Hey, I know every city is different but from your experience going to fs competitions, how much would you say tickets are? Like on average? (Doesn’t matter the currency). Hope you’re doing ok :)
Hey, yes I am doing fine. Thanks for asking!
I think there is no average as it depends on what kind of competition you want to visit and in what country it takes place.
I visited competitions in Europe only so far, so I can only talk about what I experienced there, my only time abroad would have been Worlds 2020, but we all know that didn't happen *still cries*
The prize range usually gets higher with the importance of the competition. So B competitions are the cheapest, Challengers cost a bit more, then GPs, Europeans and 4CC are usually something between GP prices and Worlds prices and GPF and Worlds are very expensive.
I think going to live competitions is a really fun experience but it depends a lot on what you can afford. I am in a priviliged position I think to afford a lot of competitions. You also should not forget the travel expenses and accommodation on top of the ticket prize. (For example though ticket prizes for the Nebelhorn Trophy are not as high and it's even in my country, the accommodations in the town are very expensive. And I cannot recommend to stay outside town as you would need an own car, I experienced this already and had to pay a lot for taxis.)
This is going to be a detailed explanation on things I did pay or know about, so if you're not interested, pls skip!
For B competitions like the Challenge Cup or Coupe du Printemps in Luxembourg you will pay like 15-20€ for the full competition.
For Challengers it varies from the countries. Warsaw Cup was even free to enter. Lombardia Trophy in Bergamo is about 200€ for the full competition, it costed even more when Shoma participated. The Nebelhorn Trophy usually has prices of 20€ per day and 25€ for the gala. In general you can say a Challenger would cost you between 100 and 200€, it's also what I have seen for prices for Finlandia Trophy and Autumn Classics in Canada.
The GPs also depend on the location. Internationaux de France has tickets for Friday usually at 15€, but for Saturday you would pay around 60€ and 50€ for the gala on Sunday. The GP in Italy 2021 was extremely overprized and the tickets varied from 40€ to over 100€ for a day. (I took the cheapest ones, the arena wasn't even full and no one sat on their original seat). The GP in Helsiki a few years ago was also very expensive with 350€ for the whole competition. The GP in Russia was comparable cheap to the ones in West Europe, but this ofc is a Western European perspective with the exchange rate. (And I would be very surprised if Russia would host a GP in the future soon.)
For the European Championship in Graz in 2020 we paid 450€ for the full competition. Europeans and 4CC this year were a lot cheaper with approximately 180€ for the full competition.
The most expensive things are the World Championship and the GPF. imo the GPF is even more overprized because you see only 6 skaters per discipline and the juniors too, but still the prize is almost as high as for the World Championship at least that's how it was for the GPF 2019 and as Italy is hosting the GPF 2022 I don't expect it to be less cheaper. For Worlds this year the prize range for full event was between 660€ and 1200€. For the GPF you also could spend up to 1000€ and dare I say the Torino Olympic arena isn't even a good one.
Pls don't ask me how much money I spend on figure skating competitions in the last 5 years. It was a lot.
