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Sevens Ticket Ballot 2017 Registration

The annual farce of the Sevens ticket ballot resumes again as registration opens for the public ticket ballot. The registration period runs even longer this year from 14 October to 3 February, 2017 with the ballot taking place on the 8 February, 2017 and winners notified that day by email.

The HKRU has yet to announce the exact numbers but based on last year there are 9,000 individual tickets on-sale. Since regular tickets are sold as 3-day pass. There’s actually only 3,000 tickets available to the public each day in the 40,000 seater HK Stadium. The rest are given to local rugby clubs, allocated to tourist packages or whored out to corporate sponsors paying the big bucks.

If you want a better chance of a sevens ticket, join a local rugby club. You don’t even have to play rugby, join many of the clubs as a social member and as long as you’ve paid the membership fees you can apply to buy a full three day ticket at cost price. You’ll support the local game and you never know you might even enjoy the rugby.

Those who ‘win’ in the ballot will need to pay for their tickets by 22 February 2017. The ticket cost is HK$300 for Friday, HK$750 for Saturday and HK$750 for Sunday. In addition an administration fee of HK$50 will be charge for each ticket.

To register http://hksevens.com/tickets/ballot-registration

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Sevens Ticket Ballot 2016 Registration

The annual farce of the Sevens ticket ballot begins again today as registration opens for the public ticket ballot. The registration period runs from 27 November to 31 January, 2016 with the ballot taking place on the 5 February, 2016 and winners notified that day by email.

There are 9,000 individual tickets on-sale. Since regular tickets are sold as 3-day pass. There’s actually only 3,000 tickets available to the public each day in the 40,000 seater stadium. The rest are whored out to corporate sponsors or as a ‘reward’ for joining (and funding) a local rugby club. You don’t even have to play rugby, a social member as long as you’ve paid the membership fees (For example SCAA Causeway Bay charges $900 annually for a non-playing membership) can apply to buy a full three day ticket at cost price. Or roughly added in with membership fees, about the same as you’d pay a street ‘reseller’ – which is where many of those tickets and those reserved forsale overseas end up. Sadly as the minuscule crowd that turned up for the Olympic qualifiers showed, it’s the event not the rugby that’s the attraction. So if you want a better chance of a sevens ticket, join a rugby club – you’ll support the local game and you never know you might even enjoy the rugby.

Those who ‘win’ in the ballot will need to pay for their tickets by 19 February 2016. The ticket cost is HK$300 for Friday, HK$750 for Saturday and HK$750 for Sunday. In addition an administration fee of HK$50 will be charge for each ticket.

To register http://hksevens.com/tickets/ballot-registration

Hong Kong Sevens 2014 Ticket Sale Ballot

The HKRFU has confirmed that 3,000 tickets will be available for sale via public ballot. A one-month registration period for the ballot begins today, 16 December 2013.

Each applicant is allowed only one entry per person per event day in the ballot. Each successful applicant can purchase a maximum of two tickets per day – which realistically means that only 1500 people can get tickets!

Applicants can register for the public ballot via the official Sevens website (www.hksevens.com).

Registration will open at 9am on Monday, 16th December 2013, and will close at 5pm on Wednesday, 15th January 2014.

The ballot will be held on Tuesday, 21st January 2014, with winners notified electronically on the same day. Collection of tickets will be from 15th – 17th March 2014 at the Hong Kong Stadium Box Office. Successful applicants will receive notification by 5pm on January 21st and will then have one week to pay for their tickets (by 5pm on January 28th).

Ticket prices for the individual day categories are set at HK$200 for adult tickets and HK$50 for children’s tickets for Friday and HK$650 for adults and HK$50 for children’s tickets respectively for Saturday and Sunday of the event. Each successful ticket application will be levied with an administration fee of HK$50.

Enquiries on the public ballot will be fielded via a special email address created by the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union at [email protected]