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With nearly two months to spare, Vancouver’s World Rugby Sevens Series stop has hit its ticket sales target.

There were 33,000 seats available for each day of the March 11-12 Canada Sevens at BC Place; Thursday morning organizers announced those tickets are all gone.

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Whether there will be any more released remains to be seen. Sales were so strong last year that a seating in the stadium’s upper bowl was opened up by removing one section of the fabric “roof” installed for lower-bowl-only seating plans. That move only happened in the last week or so of planning. Whether the other side has its roofing pulled down is not a certainty, even if demand is clearly there.

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Asked about the possibility of opening up further seats, tournament CEO Bill Cooper told me in an email:

“We’ll be looking at it very carefully, but our first priority will be atmosphere for those already in the building. As a result any further seat expansion would be subject to what we reasonably think can sell between now and tournament weekend. Our commitment to the fans and spectators has to be to protect the atmosphere which year one delivered so strongly on. And a huge part of that atmosphere was high occupancy of available seats in the stadium.