MANILA -- Changes are set to be applied in the 72nd University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP). Organizers said this will include a "better way" of protecting spectators from being victimized by scalpers hawking grossly overpriced tickets.

Anton Montinola, board representative of incoming UAAP host Far Eastern University (FEU), said during Tuesday’s Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) forum that they will be introducing a new ticket scheme in UAAP, which will kick off the games on July 11.

“Every year we have the same problem of allegations of scalping," said Montinola. “The only way to solve the problem is to flood the market with tickets. It's the law of supply and demand."

Montinola said that increased supply will prevent scalpers from overcharging hardcore UAAP fans, who sometimes forced to shell out thousands of pesos just to watch a game.

He said the scheme will require a method used by major movie houses where they will be herding the audience out of the stadium members at the end of each game.

“Each ticket will only be for one specific game,” said Montinola.

He cited as an example the Ateneo-La Salle game scheduled on this season’s last playing date in the first round.

Montinola said that after the match, the audience will be ordered to vacate the stadium to allow another set of spectators who will watch the next game, which will be between FEU and University of the East.

The FEU board representative said the scheme would require a doubled supply of tickets, which could dissuade scalpers from overpricing.

“We want to try this,” Montinola said of the scheme. “We only get to chance to host once every eight year… If it fails, we’ll do something else.”

He, however, said that the scheme might work as it did one time.

“We had a feeling that this would work. We had one play date recently wherein there is only one Ateneo-La Salle game and the incidence of scalping was much much less because there were more tickets,” he said.