Wow, just wow. $20 gets you not only your precious Iowa wrestling, but a ton of other duals over the two days. In the morning you
can watch Cornell and Penn State in a couple of duals each, or VT and ASU go at it. In the afternoon, you can watch Lehigh or Missouri
and a couple of Iowa duals. The next day you get six duals with all these teams involved. You can watch ten duals live, and then re-watch
them or watch the ones you missed for a month. You can go back and watch (if you can find) some of last year's RTC matches for some
freestyle.
But you expect it all to be free?
It's not the money. And I will watch all the other duals, most likely. I'll either have my desktop for one mat and my son's old laptop hooked to a TV for the other, or if he's not using his new laptop I'll hook both to 40"+ TVs and watch side by side (since Rofkin doesn't have an app available for smart TVs or Roku boxes).
It's the idea. I'm paying for their streaming service for their content, and then they're charging me again for a specific event. I never had to pay extra for an event on Flo, ESPN+, or BTN+, and I doubt Trackwrestling is charging that way. This is why I'll probably never buy a year at a time from them. I waited a while to get Flo, then they got rid of Willie, lost their contract to carry BTN+ content, and became a lot less valuable to me.
It is getting ridiculously expensive to be a wrestling fan, which used to be a blue-collar sport. When Pittsburgh got the NCAA tournament, someone (I think the NCAA) got greedy and cut all the school's allotments and sold higher-priced tickets to corporations, and cut out the poor little guy by doubling (or more) ticket prices from previous years, which ended my consecutive streak at 31. When I started going to NCAAs, all-session tickets were $45. I understand economics and inflation but 400-800% rise in 35-40 years is a bit drastic. I know, supply/demand and all that. Midlands tickets more than doubled overnight when they moved it off campus. B1G tournament has increased the least of any and it has grown more than all the others. I hope I didn't just give them any ideas.
I will pay whatever I can afford to see the wrestling I want to see, and $20 is a bargain compared to gas or plane and motels, etc. to see this live. It's just the principle of paying for a subscription, then paying a PPV fee on top of it. I paid it without hesitation, but it still irks me.