Didn’t get any.
The public sale was today. The rules were:
- 5,000 tickets have been allocated for the public ticket sale on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at the Hong Kong Stadium
- Ticket Sales will begin from inside the Hong Kong Stadium at 11:00am, no event tickets will be sold before 11:00am
- The Stadium Gates will be opened to admit members of the queue from 10:30am
- Upon entering the Stadium, each member of the queue will be given a special queue number place card and seated by Stadium stewards based on their order in the queue
- Each person in the queue can purchase a maximum of two (2) event tickets in any combination of Adult & Children’s tickets
Apparently some people queued all night. Some of my mates arrived at 6.00am. My proxies arrived at 6.40am. The cutoff was between 6.20-6.40am! Gutted. Cost me $1000, and $500 for another mate to pay the proxies.
According to Gunther it was another total Charlie Foxtrot. No toilets, no food, no entertainment, except the smell of piss, ‘banter’ with the security guards and the dude that brought his unicycle.
So I’m on the lookout for eight tickets.
FFS, put the sale on the web, make sure you have to enter a valid HK ID number and use a HK credit card. Simple. Yeah, the website will get nailed when it first opens, but other ticket sale websites around the world manage.
Shaky, the ticket queue is part of the sevens tradition. It is a pain though that every year fewer and fewer tickets go on general sale and more are sold off to corporates.
This year not only were there fewer tix for the public, but they also didn’t provide as many tix as in past years for sale to local rugby clubs. Seems the tools at HKRFU just want to look after their corporate wanker-banker buddies and who gives a shit about the actual sport.
Didn’t see many people that looked like they could identify a rugby ball if it popped out of their ass in the ticket queue… it was either wanker-bankers’ amahs that had been sent to queue for them, or else entrepreneurial LBFM types planning on making a few bucks re-selling tickets to people who sent their amah too late.
We should hold a ‘Not The HK Sevens’ weekend in Macau or Shekou or such - I reckon we can get Barclay Crawford from SCuMP to do a piece on the event (if we arrange enough charlie and South American hookers).
Why not do the Bangkok sevens
plenty to entertain in this little city and a 1/4 of the price
http://www.bangkoksevens.com/
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