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Old Sep 8, 2009, 9:01 am
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Originally Posted by aacharya
Another possibility is to cancel the reward tickets from your account. This opens up two more seats that hopefully a non-elite can snag. Get the sister's seat first, and then go in and book seats from your account.
This is very risky - you could end up with no seats then. Canceling the reward tickets does not automatically put them back into the reward bucket. You have an extremely high chance of nothing being released at all.

Even it it were released by the way - there's a good chance that it would go into the elite-only bucket and you'd be in the same predicament
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