^^^^^^^^^That is when you go to one of the event workers and tell them, they will usually tell the offending party they can't do that. But it never ceases to amaze me how rude people can be about this. The announcers will come on every so often and say do not save seats and people just ignore it completely. At NCA, there were two seats in the front row on the edge that had a sweater laying across both seats. The seats were right next to a big group of people from one gym, so I assumed they were theirs. Lo and behold, an hour and a half later a couple from an unrelated gym came and sat there right before their team came on. The brazenness just stuns me. And I don't care if people save 2 or 3 seats right next to them. But also at NCA one group had a person every third seat or so and claimed all the rest so that they basically were saving 4 entire rows with about 12 people. And let me tell you - one man was RUDE about it.