Just watching SSN, one girl who is supposed to be participating in the games said none of her family could get a ticket to watch her? But her sister was able to get one ticket for herself but that was for hockey
Sounds ridiculous that there are no tickets for anything... why did they not plan to build much bigger arenas?
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You'd think there would be a seperate pool of tickets for families of participants.
Having said that though the draw was all luck. My son applied for 2 tickets only and we got them so I'll be going to a good session that includes four finals (athletics).
Thankfully me & mine aren't interested in going to see any of the Olympics.
I don't agree with the way the sale of tickets was done though. It definitely favoured those with a bit of cash.. cos there is no way we could have applied for tickets & been confident that the money would be in the bank when the sales were allocated. Those with a bit of money were able to apply for lots of tickets, as they would be able to cover the costs should all their applications have been successful.
Then... there's the scenario, where, had both our kids wanted to go & see something & we had only managed to get two tickets... we'd have been in the position where half the family wouldn't have been able to go.
And yes... family of those participating should definitely have had ring fenced tickets.
I did giggle though... my brother was successful.. he got one ticket to see something, I think he'd wanted at least two, so he could persuade some bird to go with him. As it is, he will be going all billy no mates!
They should have just done it the ticketmaster way.. announced when they were going on sale (ideally weekend or evenings), limit the number of tickets per buyer, & first come first served. Perhaps selling tickets to different events at different times,
Ditty your brother must have bollocksed the application cos I'm pretty sure most 'single' applications were for two tickets.
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
Ditty your brother must have bollocksed the application cos I'm pretty sure most 'single' applications were for two tickets.
OR.. he is pulling a snide one... & put that on FB to try & get out of taking someone
I so wouldn't put it past him
Will be watching some live Olympic tennis and football but the whole ticketing/website/allocation thing has been a balls up from start to finish. If this is a sign of how the games will be organised it's gonna be a shambles!
