"Dealing with High Times, they told us they had pre-sold about 4,000 tickets. So everything was staffed through them for about 4,000 tickets," Skeen said. "It ended up being about 10,000 people showing up. Four-thousand people is easy; 10,000 people would have been easy, too, but we didn't expect that."

Lack of adequate food, water to accommodate crowds

Arriving in Oklahoma City around 1:30 p.m. Saturday with my fiancé, JD, who photographed the Cup as a Tulsa World correspondent, the first thing we said was, "Where are we going to park?"

All we could see leading up to the Lost Lakes entrance were vehicles parked at least a mile deep on both sides of Northeast 10th Street, and traffic moved slowly. We didn't see anyone directing vehicles to parking areas until we approached the entrance, where a worker told us we could not park. A nearby lot had spots available for $20.

It wasn’t until nearly 3 p.m. that we received our media wristbands, had our bags searched by security and got inside the event. But I consider myself fortunate to have been able to make it past the gates at all.