket sales took place after last night's tweet from hometown draft picks Mia Lasanti, Theresa Bush, and Nicole Meyer all from the ICE Starlets threatened to show up to Jacksonville and lead the models coming from that area to not join ROD. So ICE could've attributed to this sellout It would've been a huge disaster had ROD not been able to sellout the arena which seats in a bit smaller than last week's Philips Arena in Atlanta.
No word just yet if they even showed up in Jacksonville tonight as there's no sign of them just yet.
ROD was able to move about 15,717 which is 717 more tickets than they needed for the sellout so there will be standing room only of 717 tickets sold so ROD will have no problem with the building looked packed on television tonight. ROD was at a 2,200 disadvantage last week of reaching a sellout. Superintendent Moynahan told reporters that this is a super important night for NITRO and ROD needed to sellout the building because NITRO is really trying to stage their presence down there and attract new modeling talent from that market.
Some people outside of the arena told media reporters that they came to see the big country stars and the start of the pageant auditions. Some of them wanted to support Sara Sampaio and Ash's homecoming tonight. What could be a huge factor for ROD in getting more sellouts could be how people react to the pageant competition tonight as that could be just as big of an attraction as the country stars and Saved By the Bell live tapings are. Ash and Sara were spending all of yesterday doing many things in their community for charity such as visiting public schools and stuff and they had dinner with their families but Wednesday was all about work. There will be a homecoming introduction and celebration for them before The Stella Sisters starts taping during the opening introductions. This is the first time both girls had been in Jacksonville since Ash was hired as CEO and Sara was drafted by ROD in August.
ROD will be live in Memphis next week and then Nashville the week after that and out of the south for the first time on November 13th in the New York metro area in Newark, New Jersey after Night of Champions which will be taping their two nights before that. As of right now the FedEx which is a bigger building than in Jacksonville is at about 3,400 tickets left to go so that could be a tough task selling that building out. The capacity there is around 19,500 seats. Nashville in another week might be their most important week yet as that's the capital of country music and they can't afford to have a weak showing there.
ICE is not scheduled to be in Jacksonville just yet but they will more than likely be using their second trip to Florida this April to get a spot down there. ICE visits Tampa in late April and already visited Miami back in late September to success.
Recent Attendance Figures for ICE:
(attendance/arena capacity)
September 14, 2013: Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (22,738/21,315) (broke Draft record from August)
September 21, 2013: Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan (22,440/21,666)
September 23, 2013: American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida (21,300/20,021)
September 29, 2013: AllState Arena in Rosemont, Illinois (20,190/18,500)
October 3, 2013: Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri (19,660/19,252)
October 7, 2013: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas (21,842/21,146)
October 12, 2013: Oracle Arena in Oakland, California (23,078/20,679)
October 14, 2013: KeyArena in Seattle, Washington (19,552/17,000)
October 19, 2013: Allphones Arena in Sydney, New South Wales (22,272/21,000)
October 21, 2013: Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland (15,253/14,500)
* October 24, 2013: O2 Arena in London, England (21,300/20,000)
* October 26, 2013: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts (21,400/19,600)* November 5, 2013: Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan (tickets still being sold/80,013)
* = Event hasn't happened yet but it is already sold out.
Recent Attendance Figures for ROD:
(attendance/arena capacity)
October 16, 2013: Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia (20,920/21,800) (NO SELLOUT)
October 23, 2013: Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida (15,717/15,000) (SELLOUT)
* October 30, 2013: FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee (tickets still being sold/19,500)
* November 6, 2013: Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee (tickets still being sold/20,000)
* November 13, 2013: Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey (tickets still being sold/19,700)
* = Event hasn't happened yet