At around 10.30pm on Tuesday those wishing to apply experienced problems accessing the site, with many placed in a holding queue while waiting for the site to load. After the holding page, some users then received the message: "Sorry, we cannot process your request. Please try again later."

Difficulties in applying continued for around 20 minutes, with the site back up as the deadline loomed close.

A total of 6.6 million tickets across all events were up for application. Up until 10pm on Tuesday it was revealed that some 66% of all tickets had already been applied for, with many (such as football fans) holding off till closer the time to see what the fixtures were.

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