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More tickets released today - Ticketmaster looked like they had tweaked the system after the mess last time. I went for the Semi1 preview, and got tickets, but also the Grand Final rehearsal still had tickets and that was after being 2000th in the queue. Which makes me wonder where on earth all these tickets have come from, as there wasn't just a few.

I expect a lot of them were from the Ukrainian refugee scheme which I'd be amazed if they sold many of. I think that originally had an allocation of 3000. I expect some tickets were previously not up for sale because they were in positions that may or may not have been required for the stage build or whatever. For example there were restricted view tickets this time which I don't remember being on sale last time so chances are they've only been able to put them up now.

As an aside it's incredible how far the contest has come from the early days of the semi finals where they would rarely sell out. Now people are fighting for, and missing out on, quite expensive rehearsal tickets for the semi finals.