Over 300,000 people across the Chinese mainland have managed to successfully reserve 1,593,345 tickets to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, including 26,000 tickets for the opening ceremony.
For ticket categories where demanded exceeded availability during the first phase of ticket sales, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) used a lottery system.
The ticket lottery included winners from all 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of the Chinese mainland, with 44% of the winners representing Beijing. The national lottery win rate was 4.7% for opening ceremony tickets and 15.1% for closing ceremony tickets.
The Beijing Olympic Ticketing Center received applications requesting 5.18 million tickets from 720,000 people across the Chinese mainland. The most popular request was for opening ceremony tickets, with only one winner for every 21 requests. For the closing ceremony, there was a one in seven chance of getting a ticket.
Monday, August 27, 2007
The lucky few: 1/21 chance for opening ceremony tickets
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