When he finally appeared on his literal floating stage, he sang only two songs and made up with Kid Cudi, a rapper he was rumored to have had lots of problems with, by hugging him on stage. Gupta and her friend arrived 30 minutes early, but West was an hour late. The second set were for the now-infamous West Saint Pablo Tour concert on Nov. Of the two she’s attended, both have been cancelled. Ironically, Gupta’s luck hasn’t held when it comes to the concerts themselves. “(Also) during these competitions I call on four phones to maximize my chances of winning.” “Fewer people are listening (then),” she said. Gupta said the best time to call is at night. She started bouncing up and down since she thought she won, but all of a sudden, the phone stopped ringing and the call ended.Īfter about 70 more calls, Dahmani gave up since the combination of the calls she and Gupta alone had made would result in more than 103 calls.ĭahmani now believes she didn’t use the right strategy. “Yasmin (Gupta) said that more than two rings meant you for sure won,” Dahmani said. So Gupta and Dahmani started telephoning.ĭahmani said that she kept gettin dial tones until the line started ringing after about 30 calls. “I also thought, ‘Why not try, since I have nothing to do during this super-long car drive to the middle of nowhere?’” she said. Snoop Dogįor this competition, the 103rd caller won the tickets.ĭahmani said she’s always wanted to see YG, who’s one of her favorite rappers, live. 28 during an hour-long car ride to the girls’ varsity basketball game at Vacaville Christian, when Gupta told her that she could win sold-out tickets to the Compton-based rapper YG’s concert by entering 103.5’s contest. Junior Annya Dahmani put her luck to the test on Nov. 13 Octagon poll, only 11 said they’ve entered concert tickets competitions. Of 101 high schoolers who filled out a Dec. Gupta said that people don’t try the competitions because they “get psyched out when they try to win tickets thinking that they’ll never win.”īut radio stations usually hold competitions the whole week, so there’s a huge possibility of winning, Gupta said.Īnd SCDS students either believe this or they aren’t trying very hard to win. Surprisingly, Gupta doesn’t consider herself particularly lucky. “A lot of the time, my mom doesn’t want to pay for tickets, and neither do I,” she said. The high cost of tickets is another reason for Gupta’s passion for competitions. These tickets had prices as high as $250 per ticket, according to the Sacramento Bee. Gupta finally won the sold-out West tickets she had spent over two weeks trying to win. After this lack of success, she decided to try just once more. She called 103.5 for a whole week trying to be lucky caller number 35, she said. Gupta also continued trying to win the West tickets that had first attracted her to the contests.
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In fact, she was so happy that she screamed on the radio.įrom then on, Gupta kept on entering competitions because she wanted to get more free tickets for herself and friends or to possibly sell the tickets she won. It turned out that Gupta had instead won tickets to a G-Eazy and Lil Yachty concert, but she was ecstatic regardless, she said. “You’re right, and you’ve just won tickets!” Lil Yachty Once she listed them, she heard what she had been waiting for for the past two weeks. However, after this loss, Gupta was fired up to win.įor the next two weeks she and Bhullar kept calling but to no avail, until one fortunate morning.įinally Gupta got through to the radio stations after 17 calls and got her shot to list the eight songs just played on 103.5. They were listening to the radio when they heard they could win Kanye West tickets.īhullar and Gupta kept calling that morning, but they didn’t win. Gupta began her lucky streak while sitting in her car with senior Avi Bhullar on a school morning. She has now entered three competitions and won three sets of tickets to the sold-out concerts of G-Eazy and Lil Yachty, Kanye West, and DJ Snoopadelic. The 35th caller to do this successfully wins the tickets.Ĭonsidering the slim chances of winning, Gupta has been unusually lucky. This 103.5 KHHM FM competition, “The Hot 8 at 8,” happens every day.ĭuring “The Hot 8,” callers have to listen to eight songs and then correctly list the song titles and artists of the songs in chronological order. Gupta dials the radio station over and over, as many as 60 times.Īfter perfectly reciting the eight songs that played in the last hour, Gupta wins two tickets for the G-Eazy and Lil Yachty concert. Instead she’s rapidly dialing (916) 766-1035 in high hopes of winning the latest concert ticket. It’s a school night and junior Yasmin Gupta hasn’t studied for a big test in AP Chemistry.
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