No,it has always been out of the loyalty point system.Wasn’t the 18-25 allocation initially meant to be 5% of the total allocation? There are just under 1100 tickets left meaning that around 700 tickets have sold today with criteria still at 29k!
The fairer way would have been the 5% split across the all the groups who receive a allocation.
Regarding your 2nd point, there is no way they have sold 700 tickets today at the criteria set but I don't know if the full 1800 tickets went onsale at 10am.
90 tickets have sold to18/25
Less than 90 tickets have been sold to juniors as they are still available to them.
So if the full allocation did go onsale, someone is fiddling the figures as there are not over 550 supporters with more than 29000 points