Yesterday, we put our application in for tickets to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. It was a very complicated and interesting process. First of all, in order to apply for the tickets, you have to be a UK resident with a valid mailing address here. You also have to have a Visa card in order to pay for the tickets...Visa is the corporate sponsor for the games and that is the only valid way to pay for them. UK residents had a 6 week window to apply for the tickets, and the deadline for the application was midnight last night. So luckily we got in just within the wire.
Once you register with the Olympic website, you can then go through and buy tickets to the events that you would want. What's very weird about this whole thing is that you really are only "applying for" and not necessarily "buying" the tickets at this time. Meaning, that you go through and "buy" tickets for the events not really knowing whether the tickets are available or not. After all the applications are submitted and reviewed by the Olympic Committee, the events that are extremely popular (i.e. Opening Ceremonies, Swimming, Diving, Gymnastics, etc.) where there will probably be more people applying for tickets than there are actual tickets...those tickets will be given out through a lottery process. If one applies for tickets to events that are less popular, and there are a sufficient amount of tickets for those events, the tickets will be given out without a lottery. Below is what the Olympic Committee is telling all the applicants:
"If you applied for Olympic Games tickets prior to 26 April 2011 your application will be processed and, where demand for tickets exceeds supply, London 2012 will use an automated random selection process ('ballot') to ensure the fairest possible distribution and allocation of tickets on a session-by-session basis. If you are successful, payment will be taken between 10 May 2011 and 10 June 2011. Please ensure you have sufficient funds available between these dates. A notification will be sent to confirm which tickets you have been allocated by 24 June 2011."
Hopefully, we are lucky in getting some of the tickets we applied for....keep your fingers crossed.
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