So I queued for 10 hours last Saturday to get my Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tickets and was lucky enough to get them. There were 5000 tickets on sale this year and everyone was allowed to buy 2 max.
I came to the stadium at 5 A.M. and there were already over a thousand people queuing (most with sleeping bags and tents) when I began waiting. There were 2 guys that went around and counted how many people there were and according to them me and Justin were something like #1632 in line, so according to them we were safe and we would get our tickets. But that didn’t stop our worrying for the next few hours. We stopped fretting when the most confusing announcement came over the PA and guaranteed that “we were [not] beyond this point” (people who queued will know what I’m talking about) and that we would get our tickets. Eventually.
Standing in line until 11 (that’s 6 hours folks) wasn’t even that bad except that our lack of food, lack of cellphone (I forgot to bring mine) and no entertainment other than the other people in line and ourselves did make it a bit monotonous. When we finally got into the stadium at 11 we had to wait for over 2 hours to be called to get our tickets. But in the end, I walked out with these in my hands, tickets to all 3 days for just $1080. The wait was definitely worth it:
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