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Levi's Stadium Debuts To Tech Problems, Traffic Snarls For MLS Game

Levi's Stadium held its first event with yesterday's Sounders-Earthquakes match, and there "are a lot of kinks that need to be worked out" before the 49ers open play at the facility. The stadium's Wi-Fi "crashed in the press box" and the TVs "went out for a long stretch." Some ticket buyers who had "tried to use the Levi's Stadium phone app to buy parking passes before the game were unsuccessful." The sound system was "muddied and roundly panned," while will-call windows and security lines "were jammed before game time." Also, fans experienced "complete and total, Candlestick-esque stopped traffic" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 8/3). The crowd for the MLS match "filled two-thirds of the 70,000-seat stadium" (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 8/3).

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