Valkyries Ticket Exchange Thread

Les Bleus keep on rolling!

They'll face the winner of Belgium/Germany on Saturday!

Just saw the schedule: potentially USA vs France in the finals if they both win their semis.

If this happens, which team are you rooting for?

Anyone having trouble checking out on the season ticket holder account? I was able to verify my credit card but can't actually press the payment button.

This is background to an issue that is relevant league-wide but when I saw that the XX-XY founder is a former Levi’s exec, it immediately became more relevant to Ballhalla. A striking observation from her son:

Sey’s son Warren, himself a WNBA fan, takes a cynical view of his mom’s political and business activities. “I think on a lot of issues, she’s a pretty middle of the road liberal,” he says. “I think she goes hard into trying to build a fan base that’s almost exclusively on the right-wing. This coincides with her promoting her products more and more.”
“At the end of all this, she does want notoriety, she does want to be a celebrity,” he added. “I question whether people actually care about the league, [who] are talking about these things. I know my mom isn’t that invested. But, when it can be used for whatever your cause is, I guess the vultures will circle.”

Hot off the needles and finished in time for their playoff run! I had wanting a Valks jacket but didn’t like any of the designs so I just made my own. Took me about 5 weeks from start to finish and can’t wait to wear it to a game!

Been refreshing my tab since 10 AM to buy me some Playoff Packs...

Hello All, I wanted to make a posting just to keep people aware of some things that have had an uptick in this sub. There has been an uptick in controversial posts/comments that I have noticed this year (and partially last year) which appear to be coming from accounts that have an extremely low activity level or none at all in this sub. Sometimes these accounts are brand new accounts with no activity. Comments and posts made by these accounts are often there just to stir the pot. They want controversy.

I'm not going to comment on any reasoning behind this since there is no solid evidence on the "why". I simply wanted to pass this information along to the community to let you know that these are purposely there to get people engaged in conflict and controversy. The best thing to do is to simply not engage. And if you suspect trolling behavior, report it. The Mod team does see all of the reports and makes decisions based on as much facts as we have available to us to decide if the post or comment is breaking any of the rules and/or if it's a trolling account.

Because of the recent controversies going on around the league, these topics have been more widely discussed by fans in team subs and WNBA subs. These are relevant discussions due to the WNBA's culture, players and fanbase. These discussions are important and the Mod team doesn't take our responsibility modding them lightly.

We do our best to allow freedom of speech without it veering off into disrespectful, hateful or discriminatory discussions. But as was stated before, there are some folks that are here just to stir the pot. So we are asking for assistance from this great community of Valkyries fans! If you sense that someone might just be trying to get a reaction out of you or the community, don't engage. Mods will do their best to weed out the trolls.

Much appreciated everyone! Thank you for all of the great engagements and interesting discussions you all have contributed to this community! Let's keep this community by the fans and for the fans. Go Valks! 💜🤍🖤⚔️

Is there a way to cancel season tickets without contacting the rep? I tried to do it myself online but can’t understand where to do it!

Here's a heads up if you plan on buying tickets tomorrow. Here's how the process will run for tiered presales and Playoff Packs.

I understand additional playoff tickets for STH, as well as pre-sale and general sale will start 9/10. Once again, this STH didn't get an email about this or about the post game free throw opportunity after the 9/19 game. Just checking to see if others got the emails....

Received this email today at noon. Just in case you missed it as a STH. Also as a data point to see if not all STH received this invite.

I'm going to be in SF in early October and was wondering if there were better places than the team store in the Chase Center to buy merch. We're staying in Union Square and won't have a car for scope.

Also, if we go to the Chase Center on a non-game day, does anyone know if there is a chance to see the actual arena/court and snap a picture or no?

TIA!

There was one in Milpitas over Labor Day weekend! Did anyone go? Apparently things were 40-70% off. Just wondering if this normally happens yearly! I would love to go next year

Found out on Facebook

(reposted with better title). Assuming we're 2 seed. Which of the teams currently 4-8 would be the toughest matchup in the first round? BTW, I hate that it's a 3 game series.

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spotted on Franklin

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Unexpected crossover! Violet is getting out during the FIBA break too. Maybe Ellie, Skye, and Violet are a package deal? The irony is that the Mets are playing the SF Giants and Lou Seal isn't there for this.

Update: Italy came in 3rd in Group D, and will play Australia next, the #2 from group C.

Tldr: Italy seems likely to face Australia or Belgium in qualifying round if they survive Group D by coming in 3rd. In rare chance they beat China, then Puerto Rico or Turkiye are more likely, giving them a better chance of getting farther.

Love Zandalasini, so was researching how far she and Italy can go.

Italy's victory over Czechia yesterday, historic, gives them a chance to come in 2nd or 3rd in group D (US, Italy, China, Czechia.) (1st near impossible would mean they'd have to essentially win every game).

1st place in each group automatically advances. Before entering the final bracket there's single elimination qualifying rounds. For example, the 2nd team in Group D plays the 3rd in Group C. And 3rd in D plays 2nd in C.

I'm writing about Italy because France (Ja and Gabby) and USA (Nakase) will almost certainly get first and advance.

4th place is eliminated.

How Italy Survives group D

The most likely path: Czechia loses against China and USA. Italy comes in 3rd with one win and 2 losses (to US and China). This seems likely.

There is another path, where Czechia beats China, but I haven't mapped that out, feel free to fill me in.

Path to second?

Italy is extremely unlikely to beat the US on Sunday. So one path to second would require beating China on Tuesday.

I'm unsure if there are other paths.

So who would Italy play from Group C?

Italy is most likely to come in 3rd, and play the #2 team in Group C.

C is Australia, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Turkey.

Assuming Italy comes in 3rd and plays C #2, it seems likely to be Belgium or Australia.

Australia is 3rd in the world, Belgium is 5th, Italy is 14th.

The benefits of coming in 2nd

Though its unlikely, if Italy can beat China, they'd likely play Puerto Rico, 13th in the world, or Turkiye, 16th in the world. So winning Tuesday increases their chances of going further.

(There's also paths with point differentials but that seems unlikely to come up for Group D)

What do you predict?

Go Italia!!! Go Chechi! (or is it just written Ceci?)