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18/12/19 ESTC New advice for ticket categories

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  • Team England

    In reply to Luke Sadler:

    For clarity I think there's been a misunderstanding with how you worded your question. The top 70% of members who applied (minus those on 0 and 1 caps) should be successful with their application - assuming they followed our advice.
  • Luke Sadler

    In reply to Team England:

    Thanks for taking the time reply, however please could you clear up any misunderstanding, as it’s still not clear to me from your post either.

    Is the 70% allocation to top cappers done from the total allocation? I.e we have an allocation of 10,612 tickets for the final so the top 70% who applied (7428 members, assuming everyone applies) would be guaranteed a ticket as part of the 70% allocation.

    Or will it be done with 70/20/10 per each category?

    As this will make a significant difference to what category I (and I’m sure plenty of others) would need to select. It seems we’ve been told conflicting advice and it’s not clear to me which one you were indicating in your post sorry.

    Thanks
  • Neal Granger

    In reply to Matthew Isle:

    On 39 caps
    Gone Cat 3 for group games, Cat 2 for 16 and QF, Fans 1st for Semi and final.
    Reckon, ill be ok as I have ticked to upgrade.
    I think I will get what I requested, but a possibility of an upgrade on last 16 and/or Q/Final

    My boy is on 24 he has done the same as me for all games except semi and final where he has done cat 3. He may just sneak in to what he wants, but will likely be upgraded for last 16 and q/final to cat 1.

    Thoughts anyone :-)
  • Peter Fuller

    In reply to Team England:

    Absolute Clarity on whether its done by game or by category would be ideal as makes a huge difference to cut off
  • Ian Costain

    In reply to Neal Granger:

    For you, Neal, on 39 caps I think Cat 3 (with tick to upgrade) for R16 and QF will be absolutely fine - see my other post a moment or two ago to the guy on 40 caps who had a similar question.

    But I agree that, for your boy, you'd need to go Cat 2 (with tick to upgrade) for R16 and QF
  • Luke Sadler

    In reply to Peter Fuller:

    Don’t think we’re going to get it in time for the 1pm deadline.

    For what it’s worth, I did post a new thread saying that I’d been told I’ve the phone that the 70/20/10 would be done per category rather than total allocation; however someone has deleted this post so I’d assume that was probably incorrect advice and deleted to save confusion. That would make sense considering the response above too.
  • Ian Costain

    In reply to Luke Sadler:

    The guru, David Lilley, said he'd spoken to Team England and they'd confirmed that the 70/20/10 split was done as a single exercise (rather than by Category).

    It is kind of worrying that Team England have not, to my knowledge, formally confirmed this one way or the other.

    As a natural worrier I've assumed it's done by Category just to be on the safe side!
  • Paddy Buckley

    In reply to Luke Sadler:

    How clear do you need it, Team England corrected your post above, the top 70% and followed there advice, ie you could be in the top 70% but not guaranteed to be high enough up the caps table to get the category you have applied for so tick the box, some people are clearly in this situation and that advice is trying to help them.
  • Luke Sadler

    In reply to Paddy Buckley:

    As you can see from the posts above mine, there’s 3 of us in the last half an hour who are all unclear based on the information we’ve been given so clearly the answer to your ‘how clear do you need it?’ question appears to be an little clearer! ;)

    I’ve submitted my application now so will just wait and see. As I’m inside the top 7000 members I will expect to get Category 3 for all the Wembley games considering we have 7100+ for each of those games then.
  • Peter Fuller

    In reply to Luke Sadler:

    Stuck with Cat 3 across the board... and ticked the box... if its by full allocation happy days, if not I SHOULD still get in but next summer just got a whole lot more expensive
  • Dextter Roberts

    In reply to Luke Sadler:

    My group is 35, 33 and 31 caps. Due to the slight ambiguity as to how they're doing the 70% cut off (whether it's the total allocation or per category), I'd imagine it'll be the whole allocation but better to be safe than sorry; I've just switched our R16 category to 2 from 3, already had the box ticked to accept other categories. Every other game we've gone 3 or FF. Should've been fine for cat 3 but better safe than sorry.
  • Lewis Evans
    I have applied for a ticket (cat 1) for Quarter final, I have 3 caps however my friend has 0 caps. What ,at a guess, would you say are my/our chances of being successful?
  • Amber Edmondson

    In reply to Ian Costain:

    that certainly hasn't been the case previously - I believe it was per category for both 2016 and 2018
  • Carl Padley

    In reply to Lewis Evans:

    Very very very slim the 3 capper and zeeo capper i would say zero chance but keep you fingers crossed you never no
  • Paddy Buckley

    In reply to Luke Sadler:

    You’ll be fine I’m sure, and that’s not even taken into account how many ESTC members have already got tickets from the general sale.
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