As a non sports fan the relative prices between matches make very little sense to me.

The opening match being more-or-less tied for second-most-expensive is just silly. Isn’t it just a group match? Does it really matter that much?

And the third-place match being cheaper than the quarter-finals? Going to see who’ll finish the absolute best except for two teams doesn’t matter? If my team was in the third-place match I’d want desperately for them to finish on a high!

I guess it’s just another Sports Thing™.