Many people here in Finland I have talked to think in Tampere local hockey game - Tampere has two top hockey teams i national level - is bigger and better known event than FS worlds. Ice hockey worlds for sure is bigger event here if we look amount of audience. Last time 2017 in Helsinki I think nothing was sold out and 50 % of audience were Japanese and most of them because of Yuzury. I could not stay there until Saturday but on weekdays there were plenty of empty seats and I bought one ticket to ID at last minute. To be honest I think the bigger issue is how to get enough audience instead of they could not handle the amount of audience. The Euros was not arranged there because the fed said there will not be enough audience and that is because it was arranged in smaller arena. Synchro worlds was outsold in two hours, but it is because only Finland has 200 Synchro teams at different skill and age levels. I think quite many ticket buyers were competitor's relatives and friends and other skaters and their family members. Of course others too, but it is natural other skaters with families are interested in to go.
But does world provisional GS stuff has included on the title, that the situation may change and will be still another fed?
