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Went to the Berlin 6 last year and attended the Fri and Sun nights. It's great.......in a very very Euro way!
We booked actual seats and didn't go into the centre. There's a pretty good view from anywhere. It does get busy so not sure how the tickets you mention would work in practice. Having specific seats may be good as you can sod off and have a beer and a curry wurst without losing your seat?
Both nights involved pretty much the breadth of events: usual endurance events, a few sprinters events featuring the German National team (starring Forstermann's thighs) and a couple of stayer events too. Apparently it's one of the only event still to use the big BMW pace bikes too. Bottom line, you needn't worry about targeting a specific night for a certain event.
Photos here: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/andrew_last/sets/72157632792119930/detail/
Velo Veritas has a great write up of each night: http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2013/01/20/berlin-six-day-2013-preview/
There's also some 'entertainment': the Friday opened with a female singer descending from the celing and proceeding to warble something sounding like Evanescence. I think she also opened the Sunday evening too but can't be sure. The main entertainment (half time) was then a truly awful singer called Frank Zander on the Sunday and some very crap 70s cover band on the Friday (the crowd lapped it up). Don't go expecting to actually enjoy the entertainment, but expect to enjoy how truly awful it is!
Bag loads of food and beer (and the odd bike related stall) available in the velodrome. It's located virtually on a train station and there are taxis readily available too. We stayed nearer Prezlauer Berg as there is a bit more going on there than there is by the 'drome.
General Berlin points: It was about -4degC most of the time. It's a great city. If you want to go to the top of the Reichstag you need to do an internet booking (free) and turn up with passport or other accepted ID (we did it on first night and it was good intro to city). Anna Bloms is great for breakfast (http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187323-d948161-Reviews-Cafe_Anna_Blume-Berlin.html). Loads of good food available, just wander.