Rio 2016 Olympics Ticket Update

So I finally heard from CoSport, the only authorized ticket reseller for any Olympic tickets for residents of the United States, several days ago notifying the public that since they had cancelled their open ticket sales last month, they will be conducting a lottery round for individual tickets to make things more fair. Here is the explanation as detailed in the public email:

This means there is still time for you to request tickets! How the lottery works is each person may request up to 48 individual tickets (not events) based on what CoSport currently has available. Unfortunately, this does not include any Football matches, but there are many other exciting events available! In fact, most other events are available. You add the tickets you potentially want to your cart up until June 10th, then on June 15th, you can log in to CoSport and see if any of your requests were approved via the lottery. You can then choose whether you actually want to purchase the tickets or not. This is great because you may want to go to two or more events that occur at the same time or you may have only been approved for events with a large amount of dates in between where you didn't get tickets, so you are not locked in to any specific match if you don't want to go for the entire two weeks, which would be quite expensive!

I am not exactly sure what anyone's chances are since I was able to purchase tickets during the first-come-first-served phases of both the 2012 London Olympics and the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but it's worth a shot! Here is the current official schedule for this lottery process:

CoSport was also kind enough to provide a short list of tips for entering the ticket lottery in their email as well:

So if you are at all interested in going to the Rio games next summer, go ahead and make your ticket request on CoSport asap! You have until 4pm EST (so 2pm MST in Utah) to do this. I am crossing my fingers that I'll be able to get a few events approved so I can take my lovely parents on this adventure with me for the first time. Good luck to all you who choose to enter! :)