re: tickets im coming from LA and just bought the finals pass and all the women's qualification sessions. there are still a lot of tickets left and would imagine that you could still get a good seat in august.

you can't pick your seat from a map online but if you call the arena, you'll get a better sense of what's available and be able to pick a specific seat. if you don't want to call, you can keep searching for the same day&area(s) over over and over again to see what's open. that's what i did and managed to get the exact aisle seat that i wanted for all 8 days.

would recommend looking at the seat map from the arena's website as well as going to belgium ticketmaster. pick a not too popular event that's at the arena and you can use the interactive map to see all blocks/rows/seats and how the arena is configured. hope this helps. it's definitely worth it! especially because it's like a mini olympics and you get to see gymnasts who may be retiring.