The countdown is well and truely on for the tickets to the rugby world cup 2011, While most of the questions revolve around will NZ make it to the final a more important question should probably be will I (you!) be at any of the games? With the chances at being at the Final or semi final kind of low in my opinion (especially if you haven't been to pool games).
Pre registration of interest has been underway for some time with actual applications starting on the 27th of April 2010, and the rugby community getting an early kick off.
Those in the NZ rugby community have been sent a reasonably detailed offer outlining the process and cost of tickets for the tournament, these will be pretty similar for everyone else so a bit of a summary below.
Tickets on offer have been broken up into 3 phases.
Phase 1:
Applications for venue and team pool packs (Quarter final Weekend Pack)
Phase 2:
Applications for individual tickets
Phase 3:
Semi-Finals and Final Ballots
It seems if you are using a Mastercard you will get double entry points into the ballot if you are a member of the rugby community, i can only assume that this is going to happen for the public ballot as well so get those Mastercards warmed up as it might just give you the edge on getting your seats.
You can see the rugby community document http://tickets.rugbyworldcup.com/info/rugbycommunity.aspx which goes into quite a bit of detail, you can register from tomorrow if this is you! Good luck.
Also remember that in an effort to reduce the touting of tickets at excessive prices in the aftermarket, it is against the RWC policy to charge more than face value for the exchange of tickets etc. How this is going to be enforced i have no idea but good luck to them. The tickets in France were getting quite expensive once the POMs got into the final in 2007!
Venue Ticket prices range from
$1720 - $420 for an adult at Eden park, Auckland (5 games).
$995 to $360 for an adult to Wellington Regional Stadium (5 games)
$740 to $305 for an adult to Stadium Christchurch (5 games)
$140 to $120 for an adult to Northland Events Centre, Whangarei (2 games)
$310 to $120 for an adult to North Harbour Stadium, Auckland (3 games)
$520 to $130 for an adult to Waikato Stadium, Hamilton (3 games)
$235 to $90 for an adult to Rotorua International Stadium (3 games)
$260 to $90 for an adult to Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth (3 games)
$165 to $90 for an adult to McLean Park, Napier (2 games)
$165 to $80 for an adult to Arena Manawatu, Palmerston North (2 games)
$165 to $60 for an adult to Nelson (2 games)
$340 to $145 for an adult to Carisbrook/Otago Stadium, Dunedin, (3 games)
$165 to $90 for an adult to Invercargill (2 games)
Quarter Finals
$960 to $380 for an adult to Wellington.
$960 to $380 for an adult to Christchurch
Bronze Final
$350 to $95 for an adult to Eden Park, Auckland
Read all about it at http://tickets.rugbyworldcup.com/pdf/RWC2011SalesRegulations.pdf.
All of the infomation talked about above can be seen at the official site (including being able to download the application form).
If you want you can go to every pool game for your team which is a whole other set of locations and prices, have a look online for the tickets.
Good luck and hope to see you there. Will let you know when a bit more information is available regarding the general allocation of tickets.
