The printed tickets don’t take long to scan. No longer than phones for most people. It’s just lack of common sense. They are not the only team though. The Barves have been all electronic for years.
At Verizon Center there were constant problems with people who tried to store screenshots of .PDF tickets on their phones despite the large-print warning on the .PDF ticket saying not to try to use a screenshot because the code wouldn't scan properly. The screenshot crowd would often get rather belligerent with the arena staff about it, too, thus holding things up for everybody else. I wonder to what extent that sort of thing is a motivator for venues to try to do away with paper tickets.
If the rumors about Ted Leonsis being the leading candidate to buy the Nats are true, forget about paper tickets being available again.
