TIFF picks box 66

20070831_66.jpgAttention pass holders for the Toronto International Film Festival: the random lottery held this afternoon designated Box 66 as the starting box for filling orders, out of 75 total boxes. I turned my order in at around 8:30 this morning and wound up in box 36; I suspect that means the lucky folks in Box 66 probably handed in their picks shortly before the closing of the box office at 1:00 this afternoon.

For those utterly confused by the preceding statements, TIFF's ticket orders for pass holders will start being processed from Box 66 today, work their way through 75, before jumping to Box 1 and working up to Box 65. (Box 65 is definitely not the box to be in today.) What box you're in will impact how many of your first choice and second choice tickets you end up receiving next week.

Not to worry, though; I did way worse last year, and still ended up with about 80% of my first picks.

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hahahaha i am box 61. awesome

Posted by: sarah at September 1, 2007 1:29 PM

YIKES. Good luck!

Posted by: Matt at September 2, 2007 9:22 AM

I handed mine in at noon and was in box 70, so the people in 66 weren't so late. When I was leaving and cutting through College Park to the subway, I couldn't believe how many people were still around highlighting choices and flipping through the program book. They must have had a lot more tickets than my twenty.

I've always been lucky with this lottery thing , but it's too bad it wasn't that way with the 649.

Posted by: wb at September 4, 2007 8:47 AM

In spite of my "bad" box, I still got 45 of my first picks (out of 50). I'm pretty happy.

Posted by: Matt at September 4, 2007 1:39 PM

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