Speed dating/ singles events

Just wanna rant about my experiences about speed dating events here and single(mixer) as well.
Reading someprevious post and comment about this topic make me share the same sentiment.
One is most of the time its the same set of people. Kinda give that feeling “oh I will probably wont match with anyone”.
But a positive note is some of them are friends and in this odd small community of event goers.
Another is the price point. Majority of the speed dating events that is active is flare events which is 50 + per event. Its almost same price as a monthly premium for a dating app or something. So its this odd question of I can take a risk meeting 8 to 12 people that may be into me or be in a app that got more people but you do not actually meet.

Other point is probably the fairness/balance of gender. I am basing this of my experience let say most of the event got equal amount of gender but there are times that the balance is way off the mark which is not good on either gender. Also from what I heard female can have complimentery ticket at times cause there is not a lot of female goers. But I havent heard any male complimentary tickets if there are not a lot of male goers.

Anyways this is just my rant about speed dating and singles events that I have experience so far. Thanks for reading