Rugby world cup tickets - BBC breakfast - help needed

Abraham

Abraham

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So, quite randomly I'm going on BBC breakfast tomorrow morning to talk about not having got any tickets for the rugby world cup. I'm not particularly outraged by this, and going by the tickets thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18627408 I'm not sure any reasonable people are.

Still, I'm going on the telly and the chief exec of the world cup will be being interviewed. Anyone got a sensible question about the ticketing they would like asked?
 
I'd be interested to know if they have sold out the quota of top tier tickets at the highest price bracket. I think a lot of people we're put off by the potential of spending thousands of pounds. If there were a higher chance of buying a single set of high priced tickets rather than going for multiple low value entries I might have applied differently.

How can we maximise our chances in the second round?
 
this_is_gav said:
Ask why you've been asked to sit on that particular sofa without having any real opinions about the subject in question.
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This to be honest. Seriously? I'd say it was a pretty well run ticket ballot, all things considered. Tickets are expensive, sure, but asking about that is just beating a dead horse in sport nowadays so I wouldn't bother.
 
this_is_gav said:
Ask why you've been asked to sit on that particular sofa without having any real opinions about the subject in question.
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I suppose I'm an affected party. Just probably not as annoyed about it as someone who lives further from the studio ;)
 
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AJK said:
This to be honest. Seriously? I'd say it was a pretty well run ticket ballot, all things considered. Tickets are expensive, sure, but asking about that is just beating a dead horse in sport nowadays so I wouldn't bother.
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The only thing I'd thought of on that note is what they plan to do about touts, as they released a statement that resold tickets wouldn't be valid
 
I'd like to know what they are doing about corporate tickets where random non-rugby fans go to watch high profile games... We all remember the corporate tickets during the olympics and the empty seats that weren't used.
 
Abraham said:
The only thing I'd thought of on that note is what they plan to do about touts, as they released a statement that resold tickets wouldn't be valid
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Which is a valid question, although you won't get any answer we haven't heard a hundred times before. The practical answer is that there is very little they can do about touts. People are perfectly smart enough not to advertise booking references and exact seat numbers when they sell tickets online (not that those are available yet anyway), and in any event stadium stewards are realistically not going to check for "invalidated" tickets anyway - this only ends up screwing the person who bought the ticket; the tout still gets paid.
 
Ask him if he'd be willing to lose a days pay for every empty 'Corporate' seat for the duration of the event. ;)
 
AJK said:
Which is a valid question, although you won't get any answer we haven't heard a hundred times before. The practical answer is that there is very little they can do about touts. People are perfectly smart enough not to advertise booking references and exact seat numbers when they sell tickets online (not that those are available yet anyway), and in any event stadium stewards are realistically not going to check for "invalidated" tickets anyway - this only ends up screwing the person who bought the ticket; the tout still gets paid.
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I'd be surprised if any of the world cup stadiums weren't using barcode scanners which makes it easy, but like you say does only hurt the people who've bought the tickets not the touts
 
sbi5ar said:
I'd like to know what they are doing about corporate tickets where random non-rugby fans go to watch high profile games... We all remember the corporate tickets during the olympics and the empty seats that weren't used.
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I know 500k tickets were available through rugby clubs from may, my hope is that they account for the bulk of the proportion that weren't for general sale, 60k of 80k for the final were already allocated before general sale. I would like to know what proportion are reserved for corporate though.
 
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