{"id":679,"date":"2019-12-31T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olympics.burps.online\/?p=679"},"modified":"2020-05-11T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:49:11","slug":"public-and-extra-live-ticket-sales-in-2019-for-olympics-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olympics.burpsonline.net\/en\/2019\/12\/31\/public-and-extra-live-ticket-sales-in-2019-for-olympics-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Public and extra ticket sales in 2019 for Olympics 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In second half of year 2019, I went through a number of ticket sales for the Tokyo Olympics 2020. This page gives a quick summary of what I experienced to buy tickets as a 4 year United States resident originally from Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 24: Ticket lottery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first chance to purchase Tokyo 2020 tickets is to join and win ticket lottery scheduled in June 2019. The request phase started and ended in May, and the lottery took place on website of CoSport, who is the Olympics Authorized Ticket Reseller (ATR) in US and some other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am Japanese, but I am blocked to access Tokyo Olympic Committee official ticket website. It is primarily for people locating in Japan, and people outside Japan, like me, regardless of nationality, needs to use ATR to buy tickets. It is CoSport for me living in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I created an account for CoSport, and I requested tickets for golf, baseball and softball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I lost the lottery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could not win even one single ticket for the Olympics. It showed me how competitive it is to get tickets\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live ticket schedule and broker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough, the following live sales schedule is very different from Japan. Domestic residents in the host country needed to wait at least until Autumn 2019 for public ticket sales to begin. On the other hand, in the United States, it started in July 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CoSport initially announced that the live ticket sales open on July 2nd, and then they postponed the start date by one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me and my family, package tour was not a choice. We have a house to stay during the period of the Olympic games in Tokyo. We need to get individual tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 9th: First public sales<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the (first) live sales happened on July 9th, I was able to buy tickets for Equestrian.<\/strong> The reason I first picked the competition is that the venue is relatively close to my house in Tokyo. I would not say it is a walking distance but probably it is the closet venue among all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The website said there were about 2,000 users\/devices in line ahead of me. I waited in the queue for 40 minutes or so, and I did not find a lot of tickets left when I finally got to the top page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I selected category B tickets for Equestrian<\/strong>, I had to spend another several minutes to add them to shopping card and complete transaction. The CoSport website was so slow that even login to the site took me forever. By the time I finally completed the purchase, no tickets were available for any competitions. All tickets were quickly sold out within an hour, meaning probably only 10,000 people or less were lucky enough to get tickets. How competitive it is to buy Olympics tickets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I realized that CoSport adds a lot of extra charges to the face value of the tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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