The systems they have set up for buying tickets are ridiculously over-complicated. They should simply release them online and then let you pay for them there and then and guarantee you a ticket - just like any gig. The whole sign up at so-and-so a time, then take a cheque, and THEN find out whether you've even got a ticket, and then go and pick the ****er up system is crazy.
I want to go to a May Ball, not try for several, and then not find out which ones I've got till later, then have to cancel and lose deposits. They seem to have started with a hugely inefficient system, and then, rather than scrap it and modernise it, they've attempted to mould it to fit the purpose, which hasn't worked.
I'm hopefully going to three (Robinson, Clare and Tit Hall), but my only confirmed ticket at the minute is Tit Hall.