How We Track Sale Dates: The Method Behind the Tracker

A sale date tracker is only worth bookmarking if its method is boring, public and strict. This page is the method behind the sale date tracker, published so you can hold the tracker to it.

Rule one: LA28 is the only source of a date

A date counts as announced when it appears on LA28's official ticketing pages or in LA28's newsroom. Nothing else moves a date on this site. Not a reseller's countdown clock, not a social media post, not a journalist's expectation, and not a pattern from a previous Games. When LA28 has said only a year, the tracker shows a year. When LA28 has said nothing, the tracker says not yet announced.

Rule two: checks run every week, and faster when it matters

LA28's ticketing pages and newsroom are checked weekly against the tracker's current state, and every check is dated. Reputable news coverage is used as a tripwire: if reporting suggests an announcement, the official pages are checked the same day rather than at the next weekly pass. From March 2027 onward, as the expected announcement window narrows, the check cadence tightens, and the tracker says so when it does.

Rule three: an announcement updates everything it touches

When LA28 publishes a date, the tracker changes within 24 hours. In the same pass, the guides that depend on the date are updated too: the ticket phases hub, the guide for the sale in question, and any page whose advice assumed no date existed. The tracker's change log records what was announced and what changed here as a result.

Rule four: prices and rules follow the same discipline

Prices, fees, limits and platform names are taken from LA28's pages and announcements first. Where coverage by reputable outlets reports an LA28 statement, for example on the 24 percent service fee, the guide presents it as LA28's stated position and rechecks it against official pages at the next pass. Figures this site cannot verify are labelled unverified or left out. Worked examples, such as the fee arithmetic in the prices and fees guide, use round numbers so the math can be checked at a glance.

What this method cannot do

It cannot make LA28 announce dates sooner, and it cannot guarantee that a weekly check catches an announcement in its first hour. It guarantees something narrower and more useful: nothing on this site is presented as an LA28 fact unless LA28 published it, and the gap between LA28 publishing and this site reflecting it is one day at most.

Last checked: November 8, 2026.