Going to North America '26: tickets, accommodations, etc. (non-politics)

Not doubting people were filtered out because of this, but I only used one account and didn't try to circumvent any rules and see the same link on my page. I was unsuccessful in all FIFA rounds and only got tickets through the USA PMA lottery.

 

Thanks. Based on what I've noticed, the filtering system was pretty trash at getting actual scalpers so I wouldn't be surprised if it was riddled with false positives. Did you ever receive a rejection email? I didn't.

 

I finally did get a rejection email at 1:15am EST early this morning

 

There is something interesting (and sad) with the resale prices. When you select tickets, the prices after the selection aren't the lower ones (as I expected). Probably the used method is first in first out, who put their tickets for sale before will sell them before. For example, the range for Cat2 Brazil Scotland is between 1,610 to 17,250 USD but after I selected them, the prices are 2,000, 1,900 and 2,477 US. So there is no way to know the real resell prices before putting them into the cart .

 

I noticed that before but would think it’s a matter of cheaper tickets being shown still when someone bought them right before you. I highly doubt that they sell tickets in the order they’ve been put up for resale. There’s some people who put up their tickets for sale at $100K or more, so if they’d done that early in the process I think selling them in order would mean nobody will ever buy tickets for that specific game again.

 

Yes, makes sense... cannot be entirely FIFO. Perhaps they added additional logic: if the price is higher than a limit (let's say, 10-12X the face value) then it will be located at the end of the selling line.

 

I think it is just because there are tickets already carted.

 

Don't think I would be particularly bummed (?!) at getting a match between one of Europe's most exciting teams with one of the best forwards in the world against the best team in Africa.at the MetLife stadium whether the price was slightly up or down.

 

Yeah I see that link. Isn’t that reading too much into it though? I mean I hope. I fiddled around with my only app a bunch (I was worried I had made a mistake when saving my credit card numbers), I’d hate that to be the reason why I didn’t get tickets…

 

Im gonna check that out. I wanted to be done with this tickets BS with this round. Now I have to fiddle with RTTs, wait to see what Chase comes through with…

 

It's a weird link for sure, but I guess if everyone's seeing it, it's probably just your standard FIFA sloppiness rather than anything deeper than that.

 

I went for a wander round the block and am not a bit more relaxed.
The group matches I applied for all stil have the lower level of hospitality available. Closer to time that unsold inventory will be disaggregated to Cat 1.

In addition - and this is my assumption - people got allocated all the tickets they asked for in a match they won. Ie - if someone was successful and applied for 4 - they got 4, not less. Etc.
Now, my assumption is that the bots will have asked for 4 tickets in each match. That is volume that will come to the market, hence why there is still good volume on the resale platform.

My relaxation is because I went for 'low' matches - so am just going to leave matters for the resale market to sort itself.

I shall give no words of dis or encouragement if you want the peak matches. Not something I have theorised much on.

 

So is Tuesday the day we find out we didn't get the US $60 tickets?

 

The four ticket thing is correct - if you win for a match you get all your tickets, there are no 'partially successful' for an individual match.

 

Maybe they tossed a high volume of applications, given the numbers claimed, before they even ‘washed their face’ in the ticket draw, particularly if it was drawn by application and not by game by game. We just don’t really know.

Hence why nowt from a bunch of Cat 1applications for less than stellar games?

Who got Cat1’s for Cape Verde v Saudi Arabia for instance?

We may get a better idea when we see what the Resale Portal and FCFS contain for those games once the dust settles?

 

According to a Eagleman (a reliable source) notification is tomorrow.

 

I think it was definitely done by application rather than game-by-game, otherwise you'd have almost nobody winning everything (or even most of) what they asked for. Just too statistically improbable.

That also implies there will probably be quite a few fans who over-applied, thinking they'd only get one or two games, but now have to cough up the cash for a lot more than that.

 

there are so many theories possible

there could’ve been so many scalper automated applications. Therefore we didn’t see many winners here.

perhaps FIFA sold many tickets in cat 1 that should’ve been cat 2 or 3

or maybe not as many tickets were sold as we think because why sell low when you could just sell them higher in the marketplace?

 

I have to say having spent too much time looking at this and Reddit I see virtually nobody getting all the tickets they asked for so don't understand where this idea comes from. I do admit it is more bizarre how many people got nothing though. With such large number I can imagine they ditched a number of applications.

 

I think they can get away with doing the other way around (recategorizing cat 2 as cat 3 or cat 1 as cat 2 if they have unsold inventory towards the end).

Selling a ticket as cat 1 for what shows up on the map as cat 3 seating, on the other hand, would be fraudulent. Not a lawyer but I'd imagine that could open them up to legal liability.

 

I've seen a lot of reddit posts from people who claimed to get all or almost all of what they requested, including high-demand knockouts. Given the enormous number of rejections, that would be on par statistically with winning the lottery if they were drawing on a match-by-match basis.

 

Reddit is a cesspit. It would be very easy to fake screenshots if someone wants to larp as a winner. Long time posters on here are a much better guide.

 

I expect it is touts. Plus at least half of all the tickets are Cat 1 or corporate according to the maps.

 

I know lots of people here have lots of experience with World Cups I just want to say as someone who has been to two previous World Cups do not give up hope you just need to be patient and you WILL be able to get tickets to (most) games you want. Probably not the Final or Uru vs Spa but for most games there will be more availability during FCFS and people will often develop tools (El Roboto) to help get them, additionally prices on the resale market (for most games) will go down. Of course it is hard because we all want to make travel accommodations now but if you are patient you will be able to get most of what you want. PATIENCE

 

Question about travel planning for conditional games... In all my prior world cups, I've never had a conditional ticket. How do people plan for a second round game, for example? US will be in SF if they finish first, Dallas if they finish 2nd and virtually anywhere if they finish third. I get you can book hotels for a few cities and cancel but not really feasible with flights, right? How bad is it to wait until it's settled? Maybe there are so many cancellations it isn't too hard? Anyone with experience want to share lessons learned?